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God on Trial

By Rabbi Stewart Weiss

We have our tasks to perform; God has His. If either strays the other reserves the right to protest.

Op-Eds

I Believe in the Jewish People

By Shalom Bear

The fires we lit were for memorial candles, and not firebombs. We are not the same.

Op-Eds

Our Boys; Our Values

By Rabbi Mark N. Wildes

A mother's request for Israel: Sustain the Achdut and Ahavat Yisrael.

Op-Eds

The Day After: Making A Commitment To Daf HaYomi

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

I desperately want to convince the reader to set aside any other plans next Wednesday bite the bullet and start with us the new Talmudic cycle.

Op-Eds

The Admor who Sits in Bavel and Sees a Carcass in Eretz Yisrael

By Rav Shlomo Aviner

Rav Aviner answers the Admor of Satmar, who dwells in the Exile, and claimed the murder of the boys was punishment for the teens learning in the "Settlements" and blames the parents for sending them to learn there.

Op-Eds

The Tragic Farce Of Israeli ‘Confidence-Building Measures’

By Daniel Mandel

Confidence building measures have proven to be obstacles to peace.

Op-Eds

The Personification Of Rachel Imeinu

By dvora

Loving tears shed by Jewish mothers for their beloved children from Rachel Imeinu to Racheli Frankel.

Editorial

Hashem Yikon Damam

By Editorial Board

Unfortunately, we must deal with some of the practical lessons of this tragedy. The murders did not happen in a vacuum.

Editorial

A Disdain For The System

By Editorial Board

It is no secret the president is furious with Republicans in Congress for blocking his efforts to change immigration laws.

Interviews and Profiles

An American-Jewish Hero In Israel: Murray Greenfield

By Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Few of the volunteers were experienced sailors, (Greenfield had been in the Merchant Marine). Few were Zionists.

Front Page

Teach American Civics In Every Yeshiva

By Shlomo Z. Mostofsky

At a minimum, every child in our yeshivas needs to be taught how important it is, to the Jewish people and Israel, to utilize their right to vote and to cast an informed vote in every local, state and national election.

Op-Eds

If Co-Existence is Impossible, Then What?

By Vic Rosenthal

The problem is a culture whose essence is to negate ours.

Op-Eds

Not the Moment for 'Restraint' Against Hamas

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Nothing short of a stroke that will decapitate the leadership of this group will convince the Arabs that Hamas has made a mistake.

Khaled Abu Toameh

Hamas Prepares for War as Abbas Talks Peace

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Hamas seems to have reached the conclusion that the reconciliation pact with Abbas will not do it any good.

J.E. Dyer

Strategic Coalition Forming: Russia Supplying Iraq

By J. E. Dyer

Another nation – probably Iran, possibly Russia and/or Syria – is entering the fight in Iraq in a new and fully committed way.

Op-Eds

One Chance to Hold the IRS Accountable?

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Z STREET will have the ability to compel IRS officials to testify as to their practices and produce all records.

Op-Eds

SFSU: Supporting Terrorists is Legitimate University-Funded 'Research'

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

If the University is unwilling, the State must stop this outrageous abuse once and for all. It is wrong and it is dangerous.

Keeping Jerusalem

A Tale Of Two Countries: America And Australia

By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org

It is critical to note the solid legal basis for the position that no part of Jerusalem is actually "occupied."

Moshe Feiglin

Demographics Are On Israel’s Side

By Moshe Feiglin

The demographic pessimists have failed.

Op-Eds

Why The Kurds Are A Beacon Of Hope In The Middle East

By Ben Cohen

As of this moment, the Kurds have little reason to hold back from declaring independence.

Op-Eds / US

Obama Passes the Buck, Dumps Pollard Problem onto AG Eric Holder

By Rachel Levy

President Obama told Israeli President Peres that his attorney general will decide whether to free Pollard. But the A-G can't grant clemency.

Op-Eds

The Tragic Farce of Israeli Confidence Building Measures

By Dr. Daniel Mandel

Israeli concessions that are divorced from a genuine process of give-and-take cause harm.

Op-Eds

Keeping An Open Mind About Murder

By Jonathan S. Tobin

"Death of Klinghoffer" opera frames the issue as Israel’s existence being the real crime.

