יום שישי, כ״ב אלול תשפ״וFriday, September 4, 2026
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The reason young people like myself are leaving Modern Orthodoxy is that our education has succeeded beyond compare.
The fight for language is the fight for history. It is one in the same.
Kollel lifestyle has ironically helped promote this, as women seek to find means to support their husbands.
Moms, I want to assure you I am not in any way belittling your efforts to research your child’s shidduch prospects.
Travel back to a time before smart phones, SMS and Facebook.
Our emotional response to events has much to do with how we process events.
Nothing defines a community so much as its recognition of common leadership and willingness to respect its authority.
Each week, the Shabbat morning service tells a different dramatic story.
What's lacking on all sides of the discussion is a frank consideration of what we might learn from each other.
We begin with 4 obvious pick ups: Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia and South Dakota.
Michelle Obama's lust for luxury has always been a bit of a problem for her husband and Democrats in general.
By Ori Bieder
Jews should be excited and participate in their culture and faith from a place of enthusiasm and love.
By Gil Solomon
Is Kerry an Emperor who issues decrees from on high over which poor ghetto Jews have no power whatsoever?
By Jeremy Rosen
The Talmud (Eiruvin 96a) mentions that Michal, the daughter of King Saul, wore Tefilin and no one objected.
According to Winston Churchill, "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
To comprehend the Middle East one must consider the convoluted, and often counterproductive role the super powers have played in the region.
I know a little something about human rights violations – such as the violation of my daughter Alisa’s right to live.
Issuing a statement dredging up Wildstein’s life, Christie’s office raised as many questions as it answered.
There must be an Orthodox presence and an Orthodox refusal to attend Limmud NY.
How political movements gain footholds remains one of the great true-life mysteries.
To bring this conversation down into something deep and heartfelt, I thought to tell a story from my own experience.
The workers were clearly pole-axed. Their "benefits" had become a yoke around their necks.
By Raheel Raza
According to research, claims of wide-ranging persecutions of Muslims by Canadians and Americans are exaggerated.
Being a teenage Israel advocate, I often encounter a troublesome phenomenon in the world of hasbara.
By Ehud Tokatly and Yori Yanover
We must assume that the Israeli government will, indeed, pursue the dismantling of settlements at some point.
I regret my involvement with Oxfam during my time in college.
The Kerry approach appears to follow the pattern of other recent pacts of the Obama administration in the region.
The assumption that Israel must accept the Kerry Plan as a basis for negotiations is misleading.
In accessing their inner strength to complete a challenge as great and awesome as childbirth, women increase personal joy.
Everyone who knows Rabbi Weiss can attest that he is a man of honesty and integrity.
For decades, it has been difficult to sort out the precise dividing lines between the varieties of Orthodoxy – Ultra, Haredi, Centrist, Modern, Liberal.
The parents, Shimon and Michal Gross have advised us how to proceed, and they didn't ask for revenge.
During one of his first biopsies, he apologized to the technician for crying out in pain, making his job more difficult.
By Meir Indor
By warning of a boycott, "Israel’s captains of industry" are actually encouraging one.
In order to complete the task of eating the worm each time, Billy often coated the worms in ketchup.
I looks like European antisemitism is becoming more and more inventive.
"Our view on Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and non-negotiable."
Sometimes being left alone anywhere on the spectrum is isolating. Sometimes it’s incredibly painful.
By Jeremy Rosen
The religious world needs to fight back constructively.
No danger of the Jews becoming a minority in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and the pre-1967 Israel.
Having made aliyah from Canada last August, I’m one of the newest Israelis, but this week, I’m also one of the proudest.
No matter how wrong Israel’s leaders may think their American counterparts are, little good comes from public spats.
Boycotts were instituted immediately after the 1948 establishment of Israel in hopes of starving it.
Meryl Streep condemned Disney for associating with extremists while doing the very same thing.
The first month of 2014 has brought an intense high and a profound low.
The degree of connectivity we have with each other is unparalleled.
It would make sense that an article about anticipation was itself anticipated!
