The Desire For Meaning
Charging a fee for absence from shul likely strikes many of us as unusual. A desire to avoid financial loss (about $260, when adjusted for inflation) feels like the wrong reason to pray.
Biden Bribing Palestinians
The Palestinian list of demands for refraining from condemning a Saudi-Israeli peace accord can be seen as tantamount to blackmail. The Palestinian leadership is telling the Saudis and Americans that if they want to avoid Palestinian condemnation, they must pay the price -- with money and territory.
Should Children Come To Shul?
Every shul should do what they can to bring in children.
Jericho is NOT a Palestinian Heritage
Remember: Until the seventh century there were not even any Muslims in the world, let alone Palestinians.
Mahmoud Abbas’ Jewish problem
Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis.
My Elul Journey
I started the journaling project with the anticipation that it would bring focus and accountability to the month of Elul. I didn't anticipate, however, that my definition of teshuva would change.
UNESCO Vote Highlights Continued UN Bias Against Israel
Congress Must Block Funding, Biden Should Reconsider His Decision to Join
Netflix’s Latest “Hit” Movie Mocking Judaism: “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat...
The “Rabbi” is G-dless, essentially a circus clown in a yarmulka. She — of course a woman “rabbi” — is so G-dless that she teaches a class session proclaiming to the young pre-BM kids: “God is random.”
Today I Saw Evil
This is what a satanic act looks like: bright, metallic, swinging with ease across the sky.
Unlearned Lessons of 9/11
A short memory may be helpful as a coping mechanism, but it is deadly in matters of foreign policy.
Forgetting 9/11
On 9/11, we learned that we have more in common than we do that separates us. One generation later, the president of the United States speaks about his fellow citizens as threats to democracy and declares that those who don't deal with him are existential problems for the republic.
Is UNESCO Going to Erase Jewish History From Another Israeli City?
UNESCO is supposed to be a body that preserves the cultural history of the world. Yet it is failing in its mission
Onslaught of Oslo
The Palestinian Peace Process was meant to increase terrorism
Judaism’s Hidden Ally Philosophy and its Advocates Including Rambam, Gersonides, and Sacks
Philosophy is a veritable ally of Jewish thought but should never be deployed to replace it
A Nazi Speech in Ramallah Tells a Much Larger Tale
The Israeli left, the European Union and the Biden administration have a shared interest in repressing the Nazi roots of Palestinian nationalism.
How I Failed As An American Rabbi
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. None spoke a word to him for they saw how very great was his suffering. (Job 2:13)
Refined Rebukes: The High Holiday Sermons Of Rabbi Norman Lamm
It is an article of faith with us: in the deepest levels of the self there is a core of purity, of goodness. Beneath the cynicism lies an uncorrupted idealism; beneath the layer of envy, gems of generosity; beneath the crude will for power, the noble desire to serve.
‘Seeing’ the Palestinians
As a result of a small thought experiment, I find myself less plagued by the idea that I may not “see” the Palestinians.
The Real Shidduch Crisis
Viewing singles exclusively through a we-must-get-you-married prism has terrible ramifications.
Thinking the Unthinkable
The unmaking of the American Jewish experience
Every Jew Belongs in Israel
There’s only one difference between leaving Egypt, jumping into the sea, entering the land, and today - today, coming to the modern state of Israel is a whole lot more fun.
PA Survives Despite Failure of Oslo Accords
The Oslo Agreement’s Self-Defense Mechanism
How Terrorist Leaders, Backed by Iran, Exploit Palestinians
Instead of heeding the calls of young Palestinians to solve the economic crisis, the Palestinian terror groups, with the help of Iran's mullahs, are sending them to attack Israeli soldiers with explosive devices and deadly stones.
Israelophobia is the Newest Form of the Oldest Hatred
The distinction between hating Jews and hating Israel is bogus.
How Dangerous Is the Crisis Within the IAF?
Israel must end the political crisis soon for multiple reasons
We are ALL ‘Settlers’
Descendants of conquerors the world over should take a long look in the mirror.
Sovereignty: Remedying the Damages of Oslo
Loss of our path and fear of the Arabs living in our land led us not to go all the way in concluding the Six-Day War, paving the way to the Oslo Accords, for which we paid the price of thousands of victims
Human Rights Watch’s Jihad Against Israel
Does HRW really expect Israeli soldiers and policemen to ask someone who shoots or throws a Molotov cocktail at them how old they are before firing back to defend themselves?
WSJ and Hamodia’s Dramatically Divergent Take on Israeli Concessions
Which do you believe?
Hijabs and ‘Barbie’: Saudi Arabia is Changing and So are its Women
Israel Hayom correspondent Yoav Limor travels to Saudi Arabia to see how the kingdom has changed a year since his previous visit.
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