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Israelis cheer during the annual Bible Quiz on Israel's Independence Day. April 16, 2013

Independence Day Bible Quiz: Bringing Jews worldwide together

People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 6, 2024

Searching for beacons of altruism amid the darkness of the Holocaust

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN
People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 6, 2024

We must contemplate our mutual responsibility for all facets of Israeli society

By SHAI FINKELSTEIN
 A demonstrator carries an Israeli flag as he walks through fields to avoid a check-point and reach a protest against the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel an

Zionism isn't inconsistent with the Torah: Rather, they go hand-in-hand

 MOTORISTS STAND at attention, in Tel Aviv, as sirens sound across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, last Monday.

The new heart of the Jewish calendar: Holocaust Remembrance Day and Independence Day

 performing in Daglanut for Israel independence Day.

After undergoing Orthodox conversion, Noa Arazi is helping others do the same

 PLAYING BACKGAMMON in downtown Jerusalem.

Parashat Kedoshim: A society that worships wisdom and understanding is a holy one

 ‘SHABBAT TABLE Crowns.’

Parashat Kedoshim: Understanding the light of Shabbat

By MEIRA RAANAN , ESTHER CAMERON
 A collective of groups organised by Jewish students at Columbia and Barnard in solidarity with Gaza and the protest encampment host Passover Seder at Columbia University, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 22, 2024.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Passover is Zionist - comment

University protests: Empowering truth above popularity

By Mark Fish
 An illustrative image of a baby being offered to the Molech.

Parashat Aharei Mot: Holiness of the family

 German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

Postcards looted from Jews by German soldier returned by granddaughter 80 years later

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
 The Jewish lion, uploaded on 30/4/2024

Disney's Lion King: Is Mufasa Jewish? Parallels between Mufasa and Jewish scripture suggest he is

 ‘CROSSING THE RED SEA’ by Yoram Raanan.

Unity from division: The lesson of God splitting the Red Sea and the Jews

By GEDALIAH GURFEIN
 During his 1799 siege of Acre, Napoleon promised the Jews the ‘reestablishment of ancient Jerusalem.’

24 biblical, historical events that happened in the Hebrew month of Nissan

 PHARAOH’S ARMY engulfed by the Red Sea, by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1900. ‘The wind dropped, the waters flooded back, and the entire Egyptian force was drowned.’

Miracles do happen: A look at the biblical splitting of the Red Sea

 SHEVET ACHIM Synagogue, serving the Georgian community, South Netanya.

Netanya: Look at all the synagogues!

By JACOB SOLOMON
 Visitors watch sunrise from Mount Sinai in Egypt, where Moses is believed to have received the 10 Commandments.

Passover 2024: The Jewish experience and learned wisdom

By Stanley Ringler
 The first American depiction of the Four Sons. (‘Haggadah for Passover,’ Hayyim Liberman, Chicago, 1879)

The Kaplan Collection brings Passover to life

By DAVID GEFFEN
Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and the US

 ONE ACCEPTING the yoke of heaven enters into a relationship of love and friendship with God.

Shabbat Passover: Song of love, longing, and illumination

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