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My Encounter with Rav Lichtenstein

First Person Stephen Leavitt

What was supposed to have been a 15 minute interview, turned into an intense learning session and intellectual battle, the likes of which I had never experienced in my entire life.

Is Obama a State Sponsor of Terrorism?

First Person Daniel Greenfield

If the Iran deal passes, Obama's WH becomes world's leading financier of terrorism against Americans

Remembering Yehoshua Friedberg HY”D [video]

First Person Ari Fuld HY"D

I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

Ari Fuld on Remembering Yehoshua Friedberg [video]

First Person Ari Fuld HY"D

I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

A Simchas Torah Like No Other

First Person Rabbi Yehuda L Oppenheimer

But we citizens, especially religious citizens, must take this terrible debacle as a severe wake-up call to unite again as a people.

My War Diary: War is Hell but National Suicide is Worse

First Person Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

We mourn the dead, wish a speedy recovery to the wounded, and pray that God guides the government.

Shurat HaDin’s Letter Threatening to Sue Coca-Cola for Supporting BDS

First Person Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Coke, the "Real Thing," may be in REAL trouble.

Jewish Press Blogger’s Movie to Hit the Big Screen

First Person Tzvi Fishman

An Israeli actor pal asked me why I knew nothing about Judaism-The question hit like a thunderbolt

4th of July in Riga, Latvia: Memory, Distorted Behind Recognition

First Person Sarra Liskovets

Latvia, July 4, 1941 they forced many Jews in the shul putting it on fire; everyone was burned alive

A Tribute to Irving Yitzchak Moskowitz z”l

First Person Daniel Luria

The True Builder of United Jerusalem in Our Times

‘Settler’ Leaders Denounces Arson-Murder, but Rabbis Still Silent

First Person Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

"Yesha" and Binyamin Regional Council leaders said the attack "is not the path of Jews in Judea and Samaria."

20 Combat Officers of Israel Defense Forces Urge An End of Funding to Organizations...

First Person Guest Author

An appeal to American Jews to stop funding organizations that harm Israel's Defense Forces

Diary from the Ukrainian Border: Flight and Arrival

Diary from the Ukraine Border Hana Levi Julian

The JewishPress.com has sent Hana Levi Julian to the Ukrainian border with a United Hatzalah mission, to report on the refugees, the Jewish aid efforts and the situation in Ukraine. This is the first report in a series of diary entries of was Hana is witnessing.

Diary from the Ukrainian Border: Inside a Refugee Camp [Photo Essay]

Diary from the Ukraine Border Hana Levi Julian

Photos from inside a refugee camp in Kishinev, Moldova

We Are All Called Up

First Person Naami Ganz

We are all being called up. None of us are untouched by this war. It may be different for you or for me, but at the end of the day, as Jewish people, we are all connected.

No, We’re Not Okay

First Person Ariella Tenenbaum

I can handle navigating a slew of complicated existential questions from my kids, but when my sweet, caring eight-year-old daughter turned to me one night and asked the simplest question of all, But why? Why do they hate us so much? I have no answer for her.