Ashkenazi

Who does Israel belong to? Why Bennett’s model matters now - opinion

From public policy to bomb shelters, Israel faces a test of unity, fairness, and responsibility that will shape its future as a nation.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
THE EMPTY chair: Thomas Chippendale chair, c. 1772, mahogany, covered in modern red Moroccan leather, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

'Inspirational Reflections for the Seder Night': A Haggadah for empty chairs at the table - review

Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee speak in a Feb. 19, 2026, interview filmed at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel and released by Carlson online.

Tucker Carlson pushes DNA tests for Jews: the ‘Khazar’ theory that antisemites can’t shake

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Hinenu at 10 million: 100 lives that tell Israel’s real story


Israel: A Jewish, democratic and secure state - opinion

A potential new Zionist vision for the four camps (Right, NNC, Center and Left).

 AN IDF SOLDIER posted near the Syrian border bears a message of responsibility on his uniform. The desire and thirst for security is as much part of the Israeli DNA as the Jewish and democratic pillars.

Israeli singer to crowd: 'You're all Ashkenazis...there's not a single riff-raff'

"You are a great audience, such an audience I want. You are all Ashkenazis who sing beautifully, there is not a single riff-raff."

Shlomo Gronich

Everything you need to know about kitniyot - opinion

Ashkenazi Jews have a custom of not eating legumes on Passover.

 SHOPPERS STOCKING up at a Jerusalem supermarket before the Passover holiday.

Ukrainian-style Passover Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

Make some in solidarity with the Jews who were forced to flee their homes during this year’s Russia-Ukraine war.

 Stuffed cabbage is popular in Ukraine and is known as holubtsi, which literally translates as "little pigeons".

Israeli education must include Mizrahi history, culture - opinion

While the culture and history of European Jewry is taught and imparted in Israel’s education system, that of Mizrahi Jewry is not.

 CHILDREN put on a presentation at a Jewish school in Benghazi, Libya, in 1944.

Pascale's Kitchen: Not just gefilte fish

These dishes were adapted to the kosher Ashkenazi kitchen, with recipes that were passed down from one generation to the next – just as was done with recipes in Sephardi communities. 

 Challah and cholent.

Baba Sali's hilula: Greatly subdued due to COVID-19

The Baba Sali’s white-domed neo-Moorish mausoleum, located in a park and palm forest developed by the Jewish National Fund, is a magnet for some 800,000 visitors annually.

ATTENDING THE hilula of the Baba Sali at his tomb complex in Netivot, January 6.

Jews are not white: Race and identity in Israel and the US - Opinion

If Israeli Jews are white, then who are the people of color that these “white Jews” must be oppressing through their white supremacy? The Palestinians, of course.

 To be white these days “is a kind of slander.”

Victoria to be first Australian state to prohibit Nazi symbols

Legislation to prohibit hateful symbols is expected to be passed in early 2022. 

Antisemitic graffiti on an Australian Jewish cafe (illustrative)

Breakthrough treatment for Tay-Sachs shows positive results, study finds

Tay-Sachs is an inherited disorder that is almost always fatal and disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jews. Currently, there is no viable medical treatment available.

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