Parashat Chayei Sarah חַיֵּי שָׂרָה
Our Parasha speaks about Sarah’s life as she was our first mother along with our holy Forefathers. The first word in our Parasha is “VaYehiyu” (“ויהיו” - and her years were…); the numerical value...
2018 ‘Jewish Nobel’ goes to Natalie Portman
Jewish actress, director and social activist Natalie Portman is the winner of the 2018 Genesis Prize, the Genesis Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday.
The annual $1 million award, dubbed “the Jewish Nobel” by Time Magazine,...
Parashat Vayeira וַיֵּרָא
The Torah writes in our first verse “HaShem appears to him” without mentioning the name Avraham (“אברהם”), to teach us that HaShem frequented him (visited Avraham) many times, starting at the age of three....
Historic Torah offers link to past
Students studying the first five books of the Bible in the original Hebrew at Trinity International University in Bannockburn can compare their modern text in a printed book to one written by hand more...
Sole remnant of Dutch town’s Jewish community on display at Yad Vashem
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Stained glass from the synagogue that served the Jews of the Dutch city of Assen, almost all of whom were killed in the Holocaust, is now displayed at the synagogue of...
Jewish actor portrays Nazi in ‘The Sound of Music’
Jewish actor Adam Ross Glickman of Cooper City stars as Austrian Nazi official Herr Zeller in the national tour musical of "The Sound of Music," running now through Oct. 22 at Broward Center.
As Zeller,...
Inside Israel’s $75,000 designer Sukkah
Visitors to Jerusalem during the holiday of Sukkot are often struck by a unique site: overtaking balconies across the city’s Jewish neighborhoods, little metal and wooden huts topped with branches and leaves huddle against one another....
This Holiday is the Joyous follow-up to Yom Kippur
Today marks the first day of Sukkot, the weeklong Jewish festival that not only signals the end of the high holidays but holds both historical and seasonal significance, as well.
Rabbi Ari D. Weiss of Cornell Hillel tells Refinery29 that...
Where to eat Kosher in Mexico City
La Muertita—the Little Dead Woman—sets up her quesadilla stall every evening on a busy commercial thoroughfare called Prolongación in the hilly neighborhood of Bosques de Reforma on the western outskirts of Mexico City. She...
Sukkot: Don’t read this—It’s utterly futile
Here is a dismal, if anecdotal, indicator of the state of Jewish education: whenever I have asked, I have found that the overwhelming majority of Jews don’t know that the phrase “nothing new under...