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Op-Eds

Intemperate Challenger for ZOA, Mort Klein Should Win

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Klein's challenger has demonstrated a propensity to unleash poisonous vitriol, even to other Zionists

Op-Eds

President Obama's 'If Not Now, When?!'

By Yoram Ettinger

President Obama's foreign policy is based on fantasy.

Moshe Feiglin

Is the Temple Mount in our Hands?

By Moshe Feiglin

If the nationalist Knesset members don’t provide the answer, the Arab MKs will do so in their place.

Op-Eds

Needed: Protective Rabbinic Leadership

By Dr. Rachel Levmore

International Agunah Day falls annually on Ta'anis Esther, this year on March 13.

Op-Eds

Text and Context

By Richard M. Joel

Yeshiva University Museum recently hosted an exhibit titled “Threshold to the Sacred.”

Op-Eds

The New Old Antisemitism

By Ziona Greenwald, J.D.

Even a foxhole Yid has to admit that antisemitism is on the upswing.

Op-Eds

Do You Want Nazis as Neighbors?

By Dov Hikind

As shocking and insulting and horrifying as it is, Nazi war criminals are still living freely among us.

Editorial

Foreign Policy On A Hope And A Prayer

By Editorial Board

One can almost imagine a shocked Mr. Kerry thinking to himself, “How could he?” Yet not only did Mr. Putin do what he did, China, one of the three major international players along with the U.S. and Russia, agreed with him, not with Mr. Kerry.

Editorial

Ramaz And Rashid Khalidi

By Editorial Board

Ramaz is a venerable Modern Orthodox educational institution whose mission statement contains the explicit commitment to “Ahavat Yisrael, and love and support for the State of Israel.”

Front Page

70 Years Ago This Month: The Holocaust Comes To Hungary

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

In the course of the ages there wasn’t a Jewish community more convinced of its capacity for survival than the Jewish community of Hungary in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Op-Eds

Liberals Have Got What They Asked for

By Christopher Chantrill

Liberals got an Affirmative Action president who doesn't have the wisdom or the authority to change the battle plan.

Op-Eds

Israel and the Rest of the World

By Denis MacEoin

The world excuses Islamic murder, but focuses on flaws, often imaginary, on the part of Israel.

Letters To The Editor

Six-Year-Old Boy with Terminal Cancer in NY Needs Help

By Guest Author

It has been a very challenging year that has taken a toll on the Cohen family.

Op-Eds

Is Lebanon's New Government Threatening Israel?

By Joseph Raskas

Hezbollah is attempting to restore its shattered image by fabricating threats against it.

Op-Eds

Will Ukraine Send the World into War?

By Kim Zigfeld

Putin must be forced to back down.

Op-Eds

Of Fleas, Eagles and Gripes

By Yaacov Behrman

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's confrontation with a Lubavitch leader.

Op-Eds

They’re Impossible Palestinian Red Lines, But Israel Will Be Blamed

By Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin

The Palestinian Arab leadership is making it clear it has no interest in genuine, peaceful co-existence.

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

Anti-Israel Speakers and Jewish Self-Hatred

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The gradual trickle of self-hatred into the Jewish soul is evidencing itself in the American Jewish public.

Op-Eds

Jerusalem Rally Reflections: When Thoughts Win Wars

By Yonatan Gordon

We are all soldiers in Hashem’s army, only our uniform is different.

Op-Eds

Jewish Self-Respect Mandated that Ramaz Not Promote Israel Hater

By Jerome M. Marcus

The Ramaz children are clearly in need of instruction.

Op-Eds

Ramaz and Rashid Khalidi

By Jeremy Rosen

The Ramaz School was wrong to refuse to allow Rashid Khalidi, the Palestinian apologist, to speak to its senior students.

Op-Eds

The Great Fix: Lapid and the Haredim Pushing Each Other's Agenda

By Menachem Rahat

Nothing will change regarding the draft issue, as both Lapid and his Haredi opponents are collaborating on a fraud.

Op-Eds

I Was Baruch Goldstein's Friend

By David Wilder

The agenda of articles appearing 20 years after the Goldstein episode has nothing to do with human rights or suffering.

