The Blizzard of ’15: Snow Prints of the Soul
By Jacob (Chaim Yakov) Hirsch Esq.
Slowly awoken by the eerie stillness in the crisp morning air your heart skips a beat in wonderment as...
Remembering Rebbetzin Miriam Libby Weiss – Part Twenty-One
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
When Eliezer went to find a wife for Yitzchak to continue the building of Klal Yisroel, he declared that the...
Diary In The Dark – Part 2
By Larry Gordon
We came back to the black hole that is presently a large part of the Village of Lawrence after Shabbos in ...
Did Israel ‘Apologize’ to Turkey? Well, No, Not Exactly
By Barry Rubin
Israel apologizes to Turkey, reads every headline. That simply isn't true in the sense it is taken to imply. To understand what...
Refugees Alone Together
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
It might just be a discarded candy wrapper on the floor of the shul, or trapped on a seforim shelf. Maybe...
Poetic Comfort
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The Jewish calendar year, with its peaks and valleys, days of rejoicing and days of sorrow, defines our moods. There are...
The Big Inversion: White House Soft On Khamenei, Hard On Netanyahu
By Alina D. Sharon
This week, the Obama administration had decidedly different attitudes about statements from leaders of the Jewish state of Israel and the...
Injustice, Persecution, and an Anti-Business Vendetta on a Federal Level
By Yossi Gestetner
Some people in the US remember the raid by federal agents that took place in May of 2008 on the Agriprocessors meat...
The IDF Doesn’t Teach Its Soldiers to Hate
By Dan Gordon
I had the great privilege of accompanying Major General (Ret) Avigdor Kahalani to an artillery battalion, somewhere in the war zone. General...
No Surprise: NY Times Editorial Questions Israel Response To Rocket Barrage
The following is an editorial in the New York Times, demonstrating the newspapers usual anti-Israel bias:
No country should have to endure the rocket attacks...
You Are Not Alone
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
It's the last Mishnah of a masechta that is replete with depictions of the day's glory, immersions and offerings. It describes...
Uvechol Zos Shimcha Lo Shochochnu
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Shabbos Nachamu. On Shabbos, we read the haftorah from which Shabbos Nachamu derives its name and we are...
Bibi’s Triumph Puts Obama on the Defensive
By Jonathan Tobin
If President Obama was hoping that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would lay an egg with his much-anticipated and controversial speech to a...
The New York Times vs. Israel
By Jerold Auerbach
A deep sigh of editorial relief was discernible at The New York Times following the Supreme Court decision in Zivotofsky v. Kerry,...
Don’t Blame All Ultra-Orthodox for Actions of One Stabber
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
The death of Shira Banki, one of the six marchers stabbed at the recent Pride Parade in Yerushalayim, was a horrific...
Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur
By Mortimer B. Zuckerman
President Obama came into office as the heir to a great foreign policy legacy enjoyed by every recent U.S. president....
Seven: The Power Of Numbers
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Numbers have power and significance. Some numbers have greater significance than others, often due to their properties as primes or unique,...
Freilecher, Freilecher, Freilecher
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The most dramatic and meaningful bond between Hashem and man is demonstrated in this week's parsha with the account of a people...
Opinion: Chris Christie’s V-DAY
By Avi Solomon
A massive FBI raid took place in New Jersey today with the arrests of numerous NJ politicians, including 3 mayors and two...
Note to President Obama: IRS Scandal Is Why We Distrust Government
By Jonathan Tobin
While almost all liberals and Democrats are still in denial about the implications of the Benghazi scandal, none of them is choosing...
