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People want to know about their Jewish identity. And I don’t think you can have a Jewish democratic state without Judaism. It won’t work.

Usually the parties reach a settlement agreement in the end or the dayanim rule a compromise.

Why does it sometimes feel as if we spend most of our professional lives fixing problems rather than enhancing and improving?

Eretz Yisrael opens her heart only to those who truly love her.

What follows is story of a regular family and a tragedy that unfolded while we were not looking.

The hypocritical use of the word"treason" by the sanctimonious Left.

He went through a list of other nations that, according to Toynbee himself, had committed atrocities, including the British in Ireland and the French in Syria.

I think most people in society are able to look at modest pictures of women without it eliciting impure thoughts, said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Though he frankly admitted that he expected to make a fortune on his investment, his primary motive was to create a short-term haven for persecuted Jews.

Though my father lives in another area of Staten Island, he has been intermittently involved with this synagogue since its inception.

A venerable American institution, “The Greatest Show on Earth” is no more. After 146 years, Feld Entertainment, owners of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum...

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Anyone who appreciates a mix of football, unique commercials, and Jewish music will be thrilled with our KHS 2018 presentation.

To Jew-haters, any inconsistency is permissible. What makes this hard for many Jews to understand is that it doesn’t conform to their worldview, in which enemies are on the right and allies are on the left.

Donald Trump’s election was a complete surprise to many. In fact every poll predicted that he would lose. How were they all so wrong?

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And then came the full court press against the president’s Executive Order barring immigration from certain countries he said were hotbeds of terrorist activity.

As early morning phone calls go this was probably one of the least welcome ones to hear five days before our daughter’s wedding.

School is back in session and with it is a new initiative to fight anti-Israel lessons in textbooks used by Palestinian schoolchildren

Anyway he gave it a try and got in the car and sure enough… the car started! He was surprised and asked the old man, how did you know what to do?

“If we put money in health, we can’t put money in education,” Flanagan recalls hearing from the opponents.

No organization (i.e.the OU) can excommunicate anyone. It does not, however, mean that our communities lack organizing principles. Those principles operate based on individual choice. People effectively expel synagogues not compliant with mainstream halacha.

Non-Orthodox denominations seem to have declared war on the status quo at a suspiciously convenient moment, their uproar coming at a time of declining identification with Judaism and Israel throughout their ranks.

The path to a PA ministry job passes through Israeli prisons. Former prisoners are treated as the "good boys of the revolution" and granted the best jobs; Palestinians who choose education lose out

The newly arrived immigrants as well as some of the native American Jews refused to send their children to secular schools permeated with Christian influences.

So I can't testify without raising the issue of Mr. Gold's disqualification? asked Mr. Hyman.

While honoring his deceased relatives through his work, Sendak simultaneously mocked those survivors with whom he grew up.

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