3+ week, 17+ hour ago (473+ words) Special interview with Jamie Geller. 'Antisemitism hasn't abated, but resilience is in Jewish DNA' Jamie Geller is encouraged by 'the post-Oct. 7 great Jewish awakening' Special interview with Jamie Geller. 'Antisemitism hasn't abated, but resilience is in Jewish DNA' Jamie Geller, the Chief Communications Officer and Global Spokesperson of the Aish Ha'Am student organization, spoke with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News during the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem about the fight against global and campus antisemitism. Geller warned that the global fight against antisemitism, particularly on college campuses, is far from over, even after the Trump Administration-brokered ceasefire in Gaza. "Everyone's life has changed. October 7th was the largest Jewish massacre in a single day since the Holocaust. And I think it was an incredible wake-up call. It's called the Great Jewish Awakening. When those of us that were active in Jewish life…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (700+ words) Joseph Feit is Chairman of Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry. He began his activities on behalf of Ethiopian Jewry and the Beta Israel left behind in Operation Solomon over thirty years ago at the written request of then Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu z'tl Aliyah as Covenant, Not Commerce From its beginning, aliyah has never been a market transaction. It is the living realization of kibbutz galuyot - the ingathering of exiles - a mitzvah rooted in the belief that every Jew, regardless of wealth or profession, is created b'tzelem Elokim, in the image of God. Our greatest leaders taught that Israel's purpose was not only to build a thriving state, but to redeem a dispersed people. Economic strength is essential, but moral strength is existential. When aliyah is measured mainly in shekels or degrees, we risk forgetting the holiness of the act…...

3+ day, 32+ min ago (41+ words) Pilgrim leader Governor Bradford announced the celebration of Thanksgiving - proclaiming appreciation for the first harvest in "the New Israel" - by citing Psalm 107. The Pilgrims saw themselves as repeating the Exodus story. The holiday that reaffirms the unique US-Israel kinship...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (352+ words) HaRav Dov Begon is head of Yeshivat Machon Meir in Jerusalem "The voice is the voice of Yaacov" (Genesis 27:22). Rashi explains: "For he speaks in a tone of supplication: "Please arise." But Esav spoke in a tone of mockery: "Let my father arise." A person"s character is recognizable from the way he speaks, how he addresses every individual, and especially how he speaks to his father and mother whom he is commanded to honor. Indeed, our forefather Yitzhak, of blessed memory, was able to discern the difference in speech between Yaacov the righteous and Esav the wicked. The Ramban, in the letter he writes to his son, instructs him: "Hear, my son, the discipline of your father, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother, that all your words be spoken gently to every person, in every place…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (448+ words) Across the world, criticism of Israel is increasing, and many Jews are finding it harder to stand openly with the Jewish State. People speak about the importance of supporting Israel, but the truth goes deeper. Jews outside Israel must understand that they are not supporting Israel as much as Israel is supporting them. With assimilation spreading in many countries, and with Jewish communities abroad struggling to slow it, Israel has become the main anchor of Jewish identity. Israel gives Jews abroad a sense of belonging, pride, and strength, even for those who may not observe very much. In many ways, Israel is holding Jewish life together in the diaspora far more than diaspora communities are able to do. At the same time, Jews outside Israel have faced another struggle: the weakening of Jewish identity. Many even speak as if Israel…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (36+ words) Real time news brief - Watch: Religious Zionist MK offers encouragement to haredi soldiers - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site Watch: Religious Zionist MK offers encouragement to haredi soldiers...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (34+ words) The two inexorable rules of Jewish history are that every exile comes to an end, and that Jews are always too late to realize that. Now, the Jewish moment in America is over. Opinion....

2+ week, 4+ day ago (39+ words) At the EJA conference in Poland, Jewish leaders warn, 'History is repeating itself,' 'the war declared open season on Jews,' now is the time for worldwide Jewish unity. Global Jewish unity urged amid alarming rise in antisemitism...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (34+ words) Real time news brief - IDF announces widescale exercise in Judea and Samaria - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site IDF announces widescale exercise in Judea and Samaria...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (37+ words) Rabbi David Samson: "Just as a person can't pick up a scalpel and become a brain surgeon without years of preparation, a person cannot become a Jewish Meditator without first meeting all of the entrance requirements."...