Yad Sarah inspires start of medical equipment-lending outlet in Connecticut
Yad Sarah announces the benefit of Wheel It Forward, a Connecticut-based not-for-profit organization that offers a convenient destination for anyone to easily borrow or donate durable medical equipment. Like Yad Sarah’s lending centers, Wheel It...
New reforms aim to bolster Diaspora Jewry’s ties to Israel
The Knesset’s Labor, Welfare and Health Committee approved new regulations on Tuesday aimed at encouraging aliyah and strengthening Diaspora Jewry’s Israel ties.
The reforms will for the first time allow any individual eligible for an immigration visa...
Lizzy Savetsky, Orthodox Jew, quits ‘Real Housewives of NYC’
Reality television fans were looking forward to seeing Lizzy Savetsky, a pro-Israel, Orthodox Jew, on the upcoming 14th season of the Bravo channel’s “The Real Housewives of New York City.”
However, she left the series...
Summit for student leaders aims to promote more unity between black, Jewish communities
The pro-Israel student group Maccabi Task Force organized its first three-day conference to help strengthen the relationship between black and Jewish communities.
Roughly 100 people from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) attended the Black...
‘Incredible India’ and its Jewish community
I travel the world. When someone mentions Asia, I immediately conjure up mystical India.
Falling in love with "Incredible India," as the its own ministry of tourism puts it, is not difficult, even though the...
US issues first passport with ‘Israel’ listed to Jerusalem-born US citizen
The United States has issued its first passport with Israel listed as the place of birth to a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem—in fact, to the person who was at the center of a...
New initiative seeks to remember the ‘forgotten’ Mideast Jewish refugees
The nine young Iraqi Jewish men hanging in the center of Liberation Square in Baghdad in January 1969 after being accused by the Ba’athist regime of espionage were the subject of great interest that...
Meet Mia Raskin: A Shomer Shabbat college basketball player at Binghamton
For Mia Raskin, basketball and Judaism are essential parts of life. Her deep and simultaneous commitment to her favorite sport and religion never came into conflict; at least, until Raskin began considering her college...
January 3: From the field to the broadcast booth
Marty Glickman, sportscaster for the New York Knicks for 21 years and of the New York Giants (football) for 23 years, died on this date in 2001. Glickman was a sprinter with the U.S....
Pilot Giora Epstein, 1973: ‘Then I was told, the Egyptian and Syrian air forces...
Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Giora Epstein has played a critical role in defending Israel during many air battles throughout his years as a combat pilot. He has shot down no fewer than 17 enemy aircraft—the most...