Op-Eds

‘Boorich Hashem Yoim Yoim’: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Outreach To Non-Jews

By Rabbi Moshe Feller

Disseminating the Seven Noahide Laws, is one way we can mark the Rebbe’s yahrzeit.

Editorial

The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s 20th Yahrzeit

By Editorial Board

The Rebbe was an acknowledged Torah scholar, seminal Torah personality, and one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.

Editorial

As The President Slumbers

By Editorial Board

Does anyone think the president has a formula to deal with Russian and Chinese land grabs?

Op-Eds

Breaking Down the Enemy

By Rabbi Fishel Jacobs

The message heard by Arab terrorists is: Israel won’t punish, even for the most heinous crimes.

Editorial

Questions Linger About The Met And ‘The Death Of Klinghoffer’

By Editorial Board

There is no disputing that Mr. Klinghoffer was selected for execution because he was Jewish.

Front Page

Every Bar Mitzvah A Testament To Jewish Survival

By Ed Lion

The risks were great, but certain death awaited them if they remained. The gamble paid off, though the family was separated for the next four years of the war.

Op-Eds

'Freed' Sudanese Christian Woman 'Apostate' Rearrested

By Phyllis Chesler

Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman whom an Appeals Court freed yesterday, has just been re-arrested at the airport trying to leave Khartoum. She is now in more danger than ever before. Here’s why. A man, Al-Samani Al-Hadi, has come forward who claims to be her brother. Meriam denies that he is. Nevertheless, he […]

Op-Eds

NGO Monitor: B'Tselem's Immoral Exploitation of the Kidnapping

By NGO Monitor

The title of B'tselem's campaign, “Hitching a ride,” is itself an immoral and cynical exploitation of the kidnapping.

Op-Eds

Why Are Student Leaders and Jewish Bruins Under Attack at UCLA?

By Tessa Nath

UCLA Students went up to the microphone to gush hate, bias, and one-sided claims against Israel.

Op-Eds

New-Jew Ideology Could Mean End of Zionist Project

By Meir Halevi Siegel

Goal of Zionist project was to free Jews from "shackles" of mitzvah observance. That ethos has become a danger to Israel's survival.

Op-Eds

Update from Mothers Unite: #Bring Back Our Boys

By Ruth Lieberman

Here in Gush Etzion, most public buildings have been taken over by soldiers, moving in temporarily with mattresses and food supplies.

Op-Eds

The Artful Inaccuracies of Iran's Foreign Minister

By The Tower

Iran is developing ballistic missiles that can carry a nuclear payload, so its program is non-military?

Op-Eds / Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Israel Needs New Paradigm for Peace

By Meir Halevi Siegel

In the 17th century, Galileo turned the Christian world on its head by suggesting the Earth orbits the sun. We need a similar paradigm shift.

Op-Eds

An Open Letter to Presbyterian Church Spokeswoman Ms. Kathy Francis (and to Presbyterians Everywhere)

By Robert Klein

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I read that the divestment vote was, in your words, "about morality and not politics".

Op-Eds

Palestinians Play the Victim Again

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Palestinian leaders claim the kidnapping is an Israeli hoax or the act of Jewish criminals rather than terrorists.

Op-Eds

Some Good News About the Presbyterian Church’s Anti-Israel Vote

By Louie V. Yadua

In 20 years it won't matter what the Presbyterians thought or whom they pretended to love.

Op-Eds

Addressing the Rape Crisis In India: Will Golda Meir Inspire Modi ?

By Jagdish N. Singh

Prime Minister Golda Meir's response to rising numbers of rape should be emulated by India's Modi.

Op-Eds

My Brother's Sleeper

By Alan Bauer

Despite official documents and voting rights, the U.S. no longer sees a Jew in Israel as one of its citizens.

First Person

Kidnapping Saga: Wells Empty of Water but Full of Snakes and Scorpions

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

"They took him and cast him into the pit. (Gen. 37:24). Rashi: “There was no water; there were snakes and scorpions."

Op-Eds

Korach and the Three-Fingered Salute

By Yonatan Gordon

This week we witnessed the true unity of the Jewish people rallying around, and praying for, these three boys.

Op-Eds

Esah Einai (I Lift My Eyes Towards the Mountains)

By Lisa Wise

I stand with her, my sister, waiting for her screen door to slam, for her son to return home.

