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Many women do regret their abortions, and it’s very rare for women to just go back to normal after having an abortion.
By Tzvi Fishman
Chevron is the City of our Patriarchs, the cradle of Jewish history. You don’t give it to an enemy to satisfy America.
The Fiddle is a new animated prequel, in Yiddish, to Fiddler On The Roof
I think you have to give the left a taste of their own medicine.
Now the challenge has evolved from being heard, to being seen and heard.
We always are smiling. But because of our life experiences, we lose contact with the innocent beautiful child within us that is connected to Hashem 24/7.
In 1933, Wegner chose to risk everything – his home, successful career and his own freedom – by speaking out in protest of Hitler's treatment of the Jews.
I learn a lot and read a lot. When I come across an e-mail, a story, an insight that is transformative, I try to internalize it. I think it's all out there. One just has to notice it.
By Rhona Lewis
My musical performances are interactive. I take my audience with me on a journey to their inner selves.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the image of his ideological mentor, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the Latvia-born Israeli became a pillar of professional and political achievement—a voice of reason during the crucial development of the Jewish state.
With each new conquest and success, I felt something was missing. Each new acquisition left me feeling empty.
The Tenafly appeal case has now become a textbook classic of Establishement vs. Freedom of Religion.
By Tzvi Fishman
Yishai is an avid defender of the rights of religious soldiers in the IDF and supports the massive bombing of Gaza when Hamas rockets rain down on Israel.
When The Jewish Press became successful he gave jobs to friends who were out of work, even when he didn’t really need them. They didn’t know that, because he made them feel important.
From Medzhybizh to Brooklyn--a story of a century-long life.
My feet glided effortlessly across the room; my eyes took it all in.
A rabbi from the area, although not from Tenafly, was brought in to explain what an eruv is about and to entertain questions. This attempt at enlightenment backfired because, for starters, he was not from Tenafly. But this time instead of ignoring him, he was misunderstood.
My parents saw how miserable I was in chutz la'aretz, so they finally gave me their beracha to move to Eretz Yisrael.
If we base things on results, there’s no reason to make new guidelines.
She decided to seek help straight from the top, contacting the Queen Mother, Elisabeth of Belgium herself.
By Rhona Lewis
We were split up among the villagers because the Germans were on the lookout and it was too risky for anyone to hide four of us together.
We are the only group that never changed its platform. We are loyal to the same exact things we were loyal to 30 and 40 years ago.
And then - and then everything changed in an instant. A burst of bullets cut short our anticipations and our dreams, and ignited stark fear in our hearts.
Everyone agrees that the most important quality a volunteer needs to have is love.
I really believe many people need shidduch coaching. One shidduch coach told me, “There are many people who are passing up good opportunities for bad reasons.”
The surgeon said that if the bullet had gone one millimeter further in, that would have been the end.
This is the best Supreme Court the Orthodox Jewish community can have because there are two basic constitutional decisions that [can now] be overruled that are of major import to the Orthodox Jewish community.
Teller, you see, doesn’t believe it’s enough to study Torah. He feels that we must defend Eretz Yisrael as soldiers, on the ground, with our warm bodies. He gave up a cushy executive job at a private firm to defend the State of Israel. But after much thought and study, his passionate beliefs left him with no other choice.
By Sandy Eller
You take whatever road you have to take and make the best of it.
By dvora
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
By Howard Zik
Steinberg significantly links belief with a capacity that may regarded as intuition, but intuition in an enlightened sense.
By Deborah Katz
In a pre-trial interview with Rudolf Hoess (SS Commandant of Auschwitz), Sonnenfeldt asked him whether he had exterminated three and a half million Jews? Hoess became angry and replied, "No, only two and a half million!"
These are true stories by real women, and they are incredible.
How many traditions do we take with us when we leave home?
By Deborah Katz
During the Battle of Manila, my parents hid with me and several others in a foxhole while the Japanese went on a massacre and burned everything in sight.
By Boaz Bismuth
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.
I’m not the Rebbe, and anything from the Rebbe we don’t explain. The main theory is that my father had just gone through a very hard time, and perhaps the Rebbe wanted to give him a new beginning.
