Stem cell and marrow registry focuses on speed
JNSDec 27, 2018
By Faygie Holt In 1991, Jay Feinberg was facing a battle with leukemia and needed a bone-marrow transplant. Some 55,000 people got tested in the hopes of finding him a...
Downed Israeli pilot honored as hero 45 years later
JNSDec 13, 2018
By Yaakov Lappin Israel’s Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Giora Epstein has shot down no fewer than 17 enemy aircraft — the most of fighter jets (plus a helicopter) destroyed in...
Israeli-Palestinian coexistence hit in terror attack
JNSOct 11, 2018
By Josh Hasten JERUSALEM — Just as shocking as the execution-style murders of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, a 29-year-old mother of an infant, and Ziv Hajbi, a 35-year-old...
Ari Fuld, Israel activist, killed by terrorist in Gush Etzion
JNSSep 18, 2018
JERUSLAEM — Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four, and a prolific English-language social-media activist and media pundit, was killed by a 17-year-old Palestinian...
Deadly crime puts light on Mainz
JNSSep 13, 2018
By Orit Arfa MAINZ, Germany — In recent months, the Rhine city of Mainz captured worldwide headlines for the murder and rape of one of its Jewish members, 14-year-old...
Rabbi’s heart attack leads to epic bike ride
JNSJun 28, 2018
By Ariel Domonique Hendelman One year ago, Rabbi Nochum Kurinsky was running the Chabad House in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., with his wife, Leah. He was teaching classes...
The pilot who flew Operation On Eagles’ Wings
JNSJun 21, 2018
By Oren Peleg With city lights dotting the night behind her, Dr. Dee Gaines, a neuropsychologist, sat for good reason — she’s very pregnant. But when Capt. Elgen...
Ahead of World Cup, Russian Jewish communities prepare to open their doors
JNSJun 14, 2018
By Yehuda Sugar, JNS via Chabad.org If Rostov-on-Don Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Chaim Danzinger has his way, thousands of Jewish soccer fans who will descend on his...
Israel, Canada sign new trade accord
JNSJun 07, 2018
By Eran Bar-Tal MONTREAL — Israel and Canada on May 30 signed a modernized free trade agreement in what has been described as a historic step in the countries’...
The 10 teenage victims of flash-flood hiking tragedy
JNSApr 27, 2018
The mood throughout Israel was somber on Friday, April 27, as the name of the last of 10 missing youths killed in a flash flood near the Dead Sea was released, following...
