Rav Moshe Feinstein, Golda Meir, And Redeeming Skyjacked Hostages
Interestingly, among the unreleased hostages were Rav Yitzchak Hutner, the former Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Berlin in New York and author of Pachad Yitzchak, and members of his family, who...
View Article‘The Jew Of A Thousand Voices’
His multi-lingual immigrant community, a paradigm of the American melting pot (including Russian Jews), provided a virtual cornucopia of languages, dialects, accents, intonations, and vernaculars that...
View ArticleFormer IDF Soldier, Father Of Two, Needs A Kidney
I desperately want [my wife] and I to grow old together, to be with my family and friends, and to watch my grandchildren grow up,"
View ArticleFewer Than One In 10,000 Survived
I had no idea what I was getting myself into; I had joined a Holocaust family and jumped through the rabbit hole.
View ArticleThe Halachic Obligation To Report Abuse
Some Rishonim write that one may speak lashon hara to prevent potential damage or injury.
View ArticleThe German Reparations Question
This protest became the first time in Israeli history that demonstrators interrupted a Knesset session seeking to overturn a democratically made Knesset decision.
View ArticleFor The First Time, Antarctica Within Reach Of Frum Travelers
Because only 100 passengers from any one ship are allowed on shore at any one time, visitors to the Frozen Continent will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities during its...
View ArticleThe First Jew To Serve On The Federal Bench
However, the main target in Lauder’s piece was “the Orthodox,” who he paints with one brush, as if there are not huge differences within Israel’s vibrant modern Orthodox, nationalist religious Zionist...
View ArticleRosh Hashanah Greetings From WWII’s Jewish Brigade
Broadly heralded as the contemporary embodiment of the Maccabees, some 30,000 Jewish volunteers from Eretz Yisrael served with the British Army during World War II, and more than 700 were killed in...
View ArticleKapparot: ‘A Wing And A Prayer’
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...
View ArticleThanks For The Set!
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.
View ArticleYorkers – But Are They Kosher?
In honor of Sukkos, The Jewish Press decided to feature pictures of six of the winning designs.
View ArticleEdward Teller And A Nuclear Israel
The “Einstein letter” to which Teller refers is undoubtedly one of the most important and consequential letters in human history.
View ArticleThe First Jew To Hold Public Office In America
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 American Jews in assuming the responsibilities of full...
View ArticleA Father-Son Duo: Utopian Proto-Zionist And America’s First Jewish Senator
Nonetheless, to his political enemies – and there were many – his very name was an anathema.
View ArticleAbe Fortas And Nixon’s ‘Franking’ Privilege
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.
View ArticleThe Fascinating History Of ‘Hatikvah’
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 deeply flawed vagabond, drunkard, and buffoon known...
View ArticleWho Wrote The Tefillah L’Shalom Medinat Yisrael?
People from various communities in the Diaspora are asking me to amend the prayer for the well-being of the state and its leaders.
View ArticleRobert Kennedy: Assassinated For His Support Of Israel
A great champion of Israel throughout his professional life, Robert F. Kennedy supported Jews and the Jewish State from an early age. While a student at Harvard, he dared to challenge Father Leonard...
View ArticleThe Jewish Legacy Of World War I
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.
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