Category: Israel

Photo Credit: courtesy, the Israel Experience Participants with Physicians on Aliyah marking the opening of the 12th cycle of the Physicians Course at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, organized with the Israel Experience. According to Health Ministry figures from 2018, Israel has 3.1 active physicians per 1,000 people. This statistic is lower than the average […]

[embedded content] The Women in Green organization on Sunday filmed Cantor Avi Bernstein singing “Avinu Malkenu” from the Ari Fuld Lookout in the Oz VeGaon Forest, marking the first anniversary of the murder of Avi Fuld, HY”D. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Dr. James Fallon, a forensic psychiatrist, is one of the world’s experts on reading brain scans. Advancements in neuroscience have led to our ability to identify various parts of the brain that are responsible for specific emotions, behavior, and choices. Fallon’s understanding of neuroanatomy allows him the ability to use brain imaging […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash 90 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan visit Israeli Border Guard Police headquarters in Jerusalem, October 14,2015. After a discussion between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Israel Police Acting Commissioner Motti Cohen, the three men agreed Sunday to […]

Photo Credit: Government Press Office Israeli tanks crossing the desert during the Yom Kippur War. The trauma of the Yom Kippur War still haunts Israel. Eyewitness accounts – both tragic and heroic – fill the media as Yom Kippur approaches. Rabbi Elchanan Ben Nun, rosh yeshiva of Beit Orot, was a 24-year-old IDF reserve soldier […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Warder Cresson (1798-1860) was the first U.S. Consul to Jerusalem. Born to a Quaker family, Cresson in 1840 met Isaac Leeser who alongside Mordecai Manual Noah caused him to develop a keen interest in Judaism and Jewish activities in Palestine. In May 1844, he was commissioned as the first consul of […]

Photo Credit: Ms. Carol Elias, Dr. Ilana Harlev Moshe Lupovici, born 1929, top right. Seventy-eight years ago, on October 9, 1941, an important date in Holocaust history, Romanian dictator, Ion Antonescu, issued his order to forcibly remove the Jews from their homes in Bukovina and Romania. The Nazis and their Romanian allies carried out this […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Naumi / Flash 90 Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz is the chairman of the Beis Din Tzedek (Rabbinical Court) of Bnei Brak. The family of Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz, the head of the Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak and a leading rabbinic authority in the Lithuanian Jewish world, has requested the […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Boomerang GIVES: Ari Fuld’s Dream It’s been a year since that terrible day when Zionist fighter and advocate Ariel Fuld z’l was stabbed to death by a Palestinian Authority teen terrorist at the Gush Etzion junction; but his dream of putting together a truck to serve hungry IDF soldiers while they are […]