How Jewish journalist Ruth Elkrief wound up in the middle of France’s debate over antisemitism and Islamophobia
21.02 2024: Elkrief is part of France’s small Liberal Jewish community and maintains Jewish traditions, keeping kosher at home and gathering the family for Shabbat evenings — including her two daughters and a newborn granddaughter.…
Three wise men
22.12 2023: According to Christian tradition, it was about this time of the year that three “wise” men appeared in Bethlehem to visit a newborn Jewish baby. Bethlehem, at that time, was a Jewish town in Judea, which,…
Hugs, slinkies and trauma care: How the Israeli health system will treat the released hostages
24.11 2023: …adding that it could “take a long time to get used to again,” and comparing the experience to being a newborn. Overall, Lifshitz has demonstrated “an impressive resilience and ability to recover,” he said,…
With young adults off to war, Israeli teens are stepping up in their communities
31.10 2023: They have also brought her boxes of food and helped her with her two children, a 5-year-old boy and a newborn daughter. It’s all part of an abrupt and notable shift in a country that In ordinary circumstances,…
Watch: Reservist participates in son’s Brit via video call
08.10 2023: …afar in the joy of the Brit of his son circulated the internet on Sunday. The soldier participated in the event through Zoom and said the father's blessings while armed and dressed in the IDF uniform. The newborn was named Shmuel Lev.…
TRAGEDY: Mother of 2-week-old suddenly collapses and dies in bedroom
27.09 2023: …including a newborn, and the community in profound shock and grief. The cause of her sudden collapse and subsequent death remains unclear. Donations are being collected to help Aharon Herbst raise his ten children with security and…
Meir Shalev and Yehonatan Geffen were Israeli cultural royalty. Their deaths leave a hole on the left.
02.05 2023: Like many of their cohort, they were groomed for the driving seat of the newborn State of Israel. Their formidable life’s work, thus, was largely an ongoing attempt to deal with the burden bestowed upon them by their pedigrees.…
UNRWA paving the road to conflict
06.01 2023: …which were populated by Arabs who left or fled in 1948 when Arab armies attacked the newborn Jewish state and whose leaders assured them that they would return to their homes when the Jews were defeated.…
After 4 months: Pregnant woman shot in terror attack leaves hospital with baby
20.12 2022: Chaim Schreiber, said upon the release of his wife and newborn son from the hospital: “Blessed is He who performed a miracle for us in this place. We arrived here after Tisha B’Av and we are leaving on the eve of the Hanukkah holiday and are…
El Al’s last scheduled Canadian flight from Toronto was met with rounds of applause—but also sadness
04.11 2022: …and he had to go back to yeshiva, but with her baby being so newborn, she couldn’t get a passport for her in time. So we took the first available flight out, and we grabbed this last opportunity,” Oppenheimer said.…
Jews and the occult: 5 myth-busting insights from a NYC museum exhibit
30.09 2022: Deborah Lynne Amerling’s collage “Bubba Meises” combines the traditional elements of a (intended to protect a mother and her newborn from the demon Lilith, who might take the child away), but also adjusts the tradition to a…
Ken Burns’ Holocaust documentary may be hard on America, but not hard enough
16.09 2022: “As millions of Jews were taken to the slaughter — young and old, infant and newborn, mother and daughter — the world leaders, those who shout slogans about democracy and socialism, looked away from the bloodshed and did not undertake…
In Jerusalem, identical twins give birth to boys on the same day
01.06 2022: Identical twins Yael Yishai and Avital Segel pose with their newborn sons at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, May 30, 2022. The hospital did not say which twin was which. Just as they did 31 years ago,…