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By Harold Rhode
Middle Eastern culture has never developed ways to leave the past behind.
The slightest amount of “puffing up,” leavening of the ego is too much when it comes to Passover.
Hamodia ought denounce that abhorrent hashkafah, seek forgiveness and thank Hashem for His kindnesses
Kerry has literally been "begging" Abbas to agree to the extension of the peace talks.
OpIsrael is once again taking place on a most auspicious day for the Jewish people.
By Joshua Nass
Apparently Thomas Friedman needs a history lesson to learn why those aren't "occupied territories."
The protection and help that Israel extends to others does not stop at Israel’s borders.
By Reuven Berko
US global failures in dealing with radical Islam, Iran and Russia, should have taught them a lesson.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Realizing they shared a business and social vision, Moed and Samara resolved to combine forces and offer unique tourism programs for travelers visiting the Holy Land.
By Hen Mazzig
Why was someone misrepresenting Israel given credibility by Hillel and J Street U?
By Dov Gilor
The cleansing of Europe of its non-Muslim population will be accomplished in another two or three generations.
The parallels between the Pakistani and Turkish situations are striking.
the observant individual has the seeds of self-discipline that can be applied to nonreligious endeavors
Our loved ones seem present though we can no longer see them or be with them, just as it is with God
Where do we find this "size of following" concept in the Torah?
So it always struck us as hypocritical that Israel was expected to release cold-blooded killers almost as a matter of habit while the U.S. balked at letting Pollard go.
The Department of Justice acknowledges that individuals can claim an exemption if they can demonstrate an adverse impact on their religious beliefs.
2015’s 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate will increase advances in Catholic-Jewish cooperation.
With the new baseball season underway, The Jewish Press chatted with Zalta in his Flatbush home about some of his other memories.
Chemistry combined with Kabbalah reveals the 'peace process' will lead to forceful land concessions.
We now are in the season of advocacy of preschool, referring specifically to the education of children who are four years old.
Pro-Israel groups must broaden their coalitions and feature more pro-Israel minority speakers.
By Barry Shaw
Israel must assert its legitimate claim to the land or its credibility will be forever forfeited.
By Jack Bendheim and Sam Sutton
We are certain of this: advocacy is important, but it's nothing without champions in elected office.
The sacred flames of passion between the Jewish people and the Almighty expressed in Shir Ha-Shirim.
By Stella Paul
Multiculturalism rules at Vassar, with one exception: It’s edgy, it’s cool, it’s hip to hate Israel.
The unity of the Jewish People and their tolerance for each other is of cosmic import.
By Steven Plaut
It's six K, five K, four K, Graft ! (Daylight come and da jail's his new home)
Too many Jews join in the herd sport of anti-Semitism, now permitted to them as anti-Israelism.
Abbas and the Arab leaders thumb their noses at U.S. conditions, instead they set their own.
Eight years after our attack, after having sent DoJ reams of material, our file was somehow empty.
These feminists are so anti-Israel that they ignore Arab women's lack of political and social freedom
By Steve Feldman and Christopher J. Katulka
Sabeel: all of the land is “Palestine,” Israel practices “apartheid,” the “occupation” began in '48.
"Sometimes the voice of the narrator is the only human voice I hear during the day."
There is a growing militancy to the anti-Israel activists, especially on campuses.
Jewish students testified at a California government hearing about anti-Semitism on campuses.
God judges the Jewish People as a National Entity.
Students of Torah build and preserve the Jewish people through their study.
To admit Israel is a Jewish State would undo Arabs' claimed victimhood and plans to eliminate Israel.
Jew hatred is again spreading like a fast-moving cancer all over the globe.
One can’t only take; one must give as well. Giving – not taking – is the essence of the righteous person.
In the larger sense, Mrs. Lubling came to epitomize an Orthodox community dedicated to taking care of its own.
There may not have been much else President Obama could have realistically done, but the headline writers at the Times obviously felt the need to massage a front-page story that took a less than giddy approach to Mr. Obama’s policymaking; how else to explain the story’s headline – “As Sanctions Start, Russia Feels a Sting”?
During much of the 20th century, elite American colleges and universities carefully policed their admission gates to restrict the entry of Jews. Like its Big Brothers – Harvard, Yale and Princeton – Wellesley College, where I taught history between 1971 and 2010, designed admission policy to perpetuate a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite.
Despite the Sunni (Hamas/rebel) / Shiite (Hezbollah/Syria) split, Iran has resumed financial assistance to Hamas.
"Christ at the Checkpoint" conference was a "who's who of the new anti-Israel narrative."
By Eli Hertz
Arab League announced in 2002: "We greet with honor and pride the valiant martyrs of the intifada."
It is crucial never to imply that Shabbat desecration is something with which one is at peace.
The Law is not merely a societal fail-safe, but a sacred and Divine prescription.
By J. E. Dyer
Oslo's moment of unchallenged American supremacy and the illusion of unforced global stasis, passed.
By Lauri Regan
If Russia stands with Iran, Obama will be forced to stand with Israel or lose the American people to the Republican Party.
By Hillel Neuer
Palestinian UN delegation tried to fire Richard Falk for Hamas support, froze his report; today is his last day.
