Bibi’s Triumph Puts Obama on the Defensive
By Jonathan Tobin
If President Obama was hoping that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu would lay an egg with his much-anticipated and controversial speech to a...
Digesting the New Pew Data on the State of American Orthodoxy
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
Triumphalism? Pride? Encouragement?
What exactly are the messages that we should glean from newly-released Pew Research Center data about Orthodox Jewry in...
Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer Meets Senior Jewish Democrats Amid Fears VP Biden and Others...
By B. Cohen
Ron Dermer, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, has met with senior Jewish Democrats on Capitol Hill following reports that Vice President...
More At Stake Than You Think In Gaza
By Daniel Taub, Israel's Ambassador to Britain
Whether it is Ansar al-Sharia in Libya, Lashkar-e Jhangvi in Pakistan or al-Qaeda around the world, terrorist ...
Bumbling Barack: Obama Should Have Called Paris Market Attack What It Is: Anti-Semitism
By Jonathan S. Tobin
This past week's bloody events in France have shocked the civilized world. But shock and sadness are not a sufficient response...
Koch: President Should Say Attack on Israel Is Attack on US
By Ed Koch
I met with President Obama on Sept. 21, 2011, after I supported Bob Turner, a Republican who won the congressional seat...
Miracle on 67th Street
By Jerry Gross
This time of year could have been the sixth anniversary of my death. Instead, I'll be performing a miracle in a few...
Analysis: Condi Could KO Romney’s Jewish Appeal
By Jonathan S. Tobin
Put me down as being among those who are highly skeptical about the prospect of former Secretary of State Condoleezza...
Tips and Tactics for Generating Quality Shadchan Attention – Part VI
Using Money Effectively and Fairly
Part II
By Moshe Pogrow, Director, NASI Project
(This article is the sixth in a series.)
(To view Part I – Introduction, click here.)
(To view Part...
Significance of Naaseh V’nishma
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The posuk in Bereishis states, “Vayhi erev…Yom Hashishi.” The gemara in Shabbos, daf peh ches and the gemara in Avoda Zora, daf gimmel learn from this posuk that Hashem created all of ma’aseh bereishis in the z’chus of the Yom Hashishi when the...
פרסומי ניסא – Publicizing the Miracle(s)
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
One of the highlights of Chanukah in Washington Heights is the candlelighting at K'hal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ/"Breuer's") and the singing...
Watch: Dr. Meir Wikler On “Three Words We Hate To Hear From Our Children”
Dr. Meir Wikler (#14) Three Words We Hate To Hear From Our Children
"It's Not Fair!!", the great "Fairness Doctrine", and how to deal with...
Strike A Match
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
As the winter begins to set in, bringing with it early nights and cold weather, Chanukah arrives, warming our hearts and...
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...
Explaining Obama: Our First Islamist President?
By Richard Baehr
One might think that Barack Obama's obsession with Jewish settlements in the West Bank would wane a bit, given the events in...
The Danger and Rampant Corruption of Traffic Light Cameras
By Seth Mandel
The ongoing IRS scandal has struck such a nerve with the public because it is a clear example of a prying, ever-present...
Poetic Comfort
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The Jewish calendar year, with its peaks and valleys, days of rejoicing and days of sorrow, defines our moods. There are...
Seeing, Thinking and Remembering
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
We tend to think of the mitzvos of the Torah as actions and deeds, which we perform with our hands, legs,...
Lives of Kedoshim
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
During World War I, Eastern European Jewry was displaced. When the war ended, many found themselves in different towns than the...
Party Affiliation Doesn’t Matter In Super-Jewish District
By Orthodox Pundit
"When it comes to the Orthodox Jewish district, a theoretical Democratic candidate did better than three-to-one than a Republican in the CUNY/New York...
