Jewish Education
The Israeli leader’s grandfather was entrusted with the Pesachim Tractate after it was found in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich in 1945.
“The pyramids represent people being forced to work for a central power, not being allowed to be important in and of themselves,” Yeshiva University professor Aaron Koller told JNS.
Lois Roman, a trustee for the Memorial Scrolls Trust, told JNS: “Our goal was to remind people of what binds us together rather than what tears us apart.”
Sixth-graders at a Jewish day school outside Philadelphia get a real-time lesson in experiential learning.
The International Chess Foundation ranks Caleb Levitan as the 5,098th best active player in the world and the 47th best on the African continent.
The Oscar-winning actor described the revelations as making him feel “more of a spiritual, religious connection to Judaism than I ever had before.”
Lorenzo da Ponte’s Jewish origins were largely unknown until the Holocaust, and in recent years, they’re taken for granted, per a new journal article.
“Hats are one of those unique fashion items where they don’t go out of style,” said Lance Levine. “I was watching ‘The Godfather’ the other night, and I thought, ‘We still have those same hats!’”
Julie Finkelstein of the Foundation for Jewish Camp says “there is lots of interest on the part of Israelis wanting to come, but they are still waiting,” due to the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.
“All these secularists do not understand that without the kollels and yeshivot the army would not have been successful,” Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said.
San Diego Jewish Academy hosted a delegation of 130 students from a region that was decimated by the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, giving them a weeklong reprieve from the war.
“I didn’t even think that I would ever see them again,” Vasyl Rybchinski told JNS about his visit to the Hebrew Language Academy.
