The two popular names for the book which our synagogues are presently reading are Numbers and Bamidbar. One name suggests that the major topic of the tome is counting the Jews, repeatedly. The other ...

Bamidbar is the name of not only this week’s Torah portion, but the new book of the Torah it begins. (Books of the Torah are called by the names of their first portions.) Bamidbar, meaning “In the ...

ISRAEL on Monday, April 1, 2024 attacked the Iranian Embassy in Damascus killing 16 persons, including two Iranian generals, Mohammed Reza Zahedi and Mohammed Hadi Haji Rahimi. There were no apologies ...

Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of a new Jewish lobby known as J Street, loves Israel. But Israel, he has been instructed, must be loved in a certain way. He is among a generation of American Jews who are ...

From the Oval Office of the President of the United States, to the corridors of the royal palaces in Qatar, and through the messages of spy chiefs and negotiators to Hamas and Israel, there is an ...

A group of top Israeli archaeologists has borrowed tricks of the trade from colleagues in the fields of ecology and biodiversity to analyze around 1,000 first names of Israelites and Judeans recorded ...

Temple Israel submitted the following: Families recently gathered to dedicate a new nature play space, Woodland Wilderness, at Temple Israel in Sharon. Woodland Wilderness will encourage outdoor ...

On the other hand, the Israeli dog might have been long gone in the wilderness and can no longer hear the hunter’s whistle. It is like “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats’ famous poem: “Turning ...