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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,…
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…
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…
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…
Surprise! The Trump administration is actually making progress to reduce drug prices, and not just by “browbeating” pharmaceutical executives. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced new options…
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, back when Donald Trump was a mere businessman building casinos, not an embattled president haranguing the press, I was already dealing with what…
“Every Friday night, as Montefiore would sing the pleasant Shabbos songs, when he reached Eishet Chayil, he would gaze upon her and his eyes would well up: ‘Many daughters have…
(Bloomberg) – During the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump broke with previous Republican nominees by pledging to make it easier for new mothers to take time off from work. Two…
Each of the three men had spent 20 years in prison. They were leaders of the 88 Generation, an organization of Myanmar activists that took its name from the student…
There are certain enduring rituals in U.S. foreign policy that are pursued whether they have any chance of success or not. Every administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s has tried to…
Further revealing who and what he is, former CIA Director John Brennan recently produced a New York Times op-ed that took something President Donald Trump once said, made it sound…