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The fascinating story about how the name “Israel” came to be written on the document signed by Truman recognizing the new Jewish state is broadly known, but few know that the handwriting on that historic document is Elath’s.

This week’s question is: “Is enrolling in a secular college ever appropriate in today’s day and age?”

Somehow Chai Lifeline is there, with food going to the home and the hospital, volunteers coming to the hospital to play with the kids, and iPads showing up out of nowhere to keep them busy.

Though a vicious civil war divided nationalist Ukrainians, Bolsheviks, and anti-Bolsheviks, they were somehow able to unite in committing atrocities against Ukraine’s one million Jews.

So much of our clothing, accessories and technological paraphernalia seem to define us and what we believe and value spiritually – yet, it should be the other way around.

A great champion of Israel throughout his professional life, Robert F. Kennedy supported Jews and the Jewish State from an early age. While a...

This Friday, November 9, marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. To commemorate this tragic date – the beginning of European Jewry’s destruction – The...

Every family has its own mix and, as the family grows, the mix becomes richer and more varied. Like my grandsons.

People from various communities in the Diaspora are asking me to amend the prayer for the well-being of the state and its leaders.

This weekend, over 3,000 Lubavitch shluchim will gather in Crown Heights for the annual Kinus Hashluchim (also known as the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim).

It is important for each of us to remember the obstacles we have faced and to remember with gratitude how we have managed to triumph over each one.

You signed up for a cause, and you can figure it out. Keep the image of that beautiful boy in your head and remember why you signed up. Remember the cause.

Gush was among the first Hesder yeshivas. In fact, it was among the first dati leumi yeshivas, period.

In one of the great ironies of Jewish history, the much-beloved Israeli national anthem was written by Naftali Herz Imber (1856-1909), a complex and...

The United States Postal Service is compensated for servicing these mails through annual tax-funded appropriations; in other words, you, the citizen, are paying for it.

We are called Yehudim as our essence is one of giving thanks.

Jewish women made their mark in education, welfare for the poor, and care for orphans, sometimes even manipulating public policy.

Nonetheless, to his political enemies – and there were many – his very name was an anathema.

Can Staten Island ever become a bustling Jewish neighborhood like Boro Park?

What sets this program apart from other similar programs is that its creators work to ensure that the curriculum stays relevant.

Personally, I believe scarves are more modest and appropriate headgear for Jewish women, but what to do? I’m a staunch wig person myself.

At a time when Maryland Jews lacked even the most basic civil rights, including the right to vote, Reuben Etting (1762-1848) joined many Colonial...

The “Einstein letter” to which Teller refers is undoubtedly one of the most important and consequential letters in human history.

Seeing the Jews so doomed, it was only natural to feel deep compassion, and from a humanitarian standpoint, to be impelled to help them.

Our music programs are designed to give children an unforgettable year that will help them develop in every area of their lives.

The most popular way of understanding kiddush Hashem is as any action you choose to do that brings honor and glory to G-d in the eyes of those around you.

The Jewish spirit lives in every branch of life and the Jewish heart palpates everywhere.

In honor of Sukkos, The Jewish Press decided to feature pictures of six of the winning designs.

The rights Rosen won for Jews included the right to emigrate, and he oversaw a tremendous exodus of some 400,000 Romanian Jews to Eretz Yisrael and elsewhere.

In Levy’s drawing, the children do not seem particularly enamored by having a chicken waived over their heads, as the boy seems to be shielding his eyes and the little girl seems to be recoiling in horror.