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  • The Real Value Of The Mishkan

    The Real Value Of The Mishkan

    This week’s Parshah starts off with an accounting of the materials and monies donated by the Jews for the construction of the Tabernacle. The first verse contains a noticeable and rather perplexing redundancy [Shemot 38’ 21’]: These are the records of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of Testimony, which were drawn up at Moses’ bidding—the work…

  • Shabbat As The Vehicle To Build The Temple, And Keep The Flame Of Hope Alive

    Shabbat As The Vehicle To Build The Temple, And Keep The Flame Of Hope Alive

    This week’s parshah (Torah portion) primarily deals with the construction of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), as the Torah gives extreme detail of its architecture and design. Commentaries offer much depth behind the repetitive nature of these pesukim (verses); the only other parallel we have in the Torah of this much seemingly extraneous information being presented would be…

  • The Biden Administration’s Plan to Fight Antisemitism Has Failed

    The Biden Administration’s Plan to Fight Antisemitism Has Failed

    More than nine months has elapsed since the Biden administration released its self-proclaimed ‘first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism” with great fanfare. It has proved to be an abject failure. Many of us warned that the plan was fatally flawed from the beginning because of its failure to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s…

  • PRESS RELEASE: IHF Letter on Kamala Harris

    PRESS RELEASE: IHF Letter on Kamala Harris

    In what is yet the harshest condemnation of the State of Israel by a member of the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris has demanded an “immediate ceasefire” and insisted Israel “must open new border crossings and not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid” to residents of Gaza. Speaking in front of…

  • IHF Joins President Trump at Mar-A-Lago

    IHF Joins President Trump at Mar-A-Lago

    In an expression of gratitude and solidarity, a Jewish delegation, led by Israel Heritage Foundation, met with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago this week. The meeting, which took place on Monday, February 26, demonstrates the foundation’s outreach towards those who support the Jewish people, advocate for Israel and combat antisemitism.  Israel Heritage Foundation Executive Director Rabbi…

  • Parshat Tetzaveh: The Might of The Shoham Stones

    Parshat Tetzaveh: The Might of The Shoham Stones

    This week’s parshah primarily focuses on the making of the garments of the kohanim [priests] of the Tabernacle. [Interestingly, it is the only Parshah after Shemot where Moshe’s name cannot be found – much ink has been spilled to offer varied approaches to why that is the case]. There were a total of eight articles…

  • Parshat Terumah: The Mystical Representations of The Aron

    Parshat Terumah: The Mystical Representations of The Aron

    This week’s Parshah contains the commandment to build a Tabernacle for G-d, what the Pesukim call the “Mishkan.” Ramban [25’ 10’] comments on a seeming inconsistency in the text–when G-d issues the command to build the various components of the Mishkan [such as the Menorah and the copper Altar], the command is always given in…

  • Defeating Genocidal Hamas is Noble, Not Genocide

    Defeating Genocidal Hamas is Noble, Not Genocide

    “Despite the unique challenges Israel faces in its war against Hamas, it has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history,” wrote John W. Spencer, the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point in New York. Israel is conducting a just and legal defensive…

  • Parshat Mishpatim: What The Sin of The Golden Calf Forces Us to Appreciate

    Parshat Mishpatim: What The Sin of The Golden Calf Forces Us to Appreciate

    This week’s parshah (Torah portion) represents the paradigm shift of the Torah, where, right after the giving of the Torah at Har Sinai, the narrative shifts from that of a [mostly] sequential storyline, into the gritty details of what it means to be a Jew – i.e., knowing and following the commandments and mitzvot. Towards…

  • Israeli Ministers Offer Tips To Fight Back Locally

    Israeli Ministers Offer Tips To Fight Back Locally

    Last Monday evening I was invited by Israel Heritage Foundation (IHF) for an intimate dinner with Ministers of the Knesset Simcha Dan Rothman and Ohad Tal, both members of the reigning Religious Zionist Party, the far-Right voice where much of our readership is aligned. The duo arrived in the United States to share the realities…