Photo Credit: Jewish Press I recently acquired a first edition of Torat Hayim published in Salonica, Greece. This work records a question sent to the sefer’s author, R. Haim Shabtai, from the Recife community in Brazil. Jews arrived in Brazil along with the area’s very first European settlers while it was under Portuguese rule. The […]
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Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 An IDF tank along Gaza’s border. Israeli tanks and aircraft attacked Hamas military posts in Gaza late Thursday night in response to a rocket attack fired from the enclave at southern Israel at around 8:30 pm. One rocket landed in an open area. There was no property damage […]
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Photo Credit: LionInZion / Rotter.net Ambulance near Rachel’s Tomb, 2015 Palestinian Authority terrorists hurled two pipe bombs Thursday night at the compound surrounding the Tomb of the Biblical Matriarch Rachel, on the outskirts of southern Jerusalem near Bethlehem, according to Israel’s Channel 13 television news. The bombs exploded in the nearby parking lot, causing damage […]
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Photo Credit: Neta / Wikimedia Malha Mall in Jerusalem, 2007 Residents of Jerusalem living near the Malha Mall were dismayed to learn of plans to develop the area into a major municipal and commercial area that will soon triple the size of the current Jerusalem Malha Mall. The mall, built in 1993 and operated by […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy, Hof Ashkelon Region Security Impact of a rocket in an agricultural field in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council district launched from Gaza on Wednesday afternoon, September 11 2019. One rocket landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council district near the Gaza border, according to Israel’s Channel 13 television news, […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Talmud (Sanhedrin 108a) quotes R’ Yochanan: Come and see how detrimental robbery is. The people of the Generation of the Flood violated all of the Noahide Laws, but their punishment was not sealed until they stole, as the Torah says (Bereishis 6:13), “For the earth is filled with robbery through […]
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Photo Credit: Ricky Harris / The White House US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met on Tuesday with Israeli health officials to discuss opening an Israeli branch of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a Treasury spokesperson told JNS. Calcalist first reported the meeting. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]
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Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 Blue and White party chairperson Benny Gantz speaks at the annual Board of Governors’ meeting in Jerusalem, on October 28, 2019. Blue and White leader Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that if he succeeds in becoming Israeli’s next premier, he will “embrace all streams of Judaism.” Addressing Jewish […]
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Photo Credit: Pixabay / Darko Stojanovic illustrative New York health officials are warning that dozens of people have become sick from a parasitic infection in the Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Boro Park and Williamsburg, according to a report published Wednesday on the BoroPark24.com news site. Orthodox Jewish news media were told by a New […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: What did our sages mean when they said that anyone who resides outside the Land of Israel is like an idol worshipper? Is that what all of us residing outside Israel are – idol worshippers? M. Goldblum(Via E-Mail) Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: […]
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