To be called Ararat, a tract of land on nearby Grand Island that was intended in 1825 to be the first autonomous Jewish ...

“I will,” I replied, surprised by the request from the head of the Catholic Church to the ambassador of the Jewish State. The meeting was held in the Sala Regia, one of the most beautiful in ...

Specially produced beautiful and deeply poignant official postcards were issued for all of the pre-Israel Zionist Congresses (all Congresses after 1948 were held in Jerusalem).

That desire undermined the essential truth of Jewish identity: We are not like other nations ... is holy ground. We fight for justice here not just because it is right, but because this land ...

For most of Francis’ papacy, ties between Israel and the Vatican steadily improved — highlighted by a visit to the Holy Land in 2014 ... quiet diplomacy to save Jewish lives.

UPPER GALILEE, northern Israel — Standing at her ... the British felt the “Holy River Jordan” belonged in the Holy Land, as Biger put it. Those with a military bent also recognized the ...

The story of Moroccan Jews on Victory Day over Nazi Germany, as described by Rabbi Yosef Mashach, zt"l, is a testament to the ...

For those of us who value the Jewish tradition and Torah values, we live in a generation where we have true role models and heroes in our midst. If we were not blinded by an ever-growing wall of ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Most major nations will be sending heads ... Francis, who visited the Holy Land in 2014, suggested last November that the global community should study whether Israel's ...

However, many of those issues — among them the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, climate change and immigration — also put Francis on ...