admin | March 1, 2020
4:21 p.m. Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills today officially canceled a mid-March trip to Israel and Greece. As of Friday, no refunds were being made to the 40 or so people who had signed up.
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admin | March 1, 2020
I never really understood Chanukah until I went to Spain. Standing in a church that had been a synagogue until the Jews were all either expelled or murdered, looking at the crucifix hanging where the ark had been, I understood the Maccabees in a whole new way.
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admin | March 1, 2020
TEL AVIV For passengers hurrying through the departures hall of Israels main airport on Sunday, many with their faces covered by masks, there was one big conundrum: Should they stay or should they go? It wasnt just the threat of the coronavirus spreading around the world that made them think twice about traveling. It was the thought of missing Israels general election on Monday the countrys third in less than a year.
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admin | March 1, 2020
The Health Ministry on Friday said that a second Israeli has been diagnosed with coronavirus after contact with a man who tested positive for COVID-19 following his return from Italy. According to Hebrew media reports, the second person diagnosed with the virus is the mans wife and she has been hospitalized at the Sheba Medical Center where she is reported to be in good condition.
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admin | March 1, 2020
For the past 49 years, Yeshiva University has held an annual lecture series titled the Hillel Rogoff Memorial Lecture. Not many students, however, are acquainted with the life story of Rogoff
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admin | February 28, 2020
Conservative AGUDATH BNAI ISRAEL: Meister Road at Pole Ave., Lorain.
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admin | February 28, 2020
You are about to experience a sacred moment. With these words, before a Friday evening crowd of 500 at Jerusalems Shai Agnon Synagogue, I inaugurated this years fourth-annual Druze Shabbat
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admin | February 28, 2020
Rabbi Elisha Friedman stands in front of the future home of Kesher Israel Congregation in Riverside.
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admin | February 28, 2020
Every day seems to bring a new report of anti-Semitism not just in other countries but in the United States as well. And for good reason.
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admin | February 28, 2020
(JTA) Ruben Golran had studied for a year and a half in anticipation of this week, when 600 of his relatives and friends were supposed to converge on Milan to celebrate his bar mitzvah.
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