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In a time of increased shooting and other attacks, ensuring security for religious institutions requires a comprehensive approach from the faith communities, says Roger Parrino, commissioner of the New York…
The shifting tides of religious liberty in America and their implications for the Orthodox community. From the moment the first Pilgrim set foot in Plymouth (be it on the fabled…
YOKOHAMA, Japan (The Washington Post) – As the United States and Europe take steps to keep more people out, Japan is cautiously moving to let more people in. This is…
The journey of the FIRST STEP Act, a prison-reform bill on the brink of congressional passage, entails many stories. It’s the story of a Corrections system that many people feel…
Every word spoken by Harav Dov Landau, shlita, is measured. It behooves us to examine Rav Dov’s remarks soon after Maran, zt”l, passed away: “The fact that Hagaon Harav Shteinman,…
Mrs. Esther Horowitz of Boro Park remembers the day five years ago when she was burned out of her house. It was Leil Shemini Atzeres and she had just gone…
Who would have believed, 70 years ago, that Jewish stores today would sell clothes with yellow stars on them? by Ben Zion Wolff Time, they say, heals all wounds. While…
‘Attacked and starved’: A century-old diary recounts U.S. soldiers trapped behind enemy lines by Shoshana Akabas (The Washington Post) – At the top of a ravine in this remote forest…
An interview with Rabbi Yitzchok Elefant, Chief Rabbi of Dimona, whose presentation at the Federation Assembly in Israel brought out the point that the goal for Torah Jewry is about…
In the 11th hour of the 11th day of November, 100 years ago, the guns fell silent along the Western Front. The “Great War,” which had claimed some 20 million…
The Viennese cityscape of the 1980s was devoid of the numerous and ever-growing signs, symbols and memorials one can find all over town nowadays. After all, “Austrians were the first…
A reflection on Poland’s anti-Semitic campaign of 1968 and its echoes today The political crisis that wracked Poland in 1968 and the vicious anti-Semitic campaign that the Communist government pursued…
New Jersey may be painted a deep Democratic blue, but the Democratic incumbent is no shoo-in for re-election. That’s because this year is unlike other years, and this senator is…
Robert Hugin is tackling Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez’s bid for a third term because, he told Hamodia, he would be “morally offended” if the senator whose corruption trial ended in…
Two-term New Jersey Republican Congressman Tom MacArthur represents a district that stretches from the Philadelphia suburbs to the Jersey shore and includes the Town of Toms River, home to a…
A tenacious Navy commander in World War II, Liebenow’s acts of heroism stretched from the waters of the South Pacific to the beaches of Normandy — evading the enemy, launching…
When two American diplomats stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Havana reported a strange sound in May, Cuban investigators rushed to the diplomatic residence to investigate. So did FBI investigators,…
The Yom Tov season was full of davening and meals. Lots and lots of meals. Platters of food. Pitchers of juice. A medley of young and old voices; punctuated by…
Dixon Ticonderoga sold millions of the iconic No. 2 yellow pencils American children took back to school last month. But the 223-year-old firm has survived by relying on more than…
By Paul Kiel (The Washington Post) – It’s a ritual of spring in America. Tens of thousands of people get their tax refunds, and when they do, they are finally…