Central ceremony at Military Synagogue at Har Herzl mark 38 years since the war that claimed 2,689 Israeli lives. Gil Ronen In dozens of cemeteries throughout Israel, ceremonies are being held Sunday for the fallen soldiers of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The central memorial ceremony took place at the Military Synagogue at Har Herzl, [...]

On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the holiest day on the Jewish religious calendar, Egypt and Syria took advantage of optimal circumstances to launch attacks that took Israel by surprise. So complete was the element of surprise that when war erupted, Israel was only beginning to mobilize the reserve forces which [...]

Unique exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem presents the Shofar as a witness to the history of the Jewish people Gavriel Queenann & Yoni K. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Arutz Sheva visited the “Sound of the Shofar” exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. Throughout Jewish history the Shofar has [...]

Ten years ago today, I was desperately yanking hunks of concrete from the remnants of the World Trade Center. But no one was left to save. Hana Levi Julian, LCSW-R “Can you handle it if I send you the link to the new video clip of Ground Zero?” My colleague wasn’t being kind last Thursday [...]

By: Prof. Livia Bitton Jackson Whenever I drive to Jerusalem and pass Wingate Institute, a few miles south of Netanya, the name Alice Ivy Hay pops into my mind. She is one of those rare women who was famous as a mother-in-law. Although a noted author, singer and pianist, her major claim to fame was [...]

By: Dr. Rafael Medoff The abandonment of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust has been well documented. But in recent years historians increasingly have turned their attention to the actions of the Roosevelt administration during the 1930s, before the genocide began. What could have been done while the Six Million were still alive? This compelling question [...]

The City of David gives visitors a tour of Jerusalem’s history starting from finds from the days of King David. Elad Benari The story of the City of David began about 3,000 years ago when King David decided to leave Hevron and move to Jerusalem in order to unite the people of Israel around one [...]

By: Steven Plaut Jews have long been accused of studying anti-Christian texts supposedly contained in the Talmud. Such allegations have been made for so many centuries that even some civilized and fair-minded individuals accept them at face value. Needless to say, the allegations are the staple fare of anti-Semitic organizations and websites. And it was [...]

By Dean Malik First they invaded; five Arab armies, from Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq all descended. Israel was a state newly formed of a small core of native Sabras from the first five Aliyas along with the battered survivors of the Holocaust and a small cadre of American and British WWII [...]

Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought,” Based on Jewish Sages 1. The Ninth Day of Av is the most calamitous day in Jewish history. Fasting on Tisha’ Be’Av commemorates catastrophic national destructions and the moral causes for the destruction. It was first mentioned in the book of Zechariah 7:3. 2. Major Jewish calamities occurred on the Ninth [...]