Jewish News

Op-Ed Response: Don’t Blame the Mesorah

I write this op-ed as a response to Eyal Rav-Noy’s article titled, “Op-Ed: Why Mendel Can’t Read” from Oct 24th. As a Lubavitcher Special educator directing a learning enhancement program in Crown Heights which includes children with reading difficulties, I am compelled to respond to some of the views outlined in the article which I feel are heretic in nature ...

Op-Ed: Is Marriage the Solution?

About a month ago, a letter came out signed by many Chabad Rabbonim, Roshei Yeshiva and Mashpiim urging bochurim to get married earlier, at the age of 20-21, instead of what has been the common practice to begin getting involved in shidduchim at 23-24.The reasoning behind this is, being that bochurim finish the “prescribed amount of years in yeshiva,” i.e. ...

Op-Ed: I Am Worried About Jonathan

Jonathan Pollard saved millions of human beings in the Middle East and worldwide from excruciating deaths and painful lifelong physical disabilities. To do that, Pollard sacrificed his freedom.Documents recently released to the National Security Archives at George Washington University provide us, for the first time, with the details of the espionage activities that have made Jonathan Pollard the most controversial ...

Only Jewish museum in Arab world

“To be frank, I didn’t even know there were Jews of Moroccan origin,” said high school student Sidi Ahmed, who visited the Museum of Moroccan Judaism of Casablanca with his class from the Western Sahara town of Dakhla.A white building tucked into a residential neighbourhood of this cosmopolitan city holds a treasure trove few here know about: The Arab region’s ...

Only in Israel: Lease New or Buy Second-Hand Sheitel

If you wear your hair out, you can go get your hair styled and cut, as often as you want, with a new style. If you wear tichels, hats and snoods, you can also change the colors, the designs and the styles as often as you like.When you wear wigs, changing style costs a lot of money. You would have ...

Only 2 survivors remain from Nazi camp Treblinka

BAT YAM, Israel — They are believed to be the last two survivors of the most chillingly efficient killing machine of the Nazi Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp in occupied Poland.Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, 87-year-old Israelis, are devoting their final years to trying to preserve the memory of the 875,000 people systematically murdered in a one-year killing spree at the ...

Online Hate Poses New Threat in Argentina

More than 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) separate Buenos Aires from Jerusalem. Yet wars and crisis in the Middle East have an impact on anti-Semitism in Argentina.For the past 12 years, Jewish umbrella organization DAIA has been counting and analyzing anti-Semitic incidents in Argentina. The last report, issued in December, shows a small rise in numbers, but a significant change in ...

Online Exodus: Give Moses a ‘Like’

If Moses had Internet access, a Facebook profile and basic knowledge of English, this is probably what the Exodus would look like. On the other hand, for that to happen, God should have been online too. But wait, God is everywhere – so there’s no problem.The video was created by the Aish HaTorah organization, which works to raise awareness to ...

One-Third of PA Arabs Support Massacre of Fogels

One-third of Palestinian Authority Arabs have expressed support for the brutal massacre of the Fogel family in Itamar last month, according to a poll conducted by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah.Read More: @ israelnationalnews.comReaders found more information by searching for:1 ...

One of the World’s Richest Launching Venture To Rival Al Jazeera

One of the world’s richest men says he is setting up an international news network to rival Al-Jazeera.Alexander Machkevitch, a Kazakh-Israeli mining mogul, says he and unnamed partners are in the early stages of developing the venture. Machkevitch is pitching the idea at an annual meeting of Jewish leaders in Washington Wednesday.He told The Associated Press that he had not ...

One Million Jews in Russia

Russia’s Jewish population is at about one million, says the FJC President, Alexander Boroda.Speaking on a Moscow radio program, he justified this figure despite a census that puts the number at around 270,000. Communism has produced generations of Russian Jews who know little if anything, about Judaism and their heritage. It is only in the last decade or so that they ...

One Hundred Residents Join Greenfield and Colton to Clean Bay Parkway

More than 100 residents joined Councilman David G. Greenfield and Assemblyman William Colton to clean a 25-block stretch of Bay Parkway on Sunday, as part of the ongoing effort to beautify Bensonhurst and improve the quality of life for all residents throughout the district. The large turnout, which included volunteers from several local groups, worked together to remove dozens of ...