His steely eyes should have given him away, but over 30 years ago, I was a new immigrant, only four months into my Israeli army service, and I had no idea who this Lieutenant General really was. We … more

My mother was a first-class baker, and there were always homemade goodies for dessert at our house. So when I went away to college and needed a nosh to remind me of home, I went to a nearby bakery … more

An incredible Kiddush Hashem was made at Yeshiva Har Torah on Monday, December 25th as parents of the 7th and 8th-grade students took their day off from work to learn Torah with their children in a … more

A former Polish politician who is the father of the country’s prime minister said that Jews during the Holocaust moved to ghettos of their own accord to get away from non-Jewish … more

Reading the transcript of the debate that took place in the Irish Senate on July 11 before that body voted, by 25-20, to criminalize commercial relations with Jewish communities … more

HOUSTON — After my grandmother Jeannette died in December 1996, the process of settling her estate worked in the same way it does in most families: There was a house … more

When Yaniv and Marcia Gliksman and their children moved a few years ago to St. Lucia — an idyllic island nation nestled among the Windward Islands at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea … more

Two Long Island members of Congress with impeccable pro-Israel records were warmly received at the AIPAC Policy Conference. Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of East Meadow and Democrat … more

On the surface, Gil Levanon and Kat Rohrer seem unlikely friends. Levanon is an Israeli, the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. Rohrer, an Austrian, is the granddaughter … more

As this city’s Jewish community celebrated Rosh Hashana this week, the Tree of Life synagogue stood closed, its doors blocked by a chain-link fence. A brown, wilted wreath … more