Move de Line: A Plea for Peace and Understanding
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
“Why can’t we all just get along?”
- Rodney King
Few people could have greater justification to cry out for vengeance than Rodney King. ...
Israel’s High-Tech Pipeline to the U.S.
By Michael Eisenstadt and David Pollock
Why did President Obama visit Israel last week, on the first foreign trip of his second term? The U.S....
Bennett: We Have No Choice But to Fight
By Naftali Bennett
On the the surface, Israel's ongoing conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip appears to have nothing to do with other events...
Whose Fault Is Palestinian Poverty?
By John Podhoretz
While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning...
Obama Now Praising Ronald: Reagan Saw that ‘We Are All Patriots’
By Barack Obama
Ronald Wilson Reagan was a believer. As a husband, a father, an entertainer, a governor and a president, he recognized that each...
Top Ten Myths About the Middle East Conflict
By Jonathan Tobin
Sixty-one years after the birth of the State of Israel, the Jewish state continues to be assailed by its enemies. From the...
Opinion: You Can Do It
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week's parsha of Ki Seitzei begins with the halachos of the eishes yefas toar. Rashi quotes the Sifri which explains...
Focus on Success
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
In this week’s parsha of Vayeishev, we read of the travails of Yosef, Yaakov’s favorite son, the one whose life most closely followed the...
When A Piece Of Paper Meant Life Or Death
By Rafael Medoff
“It is a fantastic commentary on the inhumanity of our times,” journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote at the height of the 1930s European...
Hillary-Sidney Emails Herald Demise of a Pro-Israel Democratic Party
By Jonathan Tobin
The latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails to be released is being scoured for classified information today. While the Clinton camp is...
20 Years: Call the Crown Heights Riots What They Were: Anti-Semitic
From The Jewish Week: The Crown Heights riots, one of the most traumatic events in American Jewish history, still elicits shivers and arguments as...
Listen, Learn & Lead
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week’s parsha, Ki Sisa, contains apexes of glory and splendor, depths of catastrophe, and a cataclysmic blow, followed by the...
The Angelic Proclamation
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
There are no two words more associated with the deliverance of the Torah on Har Sinai than "naaseh venishma." However,...
Deciphering Off The Derech: Differences Between Kiruv and Chinuch
By Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin MA
Director: Jewish Professionals Institute www.jpi.org
The Kiruv ("Outreach") field is known for its informality, while Chinuch ("Education") is known for its...
Seeing the Sounds
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Vekol ha'am ro'im es hakolos. When the Torah was given to man on Har Sinai, we are told, the Jewish...
Opinion: Addressing The Deficit In Care For Special-Needs Children
By Menachem Leifer, The Montreal Gazette
In Quebec lately, we keep hearing dire warnings about the "fiscal deficit." We are told that urgent action...
Hopeful
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week, we celebrate Lag Ba’omer and the legacy of Rabi Shimon bar Yochai. We celebrate the conclusion of the...
Analysis: The ‘Iran Deal’ is Washington’s Gravest Foreign Policy Mistake
By Walid Phares
The Obama Administration, in its first and second terms, has committed strategic mistakes in the Middle East that will undermine U.S. national...
The Truth: Shechitah Is Humane, Other Forms of Slaughter Are Not
By Jonathan Sacerdoti
Kosher slaughter methods are being called into question across Europe, with a ban on shechita now in place in Denmark. A...
Yasher Koach: It’s Nice to Be Acknowledged
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
The list of those who believe the adage that “any publicity is better than no publicity” is a long one. Yet...
