At his aufruf, Shana Kramer\’s oldest son stood up in front of all his rebbes at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore and said, "It would be impossible for me to thank everyone that I have to thank for bringing me to this point, but there is someone I have to thank publicly because she stood there and cried every time I left the house to go back to yeshiva."
Say what you will about Richard Riordan\’s abortive primary strategy, and the way he naively stepped into Gov. Gray Davis\’ trap, but Riordan certainly understood one of his key customers: the Jewish electorate. Too bad we\’ll never see the Davis/Riordan face-off that would have told us so much about ourselves.
There is a new rhythm to the terror attacks against Israelis: They are coming in one-two punches, leaving the country staggering.
When a suicide bomber walked unimpeded into a crowded supermarket in Efrat earlier this month and set off a small bomb, the explosion damaged a section of the store\’s bakery.
The United Jewish Communities has pledged more than $40 million this year for the rescue and relief of the Jews of Argentina.
A surge in violence this week cost more than two dozen Israelis their lives — and put Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\’s political life increasingly at peril.
Syria\’s president backed a Saudi plan for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.
When, as a young woman, Rebbetzin Yehudis Fasman met Chaim, her husband-to-be, he laid out his life plan and made sure that she agreed with it.
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