Fighting Anti-Semitism, Promoting Zionism: An Interview with WZO Vice Chairman Yaakov Hagoel

Our starting point is that every Jew belongs in Eretz Yisrael. Not out of fear, but out of strength and free choice.

Countering The BDS Scourge

Luckily, anti-Israel students do us a favor. They paint such an inaccurate portrait of Israel that when we show students the reality, it almost always changes their minds.

Iraq War Veteran To Challenge Omar In 2020

I believe in the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves. I believe in the rule of law – first G-d's law, then the government’s.

Dvir Sorek, 19: An Interview with the Murdered Teenager’s Uncle

My father and my sister’s son were both fighters for Jewish independence and freedom. The loss can never be replaced, but we don’t let it break our spirits.

Reuven Bauman: Through Fire and Water

Reuven Bauman’s heroic rescue on a Virginia beach echoes his grandfather’s lifesaving deed 50 years earlier.

Can We Rebuild The Beit Hamikdash Today? An Interview with Temple Institute Director Rabbi...

The location of the Ark is recorded in our sources, and today, there are those who know exactly where it is.

Get Thee Forth To The Land! An Interview with Nefesh B’Nefesh Director Rabbi Yehoshua...

In 2018 Nefesh B'Nefesh helped approximately 3,600 olim from North America and over 500 olim from the UK fulfill their aliyah dreams.

Should A Frum Jew Have A Smartphone? An Interview with Rav Shlomo Aviner

People...stop thinking for themselves. They become lazy and dependent on Professor Google, Dr. Google, and Rabbi Google.

Fountain Of Kindness

Melody and her friends wanted to continue helping other. “What can we do now?” her friends asked. Melody realized that she was being presented with a major opportunity.

Respecting Chanukah And Yom Kippur: Reflections Upon the Death of Justice John Paul Stevens,...

Stevens agreed to call off the arguments...and ever since then, the Supreme Court has not sat to hear oral arguments on Yom Kippur.

Morocco, Italy, & Beyond: The Vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – On His 25th...

Year the first shliach went out: 1950 – to Casablanca, Morocco. Year the last shliach went out: 2019. Two recent ones went to Purdue University and Takayama, Japan.

Making Men Out Of Boys: An Interview with Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim

Our job is to take groups of these largely undisciplined, apathetic, know-it-all kids and turn them into miniature versions of Yehoshua Bin Nun and Yehuda HaMaccabee.

On My Own… But Not Alone: An Interview With Author Ahava Ehrenpreis

I realized how many women in my shoes craved both validation and guidance.

JOWMA: Supporting A Dream

Dr. Knoll hopes that JOWMA will serve as an unprecedented avenue for Torah-observant female physicians to bring their expertise into the community.

Should We Leave America? An Interview with Activist Shifra Hoffman

A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!

The Road From Yiddish To Politics

I find Judaism to be such an amazing sustaining force: it brings me great joy.

Should We Fear A Halachic State? An Interview with Professor Nahum Rakover

The Israeli Supreme Court has said it's forbidden to torture the terrorist to learn details of the planned attack. According to Jewish law, though, torturing the terror-gang member is permitted to save the lives of other people.

A Heroic And Righteous Couple: Eberhard and Donata Helmrich

Donata, like Eberhard, viewed the Nazis as “a failure of human decency.” Equally despising their heartlessness, she took the risk of defying them to save Jewish lives.

Using Spiritual Tools To Help Singles

Hundreds of people have gotten to the chuppah directly or indirectly through the group.

Popular Rabbi: The Shin Bet Deems Me More Dangerous Than Terrorists: An Interview with...

What does it profit the world if a rabbi works on himself in the confines of his home until he becomes a great tzaddik and turns into an angel while the rest of mankind turns into beasts?

Elections Again? What For? An Interview with Otzma Yehudit’s Baruch Marzel

Polls are fake. According to the polls, Feiglin and Bennett were supposed to win the sweepstakes in the last elections, but they were left with their mouths wide open.

Keeping (Factories) Kosher In China – And Around The Globe: An Interview of Rabbi...

The factory owners said that it was dried crab. My translator, not knowing that I understand what he is saying, started to explain to them that their answer is not good and they must find a better answer, so they said seaweed.

From Upstream to Mainstream: The Story of New York’s Bukharian Jewish Community

Although Jews of the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan may have had differing cultures in previous centuries, they are currently referred to as Bukharian Jews.

‘It’s All for the Jewish People:’ Four Decades of the Jeff Seidel Story

The Shabbat meals he’s arranged over the years while meeting wandering Jews in Jerusalem have given countless young adults their first taste of a traditional Shabbat, and often, an enduring appreciation of Judaism.

I Converted To Judaism Because Of Herman Wouk

The more I wrestled with the temptations of the world, the more the hole inside me grew, as well as the hunger to fill it with something meaningful.

The Rabbi Who Got A 10-Year Reading List From Herman Wouk

I said, ‘I made the trip; would you be so kind as to at least read through it, to see if it’s of any value at all. He said, ‘That I’ll do.’

Mind Games

He has stunned audiences all over the world with his spellbinding show.

MK Moti Yogev: Only Loyalty To Torah Will Lead To Peace

As an army commander and military analyst, it is clear to me that we will eventually have to conquer the Gaza Strip, eliminate the heads of the terror organizations ensconced there, and destroy all their infrastructure.

Eastern Europe: Pro-Israel, But Not Pro-Jewish? – An Interview with Professor David Fishman

Of the 40 people involved in the operation – 20 intellectuals, and 20 technical workers – 33 perished and seven survived.

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