Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL British cemetery in Haifa Israeli officials expressed dismay and shock over the vandalism of the British War Cemetery in Haifa over the weekend. Vandals smashed and drew swastikas on gravestones of Commonwealth soldiers killed during the two World Wars. The Haifa War Cemetery contains 305 Commonwealth burials of the First […]

Photo Credit: Photo by Margo Sugarman The Israel national U18 team celebrates following their surprise win at the European Championship qualifiers in Stockholm, July 2019. {Written by Howard Blas and originally posted to the JNS website} For most parents, having a son play on a Major League Baseball team would be a dream come true. […]

Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90 Maseches Sukkah holds a special place in my heart as it is the first tractate I completed. It is clear from this masechta (e.g. Sukkah 20b and 26a) that men are commanded to sleep in a sukkah during the yom tov of Sukkos. And yet, so many frum Jews today do […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It’s a well-known cliché that Jerusalem is “holy to the three main religions.” Where did this cliché come from? The answer is simple: The city was holy to the Jews, and so it was inevitable that the rest of the world would ultimately jump on the bandwagon. It’s hardly the only […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press A rule of life is that everything the left touches it ruins: art, music, Christianity, Judaism, race relations, male-female relations, universities, high schools, elementary schools, late-night comedy, sports, liberty, journalism, the Boy Scouts, national economies, language, and everything else it influences. The left, not liberalism. (I have written a column and done […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press As we breathe a sigh of hopeful relief that our prayers were heard during the Yamim Noraim, we now focus our attention to getting ready for Sukkot. After we inspect an etrog to purchase, some of us will take the etrog and place it in a sturdy box so it can […]

Photo Credit: Rabbi YY Rubinstein Rabbi YY Rubinstein I grabbed an Uber after I flew back to New York a few weeks ago. I like being able to simply take out my cell phone and summon an Uber or a Lyft; it’s so unlike the usual ordeal of getting into a yellow cab at JFK. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Torah reading on the first two days of Sukkot (Leviticus 22:26-23:44) outlines the festivals that give rhythm and structure to the Jewish year. Examining them carefully, however, we see that Sukkot is unusual and unique. One detail that had a significant influence on Jewish liturgy appears later on, in Deuteronomy […]

[embedded content] According to the NY Times, President Donald Trump’s decision to clear a path for a Turkish invasion of a broad strip of land on the Syrian side of the two countries’ border was made on the spur of the moment, in a phone call with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Overnight, Trump opened […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It finally happened. A gas station in Takoma Park, Maryland – RS Automotives – is no longer selling gas. It has ditched its gas stations for electric-vehicle charging stations, making it the first gas station in the country to do so. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: […]