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"They took him and cast him into the pit. (Gen. 37:24). Rashi: “There was no water; there were snakes and scorpions."

All I could think of as a first-timer drinking the Cool-Aid, was where do I sign up for next year.

No longer will delegitimization efforts go unchallenged. That's a silence we will continue to break.

The only thing disproportionate is the world’s hatred of Israel.

Only the Rabbi and his wife had a personal escort of guards accompany them on the Temple Mount. Why?

Yehudit's backstory and her poems related to the Yom Kippur War are a MUST read

I saw Daniel. He was crying and hugging his mom.

But of course, despite all these signals that something was very, very, very, wrong, nothing in my wildest imaginations conceived of the full horror that confronted me upon opening the news motzaei Simchat Torah.

Our world seemed to shift overnight. Flights canceled, a family bar mitzvah postponed, the resurgence of online school – we were thrust back into a lifestyle reminiscent of the covid era.

This year though I want to highlight a different aspect of the Convention – I’d like to talk about why 14,000 Jews leave their busy lives each year to come to AIPAC.

I don’t get it. What cruel version of humanity kidnaps a Filipino caretaker and her Alzheimer’s patient? For what purpose?

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Hana hears first hand, stories from Ukrainian refugees.

Is Woodstock still leading the world to destruction?

Hana is at the border of Ukraine and Moldova

Hamas will ask for a lot for the hostages. Hamas will rightly believe that there will be intense political pressure to rescue the captives at almost any price. Although we think that no price is too high for the return of Jewish hostages, there may be some prices that are too high.

There is much I can write you about what is going here, but I am wondering what I should not write. I will start by...

The arm of my grandmother had a scar, a branding of the Holocaust that was her young adulthood amidst the fires of Auschwitz.

If the Iran deal passes, Obama's WH becomes world's leading financier of terrorism against Americans

But we citizens, especially religious citizens, must take this terrible debacle as a severe wake-up call to unite again as a people.

Can there be a better name for this child born on the brink of one of Israel’s worst wars than one that means – Hashem, listen to our hearts!

I hope you will decide that encouraging your children to experience Israeli solidarity, in the way that we have, is a worthy educational goal.

One of the thousands of people who were first responders on 9/11 is a resident of Efrat and a United Hatzalah volunteer. His name is Eric Andron.

Israel and the Palestinian Authority cannot even agree to move their clocks back on the same day.

The fear and stress are very real and while we are mostly managing now, the questions about how bad it could get are a place where our minds don’t want to go.

I was there! I was in Bnei Brak. Not on Thursday evening, not at the raucous, red-shirted, “progressive” women’s demonstration. I was in Bnei Brak on the Sunday before...

When it became clear we would reach Kishinev far too late to hear Megillah reading, Raphael Poch produced his kosher Megillah scroll and began the reading on the bus.

We mourn the dead, wish a speedy recovery to the wounded, and pray that God guides the government.

Today (10 Nissan – April 18) is the 21st yahrzeit of my daughter Alisa Flatow, Hy”d. I’d like to share with readers of The Jewish Press some personal reflections on the events of 1995 and what has happened since.

One thing of which we are certain, and something that provides moments of not just comfort, but of hope, is the response of the ordinary people of Israel to the difficult times in which we find ourselves.