For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

“I will look,” she wrote, “for the beauty these monsters created. The Beauty of Unity amongst us.” Things were so quiet for so long that they kidded Dovid Gantshar for packing heat. Cowboy, they ...

The blaze broke out just before 5pm, as members of the local orthodox Jewish community were arriving for a Friday night Sabbath Service. Bright orange flames and billowing smoke could be seen ...

80-year-old Gadi Mozes, who was freed on Thursday after 482 days in captivity in Gaza, on Friday evening had Shabbat dinner for the first time with his family. The family gathered at Ichilov ...

Freed hostage Gadi Mozes, 80, enjoys Shabbat dinner with his family for the first time in 482 days. (Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in ...

February film highlights include the Jewish & Israeli Film Festival, Oscar nominated shorts and foreign features, and a David ...

Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition ...

This feast day, the Feast of Trumpets, was a Sabbath day. According to Mosaic Law, on this feast day, the people were to have a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpets blast. Ezra brought out the ...

The first thing God declares holy is a time — the Sabbath — and not a site ... more precisely, within the sacred mitzvot they would perform. They also knew the sanctity of the Temple had ...

From the weekly Kiddush (a blessing said over a wine cup) on Shabbat to holidays like Purim, Passover and Simchat Torah, wine occupies a sacred space in Judaism. But this month, the surgeon ...

But even it specifies the children of Jacob, not Ishmael, as considering every life sacred. And what drives this hostage deal is that, for Jacob, every person is a unique child of God, made in His ...