Spirituality/Tradition
Donald Trump Donates Over $100,000 to Israeli Emergency Rescue Service
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump has pledged to donate over $100,000 to Israeli emergency rescue service United Hatzalah, The Algemeiner has learned. The gift, which...
ADL Chief Abraham Foxman Announces 2015 Retirement
JNS.org - Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Director Abraham H. Foxman announced plans to step down in July, 2015. Foxman is a Holocaust survivor who after immigrating to America became National Director in 1987. "Abe Foxman...
With Super Bowl Over, Signature Event for Football in Israel Lies Ahead
JNS.org - NEW YORK - Days before Super Bowl XLVIII in northern New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, a New York City room filled with players, coaches, and supporters of the Israel Football League (IFL)—a...
Time for Some Answers From United Church of Christ on Pilgrim Press
JNS.org - The Pilgrim Press—the publishing house of the United Church of Christ, a liberal Protestant denomination headquartered in Ohio—has a stockpile of misinformation and anti-Jewish contempt in its warehouse in Cleveland. It comes...
What’s Wrong With Women Wearing Teffilin?
One of the most significant daily rituals in Judaism is laying Tefilin, strapping leather boxes...
Jerusalem Conference Seeks to Empower People With Disabilities
JNS.org - Wheelchair-bound Yoav Kreim—a well-known leader and spokesperson for people with disabilities in...
Ban Orthodox Rabbinic Pedophiles – Not Rabbi Avi Weiss
There's an ongoing debate within the Jewish Modern Orthodox community about where its parameters lie....
Judaism is a Religion of Merit, Not Monarchies
One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early...
Ancient Well Discovered in Tel Aviv
JNS.org - Archaeologists recently discovered an ancient well, used during the Byzantine and Islamic...
Donald Trump Donates Over $100,000 to Israeli Emergency Rescue Service
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump has pledged to donate over $100,000 to Israeli emergency rescue service United Hatzalah, The Algemeiner has learned. The gift, which will...
ADL Chief Abraham Foxman Announces 2015 Retirement
JNS.org - Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Director Abraham H. Foxman announced plans to step down in July, 2015. Foxman is a Holocaust survivor who...
With Super Bowl Over, Signature Event for Football in Israel Lies Ahead
JNS.org - NEW YORK - Days before Super Bowl XLVIII in northern New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, a New York City room filled with...
Time for Some Answers From United Church of Christ on Pilgrim Press
JNS.org - The Pilgrim Press—the publishing house of the United Church of Christ, a liberal Protestant denomination headquartered in Ohio—has a stockpile of misinformation...
What’s Wrong With Women Wearing Teffilin?
One of the most significant daily rituals in Judaism is laying Tefilin, strapping leather boxes containing scrolls with certain Torah verses onto one's arm (against...
Jerusalem Conference Seeks to Empower People With Disabilities
JNS.org - Wheelchair-bound Yoav Kreim—a well-known leader and spokesperson for people with disabilities in Israel for more than 20 years—has led demonstrations, lobbied members...
Ban Orthodox Rabbinic Pedophiles – Not Rabbi Avi Weiss
There's an ongoing debate within the Jewish Modern Orthodox community about where its parameters lie. The most recent flare-up occurred after the Israeli Chief Rabbinate...
Judaism is a Religion of Merit, Not Monarchies
One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth century, Montesquieu called "the...
Ancient Well Discovered in Tel Aviv
JNS.org - Archaeologists recently discovered an ancient well, used during the Byzantine and Islamic eras, during an antique preservation dig in Tel Aviv, Israel Hayom...
Human Rights, Corruption, and Security Among Jewish Concerns on Sochi Olympics
JNS.org - With the Winter Olympics gearing up for their Feb. 7 start in Sochi, Russia, the Jewish debate on the games mirrors the...
Mourning Barry Rubin, a Fierce Defender of Israel
Barry Rubin, a true scholar and wonderful man, passed away Monday morning after a battle with cancer. He was 64. Barry was a staunch defender of...
Dead Sea Scrolls Website Upgraded With 10,000 New Images, Faster Search Engine
JNS.org - The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has launched a newly upgraded version of its Dead Sea Scrolls digital library that includes more than...
Senate Boosts Efforts to Keep Iraqi Jewish Archive Out of Iraq
JNS.org - Efforts to keep a significant collection of artifacts seized from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein from being returned to the Gulf...
Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman Kicks of Campaign for Israeli President
JNS.org - Dan Shechtman, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2011, met with Israeli politicians Monday to garner support for his recently...