Moshe Feiglin

Don’t Bury Our Memories in Museums

By Moshe Feiglin

A memory that is relegated to a museum, no matter how tangible it is – even if it is Auschwitz itself – becomes a museum memory.

Op-Eds

Robert Malley and the Shift to Appeasement

By Jonathan S. Tobin

When it became known in May 2008 that Malley had met with Hamas terrorists, the Obama campaign severed ties with him.

Op-Eds

To Be a Parent Is to Be a Very Special Rebbe

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran

The only way for children to find a way back to the path is through parental love and understanding.

Op-Eds

NY Times Feature on Anti-Zionism a Reminder of the Sulzberger Legacy

By Dr. Rafael Medoff

Sulzberger, one of the most famous “religious Jews” who opposed Zionism did not change his mind even after the Holocaust.

Op-Eds

A Memorable Weekend for Divorced Orthodox Jews

By Naomi Klass Mauer

My involvement with Frum Divorce corresponds to a lot of the work I do at The Jewish Press helping agunot and others going through divorce.

Editorial

A Dose Of Sanity

By Editorial Board

We are not unmindful that generally appropriate governmental initiatives may have some inappropriate aspects in execution.

Editorial

Historic Defense Cuts

By Editorial Board

Al Qaeda, despite President Obama’s claims to the contrary, is newly resurgent and no doubt salivating at the prospect of a severely diminished U.S. military capacity.

Front Page

Jonathan Halpert's Bittersweet Goodbye

By Elliot Resnick

Halpert doesn’t know why he was fired, and YU apparently won’t explain

Op-Eds

Our Weimar Republic

By Bruce Walker

In the last years of Weimar Germany, President Hindenburg began ruling Germany by emergency decree.

Op-Eds

France in Free Fall

By Guy Millière

France will have to cut taxes and spending, and reform the job market and the welfare system, or face the consequences.

Op-Eds

The 'Quenelle': Product of Simple Hatred or Ignorance?

By Milad Doroudian

The “quenelle” has become a form of language, a mechanism by which hatred is not just spread but normalized.

Daniel Pipes

Pollard Pardon? Not Now

By Daniel Pipes

I do not want Barack Obama to pardon Pollard.

Op-Eds

The Real Agenda Behind the Push for 'Islamophobia'

By Raheel Raza

Islamists have been successful in building the Islamophobia industry, diverts attention from activities they would prefer not be noticed.

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

Chabad Fanatics Are Destroying the Movement

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Rabbi Schochet wrote the Johannesburg Beis Din: It is totally prohibited and unacceptable to hear someone like Boteach.

Op-Eds

Confession of a Pollard Advocate Who Lost his Way

By Ely Rosenzveig

I was the first person, save for his family and attorney, to make contact with Jonathan Pollard after his arrest.

Op-Eds

Modernizing Modern Orthodoxy

By Yonatan Gordon

Take the most creative and modern-minded adherents, and make sure they have a place for their creative ambitions.

Op-Eds

Ramaz Administration Handled Rashid Khalidi Debacle Expertly

By Daniel de Sola Marks

It's a sign of community weakness when certain issues take the forefront, so enemies can capitalize on the division.

Op-Eds

Americans: Israel Is the MVP

By Yoram Ettinger

Israel's popularity is at the highest since 1991, when Gallup first polled Americans on foreign countries.

Op-Eds

Zionism in Jassy: The Importance of History Today

By Milad Doroudian

The history of Zionism in Jassy, Romania, amidst persecution and antisemitism.

Op-Eds

Shabbat

By Jeremy Rosen

Imagine you take your family somewhere where there is no such thing as a day off.

Op-Eds

Does Size Really Matter, Mr. Kerry?

By Leslie-Ann Stoffel

Israel would find its major population areas within rocket launching range if Judea and Samaria are relinquished

Op-Eds / On Campus

Will J Street U Take the J Street Challenge?

By Daniel Mael

J Street U groups should be showing "The J Street Challenge"

Moshe Feiglin

Love Conquers All

By Moshe Feiglin

Those afraid to take responsibility and create an essential alternative to lead Israel will always find themselves lobbying.

