Jewish World
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich’s tenacious struggle to keep Torah in Communist Russia is documented in his book Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic…
On the night of June 20th, 2010, a horrific car accident left Rabbi Yehuda Simes paralyzed from the neck down.…
Since his recent petirah, much has been said and written about Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, zt”l, one of the greatest…
In 1970, a group of Jewish activists, desperate to escape Soviet Russia, devised a plan. They would fill up a…
The crowds at comedy clubs around New York City aren’t sure, at first, what to make of the Orthodox woman…
Two facts stand out in every obituary written about Rav Elyashiv. One, of course, is the advanced age at which…
In the following piece, tour guide Peter Abelow describes several tourist sites that are ideal to visit to commemorate…
In the competitive world of professional comedy, it pays to have a hook—some distinctive feature of biography or appearance that…
The Jewish State was conceived in dreams—dreams of a glorious past and hopes for an even more glorious future. Only…
This past Shavuot, Yona Baumel, eighty-one, returned his soul to his Creator, without his son Zecharya having been returned to…
Twenty years ago Jewish Action devoted the better part of an issue to analyzing “Israel at Forty.” At the time,…
