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The Polish village of Parysów (Porisov in Yiddish) is not a large dot on the map of the increasingly popular Jewish heritage tours to Poland. Those with a good…
Stats, personal accounts, and a hashkafic perspective Aaron M* is a 27-year-old father of two. He does property management, learns the daf every evening with his chavrusa, recently celebrated his…
Russia and Poland are battling for supremacy in their quest to rewrite the history of World War II. “Never forget” is a phrase commonly associated with the Holocaust. Presumably, world…
As of this week, the world is a safer place without the likes of Qassem Soleimani, who not only built Iranian terror forces all over the world, but also caused…
Perspectives on months of attacks in Williamsburg that preceded Jersey City, Monsey, and national attention to the rise of anti-Semitic violence. For more than a year before the murders in…
This was supposed to be an exit interview, but Danny Danon’s term is going extra innings. Danon’s term as Israeli ambassador to the United Nations was to have finished at…
Harav Aharon Schiff, shlita, serves as just the third Rav of the Machzikei Hadass Kehillah of Antwerp, Belgium since WWII. His predecessor, Harav Chaim Kreiswirth, zt”l, the Rav for nearly…
Rabbi Leibish Lish. Rabbi Leibish Lish to Present Masmidei HaSiyum B’ram — Indeed, Yehoshua ben Gamla’s name should be honored, for were it not for him, Torah would have…
Decades after the miraculous victory of the Chashmona’im, Jews could not come to the Beis Hamikdash because of the Chakra — a towering fortress used by the Greeks to terrorize…
Following the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump makes one feel like a gangster watching a horse race that he knows is rigged. Spectators cheer and bite their nails…
The multi-faceted story of the rise of anti-Semitism in America has gone on long enough to move through several stages. Shootings at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh and…
For most New Yorkers, the term “Black Hebrew Israelites” conjures up images of militant preachers dressed in pseudo-Biblical clothing, brandishing posters of anti-Semitic imagery, shouting about some wild conspiracy theory…
It was late in the evening of August 1, 2012, as the 12th Siyum HaShas was winding down. Rabbi Yosef Chaim Golding, Chief Operating Officer of the Siyum, was sitting…
Miriam knew she was in for a big headache. A call had come in from the Social Security Administration (SSA)’s toll free number. The caller, who knew Miriam’s first and…
A Jewish Scientist in Nazi Germany The evening had all the trappings that one might expect of a museum exhibit opening: Well-dressed sophisticates milling about, hovering over a sampling of…
Many in Israel are saying these days that our enemies are liable to mistakenly analyze our raging political developments and come to the dangerous conclusion that now is a good…
For those of you who are foreigners to the world of smoking, when you first heard the word “vape” you may have thought it was a new-fangled way of talking…
An interview with Yaakov Greenbaum of Ashdod, father of eight, who was still in Yerushalayim on Thursday morning, awaiting a possible return later in the day. From your viewpoint, how…
This story is often told, tongue in cheek: Shaya, a young schoolboy, would act up each day in class. His teacher, at his wits’ end, advised the parents to medicate…
The U.K. is preparing for a general election on December 12 — the third in four years. What are British people voting for? How does the British electoral system work?…