Winston Churchill is said to have said: “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. “ Parshat Beha’alotcha is a Torah portion of both difficulty and opportunity. Here’s the sequence of events in this portion. 1. The Levites prepare for service in the Tabernacle. 2. The commandment […]
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(JTA) — What would it be like to go to sleep one day and suddenly wake up in a world turned upside down by COVID-19? Eli Seliger, an Orthodox Jewish father of seven from London, has a pretty good idea. In March 2020, long before anyone knew the scope of the pandemic in the United […]
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UK actors’ trade union slams Israel’s ‘horrifying’ actions against Hamas, prompting 3 members to quit – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Antisemitic acts in US soared 80% in a month, Jewish security group reports – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — The cease-fire agreement announced last week between Israel and Hamas conjures up the wisdom often, if dubiously, attributed to Albert Einstein: “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” Unfortunately, ever since the Israeli government withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 with the naive […]
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Under clear spring skies, about 1,000 Jews gathered on Sunday along the banks of the Moscow Canal for Limmud FEST, the first Limmud FSU face-to-face event worldwide since the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Limmud FSU Moscow, held at the city’s sprawling Admiral Club, adhered to local social distancing regulations. Held mostly outdoors, the […]
Continue ReadingTODAY, the Biden administration committed more than $5 million to rebuilding Gaza after Israeli bombing left swathes of the territory in ruins, with medical facilities, homes, and roads destroyed or damaged by the aerial attack that killed at least 248 people this month. But even as the administration takes steps to aid Gaza, its State […]
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In UK, Hamas-Israel ceasefire hasn’t slowed the spike in antisemitic incidents – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Simon Cowell pulls out as judge on Israeli counterpart to ‘America’s Got Talent’ – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Israeli Startup Arugga Offers New Robots for Agricultural Development It can even mimic bees. Eytan Heller and Iddo Geltner, the co-founders of Arugga AI Farming. (company pic) Arugga is an Israeli startup developing an autonomous robot for treating and monitoring individual plants in greenhouses. The company just completed a $4 million series A funding round […]
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