Shabbos Hagadol And The Israeli Defense Forces

On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the story of "Jonah and the Fish" is read in synagogues around the globe. Question: Why do we read this particular portion instead of something more famously epic like "Moses and the Golden Calf" or "Abraham ...

Francis has never been to the US. He went to Jerusalem once but the Yom Kippur War cut his pilgrimage in half. Now he is Pope, he still keeps his trips short and focused, reports Vatican Insider. 'It is possible that now he is Pope, ...

I was born on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Christmas, And my last name, Matusheski , means God Is with you, something like that. Look across The street, and what do you see? Take your time. You say Crown Chicken, Angelo's Pizza and King Gyro? No, ...

During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as Ariel Sharon's tanks crossed the Suez Canal to cut off the reeling Egyptian Army from its home, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev declared that he was prepared to drop several divisions of paratroopers into the Sinai ...

We call Yom Kippur one of the Days of Awe but what does awe have to do with forgiveness for our sins? In this week's parsha video, Rabbi Fohrman challenges the way we think about Yom Kippur and teaches us that we merge with God, and through that ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — James Schlesinger, the Jewish-born U.S. defense secretary who played a role in the emergency shipment of arms to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war, has died. Schlesinger, 85, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia ...

On Yom Kippur, 1972, I was standing alongside a Soviet Jewish dissident outside Moscow's lone synagogue when we were suddenly surrounded by KGB agents. Sensing my alarm, the refusenik sought to disarm my fear with some vintage Soviet humor. In ...

It wasn't a big deal, at first. As reporter Steve Lipman notes as part of a rare interview with Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax at the Doders? spring training facility in Arizona, when the athlete turned down Game One of the 1965 World Series ...

Why two days Yom Tov outside Israel and one day in Israel? The answer to this question depends on the answer to another basic question: How many days constitute a month in the Jewish calendar? The rebirth of the moon, approximately every thirty ...