Ordaining Women and the Role of Mesorah
By Avrohom Gordimer
A current opinion piece in The Jewish Week, authored by two leaders of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), opens with the...
Ana Hashem Hoshiah Na
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Klal Yisroel has been buffeted about of late and is worried. We have lost a most amazing gadol baTorah, a...
Analysis: Hillary Clinton Is Not Very Good At Running For President
The headline "Dems Panicky Over Upcoming Election" is sort of like "Parents Flummoxed by App Popular With Teens." It's certainly true, but not exactly...
Analysis: How Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File
By Conor Friedersdorf
Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, "What went wrong?", they should ask themselves a question every bit as important: "Why were we the...
Opinion: Desert Island Sefarim
By CJ Strullowitz, Matzav.com
Remember "Desert Island Discs"?
The radio station in my hometown used to ask listeners to submit three songs that they would take...
Creating a Proper Purim For Our Family
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
We all know the saying, “Every generation has its challenges.” This is also true when it comes to the holiday...
How Dare The World Shun Israel On Terrorism
By Jose Maria Aznar
When we are about to mark the 40th anniversary of the terrorist attacks at the Olympic Village in Munich, in...
Opinion: It’s Tu B’Av – Put the Girls in the Freezer
By Elisha Ferber, Matzav.com
We've heard it over and over again: there are too many girls in the parsha of shidduchim, and too few boys...
This Past Shabbos…I Cried
Rabbi Yosef C. Golding, Executive Director, Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society
It was toward the end of Mincha, when the aveilim gather around the bimah to say Kaddish. The...
ADL’s Greenblatt Wrongly Attacks Netanyahu’s Accurate Condemnation of PA Demand for Jew-Free State
By Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney, Esq.
It is painful and frightening that Anti-Defamation League (ADL) head Jonathan Greenblatt (a former Obama administration official)...
The Mitzvah of Chesed: An Overview
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The author would like to present the following overview of the Mitzvah of Chessed, l'Zecher Nishmas his mother, Sara Bas Eliyahu...
Analysis: UN Legitimizes Palestinian Terror Regimes In Judea/Samaria/Gaza
By M. Klein and D. Mandel
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to make 'Palestine' a 'non-member state' of the UN....
The Wonderful Sefardic Community
Following last week's events, much has been written about the Sefardic community in general and the Syrian community in particular. It behooves us to...
Matchmaking or Something Infinitely Worse?
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
…Matchmaker, Matchmaker make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch…
- Fiddler on the Roof
Our tradition teaches that even...
NYT Ignores Story of State Department Using Tax Dollars in Anti-Netanyahu Scheme
By Ira Stoll
The State Department spent US taxpayer dollars funding a political campaign against Benjamin Netanyahu, then destroyed emails that documented the campaign, a...
The Gaza Mistake
By Benyamin Korn
The tenth anniversary of Israel's retreat from Gaza has occasioned a number of interesting commentaries. Perhaps the most innovative comes from Shmuel...
Mah Nishtanah
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
At the end of last week’s parsha, we studied the story of Yosef and how he was thrown into jail, where...
Holy
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week, we are blessed to be reading and learning the parshiyos of Acharei Mos and Kedoshim, which contain in them...
Opinion: Banning Circumcision: The Target Is Religion, Not Jews
By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
For centuries, circumcision kept Jews apart from members of other faiths. Jews practiced it as a core religious obligation, but outside...
Analysis: Obama Constantly Sacrifices Israeli Security
By Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel
Few seem to have noticed that President Barack Obama has scattered to the winds bipartisan Israeli reservations regarding establishing...
