יום שלישי, י״ח תשרי תשפ״זTuesday, September 29, 2026
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Rabbi Pelcovits was a formidable talmid chacham, widely recognized as one of the preeminent pulpit rabbis of the last half of the 20th century with unsurpassed oratorical skills.
The messages seem clear. For one thing, the U.S., the major Arab states, and some European ones are fast moving away from the notion that the PA is part of the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian controversy.
In fact, we have not heard of any criticism of Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic remarks from any Women’s March leader.
Should newspapers publish anonymous letters to the editor? For many years The Jewish Press has refused to do so, in line with standard industry policy. The rationale behind such a policy mainly boils down to the theory that a “person of integrity does not have to hide when they speak, or write,” as one former […]
There are also accounts of individuals and groups mounting challenges to religious circumcisions and ritual slaughter.
The World Values Network was founded by Rabbi Boteach to promote Jewish values but, as we see it, has now morphed into a group devoted to spread his teachings.
The reported plan was instantly denounced by the Palestinians who said, rather amazingly, that it was plainly too pro-Israel.
Israel is not a party to these discussions, but is being kept abreast of them.
After all this ambiguity, now finally comes the announcement that the U.S. will call its current consulate in Jerusalem its embassy and have U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman move there with some of his staff.
In a democracy, where the rule of law is transcendent, police investigators should not be permitted to run roughshod over a defendant’s right to a fair trial.
One of the IAF planes returning from the attack was shot down by Syria after the IAF had destroyed many Syrian anti-aircraft batteries in the area.
Not to put too fine a point on it, it appears that the Russian indictments are empty gestures.
We can easily understand why Syria would have fired at Israeli warplanes as they crossed over Syrian territory and that they perhaps got lucky.
Mr. Schumer also comes up rather short on the merits of his Trump-as-hatemonger scenario.
A hung jury failed to convict him, voting 10-2 for acquittal. The DOJ initially announced it was going to retry him. This week it announced it would not.
The new law was ardently pushed by Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party and the judges on the constitutional court are mostly its appointees. And therein lies an important tale.
Now, 13 year later, after Mr. Obama’s electoral fortunes are no longer a concern, the photo and news of the meeting have surfaced.
But it was in the area of Israel’s political future as a robust and flourishing democracy where he fell woefully short.
What if, against all odds, the Palestinians actually get serious about negotiating a peace agreement?
The tactic was ill advised and Mr. Schumer was finally forced to capitulate in order to protect the electoral chances in November of Democratic congressional candidates in states that voted for President Trump in 2016.
As we see it, President Trump’s moves reflected not favoritism but a hard-eyed nod to realism as the basis for serious peace negotiations.
New provisions, unlike the current deal, not have an expiration date; that Iranian non-compliance would trigger automatic resumption of American sanctions...
In retrospect, the president’s move – which broke with half a century of American policy, defied perennial Arab demands, and risked a violent backlash – seems altogether logical and timely.
“[h]e would benefit...from a dash of humility by remembering that, given the abysmal turnout on Election Day, he won support from only about 16 percent of the city’ registered voters.”
But it is questions about the treatment of workers that have rocked the industry.
It’s about time, though, that Mr. Abbas and perhaps the Times as well get over their pique at the president’s introduction of a new approach to a problem that has defied all the old ones.
All of this is coming in the context of Mr. Trump’s vow to gut some of the key sweetheart deals the Iranians wangled out of the Obama/Kerry team.
They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care.
Mr. Rubashkin has now served more than 8 years of that sentence, which many have called excessive in light of its disparity with sentences imposed for similar crimes....
The Trump victory in 2016 increasingly seems more and more like a much needed corrective in terms of the role the U.S. plays in the world.
From where we sit, this non-development is also a strong indication that there is less interest than one might think around the Middle East in the Palestinian cause.
Known for his extraordinarily incisive intellect, Rav Shteinman was regularly sought out by individuals with personal problems as well as Israeli governmental officials seeking guidance on public issues.
So the president all but invited the Palestinians to come and negotiate over the issue he ostensibly resolved by recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem.
In fact, the lawsuits that led to the lower court stays is only half of the story. The other half is that the plaintiffs forum-shopped.
Major news outlets reported that Arab leaders said that Mr. Trump informed them as much and were venting their anger.
More important – although ignored by the media – is the nature of the Flynn plea deal itself.
In 2015, Republicans took control of the Senate and Sen. Menendez became the ranking member of the committee, but in short order he was forced to give up even that less important but still influential leadership position.
The matter seemed open and shut given the unambiguous language of the law.
This is the first time Diaspora Jews will be permitted to vote in an Israeli party primary.
To be sure, following formal notification, President Trump has 90 days to consider whether the Palestinians are in “direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.”
It is not only the largest jurisdiction in terms of general population, it also has within its jurisdictional borders the largest concentration of Orthodox Jews outside of Israel.
It will mark the first time Diaspora Israelis will be permitted to vote in an Israeli party primary election.
Reportedly, the radar can identify a threat from a distance of 1,550 miles, providing Israel a relatively long – approximately eight minutes – response time and enabling the use of various means of interception.
While Mayor de Blasio has dutifully backed the “progressive” agenda, we have yet to hear him decry the left’s growing anti-Zionism.
Is it “cynical politics,” as some claimed last week, when a president resolves to attack a palpable problem at its source?
The key would seem to be that with the Russian efforts against ISIS in Iraq and Syria came the embedding of a vast Russian military presence.
He should clarify how far afield from the basic issue of Russian interference the special prosecutor may roam in the course of trying to prove his case.
With this in mind, the Greater Jerusalem proposal could be the vehicle to turn things around.
