Rabbi on ground in battered Bahamas organizes supplies, volunteers for relief efforts
As Hurricane Dorian was unleashing its unimaginable devastation on the Bahamas earlier this week, Rabbi Sholom and Sheera Bluming, co-directors of Chabad of the Bahamas, hunkered down in the capital city of Nassau, making phone calls to residents,...
Letter dated 1938 by Freud to be auctioned off in Jerusalem
A handwritten letter by 20th-century Jewish thinker Sigmund Freud, written several weeks after he fled Nazi rule in Austria, is up for auction in Jerusalem next month.
The letter was bought by an Israeli collector...
Israeli 11th-grader wins International Bible Contest
Ruth Cohen, a 16-year-old student from the Barahan Ulpana school in Merkaz Shapira in southern Israel, won the 2020 International Bible Contest in Jerusalem on Wednesday, becoming the first female student in a decade...
June 3, 1885: Sverdlov The Bolshevik, was born
Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, the author of Russia’s revolutionary constitution and one of the chief planners of the 1917 October Revolution, was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on this date in 1885....
The Squeaky Door
In honor of the yahrtzeit of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, here is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of the historical novel, “The Lion’s Roar,” the third volume in the “Tevye in the Promised Land” series by...
Israel Prize-winning poet Natan Zach dies at 89
Natan Zach, an Israeli writer who had a major impact on the development of modern Hebrew poetry, died on Friday at the age of 89.
Zach published more than two dozen books, including several that...
February 3, 1809: Felix Mendelssohn, German musician and composer, was born
Felix Mendelssohn, in full Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, (born February 3, 1809, Hamburg —died November 4, 1847, Leipzig), German composer, pianist, musical conductor, and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic...
March 4, 1910: Yiddish playwright Moshe Horowitz died
Moshe Ish HaLevy was born on 27 February in Stanislawow, Eastern Galicia to an orthodox family who were followers of the Gaon Hshl"kh. He studied with Rabbi Meshulam Horowitz and later in a house of...
Israel makes history at ‘The House That Ruth Built’
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Dean Kremer holds the distinction of being the only Israeli to pitch at “The House That Ruth Built.”
After Tuesday night’s start against the Yankees in New York City, he reported that...
Keshet Studios, Disney to produce series on woman who sheltered Anne Frank
Keshet Studios will produce a limited series for Disney+ about Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who sheltered Anne Frank and her family during World War II.
“A Small Light” will be told from the perspective...