Spirituality/Tradition
Temple-Era Pilgrimage to Jerusalem Making a Comeback
JNS.org - The Temple-era holiday pilgrimage will make a comeback when some 8,000 people recreate the ancient tradition during a two-day march to...
Rosh Hashanah 5775 Sees Record Number of Births in Israel
Rosh Hashanah 5775 and the new year ushered in a record number of new babies. Maayanei Hayeshua hospital in Bnei Brak reported that 140 women gave birth over the holiday, a number that well exceeds the daily...
The Jewish Leader’s Call to Responsibility: Celebrate Life
In the year that we recently parted with, 5774, it became dangerous once again to be a Jew. Israel, subject to sustained missile attack, discovered how hard it is to fight an asymmetric war against...
Why I Want to Work on Behalf of Israel
It was a pleasant day this past summer, until I heard the news. Three Israeli boys — Naftali Frankel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah — were kidnapped in the West Bank. I turned to my...
We Must Build World Peace Locally
The condition of both supporting bottom-up social movements and enabling top-down laws, policies, and treaties,...
Obama Forbids FBI to Use Religion in Identifying Terror Threats, as ISIS Recruits Openly in U.S. Mosques
The American Thinker had a chance to catch up with Steven Emerson, head of The Investigative...
Reflections on Rosh Hashanah 5775
As we mark the end of another year with the advent of Rosh Hashanah, the...
The Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed, 2014
Happy, healthy, challenging, and rewarding new year! 1. Rosh Hashanah is a universal, stock-taking, renewal, and hopeful...
Jewish New Year in Review: 5774
JNS.org - As Rosh Hashanah approaches and the Jewish calendar turns to 5775, JNS.org takes...
Temple-Era Pilgrimage to Jerusalem Making a Comeback
JNS.org - The Temple-era holiday pilgrimage will make a comeback when some 8,000 people recreate the ancient tradition during a two-day march to Jerusalem...
Rosh Hashanah 5775 Sees Record Number of Births in Israel
Rosh Hashanah 5775 and the new year ushered in a record number of new babies. Maayanei Hayeshua hospital in Bnei Brak reported that 140 women gave birth...
The Jewish Leader’s Call to Responsibility: Celebrate Life
In the year that we recently parted with, 5774, it became dangerous once again to be a Jew. Israel, subject to sustained missile attack, discovered...
Why I Want to Work on Behalf of Israel
It was a pleasant day this past summer, until I heard the news. Three Israeli boys — Naftali Frankel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah —...
We Must Build World Peace Locally
The condition of both supporting bottom-up social movements and enabling top-down laws, policies, and treaties, are helping people come together to achieve the change they...
Obama Forbids FBI to Use Religion in Identifying Terror Threats, as ISIS Recruits Openly in U.S. Mosques
The American Thinker had a chance to catch up with Steven Emerson, head of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, and hear his assessment of the ISIS...
Reflections on Rosh Hashanah 5775
As we mark the end of another year with the advent of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, we pause to take stock of the...
The Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed, 2014
Happy, healthy, challenging, and rewarding new year! 1. Rosh Hashanah is a universal, stock-taking, renewal, and hopeful holiday, celebrated on the 6th"Ž day of The Creation, which produced the first human being,...
Jewish New Year in Review: 5774
JNS.org - As Rosh Hashanah approaches and the Jewish calendar turns to 5775, JNS.org takes a look at the biggest Jewish news stories from the...
Australian Jews on Edge After Islamic State Arrests and Rise of Anti-Semitism
JNS.org - Despite the rise of anti-Semitism across Europe in the wake of Operation Protective Edge, it is still easy to think that this...
The Truth About the Etzion ‘Settlement’ Bloc
While the Middle East burns and tens of thousands of corpses pile up in Syria and Iraq, Jewish residence anywhere beyond the 1949 armistice lines...
How DNA Testing Can Reveal Jewish Ancestry and Bolster the Zionist Narrative
JNS.org - When Noah Slepkov started using online genealogical tools to build a family tree, little did he know that his personal exploration might...
El Al Reunites Parents of Lone Soldiers From ‘Protective Edge’ for Rosh Hashana
In a special initiative to enable families to spend the Jewish New Year together, an airlift of 21 flights from El- Al Airlines flying from...
Off and on the Orthodox Path
JNS.org - Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the days in between them mark the season of "teshuva"—which in Hebrew literally means "to return," but in...
