Putting Red in the Blue Label: Mutar or Not?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman, The Five Towns Jewish Times
Its origin is in Kilmarnock Ayrshire Scotland, but is the most widely distributed brand of blended...
Ability Grouping in Yeshivos: Do Away With the “Gimmel Class”?
There has been great debate in the secular world about Ability Grouping, also called "tracking." The issues involve whether it is preferable to break up...
A Message From The Kalever Rebbe For Purim 5777: What Can We Learn From...
Our Sages teach us that the Jews did not accept the Torah joyously at Sinai, but only under duress. Only after the miracle of...
The Gift of Speech
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Having just lived through a plague, we have become familiar with the deprivation it causes, even among the people not physically...
Our Mandate
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Every time I learn Parshas Noach, I am struck again by the words of Rashi which seek to quantify and minimize...
Gimmel 2020
By Dov Fuchs
It baffles the mind. Israel is actually holding another election. If the prospects for the upcoming campaigns would vary, even slightly, from...
On Losing A Friend
Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
It was after Havdolah following the first days of yom tov. The grape juice formed a small purple pool in its dish,...
Dershowitz On the Anthony Case: The Criminal Trial Is Not About Justice For The...
By Alan Dershowitz
What is the function of a criminal trial? That profound question has been raised by the recent acquittal of Casey Anthony and...
Wisdom
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Torah Jews pledge allegiance to our mission statement and national raison d’être. Three times a day, we proclaim our intention “lesakein...
Anti-Donald Op-Ed: ‘The Trump Effect’ Is Contaminating Our Kids – And Could Resonate For...
By P. Dvorak
Think we're in for a disastrous four years if Donald Trump is elected president?
You're being optimistic. Given what some of our children...
This Is Real
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week’s parsha, Vayechi, tells of the passing of Yaakov Avinu. The posuk states, “Vayikrivu yemei Yisroel lomus vayikra levno leYosef”...
What I Learned While Being Menachem Avel R’ Gavriel Sassoon
By Gavriel Sitrit
The words of Shlomo Hamelech that it is better to go to a house of mourning than a house of joy took...
Analysis: Obama Was As Clueless About 9/11 As He Is About ISIS
By Paul Sperry
That President Obama won't call it Islamic terrorism; that he believes we shouldn't be on a "high horse" because America and Christians...
Good Shidduch: Putin Stands by Assad: The Last Battle of the Cold War
By Fouad Ajami
Afghanistan was once thought of as the last battle of the Cold War. But that designation must be accorded the ongoing struggle...
Ah Freilichen Purim
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The story of Purim is intertwined with Amaleik, the archenemy of the Jewish people. Last Shabbos, we read the passage (Devorim...
The Best Gift
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
I don’t live a cloistered life, but last week I saw something that really bothered me.
For the first time that...
Opinion: Single and Productive – Marriage Is Not Life’s Only Objective
By Rachel Davids
I'm single, have been for a long time and, judging from the last guy that showed up on my doorstep seemingly convinced...
For The New York Times, It’s the Palestinians Who Are Suffering
By S. Plosker
Three Israeli boys have been kidnapped yet The New York Times is still more concerned with Palestinian "suffering." It's only been a few...
“Rebbetzin Bachman”
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
"Funny, she doesn't look Jewish" was the intriguing opening sentence of a recent story in the New York Post about presidential...
Tips and Tactics for Generating Quality Shadchan Attention Part III
Getting the Shadchan’s Attention - Part I
By Moshe Pogrow, Director, NASI Project
(Third in a series)
(To view Part I – Introduction, click here.)
(To view Part II- Meeting the...
