Shame on Natalie Portman
Genesis Prize should rescind her award.
Time to Cut JVP Down to Size
JVP is punching above its weight because the Jewish communal leadership is punching beneath its weight. It is time to correct this imbalance.
70 Years of an Unyielding 3,330-Year Marriage
This year’s Yom Ha’atzmaut commemorates the anniversary of a marriage that has lasted more than 3,000 years and has now completed its 70th year. An almost minor event on its own, but once seen in the larger picture, a milestone, and a miracle.
New Bible the Perfect Gift for Israel’s 70th Anniversary
Numbers have great meaning in Judaism, and Israel’s 70th year of independence — being celebrated today — takes on special significance when we realize that, according to Jewish tradition, 70 represents the nations of the world.
Unto the Nations: Who Knows 70? I Know 70!
Numbers have great meaning in Judaism, and Israel’s 70th year of independence takes on special significance when we realize that, according to Jewish tradition, 70 represents the nations of the world.
Israel and Anne Frank’s Jewishness
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the New Israel Fund announced it signed a partnership agreement with Anne Frank Fonds, the foundation Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, established in 1963 to administer the profits from the sales of her diary.
Yom HaShoah — Jewish Life or Just Israeli Life?
Happily, a large number of Israelis realize this, and although many of them are not Orthodox or even religious, they try hard to bring some inner Jewishness to their lives and observe some traditions, because they know that Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was right and A.B. Yehoshua is wrong.
Demography and Jewish Destiny
We are standing on the cusp of a tidal wave of return, one that will see countless Jewish descendants reconnect with Jewry. Let’s embrace this opportunity.
Israel’s True Strength and Gift to the World is Unity
“Israel among the nations is like a heart among the organs. And as the organs of the body cannot exist in the world even a minute without the heart, all the other nations cannot exist in the world without Israel.” – The Zohar, Pinhas, item 152 The tension on the Israel-Gaza border that materialized as […]
Ronald Lauder Turns on Israel
It is impossible to know why Lauder just abandoned Israel. But he did. He didn’t administer tough love. He turned his guns on the Jewish state while insisting that he loves it.