Efrat israel
Israeli community builds world's only mechanical-divide swimming pool
“I love the new Efrat pool, and I am extremely grateful every day. I feel like I should make a blessing every time I go swimming.”
This high school’s library is now a memorial to 25 fallen alumni in Efrat
Aliyah continues to be a driving force behind Israeli communities - opinion
Efrat Council head: We're creating sovereignty 'on the ground' without waiting for declarations
Middle Israel: Who’s afraid of Rabbi Riskin?
By unleashing his clerics on one of Modern Orthodoxy’s icons, Arye Deri has picked a fight he cannot win, and the Chief Rabbinate might not endure.
Rabbi Riskin – until 120
Age is a number, no more and no less.
Chief Rabbinate throws doubt on Riskin's continued tenure
Riskin to Post: My position on conversion should not be cause for deliberating as to whether I continue.
Une révolution en marche
Le monde religieux est le théâtre d’une évolution significative : pour la première fois en Israël, une femme devient leader spirituel
The truth about Gush Etzion
Tens of thousands of Jews, if not more, had lived in the area before even one Palestinian ever set foot in Gush Etzion, among them the famous Bar Kokhba.
Orthodox woman appointed to serve as communal spiritual leader in Efrat
Efrat’s municpal chief rabbi Shlomo Riskin selects Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld in what is perhaps the first appointment of its kind in Israel in the Orthodox world.
Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech: The inner divinity
The Hebrew word for life, hayyim, is a plural noun; the “soul of life” is the God who resides within each of us, the essence of our personalities to whom we must return.
A legal right and a moral imperative
Israel holds legal title to all land that is not privately owned in Judea and Samaria.
UN chief Ban condemns Israeli appropriation of West Bank land
"The seizure of such a large swathe of land risks paving the way for further settlement activity, which – as the United Nations has reiterated on many occasions – is illegal," UN chief says.
Parshat Masei: Destiny vs destination
‘You shall inherit the land [or chase away the inhabitants of] and dwell in it, because it is to you that I have given this land to inherit it’ (Numbers 33:53).
