Celebrate Eight Days of Chanukah – With 8,000 Free Meals Daily to Israel’s Poor Join Meir Panim’s campaign to “light up” Chanukah for families in need.
Posted on: March 4th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesJERUSALEM - Just prior to the Likud Party primaries last fall, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu arranged a press conference to introduce a variety of new faces who stood a legitimate chance of being elected to the Knesset.
Posted on: February 18th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and Profiles"Now we have the possibility of permanently stopping the yearly gay pride march in Jerusalem," Rabbi Yehuda Levin of the Rabbinical Alliance of America told The Jewish Press at the end of a two-week trip to Israel, which ended earlier this week.
Posted on: February 11th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesAmong the many posthumous additions to Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's literary legacy, one book always seemed conspicuously absent: a Soloveitchik Haggadah in English.
Posted on: February 11th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesNEW YORK - Rabbi Noach Weinberg, the founder and dean of the sprawling global outreach operation Aish HaTorah, was being called a "unique visionary" following his death in Jerusalem.
Posted on: February 4th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesTecheles, the blue strings the Torah requires Jews to wear on their ritual tzitzis garments, has long been thought of as a "dead" mitzvah. Sometime in the 7th century apparently (possibly due to the Arab conquest of Israel) Jews stopped producing techeles strings and the identity of the chilazon, from which the blue dye originates, was subsequently lost.
Posted on: January 28th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesEsther Kandel, an Orthodox Jewish mother of three, was a Zionist her whole life. But only recently has her heartfelt love of Israel burst forth in an explosion of activism.
Posted on: January 28th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesDear Dad, I had planned to write a different article for your ninth yahrzeit, but everything that has happened this past year has led me instead to contemplate the wonderful teachings you and Mom (may she live and be well) instilled in us, both by word and by example.
Posted on: January 14th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesShe was a very small woman physically, but she was a giant in Mitzvot and chesed.
Posted on: January 14th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesThe war in Gaza overshadowed what should have been the recent headline-making arrival of Jewish-American Olympic gold medalist Ben Wildman-Tobriner to the Jewish state, as Taglit-Birthright Israel's 200,000th participant.
Posted on: January 14th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesMother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships do not have to be "complicated," but in many cases they are.
Posted on: January 14th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesLast Shabbos Jerry Bechhofer was standing in shul as always - two rows in front of mine, tall and smiling.
Posted on: December 31st, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesIn last week's column about the collection Mekabtziel published by Yeshivat Ahavat Shalom of Jerusalem, we noted that the volume contained a number of articles and studies on various subjects.
Posted on: December 31st, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesDmitriy Salita, the Orthodox Jewish boxing sensation, may finally get the opportunity he's been waiting for.
Posted on: December 31st, 2008
InDepthIt was erev Yom Kippur 2002. Earlier that day, Aliza Lavie had read an interview in an Israeli newspaper with Hen Keinan, who lost her mother and baby daughter in a suicide attack in Petach Tikvah the previous May and had since moved to the United States.
Posted on: December 29th, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesHe was Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu's godfather. President Teddy Roosevelt counted him as a friend.
Posted on: December 29th, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesA small band of haredi biomedical pioneers, ensconced in the Lev Institute of the Jerusalem College of Technology, is on the verge of perfecting revolutionary peptide-based medicine that could cure a variety of life-threatening cancers and debilitating autoimmune diseases such as Crohn's disease.
Posted on: December 17th, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesThree months ago, Chaim Spero, the father of an autistic child, wrote an op-ed piece for The Jewish Press about his son's recent bar mitzvah. He never expected what followed.
Posted on: December 17th, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesFive recent sold-out benefit comedy performances in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Modiin, Beit Shemesh and Ra'anana featuring four well known American stand-up comedians provided a unique charitable venue for the Koby Mandell Foundation - the renowned terror victims outreach organization helmed by Rabbi Seth and Sherri Mandell. Their son Koby was stoned to death by Arab terrorists in May 2001.
Posted on: December 3rd, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesFear and trepidation were Helen Jonas's every day companions while she served as a housemaid in the villa of Amon Goeth, the notorious Nazi commander of Plaszow concentration camp near Krakow, Poland. Six decades after those horrid years, Jonas received a letter from Monika Hertwig, Goeth's daughter. She wanted to meet her.
Posted on: November 26th, 2008
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesNow your rabbi has proof that coming to shul is good for you.
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