Op-Eds

New Israel Fund Tries to Explain its Way Around BDS Ban

By Helene Fragman Abramson

The NIF claims it doesn't fund organizations in the "West Bank." But it does fund NON-Jewish groups there.

First Person

Apologists for Hamas Hitch a Ride on Terror

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

"I'm an old hitchhiker, I wonder what's a waitin' ‘round the bend" - John Denver.

Op-Eds

The Dangers Of Following After One's Desires

By Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald

Set limits! Limits must be established and must be enforced – one may not follow the desires of one’s heart and one’s eyes.

Op-Eds

My Journey: The Fusion Of Secular Education And Torah Judaism

By Ari Pfeffer

Venturing outside my comfort zone was unnerving, but I am so happy I challenged myself in this way.

Op-Eds

The Rebbe's Big Idea

By Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

The Rebbe therefore modeled a new pattern, one of non-judgmental love for all Jews.

Dov Shurin

Ruby Rivlin's Victory: ‘Lu Yehi’ Defeats ‘Let it Be’

By Dov Shurin

While the phrase “Let It Be” implies doing nothing, “Lu Yehi” implies working toward a goal.

Op-Eds

Peres, Chamberlain, And The Quest For Peace

By Jonathan S. Tobin

If Peres has outlasted some of his critics and is still considered popular, he cannot outrun history.

Op-Eds

Israeli Leaders’ Most Important Mission: Protecting Jewish Lives

By Rabbi Yeheskel Lebovic

Israel's leaders contemplate all manner of political and security concessions that are bereft of any backbone.

Moshe Feiglin

My Jerusalem Day Speech

By Moshe Feiglin

For a rare moment – too rare – you taught us the true meaning of oneness. Oneness at the front and oneness at home.

Editorial

Reflections On The Kidnapped Students

By Editorial Board

There are those prepared to go as far as suggesting that the kidnappings are perhaps understandable and the victims at least somewhat at fault.

Interviews and Profiles

New Organization Aims To Revitalize Zionism

By Elliot Resnick

The message is that Zionism, which used to be great, is today very institutionalized and [consists of a] bunch of people who are just squabbling over titles and budgets.

Front Page

My Tom Friedman Problem

By dvora

What I cannot concede is the honesty of a reporter who cites a study in support of a proposition without telling his readers that the study actually concluded the opposite.

Op-Eds / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / Global / Police and Crime / Islamists / Israeli Arabs

Three Notes on the Abduction Crisis

By Meir Halevi Siegel

Israelis would do well to consider the police, Hanin Zoabi and the secondary goals of the manhunt

Op-Eds / Terrorism / News Briefs / Local

Nadia Matar: Hitching is Dangerous? Outrageous!

By Meir Halevi Siegel

Women in Green founder takes on critics of Judea and Samaria hitchhikers, says fear not the way to move forward

Op-Eds

'Be Strong and of Good Courage'

By Scott Bugay

We must show, as individuals and as a nation, that our faith is strengthened by such cowardly acts.

J.E. Dyer

ISIS in Iraq: the Pause IS the Assault on Baghdad

By J. E. Dyer

ISIS has no intention of “marching on” Baghdad. The Sunni affiliates of ISIS are going to disrupt life there.

Op-Eds

Statement on the Kidnapping by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

Fundamental rectification of the Jewish People’s security in the Holy Land begins by recognizing our right to the Land.

Op-Eds

Let's Boycott Hypocrisy

By Eliana Rudee

If professors would like to present only their views in a forum, they should go into politics, not teaching.

J.E. Dyer

Team Obama: 'Too Politically Sensitive' to Evacuate US Personnel in Iraq

By J. E. Dyer

There is now NO possible explanation for not evacuating at least non-essential personnel from the U.S. embassy and consulates in Iraq.

Op-Eds

Yitzhar's Cinematic Moment

By Yonatan Gordon

We must learn how to portray reality correctly and in a positive way.

Op-Eds

A Query About One of Rabbi Natan Slifkin's Ten Questions

By Lisa Liel

Creating similar but different versions of a single thing, to serve different purposes, is a hallmark of creative action.

Interviews and Profiles

Manya Shochat – A Jewish Wonder Woman

By Shalom Pollack

Manya was befriended by many who would later comprise this first leaders of the newly born Jewish state.

