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.
Posted on: July 16th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsThere are two characteristics unique to humans in the universe, separating them from the animal kingdom and perhaps also differentiating them from anything in the higher or trans-natural world.
Jews Can Learn Something Important From Barack Obama
Posted on: July 2nd, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsOne of the mysteries of Jewish history is why Jews find so little pride in their identities and tradition.
Why Israel Booted Norman Finkelstein
Posted on: June 25th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsWe've grown used to it: whenever anyone in the media takes note of the antics of Norman Finkelstein, a flood of disinformation is bound to follow.
Posted on: June 12th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsThe more I hear of Olmert and Sderot, of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism (the former more often than not a cover for the latter), the more I sense the vast and unfortunate divide that separates my years of growing up from the ones I now spend raising my children.
Even An Einstein Can’t Invent His Own Values
Posted on: May 28th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsIt's always a revelation when a world-renowned intellectual attacks religion as silly and juvenile only for us to discover that his or her own personal life might have greatly benefited from a commitment to the biblical values that they so casually dismiss.
Good Morning, Elijah: Amos Oz Does The Peace Tour
Posted on: May 21st, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsI have long believed the world would be much better off if Hollywood airheads would stick to entertainment and never pretend to be intellectuals, spouting off with their "ideas" about politics, diplomacy, etc.
Time To Retire A Derogatory Term
Posted on: May 14th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsThe other day I met a young Orthodox Jew who approached me in Manhattan to say hello.
How ‘Nakba’ Proves There’s No Palestinian Nation
Posted on: April 30th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsOver the past few years, the term nakba (also spelled naqba) has become the favorite nonsense word of the Anti-Israel Lobby.
Posted on: April 30th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsIsrael is about to turn 60 and the silence, outside of the Jewish community, is deafening.
How I Beat Israel’s Dual Justice System
Posted on: April 9th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsIsrael has a dual justice system. While operating within a single overall structure of courts and related legal institutions, two separate justice systems exist in the country: one for leftists and the other for everyone else.
Words Dishearten, Demoralize – And Kill
Posted on: March 19th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsITEM: The Jerusalem Post (March 10) vividly recounted the heroism of Capt. David Shapira, a former student at Mercaz HaRav, who, hearing gunfire at the yeshiva during the recent terrorist atrocity, grabbed his weapon, left his nearby home, and ran to the rescue of Jewish children:
Posted on: March 12th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsThere is a sign hanging in my office that should be standard in the office of every rabbi, communal leader, worker for Klal Yisrael or activist of any sort.
Israel’s RRH Doctrine Revisited
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsBack in the fall of 2005 I wrote, in an Internet article responding to one of the early rounds of rocket attacks on Sderot from Gaza following Israel's "disengagement" from the area:
Posted on: February 20th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsI met a friend several weeks ago at a hastily called grassroots meeting at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills to discuss Israel's difficult predicament.
Confronting A Prominent Writer’s Untruths
Posted on: February 6th, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsIt is time to finally inter a malicious libel against Jews and Judaism that is getting increasing attention in the media, namely, that Judaism will not allow for the breaking of the Sabbath to save a non-Jewish life.
Posted on: January 23rd, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsSixty years ago, the Jews of Israel and the world learned one of the harshest lessons in political realism and the ethics of war.
Guilty By Reason Of Innocence: New Insanity From Israel’s Academic Leftists
Posted on: January 3rd, 2008
InDepth → Op-EdsIt began as just another exercise in political academic wackiness at Hebrew University.
A Glimpse Into The Mindset Of A Judicial Oligarch
Posted on: December 27th, 2007
InDepth → Op-Eds“A democracy must fight terror with one hand tied behind its back.” So stated Aharon Barak, the former president of Israel’s Supreme Court at a forum I recently attended at the Shasha Center for Strategic Studies at the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University. The discussion centered on the potential and real conflict [...]
Far Left Group ‘Documents’ Israeli Racism
Posted on: December 12th, 2007
InDepth → Op-EdsThe Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is a far leftist propaganda group that has just released a report allegedly documenting a skyrocketing rate of "racism" among Israeli Jews against Arabs, in addition to discovering that Israel is a generally oppressive society.
Nothing ‘Old’ About The Jewish Bible
Posted on: December 5th, 2007
InDepth → Op-EdsA few weeks ago I attended the annual dinner of the National Bible Association, which admirably seeks to promote the reading of the Bible across the United States.
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