The brother of a Scottish teenager killed in a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv made aliyah.
Jared Jesner, his wife and three children arrived in Israel Tuesday evening. They were to receive their national identity cards in a ceremony Wednesday at the Western Wall.
Yoni Jesner, 19, was among six people killed in a 2002 suicide bomber attack on a bus. Jesner’s cousin was injured.
SWANA is not a description of a region’s peoples. It is a membership test, and the price of admission is agreement on Jews and Israel.
The Global Conference for Israel will both celebrate the organization’s 125-year milestone and highlight discussions regarding what lies ahead for it, as well as for Israel’s future.
Many political animals behave like animals when it comes to making their opinions known—regardless of party.
This is not a call for endless war. It is a call for realism.
“Her prose disrupted my mind,” I wrote, “confronting me with words I had never seen come together before.”
The philosopher Maimonides explains that if someone asks you for forgiveness, you should be open to their heartfelt apology. But this isn’t always realistic.
The five things we get wrong in Jewish education and what we can all do to improve it.
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
For generations, Moroccan Jewish mothers and grandmothers prepared their dafina on Friday, knowing that it would sustain their families on Saturday.
The five things we get wrong in Jewish education and what we can all do to improve it.
We may be able to tolerate an irrational mob that goes after anything associated with Israel, but academics whose lives revolve around the search for truth and knowledge?
“Shavua” is an interactive journal woven with Jewish wisdom, inviting readers to pause, reflect and add their own thoughts to an ongoing Jewish conversation.
For decades, the world’s biggest musical acts brought their concert tours through Israel: Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Rihanna and Rage Against the Machine.
The Haredi Public Party was created because the Haredi public deserves more than excuses, Israeli society deserves more than permanent confrontation, and the Jewish people deserve an Israel capable of reconciling Torah, responsibility and national unity.
