Shavuot could be considered the holiday of the book. Unlike Rosh Hashanah which has the shofar, Chanukah which has the menorah and Sukko...

On June 7 1967 at 4:00 am Knesset member Menachem Begin, who had just joined the cabinet of the government of Israel, called the Prime Mi...

It’s bad enough to make a film about a dysfunctional family that alludes to a wealthy Jewish family. But casting Mel Gibson as the sinist...

Today is Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers in Israel. Families, friends, people who want to show they care all came to ...

It is an honor to be commemorating Yom Hazikaron L’shoa ugvurah, the day of remembrance for the Holocaust and Heroismin Israel. The day ...

My first time visiting Notre Dame de Paris was when I was 11 years old. I grew up going to a French school, and visited Paris regularly w...

The story goes back to the work camps during the WWII. Every morning in the camp a group of Jewish workers got up extra early before dawn...

There are some people who by nature alarmists. Those folks are the types who I would hear say, speaking about anti-semitism in the United...

People do not know what to make of ultra-orthodox Jews, yet they are often fascinated by them as well. They are one of us, a member of th...

Last Friday I had the thrilling experience of running in the Tel Aviv marathon. Let me qualify that, I ran in the 10 K race as part of th...

Shortly after the founding of the State of Israel, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, p...

Within the first two sentences of the US Declaration of Independence, G-d is mentioned twice. It speaks of ‘the station to which Nature’s...

Tu B’shvat for me as a kid meant giving money to plant a tree in Israel, and eating fruits indigenous to Israel. We would then get a cert...

Jerusalem of Gold is possibly the most well-known contemporary Jewish song, certainly the most well-known Israeli song. People are famili...

History documents many revolutions of the oppressed over the ruling powers. In more recent times the French revolution and the Russian Re...

Over one tenth of the population in the US has been treated with anti-depressant medicine in the past month, studies show. Some people sa...

Jews scrubbing the streets of Vienna in May 1938 before the war _________________________________________________________________________...

We are standing at the Herodion, the fortress built by King Herod, the last Jewish kind to rule in the past 2000 years. He was a successo...

Trumpeldor Tel Aviv Cemetery If you want to know about the history of a place, go to the cemetery. In Paris and Rome the cemeteries are m...

We are here in Jerusalem in the Old City, a few hundred meters away from the Temple Mount where the miracle of Chanukah happened. As you ...