Israeli forces reportedly kill Palestinian man at funeral for a child also shot dead by soldiers – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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This article first appeared on Kveller. When I woke up on Tuesday, at first it seemed like any other morning. I had to get two kids ready for camp (fill water bottles, slather sunscreen, pack the snacks), and I had to get myself ready to attend Ladino class over Zoom (finish a worksheet, slurp coffee, […]
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(JTA) — When Israel’s current government managed to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, it did so by the narrowest of majorities and with the most ideologically diverse coalition in history. Now that the government has turned to governing, it’s unclear what it can accomplish. The coalition, which includes right-wing, centrist and left-wing […]
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Having wrapped up its conversation about using an elephant as the wall of a sukkah, the rabbis now consider an even wackier use for the side of an animal: to write a divorce document. I kid you not. The rules and procedures for a Jewish divorce (about which we’ll learn in Tractate Gittin) are derived by the […]
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I love today’s page because it reads a bit like something dreamed up by Dr. Seuss: Can you build your sukkah on a boat? Can you build it on a goat? On a cart or in a tree? Sukkot is so much fun you see! OK, the goat one is not on today’s page — […]
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Once in a while, we come across an unfamiliar word in the Talmud that makes us sit back and think: “Ooh, I wonder what that means!” That happens in a mishnah on today’s daf: A sukkah that is meduvlelet and whose shade exceeds its sunlight is fit. So what does meduvelet mean exactly? The Gemara attempts to figure that […]
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Nigeria frees 3 Jewish filmmakers who had been held for weeks in ‘horrendous conditions’ – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Text Messages, produced with The Jewish Week, is a column sharing wisdom from the weekly Torah portion. KIBBUTZ HANNATON, Israel (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Like Tikvah, one of the two main characters in my debut novel, “Hope Valley,” I moved to Israel out of Zionist ideology. Growing up, I went to Zionist schools and summer […]
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Jared Kushner is Quitting Politics Poor Jared Kushner! His political career seems to have come to an end. Well, Jared Kushner will just have to settle for being extremely rich from family money and being married to a super-rich beautiful woman, Ivanka Trump. The son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump got to spend four […]
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