Daily Archives: September 21, 2022
Jewish genealogy website helps Lviv digitalize records amid war
JewishGen, a nonprofit organization and website for Jewish genealogy, announced on Tuesday a partnership with the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv to help the latter preserve historical records that are at...
Hamas leaders in Moscow: We are entitled ‘to resist by every means’
Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, his deputy Saleh al-Arouri and bureau members Moussa Abu Marzouq and Maher Salah paid an official visit to Moscow last week at the invitation of the...
UK ambassador ‘optimistic’ King Charles will visit Israel
British Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan expressed hope this week that King Charles would visit Israel during his reign.
Speaking to Israel Hayom, Wigan, who was in London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, said...
Lapid meets with Erdoğan, Guterres on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.N. Secretary General António Guterres on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session in New York.
During the first...
Central Bureau of Statistics: Israel’s population nears 10 million
The population of Israel is just over 9.5 million people ahead of the Jewish New Year, according to data issued by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) on Tuesday.
The country has a population of...
United Hatzalah ready to aid Jewish pilgrims in Uman, Ukraine
Volunteers from the United Hatzalah emergency medical services organization have been increasing their activity in Uman, Ukraine, ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which starts on Sunday evening.
The town is a popular...
Lapid to King Abdullah: Israel committed to halting terrorism ahead of High Holidays
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid met with Jordanian King Abdullah II on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Lapid expressed the need for “calming the situation on the ground and halting...
Manhunt underway after 84-year-old killed by terrorist in Tel Aviv suburb
The murder of an 84-year-old woman in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon was “a terror attack,” announced police on Tuesday evening.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid has been updated on the situation and efforts to...
The sweet history of honey cake
Honey cake evokes a predictable set of associations: Brick-like brown loaves emerging from the oven to sit untouched on the Rosh Hashanah table, the epitome—and the punishment—of traditional Jewish baking.
In fact, the dessert is...
A good year: Ready or not, here comes Rosh Hashanah
Anyone venturing into the shuk or even a local supermarket in Israel this week could be forgiven for thinking that the country was about to run out of food. Shoppers laden with huge nylon...