A 2007 Pew survey found a quarter of U.S. Muslim men under 30 believed suicide bombings justifiable.
Even if Abbas is forced -- under U.S. Pressure and threats -- to make concessions, the Palestinians will not "relinquish their rights."
'My son was nearly killed by a suicide bombing Barghouti paid for. Don't release him, Mr. President.'
In all of Tanach, Talmud or Jewish history, Jews go out to defend their country together. There is not one time when Jews were exempt from fighting alongside their brothers because they were learning Torah.
The thoughts of man, even those of the greatest talmid chacham, cannot fathom the thoughts of the Creator, for many of the Torah laws run counter to human logic.
Hard to imagine, isn’t it, that a political movement supporting economic boycotts of your own country might rain down condemnation on you within your own country.
The cynical, and historically and factually inaccurate, view has meant leftists frequently denounce Western democracies as imperialistic, racist, militaristic oppressors.
By Steven Plaut
In 2012, an initiative was begun in the Knesset led by David Rotem (from the Yisrael Beitenu party), to cut the stipends and pensions paid to convicted murderers and terrorists by 50 percent.
Hillel International Board Chair: rabbi who quit made 'false, outrageous' claims about Hillel's Israel Guidelines.
Testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Kerry said: “I think it's a mistake for some people to be raising it again and again as the critical decider of their attitude toward the possibility of a state, and peace, and we’ve obviously made that clear.”
The Jewish Press supported the “Orthodox Hebrew” standard since it at least purported to provide protection for the entire kashrut-observant community while a non-Orthodox standard would be misleading to the Orthodox. The courts, however, ruled otherwise and invalidated the Orthodox Hebrew standard as the prerequisite for referring to food as kosher.
Rabbi Hammer recently spoke with The Jewish Press about his new book, Derash Yehonatan: Around the Year with Rav Yehonatan Eybeshitz (Koren), and his work in teaching Torah to secular Israelis.
I can testify from experience, however, that despite such experience and/or training, top-tier leaders often begin their tasks unprepared for the rigors of their new position, particularly when the experience and training focused on instructional leadership (such as classroom observation and curriculum) rather than organizational stewardship and management.
I did not go with the intention of making waves, but when I announced that I was reporting for The Jewish Press, there was no turning back.
By Lee Bender
Is there no price to pay by the Palestinian Arabs for intransigence and rejection? Or defeat in war?
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the SWC hopes President Obama will ask PA leader Mahmoud Abbas 4 important questions.
On the one hand, Putin has been a friend to Chabad and to Israel. On the other hand, Putin is a brutal dictator.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“Here I was, dressed as a clown with a red rubber nose, and I had to go out with my M16 for a security check,” Singer says. “That was truly a bizarre experience.”
By Dov Gilor
The Drama Mamas are not an ordinary theater troupe. “When we audition actresses,” says Elisheva, who also serves as the show’s director, “we like to explain to them that the main qualification is that you can honestly say, I have never been on a stage before, but I have always wanted to be an actress!”
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Under the plan, a person who was not a citizen of either the Jewish or Arab state was to be appointed governor to administer Jerusalem and to conduct external affairs...
The haredim are not afraid of connecting Israeli nationalism to its faith. Just the opposite. They are afraid to connect the Jewish faith to the Israeli nationalism reawakening in Israel.
By Sara Lehmann
While Brooklyn College is famed for its plethora of Jewish professors and students, it is not a Jewish institution. The 92nd Street Y is. According to its own mission and history statement, it’s “a proudly Jewish institution since its inception.”
I was singing, dancing, jumping and, sweating. Just joy and happiness. One child on my shoulders after another. What happiness! And then, the little boy on my shoulders – he could not have been older than six – began to cry.
By David Mandel
Alcohol on Purim is viewed by many as the drinking equivalent of the Autobahn: no limits, no control.
Why not tell us that Purim is to be commemorated with reading the megillah, dispensing mishloach manot, giving gifts to the poor, and partaking in a Purim feast?
At the core of traditional Judaism is the belief that our world has a Creator. This Creator knows all that goes on in our world, and remains actively involved in all of its events – no matter how insignificant some of those events might seem.
By Jeff Leb
Make no mistake: the potential here is enormous. If all of these budget items are approved, they could be a game changer for Jewish day schools and their budgets.
There are those who believe all Israelis must share equally in the military defense of Israel while others say Torah study affords at least as much security as military service. In many respects, The Jewish Press has long reflected this dynamic.
Mr. Obama’s latest “amendment” of the Obamacare law, however, has elevated the arrogation of legislative power to an art form. And he has done so for blatantly political reasons.
What do at-risk youth and more than 30,000 square feet of groceries have in common? The answer is Moisha Binik.
The unwarranted hatred among us that caused the destruction of the Second Temple clearly still plagues us.
The answer is an emphatic no.
The meaning of "God’s watch" here is not entirely clear.
Don’t Israelis and Arab Palestinians deserve more than this? Is it not time to stop the insanity?
At age 104, my mother was still concerned about her relationship with Hashem.
By Jeremy Rosen
Obama’s incompetence, the way his naive worldview and credulity have made a fool of him, are equally frightening
By Chloe Simone Valdary and Daniel Mael
You’ve discovered our little secret!
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