Dr. Yehuda Amir, who made Aliyah from Sanaa, recalled his childhood as a Jew in Yemen; 'We were treated as inferior people there, and I would be pelted with stones by Muslim children'; he sends out a warning to the terrorist group: 'You...
(U.S. Embassy in Israel-JNS) The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), which released a report on Tuesday claiming that famine is imminent in northern Gaza. U.S....
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — I watched Yitzhak Rabin die on a dot matrix printer on a Saturday night in London. It was November 1995, and I was working for The Associated Press. Breaking news arrived in bursts of urgent updates spit out by...
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - Hamas operatives in Gaza City planning to carry out an attack with explosive-laden drones against IDF troops were targeted in a helicopter airstrike on Wednesday.
(Jerusalem Post) Amichai Stein - "Hamas has yet to deliver the list of hostages who are alive - without it, it's impossible to reach a deal," an Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
(X) Doron Kadosh, military correspondent for Israel Army Radio, shared what the IDF is changing to make sure that the surprises of Oct. 7 never happen again. The IDF will be splitting its intelligence collection operations into more...
From Israel to Australia: We invite you to visit the Hanukkah menorah on Ynet and light a candle. Together, we will create a global display of Jewish unity
Every Chanukah, like clockwork, the same outrage resurfaces: “Donut prices are outrageous! Highway robbery!” And every year, I can’t help but ask – are we serious right now? Let’s break this down. When did stuffing your face with donuts...
(Globes-Jerusalem Post) Shiri Habib-Valdhorn - 12 Israeli companies rose more than 100% on Wall Street in 2024. Renewable energy company Eco Wave Power Global has developed technology for converting sea waves to usable energy. Others...
(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - The Israel Ministry of Health has completed a report based on testimonies from Israeli hostages released or rescued from Hamas captivity in Gaza. Some of the hostages experienced great weight loss after...
Phyllis Kohn, of Baltimore, Maryland, passed away on Dec. 13 at the age of 94. She is survived by her loving daughters, Eilene (Richard) Brauner, and Bonnie (Stuart) Layton; caring grandchildren, Jordan (Megan) Brauner, Eric (Wendy)...
Ikhil Shor, of Owings Mills, Maryland, passed away on Dec. 9, at the age of 94. He is survived by his loving children, Alex (Irina) Shor and Regina (Michael) Kuperman; his beloved grandchildren, Jane (Igor) Radov, Oleg (Carey) Shor,...
(Israel Hayom) Ariel Kahana - Senior Israeli officials state that beginning on January 20, 2025, "it will be possible to take additional actions in Gaza." The prevailing impression in Israel is that Trump does not particularly care what...
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - An airstrike in Nuseirat in central Gaza targeted "a vehicle with an Islamic Jihad terror cell inside," the IDF said Thursday. The five people killed in the strike were affiliated with the Islamic Jihad...
Indeed, most of the 47 metal detector-find dreidels on display are of this design – but not all. I have come across six and eight-sided dreidels(!) as well, which I will expand upon.
Following the recent developments in Russian airspace (regarding the plane shot down in Kazakhstan), El Al is suspending its operations on the Tel Aviv – Moscow route for the coming week.
(JTA) — Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, lit candles with the country’s Chabad rabbis on Wednesday, marking the third wartime Hanukkah since Russia’s 2022 invasion. “It’s very good that Ukraine we can all live together,...
Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Joseph is the center of attention whenever he is, as it were, onstage, and yet he is, time and again, the done-to rather than the doer, an object of other people’s actions rather than the subject of his own.
IDF officials hold talks with the Karlin Hasidic sect, offering to create special enlistment programs for adults with a pilot of 200 men; They will serve without uniforms and in women-free environment; Haredi community slams decision as...
Janet Kurland (nee Berman), of Baltimore, Maryland, passed away on Dec. 6 at the age of 94. She is survived by her cherished children, Julie (Shmuel) Simhi and Joshua (Jennifer) Kurland; and grandchildren, Matan Simhi, Lidan (Jordana)...
'Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli' inaugurates new center and welcomes new Russian Olim to celebrate and sing a uniting Hanukkah hymn; 'When I arrived in Israel, I felt as though I had returned home'
At Hesder yeshivas that returned to the north, at the Western Wall with the participation of families of hostages, at the hospital led by an IDF soldier who was critically injured and whose life was saved: In Israel and around the world,...
Israeli airstrikes might target areas of tension with the Aden government army, potentially enabling the Houthis' rivals to capture strategic territories.
It appears that killing a rodef is not only a complicated halacha, but only bidieved (a secondary choice). We are therefore left with a fundamental question: Why are we allowed to, or supposed to, kill a rodef?
(AFP) Since being reconnected to Israel's electricity grid, the water desalination plant in Deir el-Balah has been producing 16,000 cubic meters of water per day, serving more than 600,000 Gaza residents, according to UNICEF. An Israeli...
(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - For the second consecutive night, Israel's air defenses intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward central Israel early Wednesday. The launch triggered air raid sirens that forced millions of Israelis to...
Clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar Assad’s government killed six Islamic fighters on Wednesday and wounded others, according to a British-based war monitor. The Syrian...
(JTA) — Israel hit multiple targets in Yemen on Thursday, escalating what has newly become one of the most active fronts in Israel’s war with Iran and its surrogates. The strikes Thursday, which hit power stations and the airport, come...
Rosalie Weintzweig (nee Fisher), of Pikesville, Maryland passed away on Dec. 8, at the age of 92. She was the beloved wife of the late David Weintzweig. Rosalie is survived by her sons , Barry Weintzweig and his wife Judy, and Neil...
For Makenzie Gilkison, spelling is such a struggle that a word like rhinoceros might come out as “rineanswsaurs” or sarcastic as “srkastik.” The 14-year-old from suburban Indianapolis can sound out words, but her dyslexia makes the...
Cantor Stephanie Weishaar of Kol Nefesh considers the cantorate her “encore career,” having only entered seminary when she was in her forties after a long career spent working as a grant writer for nonprofit organizations in Eastern...
Today, amid the suffering caused by the war, we can sometimes feel callous if we take our minds off those most affected. However, a lesson of Chanukah is that there remains space for gratitude, even in the face of ongoing grief.
Maui police are investigating the discovery of a dead body in the wheel well of a United Airlines plane after it landed in Maui, the airline and police department said in statements on Wednesday. The body was found in the wheel well of...
Commanding Officer of the Israeli Air Force Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar: “We have just seen a tangible demonstration of what we are capable of, and we are capable of much more.”