Tag: Judaism
German military to get chief rabbi for first time in 100 years
For the first time since World War I, the German military is set to appoint a chief rabbi. The move, an initiative of German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, is designed both to serve the...
The Jewish woman to whom the stones spoke
Everything in Israel is about politics. But nothing is more intensely political than archeology. That’s because the moment you stick a shovel in the earth of a place like Jerusalem and start digging, you...
Rabbanut requires kosher restaurants to rename their lamb and asado bacon to ‘facon’
Crave Gourmet Street Food, a kosher restaurant in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market, told its customers last month that it would be changing the name of its famous lamb bacon to “facon” in accordance with...
San Francisco’s only kosher bakery praised for hiring former prisoners
The sole kosher bakery in San Francisco has made headlines for hiring formerly incarcerated employees.
The nickname for Isaac Yosef’s Frena Bakery is the “Lifer Bakery.” Yosef has hired more than 25 ex-prisoners at his bakery...
How many American Jews are there, and does it really matter?
This past weekend, the White House Passover seder was hosted by America’s Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born lawyer is the first Jew to be a spouse of a vice president, as well...
What I’ve learned teaching Jewish texts in the UAE
In 2011, on one of my first trips to the United Arab Emirates, I sat in on a class taught by then-New York University president John Sexton on law and religion at NYU Abu...
Hidden bunker discovered in Warsaw Ghetto
A bunker containing 100-year-old tefillin (phylacteries) hidden from the Nazis in World War II has been discovered in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto.
In recent years, Polish authorities have begun to demolish buildings inside...
Meet the Cochin Jews: Israel’s oldest Indian community
Whatever way you look at it, the Jewish community of Cochin is an ancient one.
If you rely on traditional lore, the Jews of the city of Cochin in southwestern India can trace their roots...
Love and generosity: A farewell tribute to Sheldon Adelson
On a Friday morning, slightly more than six months ago, we convened a transatlantic Zoom call. There we were, the deputy editor of Makor Rishon, Orly Goldklang from Ofra, myself from Jerusalem, and Sheldon and...
Want to change the world? Begin in the Jewish home
Jewish tradition cites Rosh Hashanah as the day on which the world was created. The day on which the creation of the first man was completed and, in effect, humanity was created.
On Rosh Hashanah,...