To most political observers, the concept of monarchy has seemed quaint — at best — for more than a century. With few exceptions it is a concept that an…
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‘Let Me Try to Dispel the Myths’: Jason Greenblatt Tells Hamodia the Inside Story
Jason Greenblatt has decided it’s time to say goodbye. The U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, who was the chief architect of the yet-to-be-revealed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, recently announced…
The Sentinel at the U.N.
An interview with UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer Hillel Neuer has been championing human rights in the lion’s den for over a decade. As executive director of UN Watch, the Geneva-based…
Trades, Talks, Tariffs: What’s Going on With the U.S.-China Conflict?
U.S vs. China: Is it a trade war, a chess game, or an opportunity for the art of the deal? Has the great negotiator underestimated his opponent? Is the White…
Israel’s Secret Ties With the Arab World
Dozens of Arab and Muslim states are drawing closer to Israel, due in large part to a shared fear of the Iranian threat. Hamodia’s military correspondent surveys the secret agreements…
Conference Call – Behind the Scenes of Back to School
The buses arrive and the excited children, decked out in their new school clothes and uniforms, carrying their briefcases or knapsacks filled with new school supplies, head for their new…
Judgment Call
In November 2019, Judge Steven Mostofsky will almost certainly be elected to serve as a justice on the New York State Supreme Court, the state’s trial-level court. Mostofsky, 61, known…
British vs. Jewish Values
While schoolchildren across the country are enjoying their summer vacations, parents, heads of schools and askanim in the U.K. are wondering what challenges the new school year will bring. Over…
A Last Call From the Trenches
The New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) attempt to impose detailed regulations on private schools has been an ongoing struggle of particular concern for the Orthodox community and its chinuch…
The Children Left Behind
‘Why can’t I get on the bus?’ – The Moment of Truth The summer is ending. School buses are revving up. But some parents still don’t know if their children will…
Finding the Proper Place for Every Jewish Child
Rabi Preida had a talmid whom he would teach 400 times until he learned [the lesson]. One day, Rabi Preida was needed for a mitzvah. He taught the talmid, but…
Jonathan Pollard: Why I Was Forced to Break My Silence
After serving 30 years in prison for passing classified U.S. secrets about Arab countries to Israel — information that helped save many Jewish lives — Jonathan Pollard was finally released…
NETANYAHU: THE POLITICIAN, THE PERSON, AND THE PROMISE
FRIENDS, FOES AND FOREIGNERS: THE EMBATTLED ISRAELI PM SPEAKS In an exclusive interview with Hamodia, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discusses Iran, Israel’s terms for peace with the Palestinians, its unprecedented…
The Story Behind ‘The Giant’
Of the many Holocaust-era stories of heroism and tragedy, perhaps none is as haunting as that of Harav Michoel Ber Weissmandl, zt”l. One of the giants in the hatzalah efforts…
What We Are Waiting For
A virtual reality tour brings the glory of the Bais Hamikdash into focus If there is an experience that reinforces the principle of “ein domeh shmiah l’re’iyah,” that there is no…
No One to Answer ‘Amein’
A group of around 100 Jews (this author included) with faint connection to each other gathered this past April at New York’s Center for Jewish History. The glue that bound…
BACK TO BROTHERHOOD?
Common Cause Creates Alliances British journalist Helen Stone, in a 2015 article, wrote movingly about her Auntie Lilly, a”h, who died at age 105. Lilly’s only daughter, Regina, married an…
SCHOOL CHOICE: The Buck Starts Here
When advocates for private schools began to advocate for the smattering of available government funding sources in the 1960s, the move was considered novel and controversial. Those days seem a…
In Pursuit of Law & Order
Former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly takes on global anti-Semitism One of the most celebrated and highly regarded figures in law enforcement, former Commissioner Raymond Kelly is the familiar face of the NYPD,…
Eldercare Eligibility – Protecting Assets and Income
“If Donald Trump wanted, he could be eligible to receive Community Medicaid in New York State,” Mr. Binyomin Drew tells Hamodia. “As long as he places his assets in an…