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This is a damning verdict against the Jewish people. We sing the praises of repentance, yet brutally punish those who undertake the holy challenge.

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.

When the Shabbos Queen made her graceful exit the Baal Shem Tov directed that his horses be harnessed forthwith.

When your child returns next year for Pesach or at the end of the z'man, he will, God willing, come back healthier and in a better frame of mind than when he left.

Having learned these laws at a young age, I avoid lashon hara as a part of my routine.

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

I had always attributed the appeal of Tehillim to their universality: every person can find in them what he or she wants.

So many of us make excuses for not doing the things we know we should do, citing hardships or inconveniences, real or imagined.

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.

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

Our M.I.T. guru also has assisted anti-Semitic organizations in another quieter way by allowing them to publish or disseminate his books articles and recordings.

Her friend "suddenly lowered his voice and said that the only ones he had trouble with were the Jews." Why? Because of the "conspiracy" and because "Jews only looked out for their own kind."

The UK was not the only power helping the Mufti in 1936. The USSR-sponsored Communist Party of Palestine also did its part.

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.

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

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.

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

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

He spoke with such passion that even without being able to make out the words, one

It brings me no joy to say that Teresa Heinz Kerry is not worthy of being the first lady of the United States of America.

At this point there could be no doubt about the authenticity of the reports of Nazi atrocities against the Jews.

"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 ..."

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

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.

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.

No singles event in history saw half its participants get a date, and certainly not in such a low-pressure fashion.

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

Another part of Hebron liberated by women is Beit Hadassah the old Jewish hospital in the Avraham Avinu neighborhood.

The pattern of repetition is among a handful of criteria that validate the veracity of a dream.

Eliminate the hardship the Supreme Court effectively said as much as you can.