Magen David Adom ambulances are seen lined up and waiting in Sderot as Hamas continued to bombard the town with Kassam rockets fired from Gaza, May 19, 2007. While Chabad is seizing on the growth in e-philanthropy to help Sderot, other Jewish charities... 

The new Palestinian Authority prime minister warned preachers to stop inciting to violence. Salam Fayyad, a former finance minister who is well regarded by Israel and the West, met Thursday with 800 clergymen. He told the preachers he would not allow... 

Newly instated British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed the Jewish son of Holocaust refugees and a critic of Israel to be foreign secretary. Brown’s decision to replace Margaret Beckett with David Miliband came just weeks after Beckett’s... 

President Bush banned travel to the United States for Syrian and Lebanese individuals deemed to support terrorism or the undermining of Lebanon’s government. Banned individuals include those “who deliberately undermine or harm Lebanon’s... 

Farfur, the terrorist mouse with a bow tie, is dead. The Hamas affiliated television station that produced the children’s show featuring Farfur, who urged Palestinian children to conquer Israel, broadcast the final episode on Friday. An actor portraying... 

U.S. Senate appropriators proposed removing a longstanding provision barring official U.S. dealings with Palestinians in Jerusalem. The version of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill approved this week by the Senate appropriations committee removes... 

Israeli President Moshe Katzav resigned. Katzav submitted his resignation letter on Friday. It will take effect Sunday. Katzav’s resignation is pat of a deal in which he prosecution dropped rape charges in exchange for a suspended sentence for... 

“KOSHER FOODSâ€? As in all things in life we are taught by our mothers the proper way to do things and then we pass it down to our children. The more important the rule usually the stricter it will be kept. I know that our reasoning over the years also... 

The issuance of an Orthodox Kosher Certification is very important to Jewish people because some of the strictest will not eat food unless the foods were certified. Many Jewish people will not eat in a restaurant unless they have the Orthodox Kosher... 

For thousands of young, unaffiliated Jews, joining a synagogue is not on their to-do list. Some nix the notion of being part of organized Jewry for practical reasons – shul membership fees for fresh-out-of-college kids with loans to pay back and...