Why It Hurts So Much
By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff
The most recent spate of violence in Israel has deeply affected Jews all throughout the world. We agonize over our brothers’...
The Secret Anorexic War – Part II
By Rabbi Shea Hecht
It's extremely painful to see someone we care about struggling with an eating disorder. The illness is all-encompassing, causing...
Let The Neshomah Take Over
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The weeks of Sefirah, during which we count days and weeks and monitor our progression through the seven sefiros of middos,...
Barack Blows It Again: Why Isn’t President Obama Going to Paris?
By Stuart Anderson
Today, Sunday, January 11, leaders of important American allies are gathering in Paris to attend a public unity rally in the wake...
What Would Arab State Number 23/Muslim State Number 58 Be Like?
By Giulio Meotti
Global leaders are so busy speaking of how essential it is for a "State of Palestine" to be founded that none of...
Redemption, The Ultimate Miracle: A Dreidel Story
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
My dreidels delight me.
They delight me because of their colors and shapes; they delight me because of all that they represent and...
The Cry of a Baby, The Cry of a Nation
By Rabbi Dovid Fleischmann
It is a well known tradition that the cries of a baby boy at the time of his Bris ascend to...
Message from Above
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Over the past month, Jews around the world have changed. Our demeanor has changed. The way we view the world and...
A Chanukah Message: Don’t Give Up Just Yet
By Rabbi Meir Goldberg, Matzav.com
Chanukah! The mere mention of the day brings us visions of sentimentality and inspiration. The Menorah's wicks swim on top of...
It’s All About Words
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Parshas Mattos, one of the three parshiyos that are always read during the Three Weeks, bears lessons for us to improve...
NY Times Analysis: Republicans See a Ripple in the Nation’s Jewish Vote
By Mark Landler
Not since Jimmy Carter in 1980 has a Democrat running for president failed to win a lopsided majority of the Jewish vote....
CNN Anchor Jim Clancy’s Twitter Account Shut Down Following Disability Slur, Insulting Exchange With...
By B. Cohen
The Twitter account of veteran CNN anchor Jim Clancy has been shut down, following an angry exchange the presenter held with a...
These Too Are From Sinai
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
With the help of Hashem, several years ago I completed writing a commentary on bentching. (As an aside, if you...
Videos: Rav Brog on Practical Lessons on How to Get Out of Your...
The following shiur was delivered by Rav Yisroel Brog, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Tiferes Avigdor in Cleveland, on the topic of"Practical Lessons on How...
Divining Ms. Kagan
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
Imagining that one can divine how a new Supreme Court justice will rule on the sort of fundamental issues often brought before...
The Last Lion – Too Many Lost Jews
Rav Yitzchok Fingerer
Morah D'Asrah BJX (Brooklyn Jewish Xperience) Beis Medrash
75 years ago, while millions of Eastern European Jews were being mercilessly and barbarically...
Obama’s Intifada Welcoming Committee
By Jonathan Tobin
It's difficult to say yet what exactly will be on President Obama's mind when he heads to Israel next month, but an...
Scouting for Greatness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
In this week’s parsha, we encounter the tragic episode of the meraglim sent to scout Eretz Yisroel. The posuk relates that...
Who Are You?
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
As we study the parshiyos of Sefer Bereishis, we must learn to develop proper perspectives. At the outset of the...
Tea Partiers and Orthodox Jews
The following article by Rabbi Yaakov Menken appears in today's Baltimore Sun: The Passover break gave me an opportunity to catch up on some...
