with a particular focus on Iran, Islamic Terrorism, and ethnic conflicts in the region. His latest book isThe Black Shabbat, published in the US. erfanfard.com and on X @EQFARD or www.ErfanFard.com.
Neh 13:16 Tyrians who lived there brought fish and all sorts of wares and sold them on Shabbat to the Judahites in Jerusalem. This illustrates how even in the smaller Second Temple city of Jerusalem in the Persian period, it was still worthwhile for coastal Phoenicians to show up in Jeru...
RABBI MOSHE SILVER blows a Yemenite shofar at the Jerusalem Promenade (photo credit: REZA GREEN) Rosh Hashanahis the the beginning of the Jewish New Year, in this case 5783, and kicks off the High Holy Days. It is an important two-day holiday with a focus on long prayer services in syn...
This is exactly what every Jew goes through all the time. Everyone can understand this according to his own experience. All the ups and downs that a person goes through throughout his life can be compared to the exile in Egypt, because the main exile is the exile of the soul. A person...
For the travel during the Shabbat : see the Transport page of Tel-Aviv and the Transport page of Jerusalem.Where to Stay in Israel (Hotels)Assuming you want to visit : Jerusalem + Tel-Aviv + Haifa + Dead sea + Masada (and maybe Acre near Haifa). Where should you stay ?
One Sunday afternoon I saw Mathews hit a baseball so hard on a fly to center field that, even though it could not leave the park, he had crossed home by the time the center-fielder reached the ball. At the Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem, I was talking with some Shearith Israel stalwarts ...
“h” at the end of a word, sometimes not (hashgafah, hashgafa– same word). Sometimes an “s” at the end can be a “t” (Shabbos, Shabbat– same thing). When you’re trying to find a word, just find the one that matches the most. I am certainly not consistent in my own...
Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now As state attorney general, he led multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration and ensured that the state’s votes were counted in the 2020 presidential election. In 2018, he led a landmark investigation into sexual abuse at Catholic in...
[caption id="attachment_143041" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Henrietta Szold at home, Jerusalem, circa 1922; via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] By Sally Berkovic As long as she made no demands to earn the title ‘rabbi,’ Henrietta Szold was the first w
FEAST of FIRST FRUITS is the DAY after Shabbat, right after the Feast of Unleavened Bread–THIS DAY of FIRST FRUITS is SUNDAY (for us this year, April 20th)–which coincides with RESURRECTION SUNDAY–hence the Lord Jesus gathering the FIRST FRUITS of all the OT saints waiting in the “Para...