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I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

I saw Daniel. He was crying and hugging his mom.

United Hatzalah emergency medical personnel and other volunteers distributed kosher meals, snacks, cookies and candies to all the passengers in the flying Purim party.

A total of 101 refugees flew to Israel with United Hatzalah's Operation Orange Wings. Of those, 67 were holding Ukrainian passports.

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

When it became clear we would reach Kishinev far too late to hear Megillah reading, Raphael Poch produced his kosher Megillah scroll and began the reading on the bus.

Hana hears first hand, stories from Ukrainian refugees.

Hana is at the border of Ukraine and Moldova

A glimpse inside a Soviet-era style hotel.

Photos from inside a refugee camp in Kishinev, Moldova

The JewishPress.com has sent Hana Levi Julian to the Ukrainian border with a United Hatzalah mission, to report on the refugees, the Jewish aid efforts and the situation in Ukraine. This is the first report in a series of diary entries of was Hana is witnessing. 

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.

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.”

I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

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

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.

Telling the story – the miracle story of the Six Day War – is my duty.

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

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.

We will continue to oppose Iran’s malign influence. And under this president, America will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.

This year though I want to highlight a different aspect of the Convention – I’d like to talk about why 14,000 Jews leave their busy lives each year to come to AIPAC.

At dawn on November 25, the first couple of hundred passengers from the Atlantic, including my parents, started boarding the Patria.... At 9:00 a.m., the bomb exploded.

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

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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.

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...

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

Rav Goren, a general and the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli army, recalls the excitement of and hurdles to being the first Jew to open the gates of the Cave of the Patriarchs in more than a thousand years

The True Builder of United Jerusalem in Our Times