Nathan Straus: Shtadlan Extraordinaire, Zionist, And The ‘American Pasteur’ – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
admin | April 11, 2024
Rare postcard, Hanadiv [philanthropist] Natan Straus.
The Rights of Children: Infanticide Vs Jewish Tradition – The Times of Israel
admin | April 11, 2024
Introduction: In the Jewish tradition, childbirth is regarded as a sacred experience, marked by rituals and offerings that signify gratitude, devotion, and purification. However, when we explore historical practices beyond Jewish tradition, we encounter a stark and troubling reality: the widespread prevalence of infanticide. Through understanding and embracing the ethical principles of Judaism, we can strive to build a more compassionate and just world, where every life is cherished and protected.
Brooklyn synagogue fire leaves rabbi, 4 others hospitalized day after daughter’s wedding – New York Daily News
admin | March 30, 2024
A joyous weekend for a Brooklyn rabbis family turned into tragedy early Friday when a fire broke athis synagogue, leaving them trapped by a third-floor window ledge, fighting for their lives, FDNY officials and congregants said. Rabbi Avrhom Horowitz, his wife, and son were among the five people hospitalized, two critically, as the fire broke out about 6:15 a.m. on the second floor of the 60th St.
‘We Were the Lucky Ones’: The Real Kurc Family’s Holocaust Survival Story – Vanity Fair
admin | March 30, 2024
Mild spoilers for We Were the Lucky Ones ahead.
Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of Remembrance | Cheryl Levi | The Blogs – The Times of Israel
admin | March 21, 2024
Embed from Getty Images This Shabbat, the Shabbat before the Jewish holiday of Purim, religious Jews all over the world will flock to the synagogue to keep one of the Torahs commandments: to remember Amalek. The commandment in itself is not rare in Judaism. The verb remember appears in the Torah 169 times.
Israel’s ‘anti-Zionists’ brave police beatings, smears to demand end to war – Al Jazeera English
admin | March 13, 2024
Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. That was where she met Palestinians who had been born in Syria after their parents and grandparents fled there during the founding of her own country in 1948.
