Based on Israel's Population Registry, the precise number of Jews in Judea and Samaria is 435,159, as of January 1, 2018. The statistic does not include the some 315,000 Jews who dwell in the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, which is also technically the "West Bank." Unlike any other...
Having been raised in an upper middle class Jewish environment whenever a presidential campaign took place the question asked by the Jewish Community was, “Is he good for the Jews?” Never was the question asked, “Is he good for America?” An example of how the Jewish Community gives pr...
As hard as it is in times of pain, Jews have always sought to observe holidays during persecution, such as in concentration camps during the Holocaust, said Rabbi Martin Lockshin, professor emeritus at Canada’s York University, who lives in Jerusalem. “They ...
The floor was then given to Ron Avidan, CEO of Azorim: "For over a year and a half, we’ve been managing a dedicated department aimed at reaching Jews in the diaspora and assisting them in moving to Israel. The concept of 'guidance' is key here because they face many challenges relate...
Though many in the Jewish community are sad to leave, almost everyone wants to do so, Coriat said. “The people that have the possibility to move [do]. A lot of people in Venezuela, they can’t move because to live here is very expensive,” she said. ...
with Jewish envoys (who may or may not have been Khazars), and questioning them about their religion but ultimately rejecting it, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence of their having been abandoned by God. Ultimately Vladimir settled on Christianity. In the churches of the Germans ...
Ezra lived in Jerusalem around 458 BC and Nehemiah around 445 BC. Ezra was a priest and a scribe that had been sent there to teach the laws of God. Nehemiah went to Jerusalem, as a governor, with the purpose of instructing people to repopulate the city an...
As an American, I have been very fortunate to live a significant portion of my adult life outside the United States, including many years in Turkey and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s and 1990s, where Middle Eastern culture and Middle Eastern cultural values were still the dominant...
God’s people had spent 70 years in captivity in Babylon (1.12). The first group of exiles, including Zechariah, had returned to Jerusalem. They had begun rebuilding the temple but then had become indifferent, more focused on their personal lives than God’s agenda (Hag. 1.1-11). God use...
term we’ve heard over the years for how the IDF manages the ongoing conflict in the West Bank. The soldiers are operating here 24/7, the officer says. They secure Highway 60, which leads from Gush Etzion and Hebron to Jerusalem. Thousands of Jews live in a dozen communities in the ...