BREAKING NEWS: At 7:00 PM Israeli Time, four consecutive rockets hit a nine-story-building in the city of Ashdod. For those of you who are not aware, Ashdod is a large shipping city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, is close to Gaza and, for those reasons, is the target for many rocket strikes. It [ Read More...]

Gilad Shalit deal sparks joy among Israelis

Recent pictures from the Mayerson JCC’s Classic TV Dinner & Boomers event!

Coming Out in a Jewish High School

Inside Israel with Ari Kirsh

Monday was the first major security scare for Jerusalem Year Course.  There was a reported terrorist on the loose stabbing victims, and the police force raised the security threat in the city to high.  As a result, Year Coursers were called back from their activities using our mass-text security measures and told to stay on [ Read More...]

Dear Avi and Adele: How can I select the best photos for my online profile on jdate.com? -Cute Punim Dear Cute Punim: All the online dating sites will tell you that photo quality impacts the responses that you get, and we have to agree. Here are a few easy steps you can take to get [ Read More...]

Few biblical stories capture our imagination as the story of Noah: the story of the flood and its end with the “rainbow promise” of no more water destruction of life on earth; the building of the massive ark; the renewal of the covenant; and, of course, the menagerie of animals, pair by pair, that takes us back to [ Read More...]

By Danielle Fleischman Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — In her final months as a political science major at the University of Pittsburgh, Susanna Zlotnikov had a positive outlook about landing a job. But as the months passed and her network of contacts led only to dead ends, Zlotnikov decided she needed a backup. [ Read More...]

Wise Temple continued its major contribution of food to the Free Store/Food Bank of Cincinnati, bringing 17,002 pounds of food this past Yom Kippur, an offering sufficient to completely feed over 4,858 people for a full day. Wise Temple has offered over 615,000 pounds of food for the city’s hungry and poor since the inception [ Read More...]