Posted on: April 6th, 2005

Whatever happened to Jewish baseball players? Not that they're an extinct species - several Jews are currently playing in the major leagues or working their way through the minors - but Jewish baseball fans will tell you the present-day crop is relatively unaccomplished and unknown.

Posted on: March 2nd, 2005

There is an old Swazi legend about a beautiful maiden who fell in love with a handsome warrior.

Posted on: February 9th, 2005

In "The Case for Secular Studies in Yeshivas" (front-page essay, Nov. 19, 2004) I outlined my thoughts about problems yeshivas are having with general studies and suggested changes.

Posted on: February 2nd, 2005

Much of childhood is spent in illusion. We grow up imagining things not as they are, but as we wish them to be.

Posted on: January 5th, 2005

Months after the Frankfurt Book Fair was accused of displaying anti-Semitic Arab literature, organizers of the world's most glamorous publishing event are still bitter about the allegations.

Posted on: December 29th, 2004

The political interference by the rabbis is getting more and more unbearable.

Posted on: December 22nd, 2004

One cannot think of Yiddishkeit in Elizabeth, New Jersey, without at the same time recalling the community's longtime leader, Harav Mordechai Pinchas Teitz, zt"l.

Posted on: December 15th, 2004

It was the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving. Downtown offices in Washington had emptied out for the weekend.

Posted on: December 1st, 2004

Prologue: Oct. 2004. I am sitting at my desk holding a new book in my hands. It has just come from the printer.

Posted on: November 17th, 2004

"When I was in the illustrious city of Vilna in the presence of the Rav, the light, the great Gaon, my master and teacher, the light of the eyes of the exile, the renowned pious one (may Hashem protect and save him) Rav Eliyahu, in the month of Teves 5538 [January 1778], I heard from his holy mouth that according to what a person is lacking in knowledge of the "other wisdoms," correspondingly he will be lacking one hundred portions in the wisdom of the Torah, because the Torah and the 'other wisdoms' are inextricably linked together ..."

Posted on: November 10th, 2004

In the October 7, 2004 issue of The New York Review of Books, Rob Malley, who was part of the U.S. team at Camp David, reviewed Dennis Ross's book on the peace process (The Missing Peace) and came to a conclusion very different from Ross.

Posted on: November 10th, 2004

At the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, in a flag-bedecked, battle-scarred but victorious Paris, the great top-hatted Allied men of vision and illusion gathered to remake the world and invent the post-Ottoman Middle East.

Posted on: November 10th, 2004

The American people have once again demonstrated that they are the most glorious on earth.

Posted on: October 27th, 2004

Want to be awakened from the galut slumber? Want to be rejuvenated spiritually and emotionally?

Posted on: September 22nd, 2004

Gush Katif is the name of the set of Jewish settlements at the western end of the Gaza Strip.

Posted on: August 25th, 2004

On August 26, 1827, Tsar Nicholas I published the Recruitment Decree calling for conscription of Jewish boys between the ages of twelve and twenty-five.

Posted on: August 11th, 2004

I've been a screenwriter in Hollywood for over twenty years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen, whom I have been in love with since I was ten years old, and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen.

Posted on: July 7th, 2004

"Reagan I could trust." - Yitzhak Shamir"He was unshakable; a staunch supporter." - Shimon Peres

Posted on: June 30th, 2004

What follows below should be read in light of what Orthodoxy in the United States was during the forties, fifties and sixties.

Posted on: May 26th, 2004

The third yahrzeit of HaRav Avigdor Miller, zt"l, occurred a few weeks ago.