“I’m not twenty years old anymore.” Beit Shemesh, July 30 – A resident of this town southwest of Jerusalem plans to take full dietary advantage of the traditional Jewish practice of not eating for a full twenty-four hours from Wednesday ...
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Feed SubscriptionJews Worthy Of Third Temple For Centuries Already, But Bureaucracy, Contractor Delaying Work
The Remnant of Israel reached its allotted threshold of suffering and longing during the Spanish and Portuguese expulsions of Jewry in the late fifteenth century Jerusalem, July 21 – Heavenly sources disclosed today that the messianic visions of the Hebrew prophets ...
Read More »Church Wonders How Many Liberal Jews Would Convert If Christ Recast As ‘Anti-Zionism’
Cardinal Pedro Beinardo heads the commission. Rome, July 9 – Leaders of the world’s largest Christian denomination have commissioned a study to determine whether the body’s ages-old ambition to convince adherents of the Mosaic faith to accept Jesus of Nazareth ...
Read More »Newsroom Scare: Religion Reporter Almost Gets Something Right
“That was a close one,” breathed publisher Amos Schocken. Tel Aviv, July 1 – Editorial and reporting staff at Haaretz breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday upon discovering that an article on Orthodox Jews did not, as feared, let facts ...
Read More »Jewish Voice For Peace Says Kaddish Over Recent Lack Of Terrorists For Whom To Say Kaddish
“The IDF can’t be relied on to supply the requisite number of Palestinian corpses with any regularity, and that’s a tragedy.” New York, June 22 – An activist group known for treating the deaths of even the most violent, heinous ...
Read More »Spies In Canaan Aim To Inspire US Jews To Call Israel ‘Nice Place To Visit’
“It’s not only our own social position and fear of change we’re considering – it carries implications for all time.” Qadesh Barnea, June 11 – Ten men dispatched from this wilderness location to the Promised Land to bring back details regarding ...
Read More »Man Can’t Get Socializing Done If 6-Ft Distancing In Place At Shul
“You can’t lean over and whisper a snarky comment to your buddy during the Rabbi’s recorded sermon the way you can in shul.” Bergenfield, New Jersey, June 2 – Family and friends of a regular Sabbath morning services attendee noted ...
Read More »Hanania, Mishael, Azaria Look At 5-Day Forecast, Opt To Stay In Furnace
Imperial authorities cast the trio in to the furnace after the three defied a royal edict demanding that all subjects bow to the statue of an idol. Valley of Dura, May 19 – Three Jews cast into a fiery oven ...
Read More »Waqf Says Israel Jams Al Aqsa Prayers From Reaching Allah
“If we do not ask the omniscient deity to help us, how can He know what we want?” Jerusalem, May 7 – Islamic officials at the council that administers holy sites on the Temple Mount accused the Jewish State today ...
Read More »Community Performs Annual Ritual Of Arguing Whether To Make Bracha On Yom Haatzmaut Hallel
“It’s a cherished community custom.” West Hempstead, New York, April 29 – Israel’s Chief Rabbinate long ago ordained the recitation of a series of laudatory and thanksgiving Psalms on the anniversary of Israel’s statehood announcement in 1948, and some synagogues ...
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