Israel at 70
New Bible seeks to connect modern and ancient Israel
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JERUSALEM (RNS) — A new Hebrew-English Bible with a distinctly Israeli flavor will be published in honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary.
Religion News Service (https://religionnews.com/author/michele-chabin/)
JERUSALEM (RNS) — A new Hebrew-English Bible with a distinctly Israeli flavor will be published in honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary.
OSWIECIM, Poland (RNS) — This year a record 12,000 youths and adults from nearly 50 countries — one third of them non-Jews — took part in the march.
KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) — Swirling around Thursday’s annual march are questions about Poles’ willingness to grapple with some of their forebears’ participation in the Holocaust.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Mike Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Va., began receiving anti-Semitic messages in early 2017, when, for the first time, he started to speak publicly about being Jewish.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — How to deal with the problem was the challenge posed at a conference in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — An ethereal city graced with sunlight so bright it turns the white stone skyline gold at sunset, Jerusalem is also an earthbound city whose teachers must be paid and whose garbage must be collected.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — ‘If someone had told me 10 years ago this would happen, I’d have said a Jewish state would never send desperate refugees away to their deaths,’ said Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — ‘My father didn’t serve and neither did my nearly 100 cousins, not that I hold it against them,’ said one ultra-Orthodox soldier.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) — Artisans in and around Bethlehem specialize in carving wood from a tree that makes several appearances in the Bible. They consider the work — a millennium-old tradition — holy. But clashes between Israelis and Palestinians threaten this year’s Christmastime sales.
(RNS) — Hanukkah in the Holy Land gives Jews who have immigrated to Israel a sense of belonging they don’t feel anywhere else.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The president made the declaration despite world leaders’ warnings that the move would further incite an already volatile region and make it harder to restart peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
MOUNT GERIZIM (RNS) — Every Samaritan has both a Hebrew name and an Arabic name, and Samaritans are fluent in both languages — but not fully accepted by either Muslims or Jews, community members say.
JERUSALEM (RNS) – ‘No one living in Northern Ireland, South Africa or Bosnia-Herzegovina 30 or 40 years ago believed their conflicts would end, but they did,’ said Rabbi Ron Kronish.
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The court’s kashrut ruling comes at a time of mounting legal challenges to the ultra-Orthodox religious establishment’s control over everything from Jewish marriage and divorce to who is considered a Jew and who isn’t.
(RNS) — “The removal of artifacts from a country belongs to the imperial era and this should not be happening anymore,” said Gabriel Barkay, a renowned Israeli biblical archaeologist. “It dates to a time when archaeologists thought the nations where they excavated were primitive and saw themselves as the guardians of cultural treasures.”