Eliezer Jaffe

As anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment gain momentum worldwide and many performers continue to boycott the nation, one artist is bringing a…

EVEN THOUGH much of the country’s fashion output is made in China, the creativity behind the garments is inspired and trained here at schools like…

NOTHING LASTS forever, including those pre-state business establishments that somehow managed to keep going when so many other city center businesses…

Whether it was a major diplomatic slight or a minor one overblown by media coverage, what happened to Representative William Delahunt in a…

When Eric Aiken, 47, a caterer in Florida for many years, decided to make aliya with his family, he began to look for a new way to help the country.…

A 35-year-old woman who was infected with H1N1 flu virus and also suffered from chronic illness died Wednesday morning at Hillel Jaffe Medical Center…

WHEN HE was last in Israel five years ago, Arnold Schwartzenegger, governor of the State of California, came to Jerusalem for the ground-breaking…

Earlier this year, new olim Leah Goldman and her husband were awaiting the birth of their first child to be born in Jerusalem. "I was released from…

IN ORTHODOX circles, the nameYitzhak Meir Helfgot is as iconic as that of any great opera singer or pop star in the secular world. A Ger Hassid with…

WHOOPS! WE goofed by being a week ahead of ourselves. Apologies to those readers who braved the heat last Shabbat to walk to the Great Synagogue for…

TEL AVIV is Israel's public relations and advertising capital. It boasts more PR and advertising agencies than the sum total of such agencies in the…

FOR YEARS now, the Hebrew tabloids have almost unfailingly dug dirt up on the Netanyahu family with regard to anything that might be remotely…

During Pessah, thousands of Diaspora Jews flocked to Israel to observe the holiday with relative ease and simply soak up the sun, but on Monday a…

"If you are considering the coming year, plant wheat. If you are considering the coming years, plant a tree! Border Police Rabin Base Commander…

EVER SINCE the fatal crash on February 1, 2003, of the US space shuttle Columbia, whose crew included Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, there has been a…

n WHEN ISRAEL is in trouble or appears to be in trouble, world Jewry not only sits up and takes notice but its leaders come to Israel to see the…

Nachman Shai became a household name here when he soothed the nation's frazzled nerves during the first Gulf War in 1991. As Iraqi scuds began to…

PRIME MINISTER designate Tzipi Livni, it is said, does not like being compared to Golda Meir, the first female prime minister of Israel. Sometimes…

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, is an auspicious date not only for the contestants in the Kadima primaries, but also for culture activist Claude Brightman,…

Jewish American songs for Shabbat, the High Holy Days and Jerusalem play in the background as one waits for the phone to be picked up at the…