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The Jerusalem District Court has just allowed criminal charges against Jews who say the Shema prayer in a public place on the Temple Mount, the Jewish people’s holiest site. In her ruling, Judge Einat Avman-Muller wrote that freedom of prayer “is not absolute, and it should be superseded by other interests, among them the safeguarding…

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 Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas has a longstanding law that provides financial incentives to murder Jews. This law, often nicknamed “pay-to-slay,” is perhaps the most heinous anti-Semitic law since the Nazi era. Under it, the P.A. budgets and disburses more than $350 million to terrorists who have killed Jews and Americans. The more…

The Jewish right to pray at the Western Wall was twice attacked by rocks thrown by Muslims from the Temple Mount in recent weeks. Israel acted to stop the attacks, yet even the U.S. did not lend support to the Israeli effort or condemn the attacks on Jewish worshippers. Instead, it called for an end…

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…

At the end of the upcoming Passover seder, Jews around the world will say, “Next year in Jerusalem.” Apparently, this thousand-year-old tradition will be changed by the Tzedek Congregation in Chicago, which has officially adopted anti-Zionism as a “core value.” Jews around the world face Jerusalem in their prayers, but this may now be changed…

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…

The United States and Iran are reportedly on the cusp of a new nuclear agreement. One of the last remaining issues is said to be whether or not the Biden administration removes the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list. The administration is purportedly offering to do so on the condition…