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It seemed to happen in the blink of an eye. Accommodations that people with disabilities had requested for years were implemented nearly overnight. Jobs that were supposedly impossible to accommodate…
(The Washington Post) – A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine is making people think twice about how they might be exposed to covid-19 if they open…
Many people are worried that social distancing and state lockdowns will “kill the economy.” That’s the wrong analogy. Now that the massive $2 trillion stimulus bill is set to become…
“Number one …” presidential hopeful Joe Biden Jr. said at his March 15 debate with equally hopeful (though less entitled to be so) Senator Bernie Sanders, “if I’m elected president…
Fear, with all its definitions, feelings and types, is an emotion that Hakadosh Baruch Hu put in our souls, just like a virus is part of the physical being. The…
Let’s imagine a wealthy Parisian who threw a fabulous party to celebrate his successful acquisition of a major jewelry company. This was the happy realization of his dreams after years…
In 1996, when Binyamin Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres by a hairsbreadth, Peres responded famously by saying, “The Jews defeated the Israelis.” The same could be said about what happened two…
It’s strange but true: We sometimes fail to acknowledge the most important thing in the universe. That would be bechirah, Hashem’s astonishing gift of free will to mankind. We humans…
Lma’an achay v’reiyei I speak out of concern for the welfare of every individual. The medical situation throughout the world is very serious, and calls for a public statement. The…
“In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.” – Giulio Andreotti, former prime minister of Italy For a few hours it looked like the nightmare was over.…
It’s been some 700 years since the bubonic plague ravaged central Asia, killing millions of people. A decade or two later, in October 1347, a ship from the Crimea docked…
The State of Israel has just concluded a very emotional election for the third time in a year. The way it looks now, there is no easy solution, and people…
It’s serious when the Israel Defense Forces, an institution that enjoys a high level of public trust, is found to have lied. That’s why the army is doing somersaults to…
Politicians would serve themselves well to always keep in mind Rabi Yehudah Hanasi’s admonition: “An eye sees, an ear hears, and all your deeds are written in a book” (Avos…
Tel Aviv is a multicultural city, and its mayor, Ron Huldai, is known for his liberal views and permissive way of life. Unfortunately, Tel Aviv is hardly known as a…
On page 13 of the Trump administration’s peace plan, you’ll find a key paragraph that explains why there will never be peace between Palestinian Arabs and Israel. Referring to an…
Naama Yissachar returned home recently on the Israeli Prime Minister’s plane. This was ostensibly a reason to rejoice: A young woman sitting among criminals in a Russian prison had been…
I’ll never forget coming across the phrase “the Holocaust” — complete with the definite article and capitalized second word —in, of all things, a translation of the Mishnah. More unnerving…
Should Israel annex the Jordan Valley, as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has promised to do if reelected? No one questions its strategic importance. The valley, 120 miles (193 km) long…
Security for Jewish institutions — shuls, schools, community centers and organizations — has understandably been at the forefront of many minds and agendas in recent months. Agudath Israel of America,…