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Thinking Outside the Book: Shavuot & the Great Torah Download
Shavuot celebrates the day when God gave the Torah to the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai. But what is meant by the word "Torah"? Many people associate the word "Torah" with the Five books of Moses, but according to Jewish wisdom, the Torah and what was given at Mt. Sinai was much more than a book. ...
Read moreCapital of Israel: Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?
Israel designated Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, yet most countries maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv due to ongoing political debate with the Palestinians. This has given rise to an unprecedented situation whereby a sovereign state – Israel – is denied the diplomatic right to choose the location of its capital city....
Read moreJerusalem – In the Eye of the Universe!
: United with Israel is excited to share this powerful look at Jerusalem from the eyes and heart of singer/songwriter Dovid (David Green). The song entitled “Jerusalem – Eye of the Universe” is from his new inspirational album, “Journey to the Real You.” United with Israel has partnered with Dovid to try to share this ...
Read morePalestinians’ Fatah Honors Murderer of Young Israeli Father
It has always been Fatah policy to praise and support Palestinian terrorists. However, Fatah’s support for Palestinian terrorists reached an all-time low when merely 12 hours after 31-year-old Evyatar Borovsky was murdered, Fatah’s facebook page praised the terrorist who committed this heinous crime. According to a report by Palestinian Media Watch, the Fatah facebook page posted the picture of the Palestinian terrorist who performed this crime and declared, “A picture of the settler who was killed today at the Al-Za'atara military checkpoint, in south Nablus, by the hero, the released prisoner, Salam As'ad Al-Zaghal from Tulkarem. The Fatah facebook page also declared, “Peace upon you, on the day of your birth, on the day of your arrest, and on the day you will go free.”...
Read morePalestinian Terrorist Murders Father of Five Children
31-year-old Evyatar Borovsky, a resident of Yitzhar and father of five children, of whom the eldest was just seven years of age, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists. The terrorist, who was a resident of Tulkarm, arrived at the Tapuach Junction in Samaria with the express purpose of killing Jews. This represented the first stabbing terror attack where an Israeli was murdered since 2011. However, last January, a 17-year-old Israeli was stabbed yet was treated for moderate wounds at the very same hitch-hiking post. There have been at least four attempted attacks there during the past month alone. ...
Read moreIsraeli & Palestinian Universities Collaborate For Clean Water
The Technion, known as Israel’s MIT, is working along with Al Quds University, a Palestinian institution for higher learning in Abu Dis, in order to attempt to remove pharmaceutical residues from waste-water, an environmental problem that plagues both Israeli and Palestinian societies. Presently, whenever one takes any sort of medication, the residue of the medications get mixed up with the water supply whenever someone uses the bathroom. The re-used water then seeps into agricultural crops and adversely affects the environment. Both the Technion and Al Quds University are committed to collaborating to fix this health hazard that harms ecosystems within the Holy Land. ...
Read moreSpecial Event to Support Israel’s South!
United with Israel will be running a very special event on Sunday April 28, coinciding with the holiday of Lag B'Omer. This past November, over 1500 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israeli communities. With the help of supporters around the world, UWI has taken concrete steps to support and strengthen the residents of southern Israel. This Sunday, we are able to Support Israel's South by installing bomb shelters and planting fruit trees in southern Israel. ...
Read morePlant Fruit Trees in the Land of Israel!
Israel's New Year for Trees has begun! Join us in responding to 1500 Rockets fired from Gaza by planting 1500 Fruit Trees in southern Israel! We will soon see the beautiful Fruit Trees of Israel blossom into magnificent expressions of bounty and beauty. Please join our project to plant Fruit Trees in Israel. This year our trees will be planted in southern Israel- near towns that were hit with rockets of destruction. We will respond to the 1500 rockets fired during Operation Pillar of Defense by planting 1500 fruit trees in southern Israel!...
Read moreCelebrating Lag B’omer in Israel
Lag B’omer is a Jewish holiday celebrated on the third-day of the counting of the Omer in celebration of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and the revelation of the Zohar. Jews also commemorate the Bar Kokhba Revolt on this holiday as well. In Israel, every Lag B’omer, children gather around bonfires and do BBQs with their friends. In the days leading up to Lag B’omer, often one can find children looking for wood to use in their bonfires. Indeed, in Israel, Lag B’omer is very much a child-centered holiday. ...
Read moreUnderstanding Lag B’Omer
In Israel, months before the advent of the festival of Lag B’Omer -- the 33rd day of the Omer, the 49 days that bridge between Passover and Shavuot -- one can see youngsters dragging all types of combustibles, from fallen trees to broken chairs to old mattresses. Their destination? The nearest empty lot, where they pile their treasured possessions to impossible heights and wait with eager anticipation until the night of Lag B'Omer, arguably their favorite time of year, when they turn the piles into enormous conflagrations. Ask anyone what the bonfires are for, and you'll be told they are in celebration of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a great sage who lived and taught approximately half a century after the destruction of the second Temple....
Read moreThe Countdown from Passover to Shavuot (Pentecost)
We currently find ourselves in the “Sefirat Ha’omer” period: the fifty day period between the holiday of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot. Indeed, it has been said that Shavuot is the culmination of the Passover holiday, and that these fifty days are actually a continuation, of sorts, of Passover itself....
Read moreMahmoud Abbas Rewards Terrorists
Within the past month, Palestinian Media Watch has reported that Mahmoud Abbas has honored Issa Abd Rabbo, who brutally murdered two Israeli university students, Ron Levi and Revital Seri in 1984 while they were hiking south of Jerusalem. He had tied the two up at gunpoint, placed bags over their heads, and then proceeded to murder them in cold blood. Abd Rabbo is presently serving two life sentences for this horrific act of terrorism. Yet, this has not stopped Mahmoud Abbas, Israel’s supposed partner for peace, from exalting him. ...
Read moreIsraeli Company Helps Address World’s Water Crisis
Access to fresh clean drinking water is one of the world’s greatest environmental issues. The United Nations claims that 1.2 billion people, who consist of one fifth of the world population, live in areas of clean water scarcity. “About 97 percent of the world’s water is saltwater or polluted water,” says Shimmy Zimels, CEO of Jerusalem-based SunDwater. This situation forces many countries to drill expensive wells, buy bottled water, or even use contaminated water despite the health risks associated with drinking unclean water. Indeed, most of the people suffering from acute shortages in clean drinking water live in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ...
Read moreIsraeli Doctors Treat Victims of Boston Marathon Bombing
Many of the victims of the Boston Marathon twin bombing terror attack, which killed three people, one of them an eight-year-old boy, and injured 183 others, are being treated in Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard University. The Beth Israel Hospital was founded by Jewish American immigrants in 1916 and later on merged with Deaconess Hospital. Two of the most senior staff members of this particular hospital are Israeli citizens and both of them have played a critical role in attempting to heal the numerous trauma victims who survived the Boston Marathon Terror Attacks....
Read moreBerkeley Student Senate Votes to Divest from Israel
The Associated Students of the University of California Senate voted 11-9 to support divesting $14 million from Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard and Cement Roadstone Holding due to their support for the State of Israel and Jewish communities within Judea and Samaria. The debate was very heated and went on for eleven hours. The divestment resolution, titled “A Bill in Support of Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza,” labeled Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to being akin to anti-semitism, Islamophobia, and racism; compared Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria to apartheid, foreign occupation, and colonialism; and claimed funding Israel’s security apparatus to be akin to supporting Palestinian terror groups. In the resolution, Israel was compared to the apartheid regime in South Africa and the Sudanese regime. ...
Read moreIsrael is the Second Most Educated Country in the World
A report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has ranked Israel as the second most educated country in the world. The only country ranked as more educated than Israel is Canada. Other countries ranked within the top ten-list are Japan, the United States, New Zealand, South Korea, Norway, the UK, Australia, and Finland. According to 24/7 Wall Street, which analyzed the OECD report, “Israel only joined the OECD in 2010. That year, its GDP per capita was more than $7,000 below the OECD’s average. Despite this, the country’s high school graduation rate was 92% in 2010, well above the OECD’s 84% average.” ...
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