Five biblical concepts that relate to the Land of Israel
There are hundreds of references to Israel on every page of Tanach, according to Tuly Weisz, founder and CEO of Israel365. As such, in honor of Israel Independence Day on April 19, Weisz will...
Agreement gives all proceeds of Anne Frank diary sales to New Israel Fund
All proceeds from the sales of the renowned Diary of Anne Frank will be distributed to the New Israel Fund, according to an announcement made by the organization and the Anne Frank Foundation on the eve...
Holocaust survivors and their descendants sing to celebrate life
600 Holocaust survivors, their children and grandchildren sing in a moving tribute to the power of life and good over evil. Project organized by Koolulam, and filmed at Jerusalem's Beit Avi Chai center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=Vuh1-jDi7Qw
Current World Jewish population still below pre-Holocaust figures
According to figures released Tuesday by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of Jews alive today is still lower than it was in 1939, prior to the Holocaust.
Prior to the murder of...
Chabad rabbi’s son combats smartphone threats to children via Herzliya startup
Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, Lazer Mangel would help his dad, the local Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, set up the family’s WiFi network so that he could still get in whenever he wanted.
Mangel, 24, says he...
Film documents massacre of Jews in Lithuanian shtetl
Molètai is a small town in Lithuania with a dark past.
On Aug. 29, 1941, Molètai residents, in partnership with Nazi officers, massacred the Jewish townspeople. These victims had been rounded up a few days...
Israel to Reveal Evidence of Discrimination Against Jewish-Moroccan Immigrants
Israel will reveal archived documents pertaining to the discrimination practised by Israeli state against Moroccan Jews who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s.
The silent suffering of Moroccan Jewish immigrants in 1950s Israel will soon...
Make the Iraqi Jewish Archive a gateway between Arabs and Jews
I launched what is now an internationally acclaimed documentary last year, titled “Remember Baghdad,” which chronicles the history of the Jews of Iraq until the community’s destruction in recent decades. It’s already been seen...
Israel cancer research fund finds its man
In January, the New York-based Israel Cancer Research Fund appointed a new national executive director: Dr. Mark Israel. A renowned pediatric oncologist and leading national figure in cancer research, he previously served as the...
Professor David S. Wyman Z”L, 89, scholar and mensch
Almost every time David S. Wyman delivered a lecture related to his remarkable book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945, someone in the audience would ask: Why would you, a Christian,...