Baby Amiad Yisrael and The New York Times

By Jerold Auerbach On the last night of Chanukah seven Israelis were wounded in a drive-by shooting at a bus stop on the main road...

Of “Pitches” and “Closings” in the Kiruv Continuum

Part of a series devoted to Kiruv. By Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin MA Director: Jewish Professionals Institute. Email: [email protected] Formerly: Director Sinai Heritage Center (Wall Street) and AJOP...

Why Only After They Are Gone?

By a Yeshiva Bochur I am a bochur learning at the Miami Yeshiva and was personally touched by the genuine kindness and infectious smile of Nosson...

Failing to Recognize Yerushalayim

By Congressman Anthony D. Weiner In what country were you born? If you are a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem, you'd better not look for...

Iran’s Role in the 9/11 Attacks Cannot Be Ignored

By M. Klein and E. Berney It’s a frightening irony. On Thursday, September 11, we mourned 3,000 innocent lives snuffed out during the worst terrorist attack...

BBC Says Israelis’ Fear of Terror Attacks is ‘Paranoia’

By Hadar Sela During the first three weeks of October 2015, ten Israelis were killed and 112 wounded — eleven of them seriously — in 40 stabbing attacks, four...

PSA: LTSA Head Tackles The Lakewood Busing Problems

I wanted to inform all of the schools that I spent the last two days trailing two primary routes (2:45 pm & 3:00 pm)...

Rabbinic Chaos: Avi Weiss and His Allies Strike Back, and Klal Yisroel Stands to...

By I. Schwartz As was reported in the Yated with special coverage, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate disclosed that its rejection of a letter by...

Get Real: Hurricane Irene Should Be Renamed “Hurricane Hype”

By Patrick Michaels Over the years the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has employed the world's best experts on Atlantic tropical cyclones, from "Dr. Bob" Simpson,...

Lewin and Cook: The Truth About the Postville Prosecution

By Nathan Lewin and Guy Cook U.S. Attorney Stephanie Rose has decided "silence is no longer in order." But should a U.S. attorney take offense...

Transforming and Transmitting

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz My dear friend, Rav Eliezer Sorotzkin, was in the United States a couple of weeks ago, and we were discussing...

FEAR IN THE SKIES: Can Hamas Really Disrupt Commercial Flights to Israel?

Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen During the last short round of hostilities between Hamas and Israel (November 12-13), the Islamist organization’s spokesperson threatened to launch...

Ed Koch: I Knew Obama Would Betray Israel

By Alana Goodman I admire former Mayor Ed Koch's willingness to break with his own party on issues of principle, but his comments to the...

Super Bowl Musings

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss They told me this morning at the Daf that  Super Bowl Sunday is the busiest pizza day of the year....

Nixon, Truman and FDR: Presidents’ Private Thoughts About Jews

By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org The latest tapes of President Richard M. Nixon's private conversations reveal a number of anti-Semitic remarks made by the president. This is...

Is Obama a Pathological Liar?

By Jospeh Curl "Mendacity is a system that we live in." - Brick, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" In the weird world that is Washington, men...

A Trip to the Museum, and a Trip to Faith

By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer If you live in New York City and need to keep kids busy on a hot summer day, you go to a...

Purim: Looking Beyond the Ribbons and the Candy

By Mr. Zvi Gluck Open up just about any Jewish magazine or newspaper, or walk into any kosher supermarket, and you are going to be...

Denial… …Doesn’t Mean There Are No Consequences

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran    Denial is not a river in Egypt A small child believes that by closing his eyes, the “monsters” he fears cease to...

For Israel and America, a Disagreement, Not a Crisis

The following article, by Michael B. Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, will appear in tomorrow's New York Times: Israel and America enjoy a...

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