Intermarriage and life-threatening situations

On the eve of Shavuos, Yad L'Achim chairman Harav Shalom Dov Lifschitz has called on the Education Ministry to reverse the slide in Jewish education in state-secular schools and to address

For T., a Jewish woman who was rescued by Yad L'Achim from the crime-ridden Arab neighborhood of Juarish, in Ramle, this Pesach was a celebration of her exodus from spiritual slavery

The request that arrived at Yad L'Achim's hotline was as moving as it was unconventional: "I live in an Arab village near Be'er Sheva," the Jewish woman on the other end

More than a hundred Jewish women and children who were rescued from Arab villages participated in an uplifting Shabbos organized by Yad L'Achim at Moshav Tsafria.

"I was simply astonished by the scope of the rescue work you do," Nachum Itzkovitch, director general of Israel's Welfare Ministry, told Yad L'Achim officials last week during a visit to

Kul al-Arab, Israel's most influential and widely read Arabic-language newspaper, is continuing its campaign against Yad L'Achim, charging that the organization rescues Jewish women from Arab villages.

Some 100 women rescued from Arab villages were saluted at a banquet hosted by Yad L'Achim

Dressed in a hijab and running for her life, Oshrit Ochana - with her four children in tow - reached Gaza's Erez crossing midday on Tuesday, and was ushered through to