Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Are We Better Off With Iraq in Turmoil?
Posted on: December 29th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsWith the U.S. troops gone, the power struggle in Iraq is reaching new levels.
Thou Shall Not Become Terrorists
Posted on: December 28th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsWhen analyzing the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is very easy to pinpoint the horrific acts of terror carried out by Palestinian terrorists as a critical issue that must be addressed before there can be any substantive conversations about a true and lasting peace agreement.
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Posted on: December 28th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsIn producing "Women Unchained," a daring yet dignified film about women who can’t get a get – a Jewish divorce – filmmakers Beverly Siegel and Leta Lenik have done Jewish society a favor.
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Posted on: December 28th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsWhen I was young, my father, like many of his generation, frequently remarked that America was the greatest country in the world. He was an immigrant who lost almost his entire family in the Holocaust. He came here with nothing and earned everything. He treasured his American citizenship, guarding his citizenship papers like others would guard heirloom silver.
Acquiescing To Our Enemies’ Lies
Posted on: December 28th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsNewt Gingrich recently stunned the political and diplomatic establishments, the professional peaceniks and the entire Arab world by terming the Palestinians “an invented” people, presumably with a history fabricated solely to counter and then eradicate the Jewish national idea.
Posted on: December 28th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsIt is ironic that Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel's only university bearing the name of the Jewish state's founding father, has become a hotbed of anti-Israel propaganda at the expense of proper scholarly endeavor.
Counterpoint: Christian Zionists Are a Threat
Posted on: December 27th, 2011
InDepthIt is both naïve and misleading to deny the serious costs involved in Israel’s unregulated relationship with impassioned evangelical Christians.
19Jewish Candles: The Power Of Discernment
Posted on: December 21st, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsAnd God said, Let there be light; and there was light. God’s first magnificent gesture was to create light. For Jews, light is glory, insight, wisdom, warmth. It is safety and it is hope.
Leaving The December Dilemma Behind
Posted on: December 21st, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsNo matter our stage in life, one is seldom comfortable feeling left out. Unfortunately, many American Jews experience exactly that feeling each year as Christmas approaches. The term “December Dilemma” is used to describe the tension many Jews feel sitting on the sidelines, unable to fully enjoy or participate in the distinctly Christian themes and activities occurring all around.
Thomas Friedman and the New Anti-Semitism
Posted on: December 21st, 2011
InDepthThough The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman invariably characterizes himself as a friend of Israel, his Dec. 14 column illustrates the slippery slope along which critics of the Jewish state invariably slide as they attempt to shout down those with whom they disagree.
‘Palestinianism Inventivity’ as a Model For Assumed Nationalism
Posted on: December 20th, 2011
InDepth → Op-Edsinventivity is the foundation necessity of Palestinianism.
Point: Are Christian Zionists a Threat to Israel?
Posted on: December 20th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsI will be happy to cooperate with friends of Israel, regardless of their theology, be they Muslim, Christian, Druze, Buddhist or whatever. The fact that there are some Christians who would like to convert Jews does not at all prove that all Christians embrace that agenda.
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Posted on: December 14th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsNewt Gingrich is taking a lot of flack for telling a Jewish cable channel that the Palestinians are an “invented people.”
Colonists or Sons of the Land?
Posted on: December 11th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsThe Jewish people have returned to settle the land of their fathers, not as foreigners, but as sons of the land.
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Posted on: December 7th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsThe recent kerfluffle over Israeli government video ads and billboard posters, designed to entice wayward yordim to return home, instead exposed the troubled psyche of American Jews.
About Those Supposedly Offensive Israeli Ads…
Posted on: December 7th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsDear American Jews, I wish to apologize in the name of the State of Israel. We have heard our ad campaign encouraging ex-pat Israelis to come home has offended many of you. That was certainly not the intent, and if it did offend, we are sorry.
2Thoughts On The ADL’s Anti-Semitism Survey
Posted on: December 7th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsWhile it’s said that numbers don’t lie, the truth is they do lie – or, rather, mislead.
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Posted on: December 7th, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsMeet Israel’s secret weapon against terrorism, code named “Mona Lisa.”
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Everything I Dreamed Of In A Husband
Posted on: December 2nd, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsMy husband’s first yahrzeit is almost here and I am finally ready to write about him. The gaping hole his passing left in my heart is still there, but I have learned to fill it with the sweet memories of our life together.
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A “financial war” against Tehran would be the most humane way of avoiding a nuclear one
Posted on: December 1st, 2011
InDepth → Op-EdsA threat of this magnitude calls not for prevarication, but swift and strong action: every day that passes without massive Western pressure increases the likelihood of a military strike against Iran.
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