Lod, Israel News

Photos by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths I was briefly in Kfar Chabad today. Kfar Chabad is a rural village of Chabad chassidim that's a few miles down the road from Lod, up the road from Tel Aviv, and practically next to Ben Gurion airport... The replica of Chabad world headquarters, 770, has a huge menorah sculpture on the roof.

The Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel must immediately restart the stalled immigration process from Ethiopia and the organized Jewish community in the US must provide the funding for it, said Kadima MK Shlomo Molla, who headed a delegation of three MKs to Ethiopia last week and will present his findings to a special session of the ...

A 19-year-old man was stabbed in the back and lightly wounded during a brawl outside of a pub in Haifa's downtown district on Friday night.

Dispatch , the newest work by Palestinian-American Emily Jacir, recently ended its run at the Alexander and Bonin art gallery in Chelsea.

Lodi native Coreena Coleman recently took home $650 in scholarship money and the Miss Southland title from the Miss Hollywood and Miss Southland 2010 competition in Los Angeles.

Former Lodi Assemblyman Alan Nakanishi's new state job has a few perks, and it's not just the $7,852-a-month pay.

Mohammad Ghayadeh has been repairing bicycles for over three quarters of a century.

I am about to depart for a lecture tour to the United States. While I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the Jewish scene across the Atlantic, I must admit that this time I am going with some trepidation because there is a new Jewish reality in the Diaspora.

Aside from the big assumption , Erich Follath's apparent connections to Mossad , and the timing of the article, apparently to undermine Iran's credibility during negotiations, it might be useful to comb it for new information and possible errors.

If there is one thing many Lodians wear on their sleeves, it is the age-old anxiety over Stockton's slow urbanization north.

Two brothers from Lod who are senior employees of Israel Railways were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of taking part in an armed robbery of a colleague.

A group of religious Zionist rabbis are calling to privatize the marriage registration process to stop what they call the Chief Rabbinate's inefficient, unfriendly and overly stringent bureaucracy from turning off secular Israelis to religion.

Israr Khan is a Lodi parent of a 4-year-old who attends Heritage Elementary School.

Here's a question worthy of a national commission of inquiry: How is it that Tel Aviv, which is celebrating its centennial, doesn't have a subway? Israelis traveling abroad enjoy the availability, speed and comfort of public transportation, but here we wait for the bus in the rain and heat, and lumber along through narrow, crowded streets.

"Allah willing, the day will come when we'll return to Lod and all the areas they [Israel] have occupied." [PA TV , Sept.

Qassem al-Masri's father has been suffering from liver problems for years. Sometimes he is hospitalized, and usually he doesn't feel well .

Israeli archeologists have found the 1,700-year footprints of people working on a mosaic during the times that the Romans were ruling the region.

Representatives of the hundreds of Muslim worshippers who claimed to be entrenched in the al-Aqsa mosque in recent days held a press conference in the Wadi Joz neighborhood in Jerusalem in which they spoke of how they "defended the holy place from the occupation". According to the worshippers, hundreds of people from around Israel remained in the ...

Lodian Michael Patrick O'Riley was booked into San Joaquin County Jail September 3, 2009 on spousal abuse charges.

" More than 100 farmers, youth, internationals and Israeli peace activists marched against the Israeli separation wall Friday and, armed with car tires and a homemade ladder to climb the high wall, they managed to burn one section and pull down three others.