Moshe Kempinski In the Torah portion of “Acharei Mot” (Leviticus 16:1-18-30) we read the following regarding Yom Kippur: For on this day it shall atone (Yechaper) for you to cleanse (LeTaher) you. Before HaShem, you shall be cleansed from all your sins. It is a shabbat of solemn rest unto you, and you shall afflict … Read more
Rabbi Chanan Morisson What is the significance of the various blasts of the shofar? The shofar is a wake-up call, stirring us to mend our ways and do teshuvah. As Maimonides wrote in the Mishneh Torah, the shofar calls out to us: “Sleepers, wake up from your slumber! Examine your ways and repent and remember … Read more
Prof. Louis René Beres, 28/09/16 06:43 Special to Israel National News: Oslo’s still conspicuous failures must be noted and addressed. If anyone had thought that the core premises of Oslo might still be valid, and that there was still room for a meaningful “Two-State Solution,” Mahmoud Abbas recently offered a sobering response. According to the … Read more
by Moshe Kempinski We are entering into the “Days of Awe”, the time of judgment and repentance. We approach these days with anticipation mixed with fear and trembling. The Torah calls the first days of the new year, Yom Teruah, the day of the call of the shofar; “The first day of the seventh month … Read more
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Yisrael Kristal is turning 113 years old. Mazel tov! Most boys celebrate their bar mitzvah when they turn 13. Yisrael Kristal, the world’s oldest man, plans to celebrate the day he became a bar mitzvah a century late, when he turns 113. Over a hundred friends and relatives plan to … Read more
Yoram Ettinger“Israel Hayom,” The July 2015 nuclear agreement with the Ayatollahs of Iran is perceived by the USA as a binding, strategic agreement of peaceful coexistence with Iran. In contrast, the Ayatollahs view it as a tenuous, tactical agreement, advancing an offensive strategy against “the arrogant, infidel American Great Satan,” to be abrogated as is … Read more
Moshe Kempinski We read in the beginning of the Torah Portion of Ki Tavo the following; “And it will be, when you come into the land which Hashem, your G-d, gives you for an inheritance, and you possess it and settle in it, that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of … Read more
Tablet Mag Arms-control agreements tie the earth-shattering drama of great power politics to a set of vague and highly technical obligations and tradeoffs, the larger significance of which can sometimes only be glimpsed in retrospect. Moreover, they’re meant to last in perpetuity: Just as the Non-Proliferation Treaty is intended to permanently halt the spread of … Read more
