admin | March 12, 2022
Jamal Deibes is the patriarchal vicar for Jordan, while Rafic Nahra is the vicar for Israel. The former directed schools in Palestine, while the Lebanese priest is a great knowledge of the Jewish world
admin | March 12, 2022
COMMUNAL leaders have expressed their shock and sorrow after Senator Kimberley Kitching passed away from a heart attack yesterday at the age of 52. Deputy chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Israel (PFI), just last month she and PFI chair Eric Abetz slammed the Amnesty report branding the Jewish State an apartheid regime, claiming it was littered with errors that rehash discredited claims from other biased reports, and adding, Its wrong in detail and disturbing in its intent
admin | March 12, 2022
The Tears of History: From Kishinev to Pittsburgh, by the renowned French historian Pierre Birnbaum, takes its title from the work of the influential Jewish-American historian Salo Baron. In rejecting what he called the lachrymose account of Jewish history, Baron instead insisted that, both in medieval Europe and modern America, our history was more fortunate than Baron and most Jewish historians believed. In this slim and eloquent work not yet translated into English and published in France as Les Larmes dhistoire: De Kichinev Pittsburg Birnbaum takes up this issue by tracing the rise of antisemitism in the United States.
admin | March 12, 2022
Dear Rabbi Klass, I have numerous questions that relate to the Jewish leap year by way of the full month that we add to our lunar year every couple of years. Why is Adar the month picked for this addition?
admin | March 12, 2022
3 min read10 March Whoever rescues a single soul is credited as though they had saved the whole world. This maxim, from the Jewish Talmud, is often quoted in tribute to Britains help for refugees during the Second World War. We should keep these words close to our hearts as we respond to the Ukrainian refugee crisis today.
admin | March 12, 2022
Beginning Feb.17, members of Ithaca Colleges Jewish community have been gathering to discuss important themes in Judaism through the Jewish Learning Fellowship (JLF). The Jewish Learning Fellowship was founded at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University in 2007 as a way for students to deepen their understanding of Judaism through conversation on topics like college life, identity and romance. Since then, the program has expanded to universities across the U.S
admin | March 12, 2022
The Children of Israel may number like the stars in the sky, but after struggling to conceive, tests at the fertility clinic showed that my egg count did not. And my husbands sperm? Lets just say it was wandering the desert
admin | March 12, 2022
At the start of the current school year, Wornick Jewish Day School in Foster City added a highly effective learning tool to its Hebrew-language classes: Israelis. In this case, two teens from Israel who are eager to illuminate the breadth and beauty of their homeland. The young emissaries, Noa Herman and Nir Chen, are both 18 and participating in a gap-year program sponsored by the Jewish Agency for Israel called ShinShinim (short for shnat sherut, or year of service)
admin | March 12, 2022
Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. (THE CONVERSATION) Purim, the springtime Jewish holiday packed with much merriment and humor, recalls the biblical story of Queen Esther.
admin | March 12, 2022
The laws of sacrifices that dominate the early chapters of the Book of Vayikra are among the hardest in the Torah to relate to in the present. It has been almost two thousand years since the Temple was destroyed and the sacrificial system came to an end
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