Terror Victim Ari Fuld Laid to Rest in Kfar Etzion
Thousands of people gathered at the Kfar Etzion cemetery just before midnight on Sunday to eulogize and lay to rest Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four living in...
The Great Ari Kahn
By Avrumie Kahn
In Mishlei, Shlomo HaMelech (30:30) states, “The lion is the mightiest of the beasts, who is undaunted by anyone.” This pasuk, in describing a lion’s might, only...
Best-Selling Novelist Judith Krantz Dies at 91
(JTA) — Best-selling novelist Judith Krantz, whose first novel “Scruples” was published the year she turned 50, has died.
Krantz died on Saturday at her home in Bel Air, California,...
Eulogy for Rabbi Moshe Gottesman, zt’l
By Rabbi Jonathan Muskat
Rav, Young Israel of Oceanside
The following is the eulogy I delivered December 4 at the funeral.
We are here to mourn the passing of Rav Moshe Gottesman,...
Holocaust Scholar Randolph Louis Braham Dies at 95
(JTA) — Randolph Louis Braham, a two-time Jewish National Book Award winner for works on the Holocaust in Hungary and a founding member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, has...
Jewish-American Among 21 Victims of Nairobi Terrorist Attack
BY RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — Jason Spindler, a Jewish American whose life was changed when he survived the 9/11 attack in New York, was killed in a terrorist attack in...
The Legacy of HaRav Chanina Herzberg, zt’l
HaRav Chanina Herzberg was niftar on motzaei Shabbos, December 15. He was the Menahel of Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore for nearly 40 years.
Growing up in East New...
World Leaders Reflect on Passing of Nechama Rivlin
Nechama Rivlin, who passed away on June 4 at the age of 73, just one day before her 74th birthday, led a quiet life by the side of her...
French Pilot on Flight Hijacked to Entebbe Dies at 95
Michel Bacos, the Air France pilot who, along with his crew, stayed with Israeli and Jewish hostages during the July 1976 hijacking that diverted the plane to Uganda’s Entebbe...
William Goldman, who wrote ‘Princess Bride’ and ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ dies...
(JTA) — William Goldman, a novelist and screenwriter who twice won the Oscars for his work on “All the President’s Men” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” died...
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Mike Sweetney: Life On The Rebound
By Dov Lipman
Mike Sweetney had it all.
Named the best high-school basketball player in the Washington, DC area in 2000, he then joined the list...
Halachic Musings: The Three Weeks
Although the Three Weeks and the other two fasts are a period of mourning and introspection, the Navi Zechariah tells us (Zechariah 8:19) that,...
Ambassador: Israel Will Allow U.S. Reps. Omar, Tlaib to Visit
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer said the Jewish state will admit U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) “out...