Face to Face With My Potential Killer
Interview with a suicide bomber in training
Jimmy Carter’s Disingenuous Diplomacy
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."
Shame of the Yankees – America’s Worst Anti-Jewish Action
This year, the second day of Chanukah will coincide with the 144th anniversary of the worst official act of anti-Semitism in American history.
Tearing Off Labels
Integrating the advances in the world around us without compromising halacha is part and parcel of Judaism, not something that needs to be noted with an additional adjective such as "modern."
The Harriet Tubman of Syrian Jewry
Its origins are in the medieval Spanish kingdom of Castille, in the early thirteenth century, well before Columbus left for the Americas.
Frum or Ehrlich?
The American Orthodox Jewish community of today is drastically different from the community that existed in America 75 years ago.
Leftists For A Second Holocaust
In his visit to Lebanon earlier this year, Noam Chomsky justified Hizbullah's military arsenal as a "deterrent to potential aggression."
Whitewashing FDR on the Holocaust
Rosen cannot even bring himself to use the names that historians normally use, such as "Bergson Group" or "Bergsonites."
Henry Siegman, Pro-Palestinian Propagandist
The Middle East, after all, is a volatile region, and accurate predictions are not always so easy. But there is no such excuse for Siegman's all too common errors of fact.
Riding the Waves of Teshuvah
The tzaddikim, unsayed by desire to indulge in the pleasures the "island" proffers, stay on board.
Rabbi David Miller: Forgotten Fighter For Orthodoxy
Jewish religious observance suffered a propitious decline in early- and mid-20th century America.
Memo to Doomsayers: Israel Won, Get Over It
For years, Nasrallah mocked Israeli society as a "spider's web," intricate, elaborate, but weak and easily swept away. Now it was Nasrallah's turn to be swept away.
Jews Who Hate The Jewish State
Today, as in the past, the conduct of Jews who despise their own people spans the full spectrum of political depravity.
Visiting Israel At War
Back in April, Rabbi Wolpe gave a sermon whose title took one aback: "Can Israel Survive?"
The Slifkin Torah-Science Controversy: An Admittedly Biased Insider’s Perspective
On the advice of his halachic authority, Rabbi Slifkin refused to recant his books until he would be able to meet with the rabbis condemning the books.
An American Hero of the Holocaust
Harry chose to enter the diplomatic service and in 1936 was posted as a U.S. vice consul in Marseille, France. There he would soon come face to face with the plight of Hitler's Jewish victims.
An American in the IDF
These stories instilled in Matthew a certain character - tough, brash - but not a sense of mission. Not a drive to fight for Israel.
Remembering My Friend Yuval Ne’eman
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.
The View from Haifa September 10th Syndrome
"All you do all day is threaten that there will be Katyusha rockets landing in Ashkelon.
The Emergence, Role, and Closing of Edah
We began with a website and publications to provide a clear picture of Modern Orthodox ideology.
Survivor: A Meditation on Remembering the Shoah
Back then, our parents and grandparents marched in freezing snow for hours in uniforms and plastic slippers - and survived.
Jewperheroes!
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.
Forty Years Later: The New New American Orthodoxy
There would be Orthodox insiders cautioning, "Be quiet, don't make trouble. We have friends at Federation and we will make a deal."
Stories of Yeshiva College
While I like to flatter myself in thinking that this article was written in response to mine, it more likely took months of painstaking research and had nothing to do with me.
Hatchet Job On Kosher Meat Company
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.
In The Shadow of the Apple Tree
Intellectual communication marks the Gemini trait . . . and the green-colored emerald is the gemstone associated with this month.
How a Holocaust Happens
Unchecked, the 2000 intifada against the Jews inevitably went global.
America, Israel and Tony Judt
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.
The Multimillionaire Who Remained True to Orthodoxy
In 1924 Harry Fischel had occasion to visit the town of Eishishok in Lithuania.
Symposium: Palestinian Shame, Jewish Guilt
In its turn, the Palestinian street sees in Hamas, the "liberators" of Gaza, the agents of final victory over Israel and votes them into power.