Give Relief to the Needy this Purim As Purim approaches, thousands of Israeli children and families grapple with poverty
Posted on: April 14th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesIn the aftermath of the forcible evacuation of thousands of Jewish settlers from Gush Katif in 2005, legal protection for settlers and right-wing activists in Israel was virtually non-existent. Meanwhile, legal organizations dedicated to the defense of basic rights for Arabs and left-wing Jews were thriving.
Posted on: April 7th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesAn Interview With Radio Talker Steve Malzberg
Posted on: April 1st, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesHe's not Jewish, he's not Lithuanian and he's not a librarian but Wyman Brent, an American from San Diego, is building a Jewish library in Vilna.
Posted on: April 1st, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesSocial conservatives constantly bemoan the erosion of traditional family life and morality. In their view, narcissism and materialism plague the American landscape.
Posted on: March 25th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesTeaneck Rabbi Discusses Geirus, Unconventional Warfare, and Rav Kook's Ideal State
Posted on: March 18th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesNew Book Reveals His Private Thoughts On Chabad, Zionism, Women's Hair Covering
Posted on: March 4th, 2009
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesNestled in the picturesque village of Metullah in the hills of the Upper Galilee, hidden in the serpentine alleyways of the quaint cobble-stoned streets, is Zami's Music Box, Israel's only museum of musical instruments.
Posted on: March 4th, 2009
InDepthWhen walking into the main exhibit space at New York's Sotheby's Auction House, one expects to see beautiful rare items for sale. There have been famous auctions of important historic documents, works of art and antiques. Often the exhibit hall has become a sort of museum, with people viewing the sale items while knowing there is no possibility of buying them.
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.
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