Many of the speakers described the vast chesed that Reb Shlomo performed on a daily basis.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson was urging Christian Copts not to protest Muslim Brotherhood rule, even though they would suffer under it most.
By Sevda Gözler
We have a big problem with cognitive dissonance in most Arab countries.
Iran’s blaming the Zionist entity for a deadly earthquake in the country was pushing the limits of credulity.
By Esther and Jonathan Pollard
If anyone can bring the prayers of Am Yisrael before the Kisei HaKavod, we know that Shlomo can.
If the media and the international community continue to enable these tyrannical regimes, the cynical dead baby strategy will expand in scope.
By Henok Gabisa
Can interested state[s] intervene militarily to stop heinous crimes without the Security Council’s authorization?
The enemies of the Jewish people look longingly to the day when they will, God forbid, have the means to make good their threats to kill as many of us as possible.
On Facebook, young and old alike fool themselves into believing they are better than the person they see in the mirror.
It is high time we stopped empowering those who wish us ill: not just to recognize a blood-soaked regime, but to keep on recognizing it.
By giving the issue to Congress, he evades sole responsibility and makes himself look "principled."
By Soeren Kern
"The Left has singularly lacked courage in the difficult fight to defend secularism."
By Guest Author
We should remind each other of the value of Israel in our lives every chance we get.
By Guest Author
A letter to my American cousin who's going out with an Italian girl.
By Chabad.org
Most Jewish communities continue reciting Selichot throughout the Ten Days of Repentance.
By Jeremy Rosen
Zechariah was ready to scrap all the sad fast days and turn them into joyful celebrations.
By Guest Author
Gihon’s members are Nigerians who have embraced Judaism, but have not gone through a formal conversion process.
Numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore.
In a short span of time our shul raised and distributed thousands of dollars for relief organizations.
By Ben Cohen
Sarcasm aside, this is anti-Semitism of the ugliest, most primitive kind.
I learned that the Mormons have great respect for Jews and the state of Israel.
Islamic immigrants are hoping that by turning out a large number of their voters at a time of German voter apathy, they will be able to promote the further Islamification of Germany.
By Ali Salim
It is the lack of American action that will cause the situation to right itself in Egypt, Syria, North Africa and other centers of unrest in the Arab-Muslim world.
By Guest Author
If tears could melt stone, the Kotel wouldn’t be standing.
After the last freeze, there was a building boom. And the talks never took place. Let’s do it again.
By Jeremy Rosen
In Judaism sex is regarded as something wonderful, positive, and a gift of God.
By Guest Author
Many Igbo, even while practicing Christianity, nonetheless consider themselves Jewish.
If you want to move de line, you have to let go of hurt and anger.
Can you recall any time you hurt someone, perhaps a friend, neighbor, family member, fellow congregant or business associate?
By Alan Krinsky
Why aren't crime and corruption considered heresya kind of denial of the Torah and its precepts?
By Chabad.org
The rabbi, in his early 30s, hails from Miami, Fla., and Raizy, in her late 20s, grew up in Israel. What’s it like to live in the least populated state in the nation?
By Soeren Kern
The imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house because, according to him, she is an "infidel" as she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends.
For Krugman the move from 1.3 trillion to 1.1 trillion is "down a lot."
Near the Sinai peninsula, the Israeli Defense Forces continue on high alert, watching every suspicious movement in the sands near the Egyptian border for signs of the next attack.
By Soeren Kern
"The next thing could be that Danish nurses are forced to go under cover as Muslim women..." — Danish People's Party
By Jeremy Rosen
My father was always known as Rosen, but his elder brother Hashy became Shaw.
You never give me your money / You only give me your funny paper / And in the middle of negotiations / You break down. (Lennon/McCartney)
Thirty-eight Sejm members representing Tusk’s ruling Civic Platform party joined with the opposition in voting to outlaw ritual slaughter.
I hoped the school would be supportive, and though the teachers were wonderful, the administrators made it clear they did not feel their school was the right place for her.
Though Ryan may prefer to stay in the House rather than put himself through the agony of a presidential candidacy,his numbers make his fans salivate about the possibility of his running.
By Ehud Tokatly
Whatever step that needs to be taken in pursuit of the war against terrorists will hence be considered legal.
By Bob Campbell
The blame always rests with the enemy -- that would be us, the conservatives.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
What is in Eretz Israel that draws so much attention? Water? Mineral deposits? Open spaces? Oil? Gold? Diamonds?
By Soeren Kern
Efforts to create a "European Islam" are naïve and misguided, and will "mainstream" an ideology that contradicts the European way of life.
By Chabad.org
Sami Rohr’s impetus for building Jewish community in the former Soviet Union.
My son and I were injured in a suicide bombing in 2002.
"The occupation of Palestine and Jerusalem is a wound that has sat on the body of the Muslim world for years and needs to be removed," says Iran's new "moderate" President, and the centrifuges keep spinning.
By Jeremy Rosen
I suspect the survival of torture for so long owes as much to the Church as to human nature.
By Ehud Tokatly
The Rabbi Motti Elon scandal has to do with much more than just a fallen sage or the plague of sexual abuse by the rich and famous.
By Adi Moses
With your decision to release the murderer you spit on the graves of my mother and my brother.
