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The niggun “A gantz yahr freilich” is one that is well known to many. As a child growing up in St. Louis, I remember when the bachurim in the Yeshiva Gedolah…
Throughout the long centuries that the Jewish people have lived in the diaspora, there have been numerous Jews who served as key advisers to emperors, kings, electors and presidents. Often…
Spot the difference. Michael Ben Ari, leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, tells a protest rally in Afula that the city “has been opened to the enemy as a…
This past week, I heard an amazing story recounted by Rabbi Fishel Schachter in a shiur. I subsequently found out that the story is a few years old, but, as…
Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration over its new requirement that asylum seekers remain in Mexico while their claims are processed in the United States.…
In a dramatic statement from the White House on Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced an “emergency order& to ground all Boeing 737 Max 8 and the& 737 Max 9,…
Health care and technology companies powered stocks broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday, giving the market its third straight gain. Boeing briefly dipped, but finished slightly higher, after the U.S.…
Fiat Chrysler Recalling Nearly 900,000 Vehicles On Emissions WASHINGTON (AP) – Fiat Chrysler is voluntarily recalling 862,520 vehicles in the U.S. because they don’t meet the country’s emission standards. The…
Ilhan Omar was 8 years old when her country of birth, Somalia, was torn apart by civil war. Her family spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya, before…
Sometimes oversimplification helps to explain a complex idea. And sometimes it completely obscures the issue. When it comes to understanding Israel’s unique status as a Jewish and democratic state, it…
I suppose it’s not so strange that I put the two experiences together. They happened a mere day apart and both involved buses. The first incident astounded me. As I…
Light shows can be mesmerizing. There are big ones, like fireworks shows; but even the little ones, like fireflies, have a way of casting a captivating spell on their observers.…
It happened during the visit of the Chief Rabbi of Rechovot, Hagaon Harav Simcha HaCohen Kook, at the summer abode of the Pnei Menachem of Gur in Mr. Carmel in…
“You always have to be prepared to walk. I could’ve signed an agreement today, and then you people would’ve said, ‘Oh, what a terrible deal. What a terrible thing he…
From the start of this election campaign, there has been only one issue: Yes, Bibi or No, Bibi. And that didn’t change with the announcement last week that Attorney General…
To his great credit, President Trump didn’t allow the testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen before a Congressional committee to pressure him into making a deal at all costs…
Do you ever wonder what your kids are thinking while they play? Well, a Canadian father got so curious about it that he decided to take action. Jeremy Rupke, an…
“Everything will collapse like a house of cards,” Binyamin Netanyahu promised during those tense, difficult hours of last Thursday, just before the indictments against him were publicized by his one-time…
Do the ends justify the means? That is the question that a number of noted mosdos, based both in the United States and Eretz Yisrael, have found themselves grappling with…
There’s no point in further delaying the news. I will soon be officially announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the United States. Most everyone else has done so and…