Israel

September 21, 2008

  • BLUE AND WHITE ON WILSHIRE -THE RAISING OF THE ISRAELI FLAG

    Event Info

    Host:

    CONSULATE GENERAL OF ISRAEL

    Type:

    Causes - Rally

    Network:

    Global

    Time and Place

    Date:

    Sunday, September 28, 2008

    Time:

    12:30pm - 3:00pm

    Location:

    CONSULATE GENERAL OF ISRAEL

    Street:

    6380 WILSHIRE BLVD

    City/Town:

    Los Angeles, CA

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    Contact Info

    Phone:

    3238525544

    Email:

    PRESS@LOSANGELES.MFA.GOV.IL

    PLEASE JOIN THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF ISRAEL IN LOS ANGELES AS WE JOIN TOGETHER AS ONE COMMUNITY AS WE RAISE OUR BLUE AND WHITE FLAG OVER THE ISRAELI CONSULATE IN A SPECIAL EVENT WITH MACY GRAY, BOB SAGET, NOA TISHBY AND MUCH MORE. (…)

September 4, 2008

  • Rabbi Leah Kroll Makes Aliyah

    Tom Tugend writes:
    Rabbi Leah Kroll
    Rabbi Leah Kroll has been dreaming about living in Israel since she was a teenager at a Jewish summer camp in California, and now at 55, she has said goodbye to her mother, three adult children and one grandchild, boarded an El Al jet and made aliyah. (…)

August 3, 2008

  • South African Rabbi Says Israel Is Not An Apartheid State

    (IsraelNN.com) South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein has strongly defended Israel against charges that it practices Apartheid, which was the official policy of the separation of the black majority by the former white government in the country. (…)

July 25, 2008

  • San Francisco Premiere Of 'Praying In Her Own Voice'

    Producer Ravit Marcus emails: Our official Cal premiere is coming up at the San Francisco Jewish Film festival on Thursday at the Castro at 3:15pm and at the Roda Theater in Berkeley on Sunday August 3rd at 4pm followed by a panel discussion with Yael Katzir, Rabbi Lisa Edwards and Anat Hoffman. (…)

July 10, 2008

  • A Quiet Hero In Jerusalem

    David Suissa writes:
    Andrea, who is from New York, a single mother of six and has the energy of several rowdy kids, is bracing herself for a difficult few months ahead. (…)

  • Taking On The Charedim In Israel

    Gary Rosenblatt writes:
    Rabbi Benjamin (Benny) Lau does not look the part of a revolutionary. (…)

July 9, 2008

  • Chief Rabbi Shouldn't Serve As Rabbinic Judge

    From Haaretz:
    Attorney General Menachem Mazuz yesterday told the High Court of Justice that Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger should cease to serve as a dayan (rabbinic judge) on the Supreme Rabbinic Court. (…)

  • Plane Waits 90 Minutes For Tardy Rabbi

    From Haaretz:
    A group of ultra-Orthodox passengers delayed for about 90 minutes the takeoff of a scheduled El Al flight from Kiev to Ben-Gurion Airport last month because their rabbi was late in getting to the airport, according to a passenger on the flight. (…)

July 2, 2008

  • Prayer Rally for Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu

    (IsraelNN.com) A large prayer rally for the health of the Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu was held at the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem Monday. (…)

  • Conversion & Controversy In Israel

    Two Conservative Jews in Israel write for the Jerusalem Post:
    Over 1,000 people took part in a support rally for Rabbi Haim Druckman early last month. (…)

July 1, 2008

  • British Jews Celebrate Israel's 60th Anniversary

    LONDON (JTA)—With a pair of massive rallies for Israel held simultaneously in London’s Trafalgar Square and Manchester’s Heaton Park on Sunday, British Jewry may be signaling that its transformation is at hand. (…)

  • The Americanization Of Israel

    Rabbi Steve Pruzansky writes for Jewish Action (a magazine of the Orthodox Union):
    America has long served as the world’s cultural trendsetter. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Israel. (…)

June 30, 2008