Ronen Nachmani, 41, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2015. His daughter Ariella appealed to US President Donald Trump for help, saying she did not know what would happen to her and her siblings if her father remained behind bars.
New olim are greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cite deteriorating economic situation and a prevalence of anti-Semitism as motivation for moving to the Jewish state.
The online dating site started in 2001 as Frumster, geared to Orthodox couples, but was renamed in 2012 when it expanded to the broader Jewish community. The website's staff will select the best stories to be entered in a raffle for two round-trips, economy class plane tickets to Israel of up to $2,000 value.
Anne Neuberger, 43, is from the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park, where she attended Bais Yaakov day school for girls. She is a graduate of Columbia University.
Inscription, dating back to 1796, appears on table from which the Torah was read to congregants for about 200 years until the burning of the synagogue in the Holocaust and its final destruction by the Soviets 70 years ago.
Co-author Sen. Jacky Rosen: 'Never again' means never forgetting those who survived the horrors of the Holocaust. This bill will ensure survivors are not left behind.
Ahead of widespread immigration raids in US, American-Israeli actress says she "shudder[s] at the thought of a young girl hiding somewhere in my own country, afraid to turn on her light or make a noise or play outside lest she get rounded up by our government."
"When anti-Semitism and religious extremism rise, the whole world becomes a darker and more dangerous place," Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz tells Washington conference on religious freedom. “Religion should unify us – not divide us. It is my hope that this will be the true role of religion in our region and the worlds.”
On Thursday, the Argentine government branded Hezbollah, the group believed to be behind the attack, a terrorist organization. Still, some Jewish Argentinians say they feel betrayed by the failure to bring the terrorists to justice.
Move will see Berlin pay survivors some $420 million in reparations. Social equality minister: Recognition will not bring back those we have lost but can significantly improve thousands of survivors' lives.
