Birthright Israel Mega Event Brought Together Over 2,000 Young Jews From Around The World
Latrun, Israel (June 25, 2024) -- More than 2,000 enthusiastic participants from all Birthright Israel programs currently in Israel for the summer gathered last night at Mini Israel Park for the...
Trying To Cheer Up A Hurting Nation One Morning At A Time
Tal Meir chooses to express national pride and courage over mundane journalistic rules
By Nati Katz
Tal Meir is on constant jet lag. Her first sip of coffee comes on the...
Eden Golan defies Israel’s Eurovision haters
ERAN SWISSA
(May 10, 2024 / JNS)
Despite the immense pressures and challenges, Israel’s Eden Golan triumphed in Thursday night’s Eurovision Song Contest’s semifinal competition in Malmö, a coastal city in southern Sweden...
The Phenomenon That Is Nissim Saal
My interview with Chazan Nissim Saal was a long time coming, due to his busy travel schedule. We planned to touch base on motzaei Shabbos to nail down a...
Ishay Ribo Awakens The City That Never Sleeps
By Yochanan Gordon
Madison Square Garden, dubbed “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” and also known as the “Mecca of Basketball,” has been conquered by Israeli music impresario Ishay Ribo. On...
Ishay Ribo Draws Some 15,000 to Madison Square Garden
MIKE WAGENHEIM
(September 5, 2023 / JNS)
Some of recent history’s biggest musical acts have headlined concerts at Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Orthodox Jewish crossover singer Ishay Ribo became the...
Black-Face, Jewish-Face and Yellow-Face Are All Wrong
Actress Sarah Silverman said on her podcast that “There’s this long tradition of non-Jews playing Jews, and not just playing people who happen to be Jewish but people whose Jewishness is their whole being. ...
Abarbanel—A Man Of Many Worlds—Revealed In A New Film
By Toby Klein Greenwald
Rabbi Berel Wein, executive producer, and Ashley Lazarus, director and writer, have come out with another groundbreaking educational project. Abarbanel —A Man of Many Worlds is...
WATCH: Celebrate Israel Parade 2023
(JNS) The Celebrate Israel Parade marched up Manhattan’s 5th Avenue on Sunday, marking New York City’s solidarity with the Jewish state and celebrating the 75th anniversary of Israel’s founding.
The...
A Song And A Prayer
By Yochanan Gordon
The Rambam concludes his Mishnah Torah with a utopian description of how the world will look in the Messianic era. One of the unique features of the...