Killing Time: You Are the Victim
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
There are countless lessons to extract from the Olympics in London, England. The tenacity, resolve, grit, discipline, drive, and sense...
Where There’s a Will There’s a Way
By Rabbi Yehoshua Berman
Wills. It’s a touchy subject. Conjuring up thoughts of all types of sometimes unsavory topics. Mortality. Family feuds over inheritances. Financial...
A Prophecy Fulfilled
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The fate of the Jews of Russia was first placed on the public consciousness decades ago. It has held our fascination...
Rebellious Addict
By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff
The term addiction has been historically defined as physical and emotional dependence on stimulant substances, such as caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and...
Attraction of Community and Chassidim in Kiruv
By Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin MA
Director: Jewish Professionals Institute. Formerly: Director Sinai Heritage Center (Wall Street) and AJOP Trustee.
Part of a series devoted to Kiruv...
The Despicable Return of Casualty Statistics as a Moral Barometer
By Alex Margolin
During the 2014 Gaza War, nearly every news report contained an obligatory paragraph listing the number of Palestinians and Israelis killed in...
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...
Analysis: ‘Anchor Baby’ and ‘Illegal’ Are Not Insults
By Jonathan Tobin
The Boston Globe reports that two brothers from South Boston who beat up a Hispanic man who was homeless claimed that they were...
Vanquishing the Evil
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The Bnei Yisroel in Mitzrayim witnessed ten makkos, a process of becoming acquainted with the Oneness of Hashem and His...
Words Matter: Deeper Meanings and Understanding
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Words matter to Jews. Language matters. Hebrew, filled with beauty and poetic power, is a language in which words carry not...
Does Trump Really Think He’ll Make Peace Between Israel and the Palestinians?
By Attorney Brad E. Kauffman, Esquire
Donald J. Trump, the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, is living on another planet if he honestly believes...
President Abbas, Tell Your People To Stop Stabbing Us
By David Horovitz
President Abbas, if you truly care about your people, you need to tell them to stop stabbing us.
They’ve killed about a dozen...
The F.A.A. Did Israel A Favor
By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn
Israel and its friends were justifiably shocked and angry when the Federal Aviation Agency briefly suspended all American...
Rodef Shalom: Peace, Peace You Shall Pursue…
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
We live in a world of turmoil – political, geopolitical, spiritual. Too often it seems that turmoil and strife are...
Oren: How Obama Opened His Heart to the ‘Muslim World’
By Michael Oren
Days after jihadi gunmen slaughtered 11 staffers of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a policeman on January 7, hundreds of thousands of...
Dershowitz Springs Into Action, Swiftly Pens ‘Case Against The Iran Deal’ Book
By Paul Miller
The night the Iran nuclear deal was announced was a sleepless one for retired Harvard Law School professor and pro-Israel activist Alan...
Ordaining Women and the Role of Mesorah
By Avrohom Gordimer
A current opinion piece in The Jewish Week, authored by two leaders of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), opens with the...
Appreciating Achdus
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Election fever is spreading across Eretz Yisroel. Their campaign season lasts but a few weeks, the people vote, and then...
What Can One Say?
By Rabbi Y. Reuven Rubin, Rov of Adass Aish Kodesh, Manchester, England
This was supposed to be a great day for my kehilla. We...
