Filmmaker and Israel activist Rudy Rochman Talks About Being Unlawfully Held for 20 days...
I asked if they could bring us some food. They gave us a few grapes, apples and crackers. So we did the Kiddush over grapes and the Motzi over some crackers.
When Bernie Sanders Saved Chanukkah
As mayor of Burlington, Vt., Bernie Sanders publicly inaugurated the Chabad-Lubavitch Public Menorah at Burlington's City Hall.
Temech: Offering Business Success to Women
Temech is about providing a community – a place where religious women can learn, collaborate and refresh themselves with like-minded people.
Turned My Life Around: The Redemption of Mark Moskowitz
Repaying a life's debt, one day at a time
The Saga Of Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi
Responsibility, taking acharayus for our actions, is something we could all start doing a bit more.
94 Year Old American War Veteran in Jerusalem Tells His Story [video]
Dan, a veteran of the US Combat Engineers corps is participating in an IDF Torah dedication on Sunday, this is his story.
One Life At A Time: Dr. Rick Hodes Is Changing Lives
In 1989, when Ethiopia and Israel agreed to restore the diplomatic relations that had been broken off by Ethiopia in 1973, thousands of Ethiopian Jews (aka Beta Israel) flooded to Addis Ababa. A year later, Dr. Hodes, an observant Jew from Long Island, N.Y., was hired by the JDC to be the medical director in Ethiopia and oversee their care. The original six-week contract was to morph into nearly twenty-three years...and Hodes is still counting.
On Mike Tress, The ‘Amazon Generation,’ And Shidduch Coaching: An Interview with Rabbi Paysach...
I really believe many people need shidduch coaching. One shidduch coach told me, “There are many people who are passing up good opportunities for bad reasons.”
The Charedi Rabbi Who Changed His Mind On Zionism: An Interview With Rabbi Moshe...
The sole purpose of all the afflictions which smite us in our exile is to arouse us to return to our Holy Land….
On the Bookshelf
I was blessed with a mother who was an avid reader, and she set a magnificent example of love of reading and love of learning.
Spending the High Holidays in Olamouc, Czech Republic.
Can anything be done to preserve Eastern Europe's numerous Jewish communities like Olomouc ?
Milton Steinberg: A Scholar for All Times in the Search for Religious Meaning
Steinberg significantly links belief with a capacity that may regarded as intuition, but intuition in an enlightened sense.
Filtering Hollywood: An Interview with VidAngel CEO Neal Harmon
Most powerful people in Hollywood are the directors, and the directors have never liked others filtering their work. So the hands of the people inside the studio are tied.
Daniel Mandel: The Joy, the Lone Oak, and a Special Torah Scroll
13 years ago, Lt. Daniel Mandel, of the Nahal Brigade, was murdered by a terrorist. Today, there are 18 babies who have been named Daniel, after him.
Elections Again? What For? An Interview with Otzma Yehudit’s Baruch Marzel
Polls are fake. According to the polls, Feiglin and Bennett were supposed to win the sweepstakes in the last elections, but they were left with their mouths wide open.
I Am A Palestinian
Tsipora yearned for grandparents, to call someone "Savta or Saba." She was jealous of her friends who spent Shabbat at aunts or uncles.
‘Pretty Worth It In The End’: An Interview With Dominican-American Convert Aliza Hausman
Have you read the blog Jewminicana? If you have, you are already familiar with Aliza Hausman, a recently converted Dominican-American blogger. She blogs about her childhood, upbringing, conversion, and a wide range of other topics. She and her husband, a semichah student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, also speak about life as a religious interracial couple.
Princess Alice Of Greece: Mother of Prince Philip and Mother-In-Law of Queen Elizabeth
The Greek royal family had been well acquainted with the family of Haimaki Cohen, a Jewish former member of Parliament, from northern Greece.
Can Israel Annex The West Bank? An Interview with Women In Green Co-Founder...
My parents saw how miserable I was in chutz la'aretz, so they finally gave me their beracha to move to Eretz Yisrael.
A Jewess By Choice
Her parents' message was clear: be sensitive to society's shortcomings by being part of the solution.
About “Rabbi” Lerner
In short, Michael Lerner is neither Orthodox nor a Rabbi. We DO know that he is an anti-Semite though, one who claims that Jews themselves are to blame for anti-Semitism!
The Mother Of Reinvention
"Isn't it enough that the whole world hates us? WHy do we have to hate each other?"
‘Bitachon Means Knowing Hashem Will Come Through For You’ Rabbi Yitzchak Dwek on living...
If only we would realize that every smack we receive is a gift in disguise, we would embrace those moments of challenge and cherish them.
A Meeting with Magda Haroun, Head of Egypt’s Jewish Community
Magda's dreams is an Egypt that is cosmopolitan and tolerant, that embraces the breadth of humanity that Egypt embodied in recent memory.
Nachamu: Finding Hope In The Darkness: What’s Our Secret?
The hallmark of a Yid – our special koach – is that we believe in the future. Sometimes that future won’t happen for a long time, but we believe that ultimately, the good will come.
How Did Israel’s Supreme Court Become So Powerful?
There have been many other cases where Arab rights have been given precedence over Jewish rights and where liberal philosophies have been championed over Jewish ones in the name of personal freedom.
‘Literature Can Express Purity, Faith, And Closeness To God’: An Interview with Rosh Yeshiva...
I am among those who maintain that artistic expression that comes from inspiration is very valuable.
Who Gets Treated First?
The doctor has precedence. A king does not have precedence over a doctor who can save the lives of many others.
Opening Hearts And Winning Over A New Generation: A Profile Of Chazzan Netanel Hershtik
Netanel Hershtik wears many hats but perhaps the one he is best known for is a soft, puffy headpiece known as a mitre, traditionally worn by chazzanim.
Behind The Name On The Cover: Jerome Schottenstein And His Sponsorship Of The ArtScroll...
With memories of the Siyum HaShas still fresh in people’s minds, many Jews around the world have been purchasing a Tractate Berachot in order to take part in the 13th cycle of Daf Yomi, the daily study of one daf of Talmud Bavli.