The machlokes between the Bayit Yehudi party and the Ichud Leumi faction appears to be widening, and currently it does appear they will split and run independent of one another in the next Knesset ...

Likud might be the go-to political party for Israel’s right-wing, but in fact, it is Bayit Yehudi and its new face with Naftali Bennett, which best protect and represent Israel’s Zionist electorate.

The most significant political challenge facing the Jewish State is leadership. Currently, there are few Israelis who are capable of motivating or organizing a significant number of people to achieve ...

June is a month filled with end-of-school-year events and graduation ceremonies. In Israel, most 18-year-old high school graduates, after saying their farewells to their high school friends, often ...

Friday 22 April is the centenary of Yehudi Menuhin’s birth. His biographer has compiled for us a list of 100 facts about the great musician and his musical legacy. 1. Yehudi Menuhin, born in New York ...

THERE is a photograph of Yehudi Menuhin, aged 11, but looking younger, poised shyly with a violin that looks far too big for him. This was the tot about to take the stage in New York's Carnegie Hall ...

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A Tel Aviv court affirmed on Wednesday evening the municipality’s right to revoke a permit that it had given to a controversial Jewish Orthodox group to hold Sukkot and Simhat Torah events on public ...

Once again Rosh Yeshiva Porat Yosef Rabbi Shalom Cohen Shlita, a member of Shas’ Moetzas Gedolei Hatorah is in the news. Rabbi Cohen has now stated that anyone who voted for the Bayit Yehudi party ...

How did we get from Yehudi to Jew? Originally, the word referred to a member of the tribe of Judah; later, someone from the kingdom of Judah, but in the late books of the Bible, the word takes on the ...

One hundred years ago, a musician was born who took the world by storm, both with his violin and with his warmhearted humanity. Yehudi Menuhin was born April 22, 1916, in the Bronx to Russian ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds. By Joshua Barone ...