Yaakov Ort

JERUSALEM—In the deadliest incident since the start of the war in Gaza, 21 Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed on Monday, Jan. 23, when a building collapsed on top of them due to a massive explosion after rocket-propelled-grenade missiles fired by ...

Growing up in the upwardly mobile Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., award-winning photographer Marc Asnin says he was always a “loud and proud Jew” with a big heart and a deep concern for the underdog and the bullied—the kinds of people who h...

JERUSALEM—A 79-year-old woman was murdered and 17 people were injured in car-ramming and stabbing attacks by two terrorists as the school day was ending in the affluent central Israel city of Ra’anana. Three people, including a 16-year old boy, were hospi...

This year marks the 74th anniversary of the passing in 1950 of the Sixth Rebbe—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory—and the day leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement passed on to his illustrious son-in-law, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem...

Rabbi Yitzchak Vorst, a child survivor of the Holocaust who went on to become the founding Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in the Netherlands and influence Dutch Jewry through his writings, personal warmth and loving acceptance of everyone he met, passed away o...

JERUSALEM—Eighty one Israelis kidnapped by Hamas were released as of Thursday night in a wrenching, lop-sided exchange that saw Israel set free triple the amount of convicted Palestinian terrorists, before active combat resumed on Friday morning. The ceas...

JERUSALEM—Three people were murdered and 11 injured when two terrorists jumped from a car at around 7:40 a.m. on Thursday morning and opened fire at people waiting at a crowded intercity bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem. The murder victims were Rabbi...

With the Israel-Gaza war approaching its 40th day and antisemitism on the rise around the world, an estimated 290,000 people from all walks of Jewish life gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in a massive show of unity and support for the pe...

JERUSALEM—Yocheved Lifshitz declared that she “went through hell” when taken hostage to the Gaza Strip. The 85-year-old Lifshitz, and Nurit Cooper, 79, were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7 and released on Oct. 23. Their elderly husbands remain in c...

For thousands of years, through times of joy and sorrow, and particularly in times of danger, the Jewish people have turned for inspiration, courage and comfort to the emotionally charged words of King David in Tehillim (“Psalms”). So from the moment that...