Pirkei Avot teaches: 'who is wise? One who learns from all people.'
When a person plays hard to get, the dynamic of the foundation that they are creating is that of acquisition.
The post WW II era ushered in many new forms of idolatry, but none compares to the Idolatry of Peace.
By Janet Levy
Muslims & political influence in New Jersey.
By David Wilder
Seventeen years ago today, the ‘Hebron Accords were implemented.
Despite what some rabbis would tell you, there is no halachic law against women serving in the army.
By Jeremy Rosen
There is a dichotomy between personal, private prayer and public communal prayer.
I’d like to share my own recent account of what I think it means to be an "open source idealist."
By Daniel Mael
J Street and Open Hillel claim they want openness and honesty in the discussion about Israel, but that's only for those who agree with them.
Any blueprint from the secretary of state to incorporate what Rabin defined as areas vital for Israel’s defense.
Much of what we know about 19th century Orthodoxy is false, including the provenance of the term Orthodox.
Tu B'shvat highlights the rejuvination and blooming of trees and the Jewish people.
In 1943, just before Yom Kippur, some 400 rabbis marched to the White House.
Unrefined spiritual taste buds cannot truly enjoy food, because they constantly desire to consume more.
In Selvino they discovered a paradise they could not have imagined.
By Jeremy Rosen
We must call a halt to throwing so much money away on pure self-indulgence.
By Meir Indor
The message from the recent episode near Eish Kodesh is clear: violence pays.
By Gil Solomon
Abbas will have his endless war, whether Israel likes it or not.
Much of what I have accomplished has been over the objections of others.
The Palestinians have been gambling with somebody else’s money.
Independent Congressional scrutiny of this Palestinian state-driven policy is doubly-essential.
By David Wilder
A few days ago Hebron joyfully greeted back the archaeologists.
Our daughters now seek men who are incapable of supporting them and their children.
Lieberman has repeatedly dismissed the Palestinian Authority as not being a peace partner.
By David Mandel
A grieving widow and her young children were sitting shiva after Menachem Stark’s burial.
You have been a role model and an inspiration to us from as far back as I can remember.
Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al Qaeda are now physically surrounding Israel.
We are seeing the usual cold polar air taking an excursion.
By Gil Solomon
Obama and Kerry aim to destroy Israel one way or another.
He described Sharon as “the latest darling of the donkey-nationalists.”
Reintroducing graphology (handwriting analysis) to the clinical mainstream.
By David Wilder
Ariel Sharon. He had many positions, and many titles. I will remember him as a monster.
By Gil Solomon
Under Roman law, calls for a messianic monarchy within the Republic would have been a treasonable offense.
God transforms the spiritual into the physical, and Jews transform the physical into the spiritual.
By Veli Sirin
The unraveling of relations between Erdoğan and Gülen overshadow the corruption scandal.
A brief history of Israel’s legal right to the land under international law.
Jews are specifically targeted for pogroms and genocide.
Shabbos at a Nefesh weekend is an experience all on its own.
By Alan Bauer
Israelis negotiate like Americans and Europeans. Palestinians work in a different way.
The US wants a state more than the Palestinian’s do.
The ASA has obviously overlooked the pathology of Palestinian society.
By Ben Cohen
Even if Egyptian pressure lead to the collapse of Hamas, Gaza’s problems are unlikely to be solved overnight.
By Batya Israel
Can you imagine being deprived for years of conjugal relations, intimacy, and a home life?
I often hear from parents who struggle to pay their kids’ tuition, while supporting others parents’ children.
Knowledge is primary, while the physical manifestation of a thought might not need to happen the thought to be meaningful.
By Soeren Kern
Instead of integration, "parallel societies are forming that continuously distance themselves from each other."
Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.
By Ben Zion
Although Kempler's art is “dark,” the spirit of her humanity is ever- present.
The Palestinian refugee issue has been dramatically misrepresented, distorting circumstances and numbers, in order to de-legitimize the Jewish state.
September 4, 2026 
