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In the early hours of Monday morning, four ambulances belonging to Hatzalah – the volunteer Jewish emergency service that provides medical care to Jews and non-Jews alike, whose name literally translates to ‘rescue’ or ‘relief’ –…

“But on the Jewish New Year when Hank Greenberg came to bat and made two home runs off pitcher Rhodes, they cheered like mad for that.”  — Edgar Guest, Detroit Free Press (1934)

(Greenberg received rabbinical permission to play in the…

“I hope that your job is eliminated.” 

Ordinarily, that’s not something you expect to hear when meeting someone for the first time. I hear it a few times a week. 

I don’t take it personally. As the Executive Director of IDF Widows…

Brett Chatz, an internationally published author and syndicated columnist, is a respected political commentator and analyst. At the helm of BLC Writeworks Corporation, he oversees the production of world-class content in sectors…

In the past six years, the children in Israel have been exposed to the effects of Covid on their schooling, the horrors of October 7th, a two-year war with Hamas in which many of their parents who fought in the army came home injured (or…

Four questions are the minimal number of questions to ask at a Passover seder. This is a night of multiple questions and multiple answers. I wouldn’t surprise your seder guests by asking the questions below for the first time at the seder…

While being homeless is a modern term, living without a roof over one’s head is as old as the first towns and cities. In ancient Greece, one of the most unfortunate fates was to be a man without a household or a polis (city), a condition that…

The first Rashi in this week’s Parshah explains that when the word Tzav is used it requires an instant action but not just for the moment, also for generations. This command is a requirement for all times that it comes into effect. The…

The agreement had real flaws. It allowed too many centrifuges, and oversight was not as strong or transparent as it needed to be. While Barack Obama built international consensus, many countries still feared Iran’s long-term nuclear…

Iran has waged war on Jewish communities for thirty years. The response still isn’t working.