President Abbas, Tell Your People To Stop Stabbing Us

By David Horovitz President Abbas, if you truly care about your people, you need to tell them to stop stabbing us. They’ve killed about a dozen...

“Preventing Homesickness at Camp: The Refuah Before the Makkah”

By Dr. Meir Wikler Once, when I was a young child, my parents called an electrician to our home to investigate a strange noise and...

Why Is Israel Criticized for Helping Nepal Earthquake Victims?

By Steven A. Cook Last week, Israel took criticism for sending a contingent of doctors and search-and-rescue specialists to Nepal to participate in the earthquake...

Doctor By Day, Sukkah Savior By Night

By Maayan Jaffe In the office or the hospital right after morning minyan and working extended hours, radiation oncologist Jay Robinow has saved hundreds...

Ashreichem Yisroel

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz It is hard for us to imagine the way our people were feeling at the middle of the last century....

This Purim, Flip Your Lid

By Andrew J. Neff Purim this year is this coming Sunday (or Monday in Yerushalayim). I have a great idea for your costume. It's ...

Choose Life

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz If you would have to sum up all that the Torah encompasses in one commandment, what would you choose? Would...

Perth Amboy Shul Update

Dear readers, We wanted to thank everyone for their outpouring support and chizuk which gives us the strength to go forward and stop this...

Philanthropist Adam Milstein: “Whatever We Give To Charity, God Gives Us 10 Times More”

By Jacob Kamaras The way philanthropist Adam Milstein sees it, the priorities of fundraising and survival mean that Jewish and pro-Israel organizations are held back...

Why is the EU So Confused About Hezbollah?

AFP reports that the European Union declines to consider Hezbollah as a terrorist organization: The European Union turned down a request on Tuesday by...

Foolish Kings

By Yochanan Gordon The most fascinating aspect of what is currently unfolding in the Arab nations is that the mightiest despots of the Arab nations...

Gaza Escalation: What Other Country Would Tolerate This?

By Corey Feldman A soldier, who asked to remain anonymous due to army restrictions, sent the following op-ed to me, which I now pass on...

History On the Heart

By Rabbi Avi Shafran  How we came to meet is a long story, and of no particular import here. But a guest in my office...

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...

Rabbi Weisberg to APP: End Hateful Coverage of Frum Community

By Rabbi Moshe Zev Weisberg The March 30 Asbury Park Press editorial “A.G. must take close look at Lakewood” regarding Lakewood’s Orthodox community reeks of...

My Sin is before Me Always

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran We live at a time when even the most "humble" amongst us seems to have a blog, or a Twitter account,...

The Value of Vulnerability

By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff One of the central actions of Yom Kippur is to admit wrongdoing as a way of achieving atonement. As we pray...

Now is the Time

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Time marches along, too quickly it seems. It feels like it was only a couple of weeks ago that the weather...

Rockets Keep Coming From Gaza, Not That The World Notices

The following is Wall Street Journal editorial: As the U.S. Presidential campaign races to the finish, the Middle East continues to boil. Not that...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Death Penalty

By Jeff Jacoby According to a Washington Post-ABC poll released last week, 70 percent of Americans want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev put to death if he is...

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