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After the dedication of the street in honor of Sylvia Raphael: Journalist David Kaplan (left) and Rosh Ha'ayin Mayor Shalom Ben Moshe (center), Jan. 22, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of David Kaplan.

Sylvia Raphael, former top Mossad agent, honored in Rosh Ha’ayin

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On Jan. 22, 2024, old friends, representatives of Israel's South African community and former colleagues gathered in Rosh Ha’ayin for the unveiling of a lane named in honor of former Mossad agent Sylvia Raphael. Unveiling...
Amichai Jackson is called up to the Torah on his bar mitzvah, January 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Bar mitzvah boy forgoes party, treats 200 IDF soldiers to dinner

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Amichai Jackson, a bar mitzvah boy from the Gush Etzion community of Elazar, decided that in lieu of a party to mark the milestone event his parents should use the money to treat Israeli...
Eighth-grade teacher Logan Greene receives the 2023 Robert I. Goldman Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education, presented by Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, Jan. 15, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Alabama English teacher wins award for excellence in Holocaust education

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Logan Greene, who teaches eighth-grade English in Hoover, Ala.—smack-dab in the center of the state (population 92,606, according to the 2020 U.S. Census)—has been honored for what the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous calls...
Ebon Moss-Bachrach at the 2019 WonderCon in Anaheim, Calif. Credit: Gage Skidmore via via Wikimedia Commons.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach in ‘The Bear’ wins Emmy for Best Supporting Actor

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The performance of Ebon Moss-Bachrach as divorced father Richie in the TV series “The Bear” has so far collected the two top entertainment awards of the year. On Monday, Moss-Bachrach, who is 46 and Jewish, received an...
The Drutz's shabbat table in Toronto, Canada. Photo: Courtesy.

Those who can keeping the day for those who can’t: Shabbat 4 Soldiers

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When Sasha Litnaitzky-Drutz and David Drutz of Toronto held their first soup-to-nuts Shabbat on Dec. 22, the guest of honor was 6,000 miles away. Now in their second year of marriage, the couple had been...
Close up from Spinoza's statue in The Hague. Statue erected in 1880.

Baruch Spinoza: The Universal Anti-Hero

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In his Theological-Political Treatise, published in 1670 and banned in 1674, Spinoza wrote: “In a free country every man is allowed to think in his own way and to say all that he thinks.” It...
Israeli singer and actor Idan Amedi performs live during Israel's 69th Independence celebrations in Beit Shemesh on May 1, 2017. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.

Idan Amedi, ‘Fauda’ star, seriously injured in Gaza

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The musician and actor Idan Amedi, 35, who plays Sagi in the Netflix series “Fauda,” was reportedly injured seriously while serving as a reservist with the Combat Engineering Corps in Khan Yunis in Gaza. “We would...
Former Mossad Director Zvi Zamir speaks at a memorial service marking 21 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at the Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem. Nov. 4, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir dies at 98

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Zvi Zamir, the fourth director of Israel's Mossad national intelligence agency, died in Tel Aviv on Jan. 2. He was 98 years old. Born Zvicka Zarzevsky in 1925 in Lodz, Poland, Zamir immigrated to Israel...
Joseph Trumpeldor. Credit: Wikipedia.

The two Yosefs

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On the last Wednesday of 2023, the Israeli media reported the heartbreaking story of a soldier’s posthumous letter to his bereaved parents. Sgt. First Class Yosef Gitarts wrote, “I fell honorably for my people....
The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 24, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

50,000 Jews visit Temple Mount in 2023

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During 2023, 50,098 Jews visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, down from 51,483 in 2022, according to data compiled by Beyadenu, an Israeli NGO dedicated to strengthening the Jewish connection to the holy site. Some...