Jewish World
The disappearance of a Jewish community in a small mining town in Pennsylvania sheds light on the disappearance of many…
We fight and quibble, like all families. At times, the ideological differences between us—Chassidic, Sephardic, Yeshivish, Modern Orthodox—seem like formidable,…
In a corridor in Me’arat HaMachpelah this past March, a few soldiers, their heads bare and hair closely cropped, step…
By now the outlines of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel’s life are widely known. Born in Chicago in 1943 to Rabbi…
The Knesset Menorah stands about fifteen feet high across from the main entrance to the Knesset. Photo: www.sasson-photos.com Upon…
For the past six years, on the Sunday evening between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, OU-member synagogue rabbis have been…
In today’s increasingly unpredictable economic times, more and more frum Jews are following their passions and choosing unconventional careers, finding…
Rabbi Chanan Porat, circa 1988. Photo: Sa’ar Ya’acov/Israel Government Press Office “A ‘Sabbath Jew’ he was—not because he showed his…
View of the reconstructed Kfar Etzion Courtesy of the Kfar Etzion Archives During the months bridging the vote on the…
Personal memories of landmark historical moments. Map of Gush Etzion, 1947: Some twenty kilometers from Jerusalem, nestled between Bethlehem and…
Every kid wonders what it would be like to fly. Yonatan (Yoni) Goldstein didn’t leave it to his imagination; he…
