Interviews and Profiles

In an exclusive interview with the Jewish Press, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely explained that donor nations should condition their funding to UNRWA based upon a reform in the school curriculum. MK Dr. Anat Berko argued that UNRWA is beyond reform.

I want to be able to appeal to kids across the board.

If the best laid plans fail, what about the poorly considered?

I want to be very clear, though: Almost everybody holds that even if a kohen can attend medical or dental school, he cannot participate in any way shape or form in the actual dissection of a dead body.

Mingled with laughter came the tears as she described the terrifying fear she endured every month before she opened the envelope with her latest test results.

When your yardstick for measuring pain and discomfort is the Holocaust, it’s difficult to get too upset about life’s minor problems – and that’s what they are.

I wanted to try and begin to understand the unfathomable: How did such evil come about?

And what about the Jewish singles themselves? What are they doing to help alleviate the painful problem of not having found their soulmate?

Having had grandparents who were the rav and rebbetzin in Great Neck and in-laws who served in those roles in Montreal, the ideas of mission and contribution resonate very strongly with me.

Who knew that a little bit of ice cream could go so far?

Jordan River Village is Israel's only free, year-round, overnight program for children living with life-limiting conditions (serious diseases, chronic illnesses, genetic conditions, special needs).

Only after Perrie has extracted my entire family history does she begin to share her own story.

Tehillim 118:17 – I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of God.

While critiquing Israel isn’t anti-Semitic, attacking it with disproportionate venom – as many regularly do – almost certainly is.

I don’t believe in too much grief. Hashem gives, and He can take away, Risa explained.

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.

The yeshiva rents apartments for the boys in the city so that they are also live among the secular citizens.

Today she lives with her husband in Brooklyn and has finally found her comfort spot, religious-wise.

Kfar Kedem offers a variety of activies to serve as a link between the past and the present.

People want to know about their Jewish identity. And I don’t think you can have a Jewish democratic state without Judaism. It won’t work.

We want to bring Jewish female artists and audiences together.

The program really changed my life. I come from a good, religious home, but I like to do my own thing. For the first time, I met teachers I identified with and who guided me.

People thought of her as this soft America girl. So she worked harder than anybody on the kibbutz – until her hands were rough and practically bleeding – to show her dedication.

Breslov chassidus is well-known for its focus on hisbodedus, solitary contemplation. For Yehoshua this means sometimes going into the forest to paint.

And just as he had for so many other souls, Shlomo awakened in Neil "some spark of lost Jewishness."

There were hundreds of thousands of people wounded and all of them needed our care. We felt our mission was to restore hope for the people of Haiti.

I think Gymies’ success and the opening of the Space has to do with a worldwide trend toward leading a more wholesome life.

He knew what happened in the Holocaust, and he didn’t want to see Israel [destroyed].

Israel’s fighter pilots shot down 24 hostile airplanes in air-to-air combat during the war without losing one.

He wants to ensure that commentators and modern scholars are in agreement regarding the identification of any given animal.