For the prominent rabbi I met last Friday night, who according to his words is awaiting a sign...

A Lesson For the Children - Our story begins in 5708 (1948), in the days before the State of Israel was established. Shots were heard on the quiet Tel Aviv street. Two men were hurt, and the other people ran in all directions...

Land of My Birth - David Ben-Gurion, who was not only Prime Minister but also Defense Minister, felt that it was important to show Israel's strength in military parades. Even in the midst of the War of Independence, only two and a half months after the State of Israel was established, he organized the first parade...

Land of My Birth - The bloody War of Independence had ended one month before and for the first time, Pesach, the holiday of freedom, was to be celebrated in the State of Israel...

A Lesson For the Children - Now that I have converted to Islam I can tell the truth. It is a very tightly kept secret among the Jewish leaders of this generation that the blood of a Gentile must be mixed into the dough of the matzot...

Aside from the number four, one would be hard pressed to find a connection between the four sons of the Haggadah and the four species which have only one kosher characteristic. However, there is a great lesson to be learned from them...

Did you ever try to imagine what King David looked like? I see the stereotype almost every day...

A Lesson For the Children - It all started one winter day in the city of Damascus about 160 years ago. An Italian monk, Badro Thomaso, came to the Jewish market to post a notice about selling something. And from that point the mystery began...