Daber: in Hebrew, to speak. Daberu: Japanese for chatting. Goi: a non-Hebrew or foreigner. Gai'Jeen: prefix for a foreigner, a non-Japanese. Kor: cold in Hebrew. Koru ...

Israel’s founding father David Ben-Gurion famously conceived of the country as a melting pot. But seven decades later, in 2015, Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, described it as a society divided ...

Only as a “kingdom of priests and holy nation” that reveals HaShem’s Oneness over all spheres of life can Israel fully express His Ideal and lead mankind to experience a world of total blessing. “All ...

This is my 27 th consecutive post connecting the parasha to Israel’s pro-democracy protests. In this week’s double parasha, Matot-Masei, the Israelites finally reach the Promised Land, but two tribes, ...

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FILE - In this file photo taken Sunday, June 7, 2009, Ben Ammi Ben Israel, the spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, is greeted by the crowd during festivities marking the ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary river ...