Pioneers of the Periphery: Olim of the South Got that pioneering spirit? You’re invited to help build Israel’s periphery by planting roots in southern soil with Nefesh B’Nefesh.
Israel’s Dictatorship Of The Judiciary
Posted on: March 28th, 2012
InDepth → Front PageMuch of the Israeli Left – including cultural and political leaders, journalists and academics – has in recent months engaged in hyperbolic, defamatory claims that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to destroy Israel’s democracy through proposed legislation such as that aimed at modifying how Israeli Supreme Court justices are selected.
Posted on: March 21st, 2012
InDepth → Front PageWhat made the deportation of more than 80,000 Jews from Slovakia during World War II unique? It was this striking fact: In contrast with other countries, the Slovak government actually appealed to the Germans to enact deportation.
Posted on: March 14th, 2012
InDepth → Front PageJust last week we experienced the crowning point of the month of Adar by commemorating the extraordinary events that unfolded in the ancient Persian Empire. We read the scroll of Esther, enjoyed a hearty feast, and traded gifts of goodies with each other.
Playing For A Higher Authority: The Inside Story Of Beren Hoopsters’ Kiddush Hashem
Posted on: March 7th, 2012
InDepth → Front PageOn Tuesday, February 28, it was widely reported that the basketball team of Houston’s Robert M. Beren Academy had “forfeited” its place in the semi-finals of the tournament conducted by the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) because it would not play on Friday night and Saturday. But a headline in Friday’s New York Times read: “In Reversal, a Jewish School Gets to Play.”
Posted on: February 29th, 2012
InDepth → Front PageThere certainly are many reasons to look forward to Purim. It is a time of feasting, joy, and merriment. We celebrate an important victory over our enemies, which was a precedent for many other such victories over the course of our history. We read one of the most moving stories in our entire tradition, and we have good fun while we’re doing it.
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A Landscape Transformed Orthodoxy and America’s Elite Universities
Posted on: February 22nd, 2012
InDepth → Front Page“Rabbi, did you ever think you would see this day?” It was 1971, and the university official who asked this question was inviting the rabbi to the dedication of the kosher dining room in Stevenson Hall on the campus of Princeton University.
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Obsession With Tuition Hurts Jewish Education
Posted on: February 15th, 2012
InDepth → Front PageThere is constant talk of a tuition crisis, of the growing number of yeshiva and day school parents – and potential parents – who say that full tuition or anything close to it is beyond their financial reach.
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Jewish State, Zionist Conflict
Posted on: February 8th, 2012
InDepth → Front PageNear the end of the nineteenth century, Theodor Herzl, the Viennese journalist who would wrestle with the plight of Jews amid the enticements and dangers of modernity, felt trapped. For his son’s sake he considered conversion to Christianity; to solve the vexing “Jewish Question” he even fantasized the mass conversion of Jews.
Posted on: February 1st, 2012
InDepth → Front PageTu B’Shevat is not just “another day.” It’s the Rosh Hashanah for trees, one of four roshei hashanah that occur in the Jewish calendar year (Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1).
Politics, Israel, the Economy: A Chat With Rep. Bob Turner
Posted on: January 25th, 2012
InDepth → AnalysisNew York’s 9th Congressional District will forever be remembered not only for the departure of disgraced veteran Congressman Anthony Weiner but also for who replaced him. Bob Turner’s victory marked the first Republican win in that district since 1923, and his September 2011 election stunned the Democratic Party.
70 Years Ago This Week: Turning Point Of The Holocaust
Posted on: January 19th, 2012
InDepth → Front PageBarely five weeks after the Wehrmacht’s onslaught against Russia, Reich Marshal Hermann Goering issued the following directive on July 31, 1941 to Chief of Gestapo Reinhard Heydrich:
A Haunting Visit To The Gush Katif Museum
Posted on: January 11th, 2012
InDepth → Front Page“Tens of thousands visit here – ordinary Jews, educators and their students, Knesset members and government ministers, soldiers and their officers, members of European parliaments, and U.S. congressmen. And after their visits, something happens in the minds of all of them. Even left-wing Knesset members, with tears in their eyes, have written in the visitors’ book, ‘Never again!’ ”
They Said What?! Exposing the ‘Mainstream’ Media
Posted on: December 28th, 2011
In Print → From the PaperThe Media Research Center is out with its annual Best Notable Quotables awards – a compilation of the most outrageous and/or unintentionally revealing news media quotes from December 2010 through November 2011.
The Strong Into The Hands Of The Weak?
Posted on: December 21st, 2011
InDepth → Front PageHow is it possible that the strong could be delivered into the hands of the weak? Sounds strange, but that is the exact pattern of Jewish history.
Chanukah: Not Just A Children’s Holiday
Posted on: December 14th, 2011
In Print → From the PaperIt never used to bother me; that is, until recently. Somehow, over the years, Chanukah has come to be celebrated as a children’s holiday.
Posted on: December 7th, 2011
In Print → From the PaperThe twelve-member bipartisan congressional “super committee” on spending cuts formally conceded defeat late last month, after failing to reach common ground on the issues of tax increases and spending cuts.
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Posted on: November 30th, 2011
In Print → From the PaperThe strongest attribute of any of the Republican candidates for president is that he or she is not named Barack Obama.
Will Israel Ever Get Serious About Treason?
Posted on: November 23rd, 2011
In Print → From the PaperEarlier this year Israel passed a law that would strip Israelis of their citizenship if convicted of espionage or treason. Condemned for this by countries all over the world, almost all of whom have far harsher anti-treason laws than Israel, the Israeli government has yet to apply the law to anyone.
Posted on: November 17th, 2011
InDepth → Front PageIn the good old days, Forest Hills, New York - where I grew up between 1939 and 1951 - was a shtetl for assimilated American Jews. Like my parents, all our neighbors were American-born offspring of Eastern European immigrants. A generation removed from their identity conflicts, we children knew that Forest Hills, liberated from Judaism, was our promised land.
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FDR and the ‘Voyage of the Damned’
Posted on: November 14th, 2011
InDepth → Front PageMiami Beach was certainly a fitting choice as the site for this month's reunion of passengers from the ill-fated SS St. Louis, the ship of Jewish refugees that sailed from Nazi Germany in May 1939. As children, they gazed at the lights of Miami as the St. Louis hovered off the Florida coast, hoping desperately for permission to land.
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