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Welcoming Special Guests on Sukkos

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin USHPIZIN – Aramaic for guests. Seven nights of Succos. Seven exalted, spiritual guests. We welcome the holy neshamaos of the raya mehemna, the...

Parsha Zot HaBracha – Making It By Breaking It

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky The last verses of the Torah encapsulate a glorious career of leadership of the father of all prophets, Moshe, into a...

Secrets of First Temple-era inscription finally revealed

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News Using advanced imaging techniques, a Biblical scholar has decoded a rock-engraved inscription from the First Temple era that was...

Yom Kippur – Yom HaKadosh – “The Holiest Day”

Yom Kippur – Yom HaKadosh – “The Holiest Day” By: Rabbi Yisroel Jungreis Merits for Yom Kippur One of the emotional prayers that we recite from Rosh...

19 Yom Kippur Facts Every Jew Should Know

From chabad.org Yom Kippur 2023 Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, when we are closest to G‑d and most connected to the essence of our souls. It’s the holiest...

Eulogy or legacy?

Rabbi Yossy Goldman (JNS) Sadly, rabbis often officiate at funerals and are called upon to deliver a hesped, a eulogy. But the most gifted speechwriter cannot...

Israel’s largest four-species market set for 25th year in Jerusalem

(JNS) The largest four-species market in Israel is set to open for Sukkot in Jerusalem’s Valero Square, located adjacent to Mahane Yehuda Market. Several dozen...

Fish and Fall Fruits to Break the Yom Kippur Fast

On the Shetland Islands where I grew up, my mother served homemade pickled herring and seltzer water after the end of services—essential, she insisted,...

Yom Kippur Facts Every Jew Should Know

By: Shalom Goodman Yom Kippur 2023 Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, when we are closest to G‑d and most connected to the essence of...

Yom Kippur – Let’s Make a Deal

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin My mother, the Rebbetzin a”h, would often lead Hineni tours to Israel. Instead of doing the typical tourist sightseeing, Hineni tours...

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) – Guide for the Perplexed

By:  Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger Yom Kippur is considered to be a Super Sabbath (Shabbat Shabbaton in Hebrew) – a soul-searching opportunity for pious...

WATCH VIDEO: UNDER FIRE: Resurfaced letter brings evidence of Vatican’s knowledge of Nazi death camps

Vatican and the late Pope Pius XII under controversy for knowing about the Holocaust and the Nazi death camps, undermining the Holy See argument   https://youtu.be/SA6vdT-hjzs      

On eve of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish population rises to 15.7 million worldwide

(JNS) On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the number of Jews worldwide stands at approximately 15.7 million compared to 15.6 million in...

Wrapping up 5783

Rav Fischer There are so many loose ends to tie before 5783... 1. A Saudi deal is not worthwhile if it means compromising a centimeter of...

A prayer for 5784

(JNS) By  Caroline B. Glick Last Saturday, Politico reported that Trident DMG, a top Washington, D.C., public-relations firm is running a PR campaign in the United States...

‘There is no king without a people’: The mystic secret of Rosh Hashanah

(JNS) Nowhere in the Five Books of Moses is the holiday of Rosh Hashanah referred to with this name by which it is commonly...

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