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Israel's Ambassador to the US Remembers His Fallen Son | Aish
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (140+ words) Dr Yechiel Leiter lost not only his son but also his best friend Moshe Leiter. " Moshe Leiter was a father of six, actively involved in volunteer work and on the path to becoming a doctor. His father opens up about…...
If I Was Jewish | Aish
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (638+ words) A non-Jewish Canadian teacher asks the questions every Jew struggles to answer. I'm not Jewish, but if I was, I think the first lesson I would teach my children is that life isn't fair." How else can a Jewish parent…...
Four Ways to Remember and Thank Israeli Soldiers | Aish
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (421+ words) Four concrete ways to honor Israel's fallen soldiers and support the ones still fighting, no matter where you are in the world. On Yom Hazikaron (Israel's Memorial Day), we pause as a nation to remember Israel's fallen soldiers who gave…...
What Judaism Says about God, Marriage and Moving to Israel | Aish
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (183+ words) This episode is packed with wisdom, honesty, and a few surprises. What Judaism Says about God, Marriage and Moving to Israel This episode is packed with wisdom, honesty, and a few surprises. More About The Author Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen…...
The Jews Who Never Left the Land of Israel | Aish
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (558+ words) For 2, 000 years, while Jews scattered across the globe, a small group never left the Land of Israel. Almost no one has heard of them. In this perspective, the Land of Israel is depicted as a memory, a place to long…...
The Sobibor Uprising | Aish
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (1701+ words) A quarter million Jews were murdered at Sobibor. But on one October afternoon in 1943, nearly 300 prisoners fought back and ran for their lives. On Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), as we remember the six million, Sobibor demands we remember…...
The First American-Born Jewish Religious Leader | Aish
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (635+ words) Gershom Mendes Seixas led his congregation through revolution, exile, and near-collapse. Contemporary American Jewish life is built on his groundwork. Long before there were synagogues across America, Jewish life here was fragile, scattered, and at serious risk of fading away....
What Was Sinful About Building the Tower of Babel? | Aish
1+ week, 4+ day ago (200+ words) Ask the Rabbi > The Bible > Five Books of Moses > Book of Genesis " Other Full prep time: 35 min Thank you for your incisive question. You are right that on the surface the builders of the Tower did not seem to have…...
Leaving the House on Shabbat | Aish
1+ week, 6+ day ago (199+ words) Ask the Rabbi > The Bible > Oral Law & Torah Study > Talmudic Sources Full prep time: 35 min After the Exodus, when the Israelites were in the desert, some of them wrongly went out on Shabbat to search of manna. In response, God…...
Jews Are a Fifth Column: A Libel as Old as the Pyramids | Aish
2+ week, 2+ day ago (393+ words) Pharaoh accused the Jews of being a fifth column. So did Henry Ford, Lindbergh, and Tucker Carlson. The oldest lie in the world keeps finding new tellers. In the course of retelling the Passover story, the Haggadah quotes the passage…...