Posted on: September 25th, 2016

The Hamas bombing in Jerusalem which killed four, is remembered by residents of San Francisco because it shattered one of the city’s most prominent Jewish families.

Posted on: September 25th, 2016

Obama’s UN address was an eloquent concoction of soaring rhetoric & banal platitudes, of statements of the obvious & of the obviously false, delivered with impeccable polish and panache.

Posted on: September 25th, 2016

At the same time that MK Livni condemns those who seek to convict her and other Israeli officials while abroad — she does the exact opposite in Israel.

Posted on: September 25th, 2016

Mt. Hermon isn't the toughest mountain to climb, and Mt. Kilimanjaro is no walk in the park.

Posted on: September 25th, 2016

Perhaps, today, it is no t unusual to see somebody who looks like Rav Simcha on the streets of New York City, but in 1920, it was quite unusual.

Posted on: September 25th, 2016

Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem by Arabs? How on Earth could Bibi make such a pernicious accusation? Perhaps, because it’s already happened back in 1948 when the Jordanians "purged" the Old City of JEWS

Posted on: September 23rd, 2016

People resort to drugs, including alcohol, for a variety of reasons, among them a simplistic or reflexive approach to coping with pain, an attempt to hide anxieties, or for random recreational reasons

Posted on: September 23rd, 2016

Certainly, even someone in a spiritual coma on Rosh Hashanah can be awakened by the sound of the shofar.

Posted on: September 22nd, 2016

Philanthropist and Israel lover Kevin Bermeister: "We are in a generation that can turn Jerusalem into a city of the world, our goal is to preserve Jerusalem as Jewish, united, and large."

Posted on: September 22nd, 2016

We Jews are a people of many voices but we are one family, wanting only to live in peace and to be friend and ally to those who accept us and to help make the world a better place.

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Posted on: September 22nd, 2016

Even some of Israel's most stalwart opponents are starting to change course, with some discouraging the BDS, movement, others even engaging in joint military exercises with the Jewish state

Posted on: September 21st, 2016

Obviously, we need to do everything we can to support our first responders, also pray for the victims.

Posted on: September 21st, 2016

(In retrospect, how could it have been otherwise? After all, it was immediately known that explosives were placed in a pressure cooker with shrapnel and that there had been an earlier bombing in New Jersey.)

Posted on: September 21st, 2016

She is the first Orthodox woman from a chassidic background to win a primary for a judicial position...

Posted on: September 21st, 2016

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Posted on: September 21st, 2016

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Posted on: September 21st, 2016

The course reading materials do not even attempt to present contrary readings and source material from historians and other scholars who do not condemn Zionism.

Posted on: September 21st, 2016

Believing in the imminent arrival of the Messianic Age, he stressed the importance of aliyah to Eretz Yisrael and was a great supporter of the Jewish community there.

Posted on: September 20th, 2016

As ever, the BBC compromises its own impartiality by failing to inform its audiences of the existence of alternative opinions on that particular issue of ‘international law’.

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Posted on: September 20th, 2016

What I am calling the "Movement for Jewish Freedom" is an attempt to reengage Zionism as a political movement grounded in solidarity with other groups who share common interests.