By Rhona Lewis
We connect to others by communicating with them. When the ability to communicate is lost, we lose that connection.
I remember in first grade a kid called me a dirty Jew and punched me in the mouth. When I got home, my mother said, “You know what your problem is? You didn’t defend your people. When somebody calls you a dirty Jew, you make ‘em pay for it.”
A room of thousands of women singing and crying out in prayer is an incredible experience.
Avraham Ben-Tzvi still believes the Eitam hill, Efrat’s only remaining land reserve, must be developed urgently, or the town will lose it for good.
Had the Soviets only given them a one- or two-year prison sentence, I don’t think the world response would’ve been that big.
By Sandy Eller
All I could think of was that my daughter was having a baby on a Caribbean island, where they don’t even speak English, and she was completely and entirely alone.
The country of Denmark has the rare distinction of being the only occupied country in Europe to defy the Nazi regime’s attempt to deport its Jewish citizens, and, in fact, saved 99% of them.
Facebook claimed PragerU’s videos were deleted or blocked by mistake and apologized. But Prager has faced tech censorship before. YouTube, for example. After reading the article, whom do you believe?
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
By Guest Author
On one hand - tough as nails. Like a super hero. On the other - he laughed easily, was everyone's friend and LOVED to learn Torah. Rare is it that the Karate Man, the Army Hero, Mr. Macho is also a gentle, caring, friendly person, who gets a super geshmak from learning Torah. That was R' Ari.
Schlafly organized a grassroots movement against the ERA, arguing that it would harm women, not help them. She was right.
By Rhona Lewis
I didn't include my height in my CV, because my family had always taught me that dwarfism is a non-issue. Some people are short; others are tall.
By Josh Hasten
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, he speaks about current bonds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel, the rocky relationship with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, other regional powers at play, and the complex and uncertain prospects for peace.
By dvora
Our job is not to dictate solutions to Israel. Our job is to support it in finding solutions to its very longstanding serious challenges.
After a while, performing for women only became exciting. It’s also amazing to play with other women in a band. The energy is great!
John McCain embodied heroism--an intangible that American culture has lost.
I thought to myself, ‘I know I have music inside. I’ll just give it a try.’
Yehudit Abrams, the hi-tech maverick who recently won $360,000 for her early detection breast cancer device is also a convert to Judaism. This is her amazing story.
Together with her husband, she helped found the first hospital in Beersheva, which was then just a desert.
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.
By Rhona Lewis
We're powered by a mixture of inner joy and adrenaline and the audience is able to tap into these positive feelings.
We've been living with obesity, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, and cancer for so long that we assume they've always been present. But that's not the case.
Popper’s maiden name is Gott, which is German for God. “The name felt like a mismatch with my upbringing,” she relayed.
Three years ago, I wrote about the Alon Hesder unit that had lost seven soldiers in the battle for Beirut during the Peace for Galilee operation, otherwise known as the First Lebanon War. The article was about how Yossi Levy inspired his commanding officer Effi Margi to study Talmud decades after his death, and how […]
Rabbi Neuhouse wanted many girls to have opportunities to be in camp. So, he got people to sponsor them.
By dvora
Because she still has that inner drive to tell over what happened, because she just had to push herself.
Unlike Goldberg, most Israelis saw the inauguration as a dramatic, yet modest affair, fulfillment of America’s promise as per the U.S. Congressional law passed in 1995.
Serving as President for 32 years, Malcolm Hoenlein has served longer than 6 White House administrations, has met each of those Presidents and most every world leader. Enjoy this unique interview with a third of a century of Jewish leadership
Rabbi Berel Wein has said that Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz became “the greatest teacher of Jewish People in our generation by making the Torah available to the English-speaking Jewish world.” His legacy is a gift to us all.
By Alan Zeitlin
Lemmer said there wasn’t one big moment where he realized he could be a professional singer, but has been on albums since the age of 14 and rose up the ranks to be a featured soloist in the Shira Choir.
Lubavitch shluchim move to all sorts of exotic places in their effort to ignite Jewish souls around the globe. But there’s exotic, and then there’s very exotic. Shanghai, China, can safely be said to fall into the latter category. To learn what it’s like teaching Judaism in the most populous city in the world (24 […]
He also tries to close the gap between male and female students and advance the girls in math. He also tries to teach them to be good people.
