America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

Today’s model of outreach is fatally flawed seeing as it necessarily forces a choice on non-affiliated Jews to choose between the Jewish and mainstream worlds.

There are many potential Ron Dermers at the world’s universities today, if only we can nurture their gifts in their formative years.

Petraeus seems to have resigned over marital infidelity. And if so, did he have to leave his position? Why, because he displayed personal weakness? But this was a public, as opposed to a private, position. And years of counseling unfaithful husbands and wives has taught me that private failings do not necessarily indicate public faithlessness.

How can anyone calling himself a Rabbi have the chutzpah to ever justify the death of innocents?

When all the ribbetting is silenced, we begin to hear an old, familiar tune: the melodious song of our own souls.

Several headlines recently caught my attention when I heard that a man who claims to have worked as Michael Jackson's bodyguard made the incredulous charge that Michael was a Nazi sympathizer. This kind of viciousness should usually not be indulged because it just gives it more credibility for the retelling. But the slander against Michael's name in this instance is so great that it deserves to be rebutted.

Too many times, the world has learned the hard way by 'turning the other cheek' while dictators terrorized both their own people and other nations.

I can forgive Congressman Pascrell for his continued contempt toward me by refusing to address me directly or even mention me by name, even in his letter written in response to mine. But his attack against Israel cannot be similarly overlooked.

What can explain the "Shades of Grey" phenomenon? Why are so many married women reading about submission in an age of feminine liberation?

If the gassing of children is not an urgent matter than nothing is.

City officials in Englewood are hampering the development of a synagogue, but were nowhere to be found in opposing Kaddafi and the Libyan Embassy in Englewood.

I call on the President of the United States to employ his considerable mastery of words to take up the mantle of Martin Luther King and be a drum major for justice, a beacon for freedom. Sound the clarion call for liberty, Mr. President. Get off the damn fence and stand up for Arab life and liberty. Stop the slaughter in Syria.

The shocking video of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa trying to push through Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in the Democratic platform highlights the strong reservations that many American Jews are feeling toward the Democratic party.

So long as we obsess over abortion, gay marriage, and contraception to the exclusion of any other values, we cannot fix our problems.

Why would the Senator insist on the Biblical teachings regarding homosexuality but not those of protecting Israel?

If you’re feeling down, stop reading right now. You’re only going to be more depressed.

The delay allowed Assad to go on TV with Charlie Rose and come across as calm, measured, and reasonable.

Every Friday night at our Sabbath table my wife and I host all kinds of people. We love having guests and it would be my honor for us to host you and your family either this coming Friday night or whenever it may suit you. Over the years we’ve hosted thousands of people. Many have been Democratic politicians like yourself - from Governor Jon Corzine, to Mayors Michael Wildes, Frank Huttle, and Cory Booker.

Men ultimately fall in love with those women who bring out their best qualities.

In Israel, it’s easy to throw a recalcitrant husband in jail for refusing to grant a get. In the United States it’s much more challenging.

While Aref Assaf, President of the Arab American Forum in Paterson, New Jersey, might be forgiven for condemning my daughter’s service in the Israeli army, nothing can explain his defense of Congressman Bill Pascrell’s silence on the mass slaughter of Arabs in Syria.

Just yesterday I was fully engaged in my campaign for the United States Congress. Winning, elections, and victory were on my mind. Boy, what a difference a day can make. Today, I just want my family and the 50 million people in the storm’s path to be safe.

If the targeting of innocent civilians by terrorist organizations is not wrong, then morality has no meaning.

Peter Beinart and Jeffrey Goldberg maintain far-left sentiments on Israel, while others invest their lives in bringing people like Cory Booker closer to the Jewish community.

But the most painful part of an otherwise illuminating and extraordinary Forum was Iranian President Rouhani's speech.

The central quality of leadership is not eloquence but moral courage, a preparedness to be hated in the pursuit what’s right.

In return for its withdrawal from Gaza, Israel got a major war.

Penn managed to sneak Ostreicher across a hostile border and into a safe and currently undisclosed location in the United States.

American Jews – especially those working on campus – don't accept that we have a battle on our hands.

Obama is placing all the pressure on 16 Senators from his own party rather than squarely on the Iranians.