Rabbi recites Jewish prayer as he is sworn in to Western Australia’s Supreme Court
The first Orthodox Jewish rabbi to be appointed to an Australian supreme court recited a Jewish prayer at the end of his swearing-in ceremony this week.
Rabbi Marcus Solomon, an experienced commercial litigator and arbitrator, was...
A quarter-century after his passing, the Rebbe’s sphere of influence continues to grow
For the Lubavitcher Rebbe, rather than his memory and influence shrinking in the 25 years since his passing, his legacy has only served to create a phenomenal growth in the movement he nurtured, inspired...
Tu B’Shevat highlights challenges being faced by Israeli farmers
As Israelis celebrate the agricultural holiday of Tu B’Shevat on Thursday, Uri Dorman is concerned about the Hamas war's impact on farms near the Gaza and Lebanese borders.
“All those farms are very close to...
Seder for a Better World An Activist’s Hagodeh
The Passover seder is an activist’s dream of cultural ritual—a debate with dinner and drinking: an evening for celebrating liberation through cross-generational questioning, story-telling, challenging, and eating— bitter, sweet, salty—accompanied by music and wine....
November 4, 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv’s Kings Square in Israel. Rabin later died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
The 73-year-old prime minister...
Who is afraid of a Jewish state?
Former Knesset member Professor Aryeh Eldad presents data and sources from the fathers of Zionism and repudiates the theory that severs Zionism and Judaism, and, in fact, determines that the absence of Judaism paves...
The Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, established in 1968,...
Our 6-week program offers classes from beginner to advanced levels and a wide variety of cultural and enrichment activities. Under the auspices of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Bard College, the program offers peerless instruction...
Group to turn thousands of Jewish headstones found in Belarus into memorial
A charity organization is working to create a memorial with Jewish gravestones that have been discovered around Belarus, Israel Newsstand reported.
Jewish headstones from the former Brest-Litovsk Jewish cemetery, which is today a sports field, began resurfacing at...
Uzzi Ornan, linguist and former Irgun member, dies at age 99
Uzzi Ornan, Irgun fighter, linguist and a follower of the Canaanite movement, died on Thursday in Nofit, in the Lower Galilee, at the age of 99.
Born Uzziel Halperin in Jerusalem in 1923 to a...
Jewish American Heritage Month
*EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth) on Monday honored the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis as part of the celebration of May as Jewish American Heritage Month.
*Our thanks to Eva Trieger who spotted the video above...