Did Menendez Kill Pro-Israel Bill To Save It?

By D. Shapiro The killing of a major pro-Israel bill in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week has ignited another round of finger pointing...

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...

My Fear

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz If you have ever wondered how dictatorships take root in once-great republics, recent occurrences in this still great country could help...

Jealousy: The Root of All Evil

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss We know that some women are into jewelry.  The Ben Ish Chai, Zt”l, Zy”a, informs us that Mrs. Korach was...

Haaretz, NY Times Play Telephone With IDF

By Jonathan Tobin Reading the New York Times account of an interview with Benny Gantz, the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force, that...

OP-ED: Best Approach to the Coronavirus Crisis (Hint: We’ve Thus Far Gotten It Wrong)

By Rabbi Judge Sander Goldberg (in consultation with experts) First, my conclusion: The country has taken the wrong approach in confronting the Coronavirus Crisis. The...

The Count

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz With Pesach in the past and Shavuos in the future, we find ourselves presently in the Sefirah period. Each day, we...

The Days of Light: When Rav Olshin Visited Sholom Rubashkin

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We are witnessing the rise of people who have had enough of fraudsters in leadership positions. Politicians who bend to the...

Background on Invitation to Prime Minister Netanyahu

By the officer of Speaker John Boehner Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted Speaker Boehner's invitation to address a joint meeting of Congress.  In...

Daf Inspired – Culling Gems of Inspiration from the Daf

By Rabbi Yehoshua Berman Yevamos 96 - Full Circle Why is it, asks the Gemara, that our Mishna says yibum can be done with his second...

Common Beliefs On The Shidduch Crisis – Is It For Real?

By Dr. Yosef Sokol Word on the street is that Orthodox communities are facing a shidduch crisis, with many bemoaning the supposed surplus of eligible...

Obama’s Syria War Is Really About Iran and Israel

By Bob Dreyfuss The dirty little not-so-secret behind President Obama's much-lobbied-for, illegal and strategically incompetent war against Syria is that it's not about Syria...

What Obama Taught Me

By Ralph Peters Salaam aleikum, dudes! I thought I knew a little bit about the Middle East. Boy, was I wrong. Last week, President Obama set...

Ah Freilichen Chanukah! – But Aren’t We Still in Golus?

By S. Friedman, Matzav.com Those who have been to Yerushalayim over Chanukah have seen the minhag that the people have, which is to light their...

“He Could Do 4x as Much Chessed”

By Kollel Guy There is a well known personality in Flatbush who is always involved in raising tzedaka for those in need. He works tirelessly...

How to Deal with Destructive Emotions

By Rabbi YY Jacobson A man visiting a bar at night would routinely throw glass cups at the bar tender and at the people...

The Power of Tzitzis

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss As summer approaches, many people are careless about their tzitzis responsibilities.  There are those who play ball without them; others don't...

Why a Visitor Center Must be Built on Har Hazeisim

By Menachem Lubinsky It was just before Yom Tov that word came that the Regional Planning Council had approved the construction of a beautiful Visitor...

Gilad Shalit Is Still In Captivity – Because Of Us

By Moshe Feiglin The lineup of former generals and security officials who over the past few weeks have demoralized the country by urging us to...

Who is Responsible for Tearing Apart Klal Yisroel? 

By Rav Yitzchok Fingerer   I recently received a call from a talmid who had a very important Halachic sheilah. He moved away from Flatbush to a...

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