Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris and the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, led a White House roundtable of government officials, rabbis, and leaders of advocacy groups on Dec. 7 to discuss the rise of antisemitism here and abroad. He was joined at the event by Susan Rice, President Biden’s domestic policy adviser; Deborah Lipstadt, a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism; Shelley Greenspan, the White House [...]

Roughly 2,200 years ago, somebody hid a wooden box in a cave in the Judean Desert.  The box, which contained 15 silver coins, moldered there until this year, when it was found by archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority. The find was made in Muraba’at Cave, now part of the Nahal Darga Nature Reserve by the Dead Sea (also known as the Wadi Daregah). The cave famously had sheltered Jews fleeing the Romans at the [...]

Netflix has announced that Season 4 of “Fauda,” the hit Israeli thriller, will debut on the platform on Jan. 20. “Fauda,” which means chaos, is an Israeli television series developed by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, drawing on their experiences in the Israel Defense Forces. The series premiered on Feb. 15, 2015. It tells the story of Doron, a commander in the Mista’arvim unit, and his team.

The President and first lady host a Hanukkah holiday reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House. At right is Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, survivor of the hostage standoff at a Colleyville, Texas, synagogue. AP Photo/Walsh

The WMO? What’s that? The WMO is the World Meteorological Organization, and it is this venerable group that assigns names to all the storms that occur in the Atlantic Basin in the coming year. As the 2022 storm season officially closed on Nov. 30, the WMO has lost not a second in stepping up to announce the names of the 2023 storms. As it is now officially 2023, The Shofar also is responding quickly and [...]

About 100 Ukrainian refugees made Aliyah in Israel during Hanukkah. “Even while these newest Israelis have had lives defined by pain and suffering for almost the entire past year, it is inspiring to see how they are so filled with hope,” said Yael Eksteen, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, one of the groups that helped organize the flight.   RNS photo