First Person

My family was at the Western Wall in Jerusalem along with tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends...

I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

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

The best hasbara campaign to defend Israel and Judaism will never really be enough; there is not the trust and common language needed for such efforts. The gap can be bridged not via hasbara but via joint Jewish-Islamic courts.

Ted Cruz is a true Oheiv Yisroel and the kind of unyielding moral warrior we need in the White House.

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.

It was a mistake to have filed sexual misconduct accusations against Dershowitz and the charges are hereby withdrawn

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

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

Def. of Chutzpah: 2 super successful Israeli Arabs told the crowd Israel oppresses its Arab citizens

I was at Ben Gurion Airport and suddenly was surrounded by security guards, guns pointed at me.

The same anti-Semitic hatred I saw in Yad Vashem is exists day after day, especially in Jerusalem

Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu has some final words for JewishPress.com readers before he moves on to his next phase in life...

An appeal to American Jews to stop funding organizations that harm Israel's Defense Forces

I decided that I’m not going to let terror keep me away from what I love to do, and all the more so, Jerusalem and guiding throughout Israel.

Don’t panic. Don’t stop your car. Don’t shoot. And most importantly, don’t give the enemy a victory by staying off the roads.

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

"Yesha" and Binyamin Regional Council leaders said the attack "is not the path of Jews in Judea and Samaria."

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

“I hold the woman’s place over that of men in every fundamental aspect of public and private life."

I was entranced by Kaddish, a song of sorrow of the whole of Israel for the 1000s of years of exile

Latvia, July 4, 1941 they forced many Jews in the shul putting it on fire; everyone was burned alive

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

To boost aliya, Israel will encourage Marshall’s, Costco, K Mart & Entenmann’s Bakeries to open here

Coke, the "Real Thing," may be in REAL trouble.

In Ayala's case, the art of receiving can have an even bigger impact than the art of giving.

Hundreds visited Oz ve Gaon to mark 1 year since the abduction of Gilad, Eyal & Naftali, HY”D.

During my spiritual journey I discovered G-d spoke to man only once, to the Jewish people at Sinai

FBI’s undercover agents contacted ORA (Org. for the Resolution of Agunot) pretending to be an agunah

The Ravens' Ray Lewis screamed that violence is never the answer." Unfortunately, he is wrong.