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Unique collaboration seeks to expand sales and customers for Israeli products

Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry, in cooperation with the Ministry’s attachés in New York, has unveiled a unique collaboration with the American Communities Helping Israel (ACHI) organization to expand the circle of customers and sales of Israeli manufacturers with a “Made in Israel” label in the US and Canadian markets.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday warned the United Nations General Assembly that Iran’s nuclear weapon program is at a “critical point,” while touting an approach to the COVID-19 pandemic that does not rely on lockdown measures.

The British Empire played a crucial role in the creation of the State of Israel. There is no condoning the British government’s appalling 1939 “White Paper” whose draconian restrictions severely reduced Jewish immigration to Palestine until 1948, and had tragic consequences for European Jews seeking refuge from the Nazis in World War II. However, 22 years prior, the British gave a wonderful – I would call it miraculous – gift to the Zionist cause called the Balfour Declaration.

Hesped For Rabbi Moshe David Tendler

We are here today to mourn the loss and reflect on the life and legacy of Rabbi Moshe David Tendler, a senior rosh yeshivah at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Professor of Biology and former chair of the Biology Department in Yeshiva College, and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics.

(This article originally appeared at www.timesofisrael.com.)

 Naftali Bennett’s first visit to Washington as prime minister was a fairly low-stakes affair.

On the day following Simchat Torah, the most joyous celebration in the Jewish calendar, the world heard the devastating news that one of Jewry’s greatest 20th-century talmidei chachamim, who combined his exceptional Torah scholarship with a stellar career in microbiology, had passed from this world.