Using a new iPhone application, the Western Wall is only a touch away.
The new application, the Kotel Application, which was released this week in Hebrew, English and Russian by the Western Wall Heritage Center, permits users to see a live video feed of the Western Wall Plaza. They can also send a note to the wall and use the application’s compass to pray in the direction of the wall.
The application is free at Apple’s iTunes store.
I was no longer on my laptop writing about Jew-hatred. I was on a street corner confronting that hatred. If I could write in my columns the need for a winning attitude in fighting Jew-hatred, this was my chance to show it.
A new book by Melanie Phillips challenges the conventional wisdom and offers innovative ideas and practical tools to fight the global surge of antisemitism.
“Out From Under” is filled with strong, dynamic women who all have something to teach Lev, but the author resists framing the novel as a feminist project.
Hatchwell believes the most powerful response is not silence or retreat, but education.
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Treating education costs and housing as parallel crises reveals a unified threat to demographic and cultural vitality.
With Memorial Day here and the official start of the summer grilling season, we offer you a recipe for delicious for Moroccan-spiced chicken skewers.
There’s nothing like gathering outdoors, firing up the grill and trying some new, delicious dishes. While traditional cookout fare always has its place, there are plenty of ways to mix things up.
Given the prominence of dairy in Mexican cuisines, Jinich loves embracing dairy for Shavuot, which is one of her favorite parts of the holiday.
The strangest thing is the instability of standards — the peculiar way arithmetic shifts, the speed with which contradictions become irrelevant, the confidence with which certainty arrives before inquiry.
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Was there a plan for bringing about a revolution, or more a hope than a plan?
We are being manipulated, by the same people, with the same playbook.
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