Monthly Archives: March 2023
Touted Darius inscription is inauthentic, Israel Antiquities Authority clarifies
The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Friday that an inscription on an ancient shard uncovered in southern Israel, which it attributed earlier in the week with much fanfare to the Persian King Darius the Great, is...
Top US military officer in Israel to talk security
Gen. Mark Milley, whose chairmanship of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff ends in the fall, arrived in Israel on Friday to talk with counterparts.
“They will address the many challenges and opportunities facing Israel...
Chicago’s Ukrainian Jewish community reflects on war and troubled history of Soviet past
Ukrainian Jews who have settled in Illinois since war began in their country a year ago report that the state has been largely pro-Ukraine and that those who seemed initially hesitant to support the...
Netanyahus pay condolence call on Yaniv family, who lost two sons to terrorism
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visited the community of Har Bracha in Samaria to pay a condolence call on the Yaniv family, two of whose sons were killed in a shooting attack on...
At 25, ‘The Prince of Egypt’ still ‘delivers us to the promised land,’ rabbi...
The musical film “The Prince of Egypt” turns 25 this year, and as it celebrates no longer having to pay extra fees to rent cars, it remains timely.
“The ancient rabbis taught that we are...
Kada anyo ke fyestamos purim, este momento me vyene a los ojos
Eskrito por un rabino.
Deke estava aya en en este momento?
Munchas vezes pensi en esto, i kada vez ke fyestamos Purim, este momento me vyene a los ojos.
Aviya empesado mi karyera rabiniko. Un myembro de...
Artist depicts disarmingly beautiful Holocaust art
At first blush, the recent, photorealistic paintings of Los Angeles-based Jewish artist Robert Russell look inviting, almost sweet. A lamb turns its head to look back over its shoulder in one, and in another, a crouching...
Hiker finds 2,500-year-old receipt bearing the name of King Ahasuerus’ father Darius I
A hiker in southern Israel recently stumbled upon a rare inscription bearing the name of the Persian king widely believed to be the father of King Ahasuerus, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.
The...
Israel is Our Business
Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighborhood where I grew up. I recall reading that he skipped his graduation in...
Netanyahu: ‘Freedom of protest not a license to drag country into anarchy’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a televised address on Wednesday evening, spoke out against the violent protests that roiled the country throughout the day, in some cases leading to clashes with police.
“Freedom of protest...