Frum Rep. Resigns from ‘Anu’ Museum Over Scandalous Exhibit

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1 week ago

Frum Rep. Resigns from ‘Anu’ Museum Over Scandalous Exhibit

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In a dramatic development, the chareidi representative on the board of the Anu Museum of the Jewish People (formerly known as Beit Hatfutsot) has resigned in protest of the museum’s refusal to comply with Yad L’Achim’s demand that it remove an exhibit that normalizes intermarriage • Read More

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4 weeks ago

Boy Rescued from Tanzania Celebrates Bar Mitzvah

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A heroic rescue carried out six years ago by Yad L’Achim reached its epic milestone this week, when a Jewish boy raised as a Muslim in a far-off country celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in Israel • Read More, Photos

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1 month ago

Yad L’Achim Calls on IDF Chief to Stop Holding Events at Missionary Hall

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Yad L’Achim has called on the IDF Chief of Staff to stop holding military events at a conference hall in Yerushalayim that belongs to the Messianic Jews missionary sect • Read More

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2 months ago

The Man Who Turned Down NIS 300,000

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It isn’t every day that someone gives up a guaranteed profit of hundreds of thousands of shekels. But that’s just what Michael Strod did, wholeheartedly • Read More

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3 months ago

Eight Survivors of Arab Villages Mark Bar Mitzvah at Kosel

The place from which Kedushah never moves. The Bar Mitzvah boys, accompanied by Yad L’Achim’s Rabbi Yoav Robinson and Rabbi Chaim Kahn.

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Eight Bar Mitzvah boys stood side by side at the Kosel, celebrating their acceptance of mitzvos at the site from which holiness never leaves. Passersby might have assumed they were classmates celebrating their special day together, but the presence of Yad L’Achim activists at the scene helping the boys to adjust their Tefillin hinted at a much more dramatic story • Full Story

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4 months ago

Interfaith Marriage Framed as “Victory of Life” Sparks Outrage

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A major controversy erupted in recent days following comments made during a live broadcast by the military correspondent of the Israeli website mako, referring to his uncle, son of Holocaust survivors, who moved to Germany, married a local non-Jewish woman, and started a family • Read More