Dear Jew in the City, Is there an obligation from a Jewish law perspective to defend the land of Israel in battle? If so, why is there a large group that refuses to fight? Sincerely, Edith Dear Edith, Thanks for your question, which is more timely than you may realize. (In fact, it’s so […]
Last year, at a car rental company, a Muslim man from Iraq who was bringing us our car, noticed my younger son, who looks the most like me of all of our children, replete with olive skin. It was the end of January, and even so, both my son and I looked brown. The Iraqi […]
While Israel may only get “a quarter of an inch of snow a couple days a year,” Orthodox Jewish Olympian Adam Edelman says that bobsled is “the perfect sport for an Israeli. “It’s controlled chaos, the ability to overcome danger, to rise above and [be fearless],” he shares in a new video detailing his Olympic […]
An exhilarating new love story is hitting the small screen this spring. This one is created by director and writer Rama Burshtein-Shai, known for the 2012 movie drama, Fill The Void. Burshtein-Shai is a New York-born Israeli filmmaker who became religiously observant after attending the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School. In the series, she’s giving […]
Antisemitism is predicted in the Talmud and is a byproduct of Jews being in exile. This means that in every generation, Jews must shape-shift into the enemy du jour in order to be hated. The hate will defy logic. And this is how it is playing out now: the group that is committed to ending […]
An Chabad Hasidic Israeli man who was visiting Baltimore to attend the wedding of a cousin was shot and killed on Sunday night. Efraim Gordon, z’l, worked in IT and was 31 years old. According to the Baltimore Police Department, the motive appeared to be an attempted robbery, but he family of the victim told COLlive […]