By Danny Danon
Like Erekat, Indyk has been a major player in the peace industry since the early 1990s, and he also can point to zero achievements in bringing peace and prosperity to our region.
Divine affirmation is the foundation of Judaism. Everything else comes after.
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
In this morally unjust, tactically unwise, strategically harmful, militarily hazardous and life-endangering unilateral concession, we see the erosion of Israeli will.
By Gary Bauer
The people of Israel love what we Americans love and honor what we Americans honor. Israel is built on the rule of law. Its Declaration of Independence is modeled after ours. We are joined at the heart.
By Steven Plaut
The Taliban is all too willing to obliterate anything attesting to ancient Jewish life and culture.
By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
Across Europe, the lid has come off the demons repressed for a few decades after the Holocaust.
By Soeren Kern
"If we deal with him one time, with violence, and show him what time it is, he will never disrespect our religion again ... For Muslims, you'd say it's good, but for non-Muslims, it's very, very bad."
By Jeremy Rosen
But surely, you will say, Judaism requires one to respect one’s religious leaders. In theory this is so.
By David Wilder
The first time was many years ago. I had just concluded explanations about Yeshivat Knesset Yisrael” which arrived in Hebron from Slobodka, in Lithuania in 1924. The Hebron Heritage Museum at Beit Hadassah features an exhibit about this illustrious Torah-learning academy, nicknamed the ‘Hebron Yeshiva,’ which includes a ‘class picture’ from 1928. As I finished […]
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatens the US-led "peace talks," saying he will back “Palestine resistance” to ensure that all of the Land of Israel will not remain in Jewish hands.
By Guest Author
After helping themselves to large salaries and allowing fraud to persist under their noses for over a decade, the Claims Conference is too broke to serve the survivors.
Since a majority of Palestinians cannot envision mutual recognition even after all issues are resolved and they get a state, they see it as merely a pause before the conflict would begin anew.
History shows that people who become inconvenient to the Clintons, even close friends like Webb Hubbell, do not have happy endings.
By Guest Author
Rouhani's campaign symbol was a giant golden key that symbolized his ability to open locked doors, but now he may find it difficult to deliver on his promise.
By David Wilder
Everything is up for grabs. Beginning with Hebron, Beit El, and Elon Moreh, onwards to Jerusalem and finally, Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva and Haifa.
As thousands of radical jihadis have moved into Syria and the Sinai, Israel is perfecting its ability to neutralize these targets.
By Jeremy Rosen
The myth about the idyllic Jewish life if the ghettos of the East is dishonest, manipulative, and a betrayal of the memory of those who lived through it.
By Ben Cohen
Unfortunately, Israel, a stable democracy and Western ally, can be relied upon to be cooperative.
His dream was to reach out to every Jew, even the most secular.
Why would our tradition fill our fun-filled summers with such restricting limitations?
Blunt and forthright, he declared that “Due to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!”
This latest decision tells us nothing about Israel or the West Bank. But it tells us what we need to know about the EU.
By Guest Author
Why aren't you boycotting Chinese entities operating in occupied Tibet?
There is also widespread belief that Patterson's "meddling" in Egypt's affairs is not limited to General Sisi and the Egyptian media.
By Jeremy Rosen
I don’t expect thinking Muslims to object to a reasoned critique of Islam.
By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
The Anglicans are urging their faithful to “educate the church about the impact of illegal settlements” on the West Bank.
The words over the yeshiva's main doors used to be in English.
Kerry’s working with actors who have acted in this movie before, and the script is built around the same elements. But the theater is new.
Dermer is seen by the left as the worst of all possible creatures: a “right-wing neocon with close ties to the Bush family.”
By Meir Indor
Instead of giving new young couples some time in public housing until they’re ready to move forward, they want to give away the apartments to people who have been reaping the benefits for years.
By Soeren Kern
Politically correct Britons are forced to confront the previously taboo subject of endemic sexual abuse of children by predatory Muslim pedophile gangs.
By Jeremy Rosen
The super hero myth is dangerous because it is an excuse for inaction and fantasy.
By Ben Cohen
Mandela once wrote that Jews, in his experience, were far more sensitive about race because of their own history.
It is already illegal to conduct bias-based profiling, and there is no need for legislation that will make the job of police officers that much harder
By Isaac Kohn
The thug knew exactly what you are and he went after you anyway, Mr. Anteby.
By Alan Krinsky
Was the humble Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkulos the real hero of the destruction story?
Almost every person viewed Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av in a different light from the minor fasts.
By Boaz Haetzni
An appeal to keep the satirical show Latma running.
By Guest Author
Germany, I sadly found out, was obsessed with Jews.
By Jeremy Rosen
I find it very sad that an organization founded to help Jews retain their identity, should be so insensitive, so unaware Jewishly.
Each side wanted an absolute victory for itself, and total defeat for the other side.
How did we move so quickly from complacency to last-minute weapons deliveries and a possible no-fly zone?
You are a link in a long great chain of people bounded by a heritage that stretches back nearly six thousand years.
It appears not to have occurred to Condoleezza Rice that Palestinian statehood was incompatible with Israeli security.
A Jerusalem chassidic rabbi banned uniformed IDF soldiers from his group’s study halls, synagogues and yeshivas.
By Jeremy Rosen
Many Israeli intellectuals seem still caught up in an outdated debate about their identity caused both by their secularism and their left-wing ideology.