2+ hour, 32+ min ago  (606+ words) In a recent column published ahead of Israel's Independence Day, journalist Hagai Segal argued that American Jews who choose not to immigrate to Israel are, in effect, failing a central Zionist obligation." The frustration Segal expressed (in Hebrew) reflects a…...

10+ hour, 15+ min ago  (189+ words) Realizing it was time He lowered His face To Abraham's ear And whispered A promise To the worried father There will be More children Than you can count. As many, I swear, As the sand By the sea But Abraham…...

13+ hour, 2+ min ago  (45+ words) Remembering with Purpose: What Yom Ha Zikaron Asks of Us'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage…...

21+ hour, 50+ min ago  (389+ words) I came to Eitan Rosenzweig the way you sometimes come to people who have already left " through their work, through other people's grief, through a document that outlasted them. It started with a Haaretz article. Then his teacher, Porat Salomon,…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (194+ words) A video surfaced recently of Israeli police on the Temple Mount confiscating soccer balls from Muslim children and puncturing them on the spot. Within hours it was everywhere. Headlines called it cruelty, provocation, a deliberate act of oppression against children....

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (416+ words) The first Passover seder, celebrated in Egypt just before the exodus and described in Exodus 12: 1-11, was radically different from the seder observed afterward. What was the purpose of this meal? There is one basic question underlying all these thirteen queries....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (479+ words) In March, after an anti-Jewish attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a ballroom across the street'became a place of refuge. The Shenandoah Country Club, which serves the area's Chaldean Iraqi Christian community, opened its doors to the Temple…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (218+ words) Jewish leaders in the diaspora last week called on Israel's President to take "urgent action" over "Jewish extremist terror" in the West Bank and many people who are passionately pro-Israel support the leaders' stand. Indeed, even calling them "Settlers" is…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago  (563+ words) " " " " And God told Moshe, say thus (i. e. repeat verbatim) First my apologies for tackling the sort of issue that everyone blithely ignores. In fact they don't even notice it. If there is one thing that seems to unite most Torah readers…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago  (572+ words) Jerry Felsenthal graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1970. He graduated from Northwestern Law School in 1973. He has practiced law in the State of Illinois for over 50 years. He has attended a Chabad Synagogue in Highland Park, IL for over…...