admin | August 21, 2017
After Miri Shvimmer, a United Hatzalah volunteer paramedic responded to three life-saving calls in a few hours with Lior Ashkenazi, a fellow United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, she quipped One might say we had a productive day. On Friday afternoon just after 3:00 p.m. the couple responded to an emergency in which an individual jumped off the Kibbutz Galuyot bridge
richards | August 21, 2017
Solar eclipse 370. (photo credit:REUTERS) As millions of Americans gear up for the rare solar eclipse on Monday, rabbis across the spectrum weighed in on the event - and its significance
admin | August 21, 2017
A leader who portrays himself as one of the persecuted, the target of an incessant witch-hunt by the so-called deep state.
admin | August 18, 2017
Anti-Semitism is again back in the news. Some of the posters at the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist demonstrations this past weekend featured a man taking a hammer to a Star of David the biggest threat, the thing that needs to be destroyed
simmons | August 16, 2017
By Danya Ruttenberg By Danya Ruttenberg August 16 at 6:00 AM White nationalists staged a torchlit march on the campus of the University of Virginia on Aug.11, ahead of a planned far-right rally.
admin | August 16, 2017
Raise a shout together, O ruins of Yerushalayim! For Hashem will comfort His people, Will redeem Yerushalayim. Isaiah 52:9 (The Israel Bible) The Hurva Synagogue in the Old Citys Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem. Inset: After its destruction in 1967.
admin | August 16, 2017
By Ben Sales JTA news service Touro Synagogue, nestled in historic Newport, R.I., is the oldest synagogue still in existence in the United States.
admin | August 14, 2017
The Justice Ministry is preparing a draft amendment to Israels Basic law that would allow the prime minister to declare war, or order a military operation that could lead to war, with the approval only of the 10-member security cabinet.
admin | August 12, 2017
Parents of children born with Tay-Sachs disease, a genetically transmitted fatal disease found in Ashkenazi Jews from cerrtain areas of Europe, talk about three deaths. There is the moment when parents first learn that their child has been diagnosed with the fatal disease. Then there is the moment when the childs condition has deteriorated so badly blind, paralyzed, non-responsive that he or she has to be hospitalized
simmons | August 11, 2017
The story of Americas oldest synagogue, as told by retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, is the story of American Jewish history.
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