Video footage of Gilad Shalit’s release
Video footage of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit being released from captivity on Tuesday after five years.
Video footage of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit being released from captivity on Tuesday after five years.
Hundreds rallied in Mitzpe Hila on Thursday, to demand the government do more to secure the release of captive Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.
\”You can sign up and get books once a month just because you\’re a Jewish kid, or because you have a Jewish child. We want people to know that there are no strings attached,\” said Carol Koransky, executive director of the Jewish Federation Valley Alliance.
Last Sunday night in an amphitheatre outside Jerusalem, I had a flash of insight into how to get disaffected Jews excited and involved in Jewish life: Make it free!
What\’s more enticing than a free trip to Israel? A free trip to Israel tailor-made for your interests.
Heaven, paradise — choose a synonym: ecstasy, bliss, rapture. We use such words to describe experiences of perfect, supreme happiness, God on earth. The conditions on Sunday merited all such descriptions, especially that immaculately blue sky. Skies like that burn gloom away.
Birthright Israel has received many more applications for its upcoming trips than it has spaces available. Approximately 14,000 young Jews applied for 8,000 spots in the program\’s spring/summer trips this year in just the first 12 hours of registration Feb. 8.
Starting next year, Jewish Journal readers who received their weekly newspaper by donating to The Jewish Federation will still be able to get it, but not as part of their Federation donation.
Come to the Israeli Independence Day Festival on May 2,
10 a.m.-7 p.m. at Woodley Park (between Burbank Boulevard and Victory Boulevard adjacent to the 405).