Avot 1:8 and 1:9
Empathy, care, kindness, which are all generally cherished interpersonal values, need to be curbed for the sake of justice.
Louis Pasteur: The Jewish Connection
Beginning in 1891, the Pasteur Institute opened facilities in different countries, and currently there are 32 institutes in 29 countries in various parts of the world.
Jackie Mason’s Last Interview? The Famous Comedian Spoke At Length about his Long Relationship...
“Yes. You have to realize that Jackie’s father was one of the gedolim of the last generation, on the level of Rav Moshe himself!” Rav Singer stressed. While some may be tickled at such information, I could not help but feel a tinge of melancholy.
Racists Murder People Of Color – Where’s The Outrage?
Palestinian Arab murders of people of color in Israel is a subject you won’t hear very much about.
Hermann Hesse, The Nazis, And Anti-Semitism
Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology,...
The Modern Orthodox Conundrum: Part Three – The Solution?
I didn’t get the memo that I was actually standing in front of G-d and blowing an opportunity to ask Him for brachos.
The Modern Orthodox Conundrum: Part One
A large number of our children are ignoring mitzvot such as Shabbos, kashrut and tefillin.
How Dangerous Is China? An Interview with China Expert Gordon Chang
Xi Jinping was pressuring countries not to impose travel restrictions and quarantines on people arriving from China while he was locking down his own country.
Coronavirus Unleashes Panic In Brooklyn Supermarkets
When the butcher came, people lunged at him and began grabbing meat off his tray.
Lehi Fighter Recalls 1948 Battle At Deir Yassin
Arab women and children had rifles like the men. We had to battle our way from house to house. Arab men dressed as women surprised more than one of our troops.
Mask-Wearing Represents Fear And Blind Obedience
Forcing hundreds of thousands of people to die alone will go down as one of the cruelest policies ever adopted by American authorities.
A Forgotten Holocaust Hero: Himmler’s Personal Physician
Kersten’s intervention with Himmler to save Jews is historical fact for which he should be recognized and honored, but he turned out to also be a Holocaust fraudster...
The Modern Orthodox Conundrum: Part Two – Why Is This Happening?
The shift, for many of those leaving Modern Orthodoxy, is not necessarily based on anger but rather on a general disconnect.
The Woman Who Hid Anne Frank – And The Dutch Jew Who Betrayed Her
After conducting a years-long investigation, the team concluded that Arnold van den Bergh (1886-1950), a prominent Jewish businessman, a founder of the Jewish Council in Holland, and a notary for a German art dealer selling stolen Jewish art to Hermann Goering, was the most likely quisling.
Benjamin Franklin And The Jews
Any document from the Revolutionary War period relating to Jewish soldiers, particularly those killed or wounded for the cause, is truly extraordinary and monumentally rare, let alone one originally signed by Franklin.
An Israel Ice Hockey Team Could Potentially Medal
To make the roster, players must be active and match Team Israel’s eligibility rules, meaning that they qualify by having a Jewish grandparent rather than being halachically Jewish...
Washing Before Kiddush: Just For Yekkes?
The rise of the chassidic movement, which exchanged many ancient Ashkenazic customs for those of the Arizal, also contributed to the increase in popularity of washing after Kiddush.
The Real Shidduch Crisis
Viewing singles exclusively through a we-must-get-you-married prism has terrible ramifications.
Can It Happen In America?
The law is only as powerful as the will of the people to respect it, the ability of the police and justice system to enforce it, and the determination of leaders to uphold it.
LBJ: An Unheralded Holocaust Hero
LBJ was an important initiator in providing American aid to Israel. As early as 1951, with Israel in desperate need of money and material to settle the massive influx of Jewish immigrants, he successfully lobbied the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for $150 million (equivalent to $1.66 billion in 2022 dollars) in support.
The Disturbing Legacy Of ‘Operation Susannah’ And The Lavon Affair
Ben Gurion used the broad public demand in Israel for a retaliatory action against Egypt to launch a February 28, 1955, attack on Gaza in which 39 Egyptians were killed and Israel suffered no casualties.
Art Spiegelman: A Man Or A Maus?
The story evolves during several sessions when an adult Artie comes to visit his cantankerous and eccentric elderly father, who is ill, in a bad second marriage, and still mourning the loss of Anja a decade earlier.
Jewish Players In World Series 2021
In 2004, the National Baseball Hall of Fame prepared a retrospective “A Celebration of Jews in Baseball.”
The Zionism Of Rosa Parks And Bayard Rustin
Later in life, Parks frequently and vociferously spoke out against skinheads – who typically manifest neo-Nazi beliefs regarding Jews – and the Ku Klux Klan, whom she blamed for “keeping the flames of prejudice flickering” and for much of the continuing racism in America.
I Can No Longer Support Donald Trump
Amazingly, this obnoxious, rude egomaniac took a strong stance in favor of Israel. In fact, his record speaks for itself, and so for that alone, I became a supporter.
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Indifferent To Judaism, Concerned About Israel
Oppenheimer was a strong Israel supporter who played an important role in the development of the Jewish state’s nuclear capability.
How Jewish Mathematician Abraham Wald Helped Win World War II
Wald asserted that Air Force data had ignored the thousands of bombers that had been unable to return to base because they’d been struck in other plane sections, including the engines, the cockpit, and the tail which, he maintained, are the very areas that must be more heavily armored.
Carl Jung: Kabbalist And Anti-Semite?
In contrast with the broad scrutiny brought to bear by the critics on Jung’s apparent anti-Semitism, little attention has been given to his preoccupation with Kabbalah in general and with his Jewish mystical visions in particular.
Why Are Whites Hated?
So, too, is America hated for placing the Bible at the center of its value system, its belief in being a "second" chosen people, its freedoms, and its capitalism.
Rashida Tlaib Sued For $2 Million
If these people [Tlaib and Ilhan Omar] amass even more power or they’re not held accountable for the crimes they commit, what's to stop them from inciting violence against Jewish people?