The Palestine Problem: It’s All In A Name
If it became clear that the Arab refugees and their children who crossed over to Jordan in 1948 did not enter a 'host country' but rather the Arab part of their own country, would it not make a difference?
Time To Kick The One-Party Habit
For Jewish-Americans, the December date that lives in infamy is December 17. For on that day in 1862, Major-General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order 11.
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."
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.
The Alternate World Of Jewish Education
A major sociological characteristic and consequence of modernity is the tendency for people to join together in associations that express a common goal or interest or a shared experience. The United States has been a nation of joiners from day one and perhaps even before independence was declared. Alexis de Tocqueville described this tendency in Democracy in America, the epic prophetic work published a century and three-quarters ago.
Prophets Of Hope Amid Despair
The Messiah, a descendant of the house of David, will establish a reign of righteousness and truth.
Rosh Hashanah: The Real Election Day
A world from which America retreats is a dangerous world indeed.
A Time For New Thinking In The Charedi World (Part II)
Sadly, the charedi leadership sees it as a religious imperative of the highest order to resist any change regarding national service, even for those (estimated at 35%) who are not in yeshiva and not learning.
The Bergson Group vs. the Holocaust – and Jewish Leaders vs. Bergson (Part...
How is it that those who were vilified and treated as pariahs are today widely praised for their actions during the Holocaust?
Lawyers For Yeshiva University Assert Court’s Decision Is Wrong
Formal recognition of a student group does not equate to endorsement of that group’s message, wrote the judge.
Fire From The Skies
Thirty years ago next week - shortly after 5:30 p.m. on June 7, 1981 - Israeli fighter jets flew undetected through hundreds of miles of Arab air space and rained fire from the skies over Baghdad, laying waste an atomic reactor and depriving a brutish dictator the potential for mass destruction.
He Who Destroys a Single Jewish Life…
The "if in doubt throw it out" attitude that used to be applied to food products is now being applied to Jewish children.
The Difference Between ‘Non-Jewish’ And ‘Un-Jewish’
Not long ago posters appeared in a number of synagogues in Brooklyn banning a recently published book that, according to the posters, contained misleading halachic rulings.
Heavenly Grace: Seizing the Moment
The instant the Lelover Tzaddik reentered the bais hamedrash, the Chozeh of Lublin seized the moment to launch into a fervent recitation of Lamnatzayach.
Jew Without A Gun
With the debate over gun control at fever pitch following the atrocity in Newtown, Connecticut, I thought readers of The Jewish Press would find the following account of my experience during the Los Angeles riots of 1992 both timely and interesting.
Where Flowers Bloom Red From Jewish Blood
The place that holds the record for murders in a day – even over such ghastly places as Auschwitz and Treblinka – is Babi Yar. A ravine on the outskirts of Kiev, it is today incorporated within the urban, inhabited sector of the Ukrainian capital. The events described here took place seventy years ago, in 1941, on Rosh Hashanah.
Renaissance Rabbi
The term "Renaissance man" is used to describe a person who excels in a wide variety of subjects or fields. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's biography of his father, Rav Dr. Yoseph (Joseph) Tzvi Carlebach (1883-1942), provides fascinating information about the life of a man who deserves to be described as a Renaissance rabbi.
The Mystery Of Golda’s Golden Gems
It will be hard for many to accept that some of Golda's gems may not have come from Golda's mouth
The Official Holiday Of Jewish History
Of all the Jewish holidays, I would say Sukkos is far and away the least appreciated.
Nazis, Commies & Bad Haircuts
The systematic amalgamation of anti-Semitism, theories of the superiority of the German people, and the geopolitical movement to acquire Lebensraum was a product of the intellectual environment of Ludwig Maximilian University in the 1920's.
The World’s Jew
Christian social workers come to visit. They say: "Stand firm, this is your home, stand up for your rights".
Anti-Semitism at Frankfurt Book Fair
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.
Orthodox Jews And America’s Culture Wars
Israel is not the only issue that has drawn Jews closer to conservative Christians in recent decades. The culture wars have played a significant role as well.
Popular Podcast Tells The Story Of Israel, One Visionary At A Time
Israel is a very fragmented society…you see someone and you immediately decide what they believe in based on what hat is on their head, their skin color or the clothes they are wearing. And with very minimal input you place them in a box and start piling up all these assumptions about them.
Rav Herzog’s ‘Rabbits’ And Other Rabbinic Pesach Correspondence
There is a whole other transcendental level of delight, enchantment, and reverence that applies to collectors of Judaica documents.
Celebrity Airheads and the Terrorists Who Love Them
"Hi, I'm Richard Gere and I'm speaking for the entire world.
A Passion For Rare Sefarim
Many people view a letter or manuscript by a chassidic rebbe or the Chofetz Chaim as intrinsically holy.
Observance Of Yom Ha’Atzmaut And Yom Yerushalayim
R. Hadaya strongly argues in favor of establishing a festive day in commemoration of the establishment of the state of Israel.
The Bergson Group vs. the Holocaust – and Jewish Leaders vs. Bergson (Part...
At a meeting of Jewish leaders in 1939, Brandeis rebuffed a suggestion that bringing Jews to Palestine in defiance of the British was "illegal."
Ike and Israel: The Apogee of Neutrality
Much has been written in recent weeks of the Obama administration's possible tilt toward a more evenhanded U.S. Middle East policy. Contrary to popular perception, however, if such a change were indeed implemented, it would constitute not so much a new and revolutionary approach as it would an old and reactionary one.