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Shopping in New York state is about to get a bit more environmentally friendly, expensive and inconvenient. On March 1, stores in the state will no longer be permitted to…
Since starting his four-year diplomatic term in August 2016 as Consul General of Israel in New York, Ambassador Dani Dayan has mastered the art of diplomacy. Representing communities throughout New…
A look at what President Trump’s impeachment and acquittal could mean for American government The impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump reached their long-foreseen conclusion last week with his acquittal…
Former ADL Director Abe Foxman Discusses the State of Anti-Semitism in America Today Abe Foxman never imagined that anti-Semitism, a subject he dedicated his life to fighting, would attract the…
Chaim Deutsch is running for Congress, but he’s determined to fight the scourge of anti-Semitism until his last day in the New York City Council — and beyond. Deutsch, whose…
After three years of planning and delays, more planning and more delays, the “Deal of the Century” was finally unveiled at a White House ceremony so momentous that Israeli Prime…
In the largest event of its kind in Israel’s history, 49 world leaders arrived to mark the liberation of Auschwitz and to express concern that the lessons of the Holocaust…
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 sense…
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…