Op-Eds

The Sin Of The Spies

By Rabbi Ephraim S. Sprecher

Increased education about the land, the people, and the Torah of Israel is the antidote to today's confusion.

Op-Eds

Justice For The Agunah

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran

One who may leave his wife an agunah is not included in the general rule that we may not imprison on Shabbos.

Keeping Jerusalem

Jerusalem's Birthday Brings Out City's Best

By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org

Jerusalem: extraordinary financial and building growth and satisfaction by both Jewish and Arab residents.

Op-Eds

From “Oz Tzion” to “Breaking the Silence”: Where is the Zionist Left?

By Adi Arbel

The events in which Leftists choose to participate, just like those that have become a solo display of the Right, raise the question of where the Zionist Left is standing.

Columns

Denying The Deniers

By Sara Lehmann

Though the school district eventually pulled the assignment after coming under pressure, the fact that an American school would ask its students to debate whether the Holocaust was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain” is both astounding and frightening.

Op-Eds

The Book Of Jewish Sovereignty

By Moshe Dann

The sovereignty of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael is not only a political act but also a moral and spiritual one.

Op-Eds

The Bergdahl Affair

By Editorial Board

Whether President Obama broke the law by failing to comply with the National Defense Authorization Act’s requirement of 30 days’ notice to Congress when he swapped those five Taliban terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a more complicated question than many might imagine. To be sure, there was no advance notice to […]

Editorial

Legitimizing Hamas

By Editorial Board

But while the new development hardly augurs well for Israel, the consequences to America may be even more troublesome.

Op-Eds

The Future of Jerusalem Day

By Nir Menussi

We have an external wall, but we cannot enter it―at least, not as Jews, with tefillin on our heads and a siddur in our hands.

Khaled Abu Toameh

Will the West Fund Hamas?

By Khaled Abu Toameh

The dispute over money between Hamas and Fatah shows that each group signed the reconciliation agreement for its own interests.

Front Page

Miami Beach Memoirs

By Rabbi Berel Wein

My primary interest was in providing for my community, both spiritually and physically.

Op-Eds

Does Anti-Semitism Threaten American Jews?

By Kenneth Marcus

The FBI regularly reports that anti-Jewish hate crimes exceed hate crimes against any other religious group.

Op-Eds

UK: 'Culture of Fear' in Birmingham Schools

By Soeren Kern

Inspectors: pupils in some English schools are systematically exposed to radical Islamic propaganda.

Op-Eds

No End to a Self-Inflicted Tragedy

By Daniel Mandel

The Palestinians do not mourn their decision to go to war to abort Israel. They mourn that they failed.

J.E. Dyer

Guerrilla-Terrorists ISIS Seize Mosul, Iraq: Territorial Strategy

By J. E. Dyer

ISIS is executing, slowly but surely, a pincer move on Baghdad.

Op-Eds

Democracies Must Defend Rights

By Jagdish N. Singh

Most of the members of the UN regional groups have poor rights records themselves.

Analysis

Who Will Pick Israel's Next President, the Knesset, the Press or the PR Companies?

By Ranit Nachum-Halevi

Nave and Golan are advisors helping Meir Sheetrit run for president. As professionals who lead campaigns and shape public opinion, they cite the press as a major factor in this campaign.

Op-Eds

A Chabad House on the Moon?

By Yonatan Gordon

The moon-inspired public is searching for something like the renewal and redemption of the Jewish people.

Op-Eds

North American Medical Students Thrive in Diverse Region

By Rachel Stern Siegman

Technion students placed in residencies with the most prestigious programs in the U.S.

Op-Eds

Does God Ever Play Dice With the Universe? A Jewish Response.

By Howard Zik

In decision making, randomness is most significant and where God gave us a creative role in shaping the future.

Op-Eds

Iran: False Assumptions

By Peter Huessy

Iran can quickly produce Highly Enriched Uranium; Iran is therefore already a de facto nuclear weapon state.

Analysis

NY Times Completely Misunderstands Hamas

By Shalom Bear

The NY Times doesn't understand Hamas or the Hezbollah model they are following.

Op-Eds

Anti-Semitism in Chicago School

By Paul Miller

if children on the brink of high school don’t understand that evil is at the core of the Holocaust, then what is the point of an education system that prides itself on tolerance and diversity?

Serials

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