“Ethiopian Jewish community leaders or ‘Kessim’ recite prayers during the Sigd festival in Jerusalem on November 16, 2009. Sigd, the holiday of return and longing, is held 50 days after Yom Kippur. Prior to their immigration to Israel, the Jewish community in Ethiopia observed Sigd in their villages, praying to return to Jerusalem. Today, Sigd […]
“… after 45 years of hard work, Rav Adin Steinsaltz’s enormous undertaking – to render the entire Gemara into simple, modern Hebrew – will reach completion, reports Hebrew website Ynet. Upon finishing Maseches Niddoh and Maseches Chullin, what has been referred to as the largest Jewish project of our time will be complete and the […]
“Steinsaltz had the Chutzpah to change the format of the pages and place his own explanation of the 1,500-year-old text written in modern, colloquial Hebrew on the same page with the authoritative glosses written by Rabbi Shlomo Ben-Yitzhaki, aka Rashi. ”
“On December 9 of this year Steinsaltz will produce tractate Niddah, which deals with the […]
“Outside a bookstore in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Yom Tov Cohen contently watched as his four-year-old son flicked through one. “It is great, the kids love reading these books and at the same time they learn. It is not easy teaching your children the Bible,” said Cohen, […]
“Palestinian primary school students display 50 New Israeli Shekels bills they received from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to help impoverished families, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on September 15, 2009. ” DayLife
“It was only weeks ago that a German ship was found carrying weapons intended for the Islamist militants of Hezbollah. Now, Israeli special forces have discovered another German-owned ship carrying 36 containers full of munitions and have accused Iran of having sent the cache to Hezbollah.Late on Tuesday night, special forces belonging to the Israeli […]
“This brings us to the issue of leaving Eretz Yisroel. The Rambam in Hilchos Milachim (5:9) paskens that it is forbidden to leave Eretz Yisroel to go to Chutz La’Aretz. Regarding this, says the Shevet HaLevi, it is clear from the Rambam that the main prohibition is going to Chutz LaAretz to take up residence […]
“As Rabbi Weinberger explains it—yes, the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak sect does not participate in government funded programs and does not accept subsidies from the state insurance funds for healthcare in Israel. Granted it may be an archaic approach but this is the tradition that has been handed down from generation to generation. According to our […]
“TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 2: In this handout image supplied by easyJet, passengers and air crew onboard easyJet’s first ever flight from London to Israel at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport on November 2, 2009 in Tel Aviv, Israel. EasyJet will fly to Tel Aviv from Luton six days a week, with return […]
“Travellers sit in front of a photograph depicting the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) and Jordan’s late King Hussein, at the Allenby Bridge Crossing July 9, 2009. Israel said on Wednesday it would allow the crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan to remain open 24 hours a day to help the […]
“A new study found that rates of marriage outside the faith were sharply curbed among young Jews who have taken “birthright” trips to Israel, a development that could hearten Jewish leaders worried about assimilation. Fears of shrinkage among the American Jewish population heightened after studies in the early 1990s showed that more than 50% of […]
