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It wasn’t exactly unexpected that President Trump’s son Eric, who often rebuts attacks on his father, would have spoken out against the new book by journalist Bob Woodward that presents…
The world is watching as Russia and the Syrian regime prepare to unleash the biggest bloodbath yet in the Syrian saga of horrors. Yet no one seems to know how…
Twenty-seven years ago, I was in Afghanistan to watch the Russians cut and run from a military quagmire and failed occupation that helped bring down the Soviet Union. In 2018,…
Chazal (Chagigah 15) tell us the heartbreaking tale of Acher. Born Elisha ben Avuya, he reached enormous heights in Torah knowledge and was the teacher of the great Tanna Rabi…
As with every Yom Tov, we usher in the sanctity of Yom Kippur with the brachah of Shehecheyanu. Just as we rejoice with the advent of Sukkos or Pesach, so,…
Seventy-five years ago this week, three days before Yom Kippur 5702/1943, more than four hundred Rebbes and Rabbanim left their homes and kehillos from throughout the United States to march…
A mother and father are notified that their darling little boy broke a neighbor’s window. They feel responsible to right the wrong. They are, after all, where the buck stops…
Until the age of seven, he never left Komemiyus, the first chareidi moshav in Israel. The house, the shtiebel and the cow barn in the chareidi shtetl were a haven…
Was the New York Times’s decision to publish a mystery op-ed piece describing an organized resistance inside the Trump administration “gutless,” as the president has angrily deemed it? Or was…
The request was a very difficult one to make of his beloved son, but the king felt he had no choice. Savages in a remote part of his empire were…
The days of Rosh Hashanah are the first of the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah and as such seem merely the beginning of a process culminating in the day of teshuvah —…
Shaare Zedek Hospital, Yerushalayim Two beds, side by side, one a contrast to the other. On one side a Chassidic avreich burning with the fire of Hashem, observing every nuance…
As a young teenager davening daily in the shul that my father, a”h, served as Rav, a congregation whose clientele ranged from totally non-observant Jews to fully observant ones, I…
As the summer draws to a close, the Jewish community in the U.K. is holding its breath, waiting for the results of two crucial meetings taking place within the Labour…
The headlines have taken dead aim and unless you have been sleeping, you know the Orthodox Jewish community is under attack — in the media, online, and, most dangerously, in…
On paper, Simcha Felder appears to be the worthiest candidate a party could want to support. The state senator is a Democrat who represents a district with a Democratic majority.…
Prisoners across the United States began a strike Aug. 21 that is scheduled to last until next Sunday. The strike’s organizers are encouraging their fellow prisoners to refuse to work…
At long last, teenagers attending public school in California will get to sleep a little later in the morning. After rejecting a similar measure last year, the California Legislature narrowly…
This past weekend saw a continuation of the far-right rallies that plagued the German city of Chemnitz over the course of last week, this time with protesters clashing with counter-protesters,…
Workers have been better off almost every year since America started its slow climb out of the Great Recession in 2009. But this year is different. Things aren’t just a…