The price of gas (95 Octane) in Israel is set by the government (the maximum price - gas stations can charge less if they so desire) and inc...

The Altalena was a ship off the cost of Israel bringing weapons for the War of Independence, immigrants and Irgun fighters. Menachem Begin w...

I just heard the following expression and thought it was very fitting for the current days we are experiencing.. " There are decades wh...

Back when I was a teenager I rememebr reading about a theory that Christopher Columbus was a Jew. The theory was that he was a Marrano and h...

Wow. What a find! Buried treasure, at least in historical value if not monetary value.  Construction workers working on a home renovation in...

Well, for good or for bad, history has just been made in Israel. And it might be made again in about an hour and a half or so. MK Mansour Ab...

Assuming the announcements made this afternoon stick and are not changed at the last minute, we are witnessing history being made. The new...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry earlier put out a call to Israelis to come home now or be stuck and Israel will be unable to save them should t...

The Vilna Gaon, Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, was born in 1720. To commemorate 300 years since his birth, the Bank of Lithuania is going to be ...

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According to a Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet Daily , a Turkish academic is claiming that Noah, of Great Flood fame, had a cellphone and used i...

The reversal of the Kotel agreement has led to a lot of anger, along with what seems to be shock and surprise. While criticism leveled at ...

If you are like me you have probably been wondering how much the glasses of the Hazon Ish sold for at auction. I checked back on the auctio...

I just discovered an online auction site for rare Judaica items that I had not heard of before. It is called Jerusalem of Gold and most of t...

We read a lot of stories from Jewish chaplains in the US army and how they served, and what they did, the Jewish soldiers they encountered, ...

The 29th of November is a historical date in Israel. Streets and monuments are named for this date. In 1947, on the 29th of November, the ...

The calendar of zmanim in Israel has a nice feature. It might be in others as well, I don't know, but I am referring specificially to th...

There is a story told of what has become the famous meeting between Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and the Chazon Ish, Rav Avraham Yeshaya ...