Jewish Religion and Thought
Students visited more than 15 startup firms in sectors such as cybersecurity, medicine, biotech, agritech, finance and artificial intelligence.
As a result of the ruling, the state will fund pre-military education programs to train girls on living in a less insular, more open and diverse society, and will provide instructors for a variety of topics.
The victory marks Bracha Deutsch’s fourth marathon. She competed in the Tel Aviv Marathon while seven months pregnant and began training for the trials just three years ago.
The annual “Yarchei Kallah” program run by NCSY, the international youth movement of the Orthodox Union, offers a religiously inspired week of Torah learning and unity.
“In the Talmud and Jewish law, we learned that poor non-Jews need to make a living just like poor Jews, and so, too, this is the ruling according to which non-Jewish prisoners should be freed just like Jewish prisoners; it is already known that the commandment to free prisoners is one of the most important commandments,” he wrote.
New exhibit on Maimonides celebrates renowned Jewish scholar with internationally accrued collection
Items in the “Maimonides: A Legacy in Script” exhibit include several of his manuscripts and an example of his original signature, with which he authorized the edited version of his seminal commentary on the core Jewish holy texts, known as the Mishneh Torah.
The report indicates that the number of “haredi” recruits has increased by 50 percent in recent years, with half of those serving in combat units.
Measurements for a Dutch man’s replica translated into nearly 410 feet long, 95 feet wide and 75.5 feet tall, and took 12,000 trees to build.
More than a week after an El Al flight to Israel was diverted to Athens to avoid desecrating the Jewish day of rest, airline complies with demand for a public apology, offers compensation.
After allegations surface that religious passengers aboard an El Al flight became violent towards the crew, rabbi gives airline until Sunday to issue a public apology • Group of platinum and top “haredi” customers to cut up membership cards in protest.
“The Beka was equivalent to the half-shekel, which every person from the age of 20 years and up was required to bring to the Temple,” explained Eli Shukron, who directed the excavations on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Jerusalem’s mufti, Erima Sa’id Sabri, issued a “fatwa” in July that ordered all Muslims to utterly reject land-sellers, refusing to marry, bury, do business with or attend the funeral of such people.
