First Person

The year was 1992, Ari Fuld and I had just been drafted into the IDF as lone soldiers...

Last week, I woke up one morning in my Nazareth home and was astonished to discover I was living under a racist, apartheid regime whose only purpose is “the promotion and perpetuation of the superiority of one group of people—the Jews.”

The one reason to make Aliyah outweighs all the arguments not to move to Israel.

"They took him and cast him into the pit. (Gen. 37:24). Rashi: “There was no water; there were snakes and scorpions."

An Israeli actor pal asked me why I knew nothing about Judaism-The question hit like a thunderbolt

FBI’s undercover agents contacted ORA (Org. for the Resolution of Agunot) pretending to be an agunah

As we must go out to battle again, we are reminded of the chain of succession and success from the time of Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua ben Nun.

Each circle is crucial. Each circle reinforces and enables the others, and each contributes to the extraordinary effort that we must collectively make.

The Ravens' Ray Lewis screamed that violence is never the answer." Unfortunately, he is wrong.

Monday we had sirens in Jerusalem. It's very frightening. It's hard for me to rush anywhere, and the only place I can go is into the hallway – and then comes the loud boom, thank G-d.

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

Def. of Chutzpah: 2 super successful Israeli Arabs told the crowd Israel oppresses its Arab citizens

But of course, despite all these signals that something was very, very, very, wrong, nothing in my wildest imaginations conceived of the full horror that confronted me upon opening the news motzaei Simchat Torah.

One of the thousands of people who were first responders on 9/11 is a resident of Efrat and a United Hatzalah volunteer. His name is Eric Andron.

Pesach in Israel is extraordinarily special. You can actually feel the chag in the air. For days beforehand, everyone is busy cleaning and preparing for the holiday.

We sat down, ate, drank, sang, ate dessert, started singing some more – and in the middle of our Shabbat song the commander's military phone started ringing...

In Ayala's case, the art of receiving can have an even bigger impact than the art of giving.

Hana hears first hand, stories from Ukrainian refugees.

Eliyahu has rarely spoken about his experience of a child during the Holocaust, but after witnessing the world’s fading memor and after the advent of Holocaust denial he has changed his mind.

With a few Kalachnikov bullets, this despicable terrorist cut off the life of my precious and pure grandson, Amiad Yisrael, Hy"d.

There is hardly a home in Israel that has not been touched. But the People of Israel are the eternal people – and we will prevail.

No longer will delegitimization efforts go unchallenged. That's a silence we will continue to break.

"Yesha" and Binyamin Regional Council leaders said the attack "is not the path of Jews in Judea and Samaria."

Today (10 Nissan – April 18) is the 21st yahrzeit of my daughter Alisa Flatow, Hy”d. I’d like to share with readers of The Jewish Press some personal reflections on the events of 1995 and what has happened since.

The Farhud occurred June 1&2 1941 in Iraq, effectively ending 2,600 yrs of Jewish life in Arab lands

Ari was larger than life. His deeds matched his words. His family, defending the Jewish people, teaching Torah and supporting IDF soldiers – that was his world.

A glimpse inside a Soviet-era style hotel.

After bringing her grandchildren to safety, one woman drove back to Ukraine, unwilling to leave her home and family in Odessa.

But we citizens, especially religious citizens, must take this terrible debacle as a severe wake-up call to unite again as a people.

Yehudit's backstory and her poems related to the Yom Kippur War are a MUST read