Madoff fallout: Hadassah $45 million; Son ends life
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The fallout from the Bernie Madoff scam continued last week, first with the announcement from Hadassah…
By the numbers: The Israeli Mindset
A recent poll by The Brookings Institution revealed several eye-opening facts about what Israeli Jews are thinking. Among them: Israelis…
Israel in snow
Just a week after the country’s most harrowing forest fire, much of Israel was blanketed with snow. Although the country…
Obit: Holbrooke grew into his Jewish roots
U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, died on Monday, Dec. 13 as the result of a…
Obit: Dov Shilansky, former Knesset Speaker
TEL AVIV, Israel – Former Knesset Speaker Dov Shilansky, who survived the Dachau death march at the end of World…
A Blue Back Chanukah
Although the temperature outside was hovering close to the freezing mark, those gathered at Blue Back Square to celebrate the…
Saying Thanks to U.S. Soldiers
Hebrew school students in preschool through seventh grade at Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown decorated Chanukah cards and wrote words…
Chaplains at the CIA
Rabbi Levi Stone, chaplain of the Weston Police Department, and executive drector of the Schneerson Center for Jewish Life, a…
Marathon Man
In July, we wrote about Rabbi Adam Haston, director of program and community development of Chabad of Orange/Woodbridge, who was…