Author: Israel Heritage Foundation

Israel’s Haredi community is growing rapidly. Statistics show that around 25% to 30% of first-graders in Israel are going to haredi schools. A full 80% of haredi women participate in the workforce, which is almost the same as non-haredi women. However, only 50% of haredi men participate in the workforce, and this needs to change—quickly.…

–originally by Shabsie Saphirstein– –Featured Image, left to right: Dr. Joseph Frager, Dr. Stephen Soloway, Rabbi David Katz, Rabbi Zvi Gluck & Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt– With the start of this summer in full swing, Rosh Hashanah preparations are far from our minds. However, the scene was quite different one year ago, when more than…

Each year ahead of the Celebrate Israel Parade, Jewish New Yorkers find different ways to pay tribute to the country they call home. This year, after three long years without extravagant outdoor festivities, I opted to raise a glass with two gentlemen of the ultimate faith and allegiance to Israel. As I entered Mike’s Bistro…

The week after Passover, the Jews maintain a custom of baking challah either in the shape of a key or with a key baked into the challah. The principal reason is that when the Jewish nation went out of Egypt through the desert, it lacked food. The Almighty sent the mon, the food from heaven,…

— Originally published by Fox News on January 27, 2020, original link: https://www.foxnews.com/us/holocaust-survivor-jerry-wartski-auschwitz-liberation — In the nearly 75 years since the end of World War II, Jerry Wartski never uttered a word about what he endured after the Nazis invaded his native Poland. Those around him knew him as a Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, but the Manhattan…

We have a moral obligation to protect Israel. Former Secretary of State and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo upheld this duty to the “nth degree.” “I knew that the deeper the ties between the United States and Israel, the more likely I would be at protecting America, American prosperity, and American…

We are in shock at the loss of a “giant.” Hashem, the almighty created a world with people that strive to work on themselves to become righteous in three important pillars of life. As our sages teach us, the pillars that hold the world are Torah, prayer, & graciousness. One who lives his years on…

Each 25 Kislev commemorates the victory of the Maccabees against the Seleucid Greeks and the Hellenistic ideology they sought to foist upon the Jewish Nation. The ultimate miracle of Chanukah was the successful ignition of the Holy Temple’s menorah for eight nights rather than the one night for which its oil supply was projected to…

Last summer, at renowned Manhattan steakhouse Mike’s Bistro, Dr. Joseph Frager convened a special dinner honoring Jerry Wartski, a Holocaust survivor. Mr. Wartski, born in Lodz, Poland, nearly lost his life on account of being Jewish following the German occupation of Poland and the ensuing Holocaust. Mr. Wartski survived the both Lodz Ghetto and the…