Initiated by KKL-JNF Mexico: 25 teenage boys and girls who were evacuated from their...
Following the attack on October 7, which led to the evacuation of the Gaza Envelope residents from their homes, they were temporarily accommodated in hotels and guest houses across Israel. These individuals, especially the...
Terry Wunder: Rejoicing in a Jewish Identity
Editor’s Note: This is the 8th chapter in Volume 3 of Editor Emeritus Donald H. Harrison’s 2022 trilogy, “Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5.” All three books as well as others written by Harrison...
The indomitable spirit of volunteerism in wartime
When the war with Hamas broke out last month, 25-year-old Israel Tolchinsky from Queens, New York, had been in Israel for less than six weeks on an educational program aimed at immersing Diaspora Jews...
Citizens of 100 countries join Shabbat Project, show solidarity with Israel
Earlier this month, Jews in more than 1,500 cities in 100 countries participated in an event in solidarity with Israel.
The gatherings on Nov. 3-4 were supposed to be the 10th anniversary of the International...
Survived the Holocaust, killed by Hamas
The messages kept coming in to Kibbutz Holit's emergency WhatsApp group.
“Save us, save us,” “Where is the army?” “They are trying to burn down the houses” and “There's gunfire.”
A 7-year-old girl reported that she...
The day the music died for progressive Jewry
The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre will be remembered as the day the music died for progressive Jewry. What was will no longer be.
Hamas showed for all to see, in many cases live on social...
Bela Mark Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 100
CHULA VISTA, California — Holocaust survivor Bela Mark died Sunday, Oct. 29. Born January 6, 1923, in Spermezeu, Romania, a region of Transylvania, Bela lost his father soon after World War l. His twin...
Our Divine Defense System
Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller (1579–1654), in his classic commentary on the Mishnah, Tosfot Yom Tov (Pirkei Avot, 5:3), offers profound insight into the title bestowed upon our forefather Avraham, known as “Avinu” (our...
US Jews supply thousands of tzitzit to Israeli soldiers
As the Israel Defense Forces prepare to move into Gaza to destroy the Hamas terrorist group, an American rabbi affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement has launched a campaign to supply Israeli soldiers with tzitzit,...
Olim who fled Ukraine volunteering in Israel’s war effort
The 300 volunteers arrive on buses from Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and Beersheva at army bases around Israel to work in 12-hour shifts sorting and packing medical equipment and field rations. They all fled...