Self-defense is a moral obligation and doing the right thing can be a lonely endeavor. Also, look at someone's friends and you'll know who he is. A word - and warning - to the wise.
Now Is Not the Time I never thought I’d be writing this. With great respect, I very sadly read the article “Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaker Duo Share Hope for a Better Future” (July 19). Now especially is not the time for discussions...
Shulchan Aruch, following Rashi and Rif, rules that the creditor cannot collect at all from sold property based on the invalid document, but he can still collect based on it from the debtor, who is not believed to contradict it.
(JNS) Anti-Israel protesters violently confronted Capitol Hill police and burned the American flag in front of Union Station on July 24th during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hour-long address to Congress. In what the event...
The Bob Dylan world is buzzing with anticipation, bated breath, and perhaps some excitement upon the release earlier this week of the first official “teaser trailer” for the upcoming Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, directed by James...
A massive fire ripped through a strip mall on Fair Lawn Avenue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, overnight on Friday, causing heavy damage to a number of Jewish businesses. The blaze was first reported at approximately 2:30 a.m. and tore through...
Many of the participants in Friends of the Israel Defense Forces’ Legacy Camp program — which serves Israeli youth who have lost family serving in the IDF — had never left Israel or even been on a plane before attending. But over...
Outside the Capitol in Washington, pro-Palestinian protesters on Wednesday splashed a message in red spray paint across the plinth of a statue at Washington D.C.’s Union Station: “Hamas is coming.” Positive sentiments toward Hamas, which...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he is doing everything in his power to bring home the hostages held by Hamas, and he made their fate a prominent aspect of his speech to the U.S. Congress this week. But at home, he stands widely...
(JTA) — When pictures of a mural in Norway depicting Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh began circulating online this week, Jewish voices swiftly denounced it as a hateful form of anti-Israel protest. “Depicting a Holocaust victim with a...
Question: Whenever an activity is prohibited because of kavod hatzibbur [namely, the dignity of the congregation], may a kehilla decide that such activity, in their view, does not infringe upon the stature or dignity of the congregation?...
On July 14, Evan Weinfeld of Pikesville at 70. He is survived by cousins Ann Saltzman and Lois Gerstein and loyal assistants Marites Tan and Julio Cesar Tacatic Patzan. He was predeceased by parents Gilda and Samuel Weinfeld....
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — In her first statement on Israel as a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris struck a markedly different tone than President Joe Biden, saying after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that she...
Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died Thursday. He was 73. His wife, Gahl Hodges Burt, confirmed in a phone call...
Last week’s production of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was masterful. It artfully balanced dogma and emotion, mixed politics with heart-wrenching reality and was carefully orchestrated to reflect remarkable party unity...
"From a proud Jewish Zionist to a proud Irish American Zionist, I want to thank you for 50 years of public service and 50 years of support for the State of Israel."
A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who eluded authorities for decades was duped into flying into the U.S., where he was arrested alongside a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, according to a U.S. law enforcement official familiar with...
Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. The horn was blaring and the radio blasting. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the Connecticut home. State environmental conservation...
A controversial mural depicting Anne Frank wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh has appeared in Bergen, Norway, igniting a fierce debate about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The work, created by anonymous street artist Töddel, draws parallels...
France’s high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and “criminal” acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralyzing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the grand opening ceremony...
(JTA) When Sarah Levy arrived at Northeastern University in the fall of 2014, the San Diego native felt an impulse common to incoming college students: “Oh, let’s fill up my whole schedule, I’m completely free,” she recalled thinking....
The New York judge who ordered Donald Trump to pay a nearly $500 million civil fraud judgment said Thursday he won’t step aside from the case, rebuffing concerns that the verdict was influenced by a brief conversation he had with another...
A tornado that hit this small, upstate city tore off rooftops, leveled brick buildings and toppled the steeples of two historic churches. No one was killed, but the twister left a debris-strewn scar through downtown and nearby areas....
But what makes Mount Herzl a holy mountain stems from the thousands of soldiers who are buried in the military section. Here are the gravestones that testify to the supreme sacrifice that each of them made for the sake of Am Yisrael and...
An Egyptian whose ancestors committed genocide against our people may be accepted as a convert after three generations, but a Moabite and Amonite – who never gave us bread and water, they may never be accepted?
“JNF Canada will continue its charitable activity including collecting and receipting donations and distributing funds while the legal challenge is before the Federal Court of Appeal."
This summer in Paris, Israeli athletes will proudly compete as citizens of Israel. Six Palestinians will be competing too — but not as citizens of Palestine, because there is no nation of Palestine. This year has seen the question of...
Despite claiming to be operating at a 172% budget deficit, the Palestinian Authority recently recognized 899 new prisoners from Gaza and tens of thousands more Gaza “martyrs” as eligible for controversial “pay for slay” payouts.
A North Korean military intelligence operative has been indicted in a conspiracy to hack into American health care providers, NASA, U.S. military bases and international entities, stealing sensitive information and installing ransomware...
Generalizing from judges to general ethical advice, the Lubavitcher Rebbe suggests that getting another’s perspective is essential for self-improvement. We tend to have self-serving biases in either positive or negative directions that...
Signing an agreement with Russia to stop the war with Ukraine would amount to signing a deal with the devil, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as pressure mounts on the country to seek an end to more than two...
There were many reactions to the powerful speech delivered by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday but the response of Chareidi journalist, Aryeh Erlich, the editor of the Hebrew Mishpacha, was...
(JTA) — Australia’s Jessica Fox is already widely regarded as the greatest individual slalom canoe paddler of all time, and has four Olympic medals under her belt. Now she’s getting another honor: flag bearer for her country in Friday’s...
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Martin Indyk, the Jewish academic who brought intellectualism to pro-Israel advocacy and endured heartbreak as a U.S. diplomat committed to bringing peace to his beloved Israel, has died. Indyk, 73, died Thursday,...
On July 14, Floyd Martin “Marty” Walman of Belle Haven, Virginia at 64. He is survived by siblings Bill (Sue) Walman, Sandy Marantz and Samuel B. (Nancy) Walman and by many nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great- nephews, great-great niece...
The Islamisches Zentrum Hamburg, a Shi'ite organization with ties to Iran and Hezbollah, "promotes an Islamist-extremist, totalitarian ideology," according to Germany's interior minister.
Sage said that while he was filming, he was accosted by a group of menacing Palestinian Authority men who demanded he stop interviewing and forced him to erase the footage he already had.
(JTA) — Jewish groups applauded the sentencing this week of a self-described Nazi in Indiana who left threatening voicemails at multiple offices of the Anti-Defamation League. Andrzej Boryga, 67, received two years in federal prison and...
The bodies of five hostages recovered from the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday were inside a tunnel located within the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone, officials have revealed. The tunnel, measuring 200 meters long and 20 meters...
(JNS) KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel—The streets are deserted, the malls, stores and businesses long shuttered, and the pockmarks of war are everywhere. Even for Israel’s northernmost border city long known for bearing the brunt of rocket attacks...