Interviews and Profiles

Did he expect to be sued by Netanyahu after calling him “mentally ill?” It is extremely rare and bizarre for a former prime minister to sue another.

The Kashuela Farm was founded on May 24, 2012. It is named after Yaakov Zarchi, a Palmach fighter whose nickname was Kashuela.

"If I want to just be a good mayor, I could fix the roads and pick up the garbage," says Yakov Asher, the new mayor of Bnei Brak, Israel, in an exclusive interview at the editorial offices of The Jewish Press. "But there's so much more we can do."

"I wish I could go back in time and whisper in my parents' ears, "Don't worry, it will be all right."

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Pantry Packers makes volunteering both fun and accessible, something beyond the scope of typical food-service organizations.

How do you capture the essence of a larger-than-life person?

Some people hate them, others love them. Perhaps no other group of Israelis engenders as much debate as the residents of Hebron. There, among 150,000 hostile Arabs, live 700 Jews determined to dwell in the city where the biblical Abraham purchased a burial plot for his wife Sarah.

King Solomon said it long ago: “Cast your bread upon the waters” because you don’t know when you’ll hit something. Our job is to do.

For Rav Hirsch, when Hakadosh Baruch Hu chose Klal Yisrael to be the am segulah, He was not rejecting the rest of mankind.

She had many names and was many things to many people, but to me she was just Babineni.

On his attempt to hijack an airplane in 1970 to bring attention to the struggle of Soviet Jewry: "Sometimes it happens in your life that you simply feel it’s the right thing to do."

To the Arabs, there is nothing magical about the lines drawn in the 1948-49 map. Those borders do not matter. The land is completely Muslim.

Have you read the blog Jewminicana? If you have, you are already familiar with Aliza Hausman, a recently converted Dominican-American blogger. She blogs about her childhood, upbringing, conversion, and a wide range of other topics. She and her husband, a semichah student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, also speak about life as a religious interracial couple.

Only after Perrie has extracted my entire family history does she begin to share her own story.

In one case, a father threatened to take violent revenge on the local authorities, and the next day, his child, who had supposedly died, was returned.

Ida Nudel’s account of how the Soviets persecuted and punished her was far worse than imagined.

Are women not as important as animals? Are they not our sisters? Are they not our daughters?

The reality is that civility is less important than clarity, and right now only very few people on the Left are interested in having a civil conversation about the merits of particular policy solutions.

Did you know that Shlomo Carlebach had a twin brother, Eli Chaim? And that this brother was married to Hadassah, a scion of the Lubavitch Schneerson family? Read this engaging interview with this nonagenarian, Hadassah Carlebach

Jews are looking for positive means to feel more connected to Israel. Suggestion: Support Swim4Sadna

Perhaps it was inevitable. Ever since her address at the Republican National Convention two years ago, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been popular among many Orthodox Jews. A month after the convention, a "Sarah Palin Wig" went on sale on Sheitel.com. Now, as worry increases in the Jewish community over President Obama's Middle East policies, a group of Jews have banded together to create Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin (JewsforSarah.com).

Reuven Bauman’s heroic rescue on a Virginia beach echoes his grandfather’s lifesaving deed 50 years earlier.

Had Mitt Romney won the presidential election, Tevi Troy would be director of domestic policy on his transition team.

In an interview Republican Ron DeSantis says his first overseas trip as governor of Florida will be to Israel • DeSantis: I will push U.S. President Trump to recognize Israeli sovereignty in Golan Heights.

"The idea of bringing people back to Yiddishkeit was inside me from my childhood days."

There was a picture of Herzl on his wall along with pictures of his father and the Vilna Gaon and Baal HaTanya.

In an interview with JNS, the former secretary of state chides Biden for policies on Israel, calls the FBI probe of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death “political” and says Netanyahu has the right to choose his cabinet ministers “full stop.”

Teaneck Rabbi Discusses Geirus, Unconventional Warfare, and Rav Kook's Ideal State

It’s very much in style and cool to be Jewish in Russia today. In the past, people were afraid to let others know they were Jewish; today, they are very proud – and many non-Jews want to be part of it too.