Love Is Handmade
Can we teach AI to knit? Absolutely. But why would we want to? Why would I forfeit the pleasure of scouring the internet for a new and challenging pattern and then hunting for the perfect yarn and buttons to go with it?
Looking To Jewish Women For Inspiration
The Jewish women I know are amazing. They have so much going on, and yet they manage to fit it all in… and more. They are the shining example of the phrase, If you want something done, ask a busy person.
Hunter Expulsion Of 2023 In Context – In Defense Of Hunter, N.Y.
At the turn of the century, Hunter was the place to be for many of the elite traditional Jews of New York every summer.
There Will be No Civil War in Israel
Because the right never threatens to turn over the board and walk away from the game.
Biden Is Plotting a Deal with Moscow Over Ukraine
In public, US President Joe Biden is keen to give the impression that he is fully committed to backing Ukraine's battle for survival. But it is a different story behind-the-scenes, where Biden and his senior officials are more interested in ending the war in good time for next year's US presidential election contest.
Israel’s President Delivers a Message of Hope
Not every Senator and Congressman was present. A group of radical leftists, who misidentify themselves as "progressives", boycotted Herzog because he is president of the nation-state of the Jewish people... It was not the current Israeli government that they were boycotting. It was the symbol of the entire nation of Israel.
So, Should Israel Tear Down its Walls?
Israel is no more ‘racist’ than a refuge for women is ‘sexist’.
Palestinians’ Summer Camps: Training To Murder Jews
The camps also provide military training, such as practice with knives and firearms; hand-to-hand combat, and marching and foot drills. The children also stage plays and enact scenes of fighting and capturing Israeli soldiers or firing rockets at Israel.
Give Your Kids a Yeshiva Education and Avoid Public Schools
Your kids won’t be imbued with decent values from our era’s public schools. They won’t be taught to respect authority or to love their...
The Centrality of Israel: Challenging Realities and Opportunities
Im eshkachech Yerushalayim, tishkach yemini..
Ariel University: Internal Turmoil Amid External Assault
Dismissing Bobby Brown, the University's senior vice president, has donors and friends of the embattled institution up in arms.
‘The Perfect Crime’: Tech Companies Are Manipulating Our Elections and Indoctrinating Our Children —...
Big Tech companies are deliberately manipulating the outcomes of our elections and the thinking and beliefs of our children. And they are having an enormous impact.
Help Stop Azerbaijan from Becoming the Next Ukraine
The entire free world should unite against the Iranian regime.
A Reasonable Solution to Israel’s Judicial Reform Debate
And that leaves me with a proposal to break the deadlock, an idea that seems so obvious and sensible to me that I am sure no one will think of it,
A Last ‘Mapai WASP’ Grasp?
Protest leaders in Israel are revving up mobs by convincing them that the elected leadership of the country is a group of fascistic thugs that will turn the country into Iran or Nazi Germany.
Ukraine, Inner Cities, and Character Attacks
Our economy has degraded. The suicide rate has jumped. Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.
The Mikdash O L-rd, Your Hands Have Established
Far from de-emphasizing the Temple, the Sages demonstrated how to live in a keen, spiritual awareness and tangibly realistic experience of the Temple and the avodah (largely through study and prayer), even as the Jews waited for its reappearance at the chosen time.
Kinnos And The Stages Of Grief
The pain from a loss is often expressed as bitterness and outrage. Part of this anger is based on the feeling that what happened wasn’t fair.
Tisha B’Av: A Revolution Of Consciousness
Not only do we inhabit a changed world, but we also live with stark cultural dissonances.
George Orwell Would Have Loved This Scene
If a racist government in the United States expelled African-Americans from some neighborhood, would it be reasonable for their white neighbors to just move in and take over their homes? Of course not. That’s called squatting.
Leaders in Glass Houses
As an American used to freedom of expression, Ehud Olmert's request seemed ludicrous and offensive.
Netanyahu’s Invitation to Washington
No date has been set.
Netflix’s “You People,” the Hollywood Strike, and the Nine Days of Av
You People was so repulsive that, upon reflection, it deserves to be included as a defining time-capsule document laying out everything that is Jewishly wrong and Judaically defective among assimilated knee-jerk left-wing heterodox Jews.
Herzog Must tell Biden: You’re Hurting Israel
When the Israeli president meets his counterpart this week, he should make it clear that the White House's boycott of Netanyahu runs against the very core of Biden's statement that he is a Zionist.
Palestinians: Victims of Apartheid in Lebanon
"..exposes the mistreatment of Palestinians at the hands of an Arab country, but also the double standards of the international community and all the so-called pro-Palestinian individuals and groups.
Netanyahu has been Misreading the US Signals
The growing US criticism on Israel has more to do with concerns over Netanyahu's ability to control his ministers. He should listen, lest the situation worsen.
Even Kosher Bakers have a Right to Free Speech
A New Jersey bakery is being boycotted by Jewish groups for refusing to make products honoring gay pride. Is there room in the community for those who dissent on this issue?
Israeli Counterterrorism is NOT ‘Arbitrary’
The U.N.’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” does not appear to understand the English language.
America’s Strength for Freedom
Ironic that a nation that now seeks to confront the United States through veiled military confrontation, industrial espionage, and the intimidation of those embracing democracy, was rescued by the U.S
A New Road Brings New Joy and Deep Concern
Opening the new Road 60 wasn't supposed to bar Jews from the old road.