Monthly Archives: September 2022
Extremely rare Judean quarter-shekel coin repatriated to Israel from the US
An extremely rare Judean quarter-shekel coin, minted by Jewish rebels fighting the Roman empire some 2,000 years ago, was returned to the State of Israel in an official ceremony in New York on Monday,...
Eli Beer: Saving the world, one life at a time
When Eli Beer was five years old, he was walking home from school in Bayit Vegan, his neighborhood in Jerusalem. Suddenly, a bus blew up in front of him.
“I was traumatized,” Beer said. “For...
Yeshiva University brings exhibition on Samaritans to DC’s Museum of the Bible
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is opening a new exhibition with unprecedented access to the life, culture and history of the Samaritans, a 2,000-year-old community.
Beginning on Sept. 16 and running through...
Abortion and Jewish law
There seems to be widespread misunderstanding of what Jewish law says about abortion. Is it a sin? Is it permitted? Is it permitted only under certain circumstances?
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many Jews,...
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature lauds nonfiction in virtual award ceremony
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, in association with the National Library of Israel, announces the winner and three finalists of its 2022 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
An online ceremony held on...
Celebrating 20 years of resettling North American Jewry into careers, homes and lives in...
Twenty years ago, Jews in North America weren’t exactly getting in line to relocate to Israel. Statistics on aliyah in 2002 found that fewer than 1,000 Jews relocated to the Jewish homeland that year.
Unlike Jews from...
The Structure of our Modern Digital Public Opinion
The following topics constitute the structure of the digital reputation of a public figure, and are either solid props to ameliorate or sustain it or accursed arms to destroy it. The young technocratic masses...
The Importance Of Folk Music In Helping People To Feel Human
When I was growing up, folk music was more than just a kind of quaint exotic pretty music to which people listened. It was also a vehicle through which people could ground themselves in...
Is Judaism the Truth?
Rabbi Israel DrazinBOCA RATON, Florida — Jeffry Bloom, a graduate of the University of Chicago who studied in several Orthodox yeshivas (rabbinical schools) in Israel after college, was bothered by what the scholar Leo...
Debrecen sees first Orthodox rabbinic inauguration since World War II
For the first time since World War II, the Hungarian city of Debrecen held an ordination ceremony for an Orthodox rabbi.
Rabbi Shmuel Faigen was installed on Wednesday at the Pásti Street Synagogue as head...