Daily Archives: October 9, 2019
America’s Jewish population is growing, but getting older
The American Jewish population has grown 10 percent in the last seven years and is mostly liberal, 65 or older and white, according to a new American Jewish population estimate of the 48 contiguous U.S. states by Brandeis...
A society is measured by its capacity for forgiveness
As president of Israel, many requests for clemency are placed before me. Every request is a world unto itself, but some are unusual. Not long ago I signed a clemency request and erased the...
A state that threatens Jewish genocide isn’t normal
Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, gave a speech last month in which he celebrated Iran’s military might and its goals. As is Tehran’s policy, the IRGC commander refused...
Bolstering relations between Catholics and Jews through firsthand experiences
The history of the Catholic Church and Jewish people is one marked by centuries of persecution and anti-Semitism. With Nostra Aetate in 1965, the Vatican changed its relationship with the Jewish people, including beginning historic visits...
Chabad of Poway shooter pleads not guilty to new charge, back in court Dec....
John Earnest, the now 20-year-old man charged with shooting and killing congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, and wounding three people, including senior Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, at Chabad of Poway in Southern California during Shabbat-morning services on...
Team of Israeli doctors fly to Cyprus to save woman’s life
A team of four Israeli heart specialists traveled to a hospital in Cyprus with life-saving technology to save a woman who was suffering cardiac issues following childbirth, the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer revealed on...
Majority of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on Yom Kippur, according to new poll
A special survey by the Israel Democracy Institute’s Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research in honor of Yom Kippur showed that 60.5 percent of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on the Jewish Day of...
Neve Michael children’s home ‘healing the souls’ of Israeli kids for 76 years
Many a third-grade memory features vacations with family, swimming with friends or getting a new puppy. But Chofit remembers another sort of life. One marked by extreme poverty and regular visits to a big...
Sidelined by international community, Palestinians accept tax money withheld by Israel
Buckling under severe financial strain and unable to maintain its own threat to reject tax transfers from Israel, the Palestinian Authority this week accepted NIS 1.5 billion (nearly $430 million) in a move it...
In Israel, 70 young pastors participate in ‘Global Day of Prayer for Jerusalem’
Eagles’ Wings, a nonprofit New York-based evangelical movement, hosted a “Global Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem” on Sunday, bringing together 70 millennial pastors from the United States, Canada and Brazil to...