A team of researches at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University has developed an algorithm that could be an important step in achieving such a database. Uri Ehrlich, a liturgist at the university, explained how it took a few years of research to locate a single page stored in a different library that matched a ancient page of text […]
“No longer are they the inward-looking anti-Zionists who only cared that the government provide them with money for their separate schools, welfare and exemptions from military service. These days, many of the Haredim – the word means “those who tremble” in awe of God” – have joined with right-wing religious Zionists to become a powerful […]
“Archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph, Cairo’s Al Ahram newspaper recently reported. Excerpts provided by MEMRI show that the coins were discovered among a multitude of unsorted artifacts stored at the Museum of Egypt. According to the report, the significance of the find is that archeologists […]
But Sheik Tamimi doesn’t need to take the Jews’ word for any of this, or that of legions of world-class scholars. For proof of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, he need only look at writings from his own religious tradition.
The Koran, which references many biblical stories and claims figures like Abraham as Islamic prophets, also […]
4. Today is a unique day in the Jewish calendar. It is the eighth of Tishrei, the day on which King Solomon initiated the dedication of the Bais HaMikdash in Yerushalayim.[35] The Temple is connected with the service of Teshuvah. For that reason it was constructed of stone, showing the relationship to the service […]
“During a hearing in the Jerusalem District Court to discuss the terms of the Meah Shearim mom’s release, Justice Moshe Ravid indicated he is inclined to accept the state’s position, that the mother and her children must be relocated to another home, outside of Meah Shearim, to permit social services professionals access and an ability […]
“An Israeli man continues fishing at a lake despite the ultra-Orthodox Jews who have gathered to perform the Tashlich ceremony on September 24, 2009 in Ramat Gan, Israel. Tashlich, which means ‘to cast away’, is the practice by which Jews go to a flowing body of water and symbolically ‘throw away’ their sins during the […]
” The mystery was soon resolved, with the appearance at the door of Rav Sholom Mordechai Hoffman, a respected member of the Toldos Aharon chassidus in Yerushalayim, accompanied by his son Chaim Zavil. The faces of the two shone with the ethereal joy of the performance of a rare mitzvah. Chaim Zavil, his youthful countenance […]
VosIzNeias.com “The web site directory http://www.localsukkah.org has been designed for Jews to locate a Sukkah near to them so that they can go there to eat. The idea of this service is not to list every Sukkah, but to try and have a Sukkah listed for every area in which Jewish people may find themselves […]
Experience the amazing true story of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an artist who survived two years at Auschwitz by painting portraits for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. This faithful adaptation of the six-page comic created by the David S. Wyman Institute For Holocaust Studies combines illustrations by Neal Adams, motion graphics, and music to bring the […]
“Nobody goes to Israel for Golda Meir, I’m so sorry,” Lucas said in heavily Russian-accented English. “People don’t care that you have a great orchestra, and they’re not particularly interested in the Holocaust museum. Gay people, and straight people, want beautiful beaches, beautiful nature, beautiful men and women, good food, good hotels. Israel shouldn’t be […]
