Interviews and Profiles

MK Bezalel Smotrich sat down with Rabbi Sholom Gold and Rabbi Meyer Fendel to discuss the different needs of Olim in Israel. Rabbi Gold and Rabbi Fendel are both Olim themselves who have established Jewish communities throughout the world.

We said it's crazy to underwrite the Palestinian Authority and send American taxpayer money there while they’re threatening Israel. It’s not only immoral; it violates the Taylor Force Act.

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.

I started reading and learning and collecting, and now I have over, I’d say, about 10,000 items – all kept very neatly in one room in my house. And to this day, all these years later, it’s still a thrill for me.

One of the last Jewish artifacts to be spirited out of the Jewish Quarter before its fall in the 1948 War of Independence was a wrapped bag containing the remnants of Rav Nachman’s chair.

I don’t think cancel culture is healthy for anyone. I mean, you look at someone the wrong way and you get canceled.

How long must Jews be second class citizens in our own Jewish homeland?

The sole purpose of all the afflictions which smite us in our exile is to arouse us to return to our Holy Land….

An interview with David Schoen, Donald Trump’s orthodox impeachment lawyer.

I feel our community needs someone who can keep up the mantle of Chaim Deutsch and really push for what we need.

One of the reasons I wrote this book is because the years 1945-1950 are absolutely critical for the history of Zionism and the Jewish people, and we know nothing about them.

Heaven forbid to judge the Children of Israel in a less than positive fashion, but, to our sorrow, this is the situation.

Today, even in Afghanistan and Pakistan, many people have Internet. We have a page on Facebook, and we receive many comments from Afghans who trace their lineage back to Yaakov Avinu.

Let’s be clear: the MOU [memorandum of understanding with Israel] that the Obama administration entered into is non-negotiable. None of that money can be taken off the table. Israel has the right to defend itself and that money is non-negotiable.

Everyone and his brother thinks he’s already the prime minister and that everyone else is completely incompetent.

They were very old-fashioned and very unashamed about their Judaism…. And they weren’t tormented by the kinds of questions that torment people today.

Soulika requested that she be given metal clips…which she dug into her flesh and tied to her garment so that her naked body wouldn’t be exposed to the public.

In halacha, the foods that require the most supervision are meat, wine, and cheese. Now, within the cheese category, not everything is as difficult to make as my cheeses.

There seems to be unlimited power that the judicial branch has completely failed to protect us from.

I can always imagine…what my life would have been like if we had not left Iran. So, it was natural for me to build my career around wanting to deliver those things for other people.

“You can see nations all across the world coming to understand that the Palestinians have rejected reasonable offers to negotiate time and time again. And the leadership has simply failed its own people,” says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The folks claiming only a lunatic would inquire about fraud are used-car salesman denigrating a customer who wants to pop the hood.

Bebinyan Yerushalayim nenucham. (In the rebuilding of Jerusalem shall we be comforted.)

Like many people who’ve heard him speak, I walked out of that room a different person than when I entered.

As a chaplain in the army, I have met countless Christians who quote the verse from Lech Lecha to me, “And I [G-d] will bless those who bless you..."

“We've done more for the cause of peace within this region than any administration in the history of the United States. And, I think those opposing us just are not seeing the situation clearly,” America’s envoy to the Jewish state tells JNS in a wide-ranging interview.

If it looks like a witch-hunt, swims like a witch-hunt, and quacks like a witch-hunt, then it’s probably a witch-hunt.

When you call somebody a racist or a Nazi, civility has ended.

Rav Kook called upon all lovers of Judaism to write articles in opposition to the preachers of secularism.

I don't think you necessarily learn healthy social skills by being thrown into the pack with everybody.