NEW YORK (JTA) — It was said to be a finding of groundbreaking scholarly and historic significance, comparable in importance to the 19th-century discovery of the Cairo Geniza and rivaling the Dead Sea Scrolls for sheer drama. More...
( Jewish Ideas Daily) — Suddenly, it seems, gender segregation is everywhere in Israel – buses, army bases, Jerusalem sidewalks, Beit Shemesh schoolyards and, above all, the front pages. What is going on here? More...
JERUSALEM(JTA) -- An Israeli film on the military's legal system in the West Bank was named the best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. More...
Jacob Rakovski, the rabbi for Israel's Hadassah Medical Organization for 50 years, died Jan. 14 in Jerusalem. He was a Jerusalem native and came from a family of rabbis. Rakovski's age was not given. More...
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