So, I had to get my daughter’s gift-given mirror repaired, and I found a fix-it guy at the edge of downtown Tiberias. He’s got work clothes on, and me, sneakers. He asks me where I’m from, and I say Yavniel, which is just outside Tiberias. ‘Breslev?’ he asks ‘Jewish,’ I reply, …
The truth is that Har HaBayit does not belong to the Jews or the Christians and it sure as hell doesn’t belong to the Arabs.
The M’arat Hamachpelah, the Cave of the Patriarchs.is the world’s most ancient Jewish site and the second holiest place for the Jewish people, after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.. The cave and the adjoining field were purchased—at full market price—by our father, Abraham approximately 3700 years ago. Abraham agreed to …
And this is what kept our forefathers, and what keeps us surviving. For not only one arose and tried to destroy us, rather in every generation they try to destroy us, and the Holy One, Blessed is He, saves us from their hands. From the middle of the 19th century, …
In the summer of 1986, my mother turned seventy years old. She had been a widow then for the same amount of time as she had been married. To mark the milestone, my brother, my then husband, and I held a surprise birthday party for her. The pictures that sit …
B”H Since the “indigenous” issue has cropped up yet again, I will add my two cents in hope of helping it finally be laid to rest. Basically, the question is simply: ‘Is Am Yisrael indigenous to Eretz Yisrael?’ The answer, though, is not so simple. The answer is neither yes …
