This is the Life
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
The posuk states, “V’Yitzchak ben shishim shanah b’ledes osom – And Yitzchak was 60 years old when they (Yaakov and...
9/11 – Remembering a Future That Many Feared
By N. R. Kleinfeld
The day dawned different and stayed that way. Traffic was thin and sidewalks quiet. The stock exchange didn't open, nor...
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....
Our Own Private Pesach
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
One day during my teenage years I began to think about what my father, may he be gezunt, had been doing...
Nuclear Iran: Technical Issues Overshadowing Negotiations
By Simon Henderson and Olli Heinonen
Although both Washington and Tehran deny reports that they have agreed to bilateral nuclear negotiations, the rumors will...
The Jewish Answer to Al-Jazeera: What Would it Take?
By Dovid Efune
Within the ‘Friends of Israel' camp complaints of Israel's treatment in the ‘media' have been widespread for many years. Over time a...
Light in the Darkness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week's parsha of Masei, which begins with the words "Eileh masei Bnei Yisroel," listing the many stops the Jews made as they...
A Great Idea
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
Recently, I started a new series of lectures on the ancient sefer, Orchos Chaim l’HaRosh, which details in 154 (the...
Why Romney’s Front-Runner Status Is Nuts
By Matt Welch
In the 2008 Republican Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney received 30,021 votes, 25% of the total, good for second place against a socially conservative...
Sharing A Dream
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Back then, there wasn't much to share. It was just a dream, but I welcomed them to join in dreaming.
The people...
The Wisdom of the Dreidle: Comfort in an Impossible World
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Can a simple top, a delightful toy for children, really speak to me in the aftermath of tragedy? In the aftermath...
Opinion: Accommodating Islam?
By Michael Steinberg
At first, the reports were infrequent. They seemed remote, like border clashes in some distant land. Then the reports became more...
Lesson From Olmert Appeal: We Are Not All Created Equal
One lesson the public has learned from the corruption case against former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is that we are not all equal...
Reconnected
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The airplane I am on taxis along the Newark Liberty Airport runway. Rain washes the windows and I think to myself,...
Orthodox Jewish Support for Choice Means Results
By Howie Beigelman
Everyone knows the Orthodox community supports school reform for "parochial" reasons -- the strain on our household budgets from multiple tuitions at...
How We Should Remember September 11
By George Pataki
The date Sept. 11 will forever evoke in the hearts and minds of all Americans' recollections of unimaginable tragedy, of lives...
How Israel Is Helping Newt Gingrich Win
By Dovid Efune
In the United States, among the politically ambitious on both sides of the spectrum, there is one label that is feared above...
Obama Hates New York
Michael Goodwin writes in the pages of the NY Post: It's enough to make you think Barack Obama doesn't love New York. OK, let...
No Moral Equivalence Between Abbas and Netanyahu
By Jonathan S. Tobin
The media is already treating the dueling speeches today at the United Nations General Assembly by Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas...
The Mirage
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
With hundreds of rockets falling on Eretz Yisroel, we are witness to daily miracles as there have been very few Israeli...