It’s not about troubled youth, but any youth that may face troubles. Look at trouble not as an adjective but as a verb. The core issue of such youth is the feeling of loneliness.
A fascinating interview with the esteemed and prolific translator 96 year-old Eliyahu Munk.
By dvora
I've been attacked from all political sides with some calling me a "Mossad propagandist" and others claiming I'm "anti-Israel".
As a resident of Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, I see them quite often. They are led into the local batei medrash or shul by religious yeshiva students dedicated to sharing the gifts they were granted. They sit down at the tables and learn Hashem’s Torah. They thirstily drink in the ways of Hashem which they […]
All my life I just wanted to disappear but suddenly I have responsibility; I have to face challenges, take care of the animals, and interact with the public.
Let me start by saying that I never endorse politicians. Am I surprised? No! Because Trump is not your typical individual.
The Palestinians produce propaganda every day, using Nazi cartoons, with which they brainwash their children about the "demonic Jews" and the Jewish a conspiracy against Islam and humanity.
Some of the animals that are saved, but can't be reintroduced into the wild, are given to Deer Country Park, where Avihu takes care of them.
By M. Lowinger
All are here with a sense of purpose and determination. And, of course, they will also experience a relaxing and rejuvenating weekend.
By Rachel Weiss
Their anguish and tears were for naught; one was told to go left, the other ordered to go right.
In 1967, Rabbi Yitzhak Spatz, helped liberate Shechem during the Six-Day War.
By Alan Zeitlin
Ironically, George Blank was bloodied after he survived the Holocaust.
By Rhona Lewis
Although I may not speak as clearly as other social workers, my clients understand me better than them. And that’s because I understand them.
It's not the same in Israel. Academia is still a real flashpoint with charedim. And particularly in regards to women.
Her brave answer resulted in her imprisonment in Bourges prison where she would witness further cruelty towards Jews.
By Ayelet A.
We go out and strengthen those who want to hear us. We give them tools and information.
There is no question that the lack of a community of peers is uniquely challenging for someone with Abby’s musical gifts.
I greatly admire the example she set for all Americans on dedication to causes greater than oneself, as well as civility, humility and faith. That will always be her legacy.
I felt as if I were on a conveyor belt that moved us from plane to shuttle to luggage pick-up to passports – and then to freedom and humid air.
Tsipora yearned for grandparents, to call someone "Savta or Saba." She was jealous of her friends who spent Shabbat at aunts or uncles.
By Sandy Eller
Everyone was relieved when the first shipment of new and improved Shpielmans was delivered in time for Chanukah 2016 and sold under the Glatt Play brand.
The State of Israel was declared in 1948. I was seven years old. I didn’t know or understand what a State was, or what it meant for Jews. ... Most American Jews were grateful for President Truman’s recognition of the new State, yet were concerned.
It is amazing when you think that these men, women and children, who lived for months or years not knowing if they would survive another day, went on to live into their eighties, nineties – some even became centenarians.
The question is not why all the Jews did not fight, but how so many of them did.
Prof. Wyman’s studies led him to realize how little Christians in America did in response to news of the raging Holocaust, and that shook him to his core.
We should certainly object to exploitation and harsh working conditions, but to object to work makes no sense whatsoever.
What about the Gemara that says you can squeeze out a cluster of grapes on Erev Shabbos and make Kiddush on Shabbos? They said that’s only if you didn’t treat the grape juice chemically to prevent it from fermenting.
By Sara Lehmann
It would have been so simple to save him. The doctor lived only two blocks away, but no one called him. That’s when I realized that every single day people die waiting for an ambulance.
Putin is reported to have personally ordered the assassination of a former Soviet intelligence agent in the UK. They have no way of knowing such a fact – because it isn’t a fact, and it makes no sense.
Women are going to bring Moshiach. There are things I have to do. Times are changing and I must do it!
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“No country in the history of the world ever contributed more to the welfare of humankind in such a short period of time than Israel,” affirms the longtime professor, lawyer and author, soon to turn 80.
September 4, 2026 
