A Father in the Stands; A Father in Heaven
By S. Friedman, Matzav.com
Fans at a recent Philadelphia Phillies baseball game were treated to real heartwarming scene. I believe the rest of us, though...
Gold: The Clock is Ticking On the Three Kidnapped Teens
Former Israeli UN Ambassador Dore Gold, today an advisor to the prime minister of Israel, discussed the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers...
Living Yiddish
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
For some reason, in the wake of the Siyum Hashas, we have been inundated with feel-good stories about Yiddishkeit, many involving...
Say It With Love
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week’s parsha of Devorim opens with Moshe Rabbeinu admonishing the Jewish people for the various sins they committed during...
Ninth Lesson From The Gaza War: Where Did Hamas Get All That Concrete?
By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn
It required 800 tons of concrete to build the terror tunnel that almost resulted in a massacre of Israelis...
Elul – A Time for Achdus
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
All of a sudden, Elul is upon us. The summer barely started and Elul has arrived. What happened to the glorious...
Avi and Rachel, Uri and Iris, Ophir and Bat-Galim — You Are Not Alone
By Emily Amrousi
The heart bleeds, splitting apart from pain. A miserable outburst. Nervous twitches remain, air that was trapped between the ribs is...
The Unseen Hand Behind Hamas’ Clash With Israel
By Saul Singer, Yerushalayim
One of the more chilling yet routine phrases used to describe the fighting between Israel and Hamas in recent days...
A View From Afar
To name the Muslim country where she lives would compromise her security; the authorities there do not look favorably on citizens who communicate with...
Will Obama Act on New Iran Intelligence?
By Jonathan S. Tobin
In 2007, a growing international consensus on the need to stop Iran's drive for nuclear weapons was hamstringed by a...
When Justice Is Not Just
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
We begin the study of Parshas Noach and we cringe. We read that the world became corrupt – “Ki malah ha’aretz...
Seven Reasons Showing Obama Not Serious About Stopping Iran Nukes
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
Before entering the White House, President Barack Obama promised repeatedly to do "everything, everything" to prevent...
The Rapper’s Sabbath
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
Despite having eclectic tastes in many things, I have no appreciation of urban music. And so I had never heard of...
When Retractions Are in Order
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
I would like to respectfully take issue with Rabbi Avi Shafran's recent article (here) where he harbors admiration for Bernard Madoff,...
Where Are the Protestors for Officers Ramos and Liu, Huh?
By Mike Barnicle
Will those who protested Eric Garner's death rush to the side of Rafael Ramos' two sons, or Wenjian Liu's widow, married only...
Why the Dems Lost Weiner’s Seat
By Errol Louis
Democrats, from the rank-and-file to President Obama, are worried -- as they should be -- about the surprise victory of a novice...
Can You Love If You Don’t Hate?
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The New York Times reports that in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, people are questioning "whether 'justice'...
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...
Alan Dershowitz: Israel Must Not Criminalize Political Differences
By Alan Dershowitz
I recently returned from a visit to Israel, where the headlines focused on two investigations involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The first...
The Perverse Wishfulness of The Twisted Zimmerman-Haters
By Rich Lowry
The George Zimmerman trial is the racial metaphor that failed. It has proved that none of the ideological baggage heaped on...
