Category: Israel

Photo Credit: Dean Reuter Nazi SS General Hans Kammler Many Jews are unfortunately familiar with the names Himmler, Goering, Eichmann, Hoess, and Mengele. Virtually, no one, however, has heard of Hans Kammler even though he oversaw the construction of numerous concentration camps and headed the Nazis’ rocket and nuclear research programs. Historians generally assume Kammler […]

Photo Credit: IDF Spox Eight officers from the Israel Defense Forces traveled to the United States to meet with Birthright Israel North American delegates as part of a program called Mifgash (“meeting” in Hebrew). Here, they visited the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, September 2019. (JNS) Members of an Israel […]

Photo Credit: Wikepedia / Pradipta Mitra / CC SS 3.0 Yale University Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., is investigating swastika graffiti discovered on steps of the school’s side entrance on Saturday night, days before Yom Kippur, the Yale Daily News reported. “Yale Law School has zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind, and […]

Photo Credit: JerusalemFoundation.Org Jerusalem College of Technology (JNS) The Jerusalem College of Technology recently announced the launch of the Torah and Technology Research Center, which will provide specialized expertise necessary to respond to the complex ethical and halachic (Jewish legal) issues of our times. Supported by the Walder Foundation and operating under the direction of […]

Photo Credit: Wikipedia Ofsted, the educational inspectorate that has been downgrading Jewish schools, has admitted to making a mistake after being threatened with legal action. In June, Manchester’s King David High School was downgraded from “outstanding” to “inadequate” on the grounds of “unlawful segregation” in its Yavneh Girls and Yavneh Boys divisions. This segregation was […]

Photo Credit: pixabay After a powerful Day of Atonement, how do we offer thanks for the promise of a fruitful, blessed year ahead? By moving outdoors into increasingly inclement weather and taking up residence in Sukkahs (booths) to acknowledge that our existence is fragile, temporary, and dependent on His kindness. Ecology, unconditional giving and a […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXIX No. 41                               5780 New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMEOctober 11, 2019 – 12 Tishrei 57806:04 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Sabbath Ends: 7:02 p.m. NYC E.D.T.Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 7:33 p.m. NYC E.D.T.Weekly Reading: Ha’azinuWeekly Haftara: […]

Photo Credit: courtesy {Originally posted to The Lid website} Today Sunday 9/23 at sundown, Jews across the world begin the celebration of Sukkot. Sukkot is one of the three most important Jewish festivals (the other two are Passover and Shavuot). I know what some of you are thinking, and the answer is no, Chanukah is […]

Photo Credit: IDF Evacuated Casualties of the Yom Kippur War Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, at the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, cited the main lesson from that war, when the Israeli government and the IDF ignored information about an imminent Arab attack, resulting […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Holocaust Garden of Remembrance being cleaned after that anti-Semitic vandalism Westchester County police on Tuesday, the eve of Yom Kippur, discovered two flyers containing anti-Semitic messages and images glued outside the Holocaust Garden of Remembrance on Martine Avenue, the NY Post reported. The flyers were difficult to remove due to the adhesive […]