Another goal is the establishment of community learning programs to promote regular contact and exchanges among women in their communities.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel will not sit down with Hamas as presently constituted.
Actually, when we first heard what Mr. Trump is reported to have said, we thought he was praising Sgt. Johnson’s sacrifice because he knowingly, and selflessly, put himself in harm’s way in defense of his country.
It will be recalled that JCPOA was adopted as an act of Congress – rather than, as would have been expected, a treaty.
In essence the Israeli position is, and has long been, that Hamas cannot be accepted at the table unless it has renounced violence, recognized the state of Israel, accepted previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinians, and is now committed to peaceful negotiations to resolve the conflict.
So even if there is no certification, the U.S. doesn’t automatically opt out of JCPOA, as The New York Times erroneously editorialized last week.
It could hardly be argued that the lawmakers of the time had “transgenderism” even remotely in mind when they acted to outlaw sex discrimination.
Mahmoud Abbas’s encouragement of anti-Israel violence consists not just of the aforementioned payment of stipends to the families of terrorists.
So there was always supposed to be some notion of [Israeli] expansion into the West Bank, but not necessarily expansion into the entire West Bank.
According to the OU, some 30,000 yeshiva students cannot participate in the program.
The disrespecting of the Star-Spangled Banner (and, by extension, our flag) by athletes who refuse to stand when it is played at sporting events is a broadside against one of the fundamental symbols of America.
It is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that Iran’s government end its pursuit of death and destruction.
This is more significant than ever before inasmuch as the mayor seems intent on making the election campaign a referendum on President Trump’s political agenda rather than his own record in office.
It stands to reason that there are going to be some policy issues that defy compromise more than others – perhaps to the point of preclusion – even in a town ordinarily driven by last-minute compromises.
The initial prosecutions were marked by government conduct that should shock the conscience of anyone who believes in fair play.
Doubtless what moved the Democrats was the revelation that intelligence officials reported the antifa threat to the Obama administration some time ago with apparently no response from the president or any key aides.
Hundreds of volunteers were on hand in Passaic and other cities on Sunday night to load trucks with boxes of supplies and food items headed for Texas.
Even Rep. Nancy Pelosi, no fan of Mr. Trump, has now taken to condemning antifa.
There will be no undermining of the leverage Israel has by virtue of its vast military and economic superiority over the Palestinians.
President Obama plainly wished to avoid noting that the site of the murders was a kosher market or that the targets were Jews, who could be expected to be there, especially on a Friday.
He is not engaging in moral equivalence between good and evil.
Some attribute the sudden lack of media focus on North Korea to a desire to embarrass Mr. Trump on the one hand and to deny him any credit for apparently defusing such an ominous situation on the other.
We take a back seat to no one in taking seriously the role a national security adviser plays when it comes to U.S. interests and those of Israel.
So it was preordained, so to speak, that whatever he said about as electrifying an issue as Charlottesville would be seized upon by resistance members and turned into grist for their mill.
According to the petition, although Ms. Abeles seems plainly to have followed agency procedures for requesting time off by fully notifying her supervisor via e-mail, the agency...
A respected Torah scholar, he authored several sefarim and was a mentor to many Jewish education professionals.
President Trump and his UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, may be slowly moving the UN in a different direction, but the problem still looms.
Why would the Palestinians not believe that the U.S. would forever pressure Israel to meet escalating Palestinians demands?
He told a German TV station that his appearance was in part to provide an opposing position to President Trump’s worldview.
Financial packages? Reintegrating cold-blooded murderers into society? And so the report went, simply glossing over the damning evidence of Palestinian malevolence.
No longer would religious motivation entitle one to a constitutionally required exemption from a law of general applicability.
Indeed, religious buildings in major Muslim religious centers such as Mecca and Medina are protected by the devices, as is the Vatican.
Indeed, the presiding judge in the Silver trial admonished Mr. Bharara for his verbal excesses.
Jewish law stipulates that a Jewish divorce can only be initiated by the husband in an exercise of his free will.
It seems the Resistance is rooted in the notion that Mr. Trump is hopelessly out of sync with American values and American voters.
But there is another crucial element in this episode that must also be noted.
Who is to be deemed a Jew is a religious question and therefore not one that lends itself to political compromise.
This case involves express discrimination based on religious identity with respect to playground resurfacing. We do not address religious uses of funding or other forms of discrimination.
The inculcation of Torah values to generations of Jews will be an important and enduring part of his legacy.
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.
And therein lies a cautionary tale that should cause skeptics of Mr. Trump’s “fake news” mantra to seriously reconsider.
That this lesson in Palestinian credibility – or, more precisely, lack of same – will seriously inform future U.S. Mideast policy is perhaps too much to hope for.
On its face, the request by Ms. Lynch raises the question of whether she was trying to give Mrs. Clinton political cover during the campaign.
Both the tribute to Mr. Lopez-Rivera and the portrayal and murder of a Trump-like Julius Caesar have been justified by supporters in the name of political and artistic freedom. Yet the sophistry in play with regard to both is unmistakable.
Rabbi Berman seems eminently well suited to guide Yeshiva University in the coming years.
Another provision of the law extends this penalty provision to each succeeding fiscal year if the embassy is not moved.
We recalled the raw edge of racial politics engaged in by Presidents Clinton and Obama on the issue of his release from federal prison.
It is important to note that Mr. Pollard was cut no slack along his journey to freedom.
Many of us, though, were certain that after a relatively short hiatus, Iran’s pursuit of regional hegemony supported by a nuclear arsenal would resume, and inexorably so.
In any event, applying the waiver provision to the law’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital makes no sense.
September 25, 2026 
