Hundreds of Israeli Jews held a rare prayers session by a mosque in a Palestinian village on the occupied West Bank early Sunday, an AFP photographer said. The Israeli army accompanied busses carrying over 300 ultra-Orthodox men, mostly from the Breslov Hassidic sect, to Younis mosque in Halhul, north of Hebron, where according to Jewish […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe caves near the Dead Sea have been a source of constant debate for a long time now. A 12th cave was discovered in September 2017, which was used to house the ancient documents. Now, there might be a scientific way to figure out who once occupied a settlement located near the caves where the
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastFor years, Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz, 80, has been working to make the Jewish library accessible to every Jew and anywhere in the world. With his own hands the rabbi built a life project that continues gaining momentum from day to day. Today, much of the Talmud has already been translated into several languages, including
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Stuart Winer Reform Jews clashed with ultra-Orthodox worshipers and security personnel at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Thursday, after attempting to pray at the site in celebration of newly ordained male and female rabbis. While members of the group, who fought security guards as they entered the Western Wall plaza with Torah scrolls, claimed
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By Donald H. Harrison JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, California – The story is told on this national park’s website that Mormon travelers gave the Joshua Tree its name: “Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAMore than 70 years after World War II ended, 45 Holocaust survivors in Israel finally got a chance to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for the first time yesterday, Monday morning, at the Western Wall, Judaism”s holiest site. The survivors reached bar or bat mitzvah age during the war or immediately afterwards, but
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBoris Neshderman, a 90-year-old Jew, was circumcised at the Menorah clinic in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The veteran rabbi of the city and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, told Arutz Sheva that the man is in good condition and is recovering from the operation. The brit milah was carried out by the chief mohel of Ukraine, Rabbi
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International, Jewish ReligionThe Breslov hassidim who support the Israeli initiative to relocate the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov to Israel are renewing an advertising campaign calling to bring the Breslov leader’s remains to Israel. As part of the campaign, the hassidim have produced a shirt with the message: “Let my rabbi go” above the portrait of
Pavel Filip, the Prime Minister of Moldova, on Sunday visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The visit was part of Filip’s trip to Israel, and he was accompanied by a convoy of security guards, Moldovan and Israeli intelligence officials, and a delegation of government officials and other public figures. At the Western Wall, Filip met
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump will host a White House Hanukkah party on December 7, an administration official confirmed to The Times of Israel on Sunday. Maggie Haberman of The New York Times broke the news on Twitter that invitations had been extended for the affair. This year’s event will mark
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Jewish Religion, USA35,000 Jews spent Shabbat (Sabbath) in Hevron, commemorating the Torah reading this Sabbath which relates how the Patriarch Avraham bought Me’arat Hamachpela (the Cave of the Patriarchs) from Ephron the Hittite for 400 coins. The streets of Kiryat Arba and Hevron filled with tents and portable caravans, and over 3,000 Jews enjoyed Shabbat meals at
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The Skeptic and the Rabbi: Falling in Love with Faith by Judy Gruen, She Writes Press, © 2017; ISBN 978-1-63152-302-1; 219 pages, $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author Judy Gruen grew up in a more-or-less Conservative Jewish home, but after falling in love with Jeff, who was embarked upon a journey toward
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionChuck Davidson Over the last number of years, the involvement of American Jewry in Israel has been hotly debated in the halls of a number of Israeli institutions, from the Knesset to a wide range of non-profit organizations. Indeed, many Israelis attempt to shut down the voices of American Jewry by claiming, “we serve in
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastA French court on Tuesday ordered the return of a painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro to the family of a Jewish art collector dispossessed during World War II. The court ruled in favour of the relatives of Simon Bauer, a wealthy businessman whose assets were seized in 1943 by the anti-Semitic wartime French government
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