Viral pontiff: Francis dances with Hasidic Jews at the Vatican
It’s rare to see Pope Francis bopping behind the walls of the Apostolic Palace.
Actually, if anyone has ever seen any pope dancing they’ve never said anything, nor filmed it and put it on YouTube.
Yet...
National Museum of American Jewish History show about 1917 has violence, revolution, refugees
The United States enters a war overseas, and people are dying and fleeing their besieged lands.
Unrest ripples across Russia. Tensions brew in the Middle East.
Immigrants find themselves unwanted in America, targets of surveillance, arrest,...
Festival celebrates Jewish food culture with community
Lieba Cohen of Hagerstown, and her husband Jerry, can be found helping out every year during the Jewish Food Festival hosted by Congregation B’nai Abraham in downtown Hagerstown.
She is usually helping with the bakery...
Israël célèbre le 69ème anniversaire de la création de l’Etat d’Israël
Comme chaque année et ceci depuis des décennies, nous venons nous réjouir aux côtés du peuple Juif, dans Sa célébration de l’évènement, que nous considérons comme le plus important du monde, « Le retour...
These Muslim, Jewish And Christian Artists Use Music To Break Barriers
A group of musicians in Illinois is using its talents to bring different communities together.
The Salaam-Shalom Music Project brings together artists of Muslim, Jewish and Christian backgrounds to play music from one another’s culture...
Israel Commemorates 23,544 Fallen IDF Soldiers, 3,117 Terror Victims
Israel came to a standstill on Sunday night to mark Yom Hazikaron, national Memorial Day, and to commemorate the 23,544 fallen IDF soldiers and 3,117 victims of terrorist attacks who have died over the...
A Guide to Yom Ha’atzmaut
On the 14th of May in 1948, a man named David Ben-Gurion, soon to be Prime Minister, established the State of Israel, rebuilding the homeland of the Jews—a people who which had been exiled...
Developing a Children camp to save the memory of Sosua
This Sunday is Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), a day to collectively bow our heads and remember the millions of lives taken during the Holocaust. Given the current political climate in the US and...
Welcoming Shabbat in Israel with the Revivo Project
The Revivo Project is one of the most successful bands in Israel. The three singers in the band are Israeli musical producer and composer Raviv Ben Menachem, Raviv’s brother – Nir Ben Menachem, and...
Deviating from Torah law leads to consequences
This week’s Torah reading contains both narrative history and dogmatic Jewish halakha. It relates to us the tragic story of the deaths of the two older sons of Aaron, when they apparently willfully mishandled...