By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Dovid Sapirman, the author of Tranquility and Travail, is a Haredi rabbi. Many Haredi Jews are very conservative and have more fundamental ideas than other Jews. One of Rabbi Sapirman’s views, which many non-Haredi Jews do accept, is that God is involved with matters here […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — StandWithUs has initiated a mass campaign to counter the permanent, open-ended “Commission of Inquiry” created by the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on May 27, 2021. The campaign includes a petition that “rejects the legitimacy of this inquiry” and contains valuable resources for people to learn more about anti-Israel bias
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International, Middle East, USA
By Rafael Medoff WASHINGTON, D.C. — Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year will be commemorated just before the 75th anniversary of a remarkable but little-known campaign by American Zionists and African-Americans that helped defeat racial segregation in Baltimore. This story began in the autumn of 1946, when the Zionist activists known as the Bergson
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Jewish History, Middle East, USA
By Peter Tase MILWAUKEE — On December 2, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 20 individuals and 12 entities and identified three aircraft as blocked property pursuant to Executive Orders (E.O.) 14038 and 13405. These actions were taken in “response to the Lukashenka regime’s blatant disregard for
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International, USA
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Currently on view at the Currier Museum, Philip Guston’s mural “Pulpwood Logging” (1941) is right beside its original partner, Musa McKim’s “Wildlife in the White Mountains” (1941). Both 14-foot murals were commissioned by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) — a federal program created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — After the establishment of the State of Israel, municipal governments across the country created new Hebrew neighborhood names to replace existing foreign language names. However, most of these new titles were never accepted by the public. Let’s discuss some examples in Jerusalem. A client once asked me, “I noticed on
By Dr. Sol Lizerbram SAN DIEGO — In the non-profit world — if you do it right — there occurs a wonderful partnership between the professionals and volunteers, fostering a winning combination that strengthens the organization, enabling them to achieve what can seem impossible: curing world health crises, saving people from starvation, responding to emergencies,
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Middle East, Opinion, Sol Lizerbram, USA
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. It’s mighty difficult to sing while confined within onerous circumstances. As we read in this week’s parasha, only after we were freed, we were able to recognize Hashem as the God of creation at the Red Sea. Welcome to “Shabbos Shirah — the “Sabbath of Song.” A time to become infused
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
(JNS) Aura Herzog, the mother of Israeli President Isaac Herzog and wife of the late Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president, died on Sunday night in her home at the age of 97. “Together with the entire people of Israel, I received with sorrow the news of the passing of Aura Herzog,” said Israeli Prime Minister
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Middle East
Published by DPA Coronavirus infection figures in Israel are climbing to new daily highs. On Monday the Health Ministry reported 21,501 new cases for the previous day, compared to a peak of around 11,000 cases per day during the fourth coronavirus wave in the autumn. The actual number of infections is likely to be much
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Middle East
Published by DPA Two former prime ministers of Israel are taking their legal dispute to court, as Benjamin Netanyahu sues Ehud Olmert for defamation after he called him and his family “mentally ill.” A first hearing in the case began on Monday morning at the Peace Court in Tel Aviv. The two sides failed to
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Middle East
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Former policeman and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was recently installed as the new mayor of New York City. The inauguration traditionally takes place at noon on New Year’s Day. But because New Year’s Day was on a Saturday, Adams had rescheduled the ceremony to New Year’s
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — How Jesus Became God by Dr. Bart D. Ehrman is an excellent, comprehensive, easy to read history about the beginning of Christianity by a man who was once a very conservative Christian, who is now an agnostic, but who offers readers a non-dogmatic, respectful, historical examination
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr.
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israel’s government is closely divided among its parties. And each of the ministries has its experts. Plus the figures in the media. Each seemingly anxious to express about coronavirus, its variants, tests, and treatments. Are we in the midst of a disaster, along with a lot of noise? KISS
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion