Holiday Fun in Judea, Samaria for the Family on Sukkot
There are many options for families who are looking for things to do in Israel during the week of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
There are many options for families who are looking for things to do in Israel during the week of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.


The Priestly Blessing, chanted by thousands of male descendants of High Priest Aaron, delivered Wednesday from the Western Wall.

A teenage boy who went missing in Brooklyn after Yom Kippur has been found alive and healthy, according to New York City police.

Can you imagine what the Islamists, were they able to defeat Israel in battle, would do to Jews on the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv?
An American-Jewish contractor who is imprisoned in Cuba is being denied requests for release despite being diagnosed with cancer

“All of us would prefer to get rid of Ahmadinejad, the modern Haman, without war,” President Peres told Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his Sukkah.

Police ignored threats by Arabs to butcher Jews ascending the Temple Mount but arrested an Arab for trying to stab a police officer.

The first Torah scroll for the Dimona nuclear reactor is being dedicated Tuesday, along with a new synagogue, replacing a bomb shelter.

A swastika was found spray-painted Monday in a New York suburb, near the home of a Jewish activist whose parents survived the Holocaust.

Amazon's Dachau concentration camp puzzle has raised eyebrows - and ire - among many

A new book has been released about the Goering brothers. One a Nazi leader, the other a rescuer of Jewish victims from the Holocaust.

An unidentified rabbi and a Jew from Arab countries have completed a secret mission to bring wine and the”four species” to the Diaspora.

Police searching for 17-year-old Tzvi Hersh Stolzenberg, a Brooklyn resident who has been missing since Wednesday night.

Flight delays left a group of visitors from Pennsylvania stuck in Ben Gurion airport for the Sabbath.

Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires is disappointed over talks between Argentina and Iran about 1994 attack on a Jewish center.

Associated Press and Reuters both featured 'Nazi salute' photos of Binyamin Netanyahu's U.N. speech.

Rabbi Yaakov Shapira: His way of combining Torah with love of the land and its people thrives; his legacy lives on in his many followers.

A Jewish community center was bombed in Malmo, Sweden, continuing an ongoing wave of anti-Semitic hate in the city.
Three convicted of planning to murder Jewish teachers in Iran-linked plot.

A bipartisan group of Unites States senators wrote a letter to Cuban President Raul Castro, urging him to release Alan Gross.

A tolerance organization has released a 30 minute video this week showing anti-Semitic faculty activity at Northeastern University.

A new proposed German law is set to approve ritual circumcision, hopefully ending the threat to the custom practiced by Jews and Muslims.

Yeshiva High School students fulfilled a special task during summer vacation - completing a cycle of Daf Yomi Talmud study.

An Egyptian-American anti-Israel activist was arrested for vandalizing a pro-Israel billboard on NYC’s Times Square subway station.

26 headstones broken at Jewish cemetery in the village of Prudice in southwestern Czech Republic.

Israel will defeat Iran, with or without the US, says Chief Rabbi Metzger, who asks Jews to focus on good relations with others.

The most solemn day of the year begins Tuesday eve. A time to pray, to think about who we are and where we are going. Chatima Tova.

Police in Bangor are investigating reports of anti-Semitic graffiti that were found spray-painted on two synagogues.

Germany has opened a war crimes investigation against Johann “Hans” Breyer, a former Nazi camp guard who has been living in US for 60 years

As Jewish people around the world prepare for Yom Kippur, Arutz Sheva brings you some tips on how to prepare for the 25-hour fast.

Tens of thousands take part in the last Selichot prayers before Yom Kippur at the Kotel (Western Wall).

Poems, love letters and works of fiction written by Joseph Goebbels before he became Hitler's propaganda chief went on sale this week.

The wife of imprisoned former Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard says a report her husband will be granted clemency is simply an “idle rumor.”

The Yom Kippur fast day Wednesday will be accompanied by relatively comfortable weather in most of the world but much warmer in Israel.

For the first time in 17 years, UJA-Federation of New York has added a new organization to its network, representing Russian-speaking Jewry.

The military releases a gripping video of an IDF Cantor’s recital of the “U-Netaneh Tokef” prayer with background of soldiers in battle.

Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi is announcing prayer times by SMS to encourage Jews to attend synagogue on Yom Kippur.

A Canadian diamond firm says it has designed a diamond that that can be cut to show the six-pointed Star of David.

Pikuach Nefesh rabbis happy with Mitt Romney's "sober" view regarding conceding land to the Arabs.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls dismisses Marine Le Pen's call for a ban on Jewish kippa, as European Jewish groups register strong protest.

Jews worldwide will simultaneously be part of a unique worldwide Jewish Prayer for Peace and Moshiach at 5 pm Sunday, 11 am EDT.

Selichot community prayer event in Hevron aims at uniting Jewish people from all over the country

Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim, known as "Doctor Death", has officially been pronounced dead.

A restaurant on New York's Upper West Side was defaced by vandals, who scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls.

Why is a retired lawyer traipsing around trails and talking about Holocaust survivors? If it's Ethan Bensinger, he's promoting his new film.

The Kletzky family received some good news this week: On Friday morning, a healthy daughter was born to the family.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen: If the Muslim veil is banned, the kippah is banned in public as well.

Almost 70 years after first deportations of French Jews to Auschwitz, memorial to open in the suburbs of Paris.

The first ever conference on the impact and patterns of the Jewish vote will be held on September 23, at Fordham University, New York.

A new pro-Israel advertisement is set to make its debut on New York City's subway system next week.

MK Danon: Extremists who murdered U.S. ambassador trying to attack Jews worldwide. Knesset to discuss Sarcelles firebombing.

Two unknown attackers hurled firebombs (Molotov cocktails) at a Jewish supermarket in Sarcelles, near Paris, France on Wednesday.

A Rosh Hashannah greeting card from the Meir Panim foundations carries a double meaning – a greeting plus a shopping debit card.

A group of rabbis have devised a new e-mail alert service aimed at reminding people to keep their Rosh Hashannah resolutions.

A husband and wife who were returning home from synagogue in East Brunswick this past Shabbat, were struck by a car and killed.

In a Rosh Hashannah greeting to Russian Jews, President Vladimir Putin praised the holiday and the values of Judaism.

Israeli couple weds in Uman, Ukraine, the first time that a wedding takes place at the tomb of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.

Rabbanit Tzvia Eliyahu asks Jews around the world to say a prayer for Jonathan Pollard during Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashannah often is mistakenly considered the birthday of the Creation of the world, which actually started six days earlier.

"Repentance, prayer and charity will avert evil decrees" and bring each of us closer to what G-d intended for man to be. Shana Tova to all.
