Posted on: February 28th, 2007

It isn't fair," whined the donkey to the ox.

Posted on: February 7th, 2007

One of the factors that hindered the proper early development of Judaism in America was a lack of qualified religious functionaries.

Posted on: January 10th, 2007

There is a widespread perception in Israel that Sephardic Jews are more sensible than the rest of us. Sephardim, or "Oriental Jews" as they are commonly if mistakenly called (strictly speaking, the two terms are not interchangeable), tend to shy away from the various manifestations of non-moderation that afflict Ashkenazi or "Western" Jews.

Posted on: December 27th, 2006

Harry Truman, who died 34 years ago this week, has long been considered a hero in the struggle for a Jewish state. The truth is somewhat more complicated.

Posted on: December 6th, 2006

One of the most well-kept secrets in Flatbush is the Yosef Goldman Collection of American Jewish Books and Manuscripts.

Posted on: November 29th, 2006

Interview with a suicide bomber in training

Posted on: November 22nd, 2006

Jimmy Carter's new book - Palestine Peace Not Apartheid - should, by all rights, be headed for the remainder bin. Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, calls it a "tendentious, dishonest and stupid book."

Posted on: November 15th, 2006

This year, the second day of Chanukah will coincide with the 144th anniversary of the worst official act of anti-Semitism in American history.

Posted on: November 1st, 2006

Its origins are in the medieval Spanish kingdom of Castille, in the early thirteenth century, well before Columbus left for the Americas.

Posted on: October 25th, 2006

His voice had the strength of a pipe organ and the gentleness of a violin, but most of all it had the power to make men weep.

Posted on: October 18th, 2006

The American Orthodox Jewish community of today is drastically different from the community that existed in America 75 years ago.

Posted on: September 13th, 2006

Jewish religious observance suffered a propitious decline in early- and mid-20th century America.

Posted on: August 23rd, 2006

Back in April, Rabbi Wolpe gave a sermon whose title took one aback: "Can Israel Survive?"

Posted on: July 26th, 2006

One day in the summer of 1981, when I was still living in Brooklyn, I received a call from Dassie Marcus, a fervent supporter of Israel, the settlement movement, and Gush Emunim.

Posted on: July 19th, 2006

"All you do all day is threaten that there will be Katyusha rockets landing in Ashkelon.

Posted on: June 28th, 2006

For most of my life, I lived a Clark Kent existence: that of a Jew residing in Manchester, England, intent on blending into the modern, secular world.

Posted on: June 7th, 2006

I was in New York on Thursday, May 25, when a banner front-page headline in that week's Forward caught my eye from the newspaper box on the Manhattan street-corner.

Posted on: April 26th, 2006

After Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer posted an anti-Israel polemic on the website of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government - styled as a "research" paper but containing virtually no original research and riddled with extraordinary scholarly lapses - the response of much of the mainstream media in America was admirable.

Posted on: April 19th, 2006

In 1924 Harry Fischel had occasion to visit the town of Eishishok in Lithuania.

Posted on: April 5th, 2006

The Israeli election played out in the shadow of the Hamas victory and the creation of an armed Hamas-led fascist state and terrorist army positioned in the suburbs of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.