You don’t hear that much these days about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president whose penchant for denying the Holocaust at every opportunity became legendary.
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By Ben Cohen
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3/9/16
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Sha’ah ba’yetziah!” These were the words every IDF soldier dreaded hearing. Loosely translated as “an hour when you’re headed out,” it meant that for some …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/9/16
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About 100 students from Midreshet Shalhevet High School for Girls rallied outside the office of the French Consulate on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue this week, decrying the recent spate of …
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3/9/16
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The Young Israel of Woodmere Sisterhood hosted cookbook author Susie Fishbein on March 2.
Fishbein entertained with a cooking demonstration and three-course tasting of recipes from her new book, …
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3/9/16
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Our parasha contains the sole instance in the Tanach of the expression, “He took and placed (va’yikach va’yitan) the testimony into the ark” (Shemot 40:20). Rashi explained …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/9/16
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The Torah tells us that Moshe was given an instruction that “On the day of the first month, on the first day, you shall erect the Communion Tent Tabernacle.” (40:2). This was fulfilled in …
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When Asher Willner, a senior at Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles (YULA), started a senior year engineering project in his father’s optical communica-tions laboratory at the …
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By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman
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3/9/16
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Yesterday I accompanied my daughter for a bridal gown fitting. It was her third appointment; during it, she tried on the muslin. A muslin, made from inexpensive fabric, is used to test the …
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By Judy Joszef
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3/9/16
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While 11 states were voting during last week’s “Super Tuesday” primaries, I was braving the New Jersey Turnpike en route to CPAC, the annual Conservative Political Action …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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3/9/16
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To the 150 or so Jewish households on Galveston Island in Texas, Congregation Beth Jacob is akin to a national treasure.
“We are our building, our building is us,” says Gary …
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By Jacob Kamaras
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3/9/16
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