Tag: Jewish life
Jewish Agency head Herzog calls out to European leaders on rising anti-Semitism
Isaac Herzog, chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, has called on European leaders to take decisive measures in combating anti-Semitism and vehemently counter repeated attempts at creating an unsafe and...
Masked mitzvot or joy undimmed: Welcoming new life in the era of COVID-19
“In this time of great darkness, the souls who come down now must be sources of great light.” — Rabbi Doniel Katz, whose youngest child was born this spring
There is a tradition among the Jewish...
Artist’s series on display for first time in Croatia depicts Holocaust victims, partisans
An exhibition of 30 paintings and graphic works titled “Nazi Occupation in Graphic Works of Meer Axelrod” opened in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia—the first time the artist’s works have been shown in the...
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Life in Israel is good, despite tension and headlines
There is no doubt that we are living on the edge. Palestinians, Hezbollah, Iran, and no shortage of Europeans and Americans, including some Jews are dreaming of ending the Israeli existence.
But how bad is...
Toronto becomes first city in new Jewish service initiative
Rabbi Benji Levy, CEO of Mosaic United, a partnership between the State of Israel and the global Jewish community, recently met with leaders at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to formalize the Jewish community’s commitment...
Forget about the ‘Jewish home-run record’
The story is designed to appeal to baseball fans, as well as that curious subset of people who obsess about the role of Jews in America’s national pastime. Last week, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan...
Summertime Blues and Whites: In an era of BDS, kids connect to Israel at...
Aviva Weinstein fell in love with Israel thousands of miles from the Jewish homeland at Camp Ramah in the Poconos.
Weinstein is among the generations of North American Jewish teens who have forged lifelong attachments...
From ‘oy’ to joy: A call for positivity in Jewish engagement
There is a dissonance between the Jewish story and narrative. We are a people who have demonstrated an inverse relationship between numbers and impact for thousands of years, and represent an unparalleled catalyst for...
Orthodox Union launches data collection and analysis center
The Orthodox Union created a new internal and external research arm, the OU Center for Communal Research, which will put forward an effort to collect and analyze data from the Jewish community. The founding...
In 2040, Israeli lifespan expected to be the world’s seventh highest
Israelis will enjoy the seventh-highest life-expectancy rate in the world by 2040, according to a University of Washington study published in The Lancet.
Though Israel currently occupies the 13th-place spot at a life expectancy of 82.1...