Op-Eds

Missing the Point on Women's Issues

By Rabbi Gil Student

Traditional Jewish texts clearly discuss men and women as categories – as distinct groups – even though individual men and women vary.

Op-Eds

Einstein and Jewish Thought about God

By Howard Zik

The idea of a personal God implies the notion that God is more than just the sum total of the physical universe.

Dov Shurin

From Egypt I Called to my Son Jonathan

By Dov Shurin

I hollered over and over again, waving a clinched fist toward the heavens.

Fundamentally Freund/Michael Freund

Europe’s Holocaust Amnesia

By Michael Freund

Speaking in his native German, Schulz used the opportunity to blast Israel.

Op-Eds

The Question the Palestinians Aren’t Being Asked

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Friedman has been writing the same column for decades in which he asks Israelis whether they will leave the "West Bank."

Op-Eds

Overturning the Amalek Mindset

By Shandee Fuchs

Amalek tries to convince us there is no hashgacha in this world – that Hashem is not involved and doesn’t care about us.

Keeping Jerusalem

Jerusalem's Neve Yaakov: 90-Year-Old ‘Settlement’

By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org

Is it not ironic that the renewal of a decades-old Jewish town is considered an "illegal settlement" on "occupied territory"?

Editorial

Selective Indignation, Part 1,000

By Editorial Board

Last month, after the Israeli government published plans for new construction, the State Department promptly repeated its longstanding refrain that the settlements were “illegitimate” and that “It is never helpful to have steps taken that are not conducive to our efforts to move forward on peace.”

Editorial

Retrieving Art Stolen By The Nazis

By Editorial Board

While the thrust of the proposed law is easily understandable, there is a problem as well. The current draft requires claimants to prove malicious intent on the part of the present holder of the property, which some legal authorities say would be extremely difficult.

Front Page

America’s Earliest Jews

By Laurie Rappeport

The Newport Touro synagogue was never officially named "Touro" – the community called itself Yeshuat Yisrael. By the mid-19th century, however, the Newport synagogue was recognized, though never formally, as the Touro Synagogue.

Op-Eds

Blow People Up? What a Surprise!

By Douglas Murray

If we cannot see what is happening, it seems likely that we simply do not want it to be happening. But apparently not enough to try to stop it from happening.

Op-Eds

Predictive Journalism, Nate Silver, and the Talmudic Mind

By Yonatan Gordon

Nate Silver adapted the theorem into his "Bayesian convergence," the method of dispelling myths and opposing opinions as evidence.

Op-Eds / Aliyah

Tremping Rules of the Road

By Marc Gottlieb

If you look like someone they wouldn't invite into their home, they won't invite you into their car.

Op-Eds

Manufacturing Consent on Same Sex Marriage

By Doug Mainwaring

The idea of same sex marriage didn't win at the ballot box, the marketing strategy developed by leftist social psychologists did.

Op-Eds

Iran: Behind Rouhani's Smile, Reza Shahabi Tortured In Prison

By Shadi Paveh

Shahabi has been ordered to pay an extortionate fine of 70 million Rials (US$5,700) or his release date will be delayed by two years.

Op-Eds

We Are Not 'Lost to Secularism'

By Amram Altzman

The reason young people like myself are leaving Modern Orthodoxy is that our education has succeeded beyond compare.

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

The Winter of our Discontent

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

If you’re feeling down, stop reading right now. You’re only going to be more depressed.

Op-Eds

Names: The Fight for History

By Yonina Pritzker

The fight for language is the fight for history. It is one in the same.

J.E. Dyer

In the U.S. Capitol: Darkness Rather than Light

By J. E. Dyer

It would be so catastrophic to not increase the debt ceiling that Senators must have the option of avoiding the people’s scrutiny.

Op-Eds

The Parameters and Paradoxes of Being an Orthodox Woman

By Josephine Felix

Kollel lifestyle has ironically helped promote this, as women seek to find means to support their husbands.

Op-Eds

Bury Me There

By Jeremy Rosen

Pascal’s famous wager was that it makes sense to bet on God.

Khaled Abu Toameh

Al-Qaeda-linked New Terrorists, Daesh, in Gaza Strip

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinians are worried that Daesh terrorists will perpetrate atrocities against those who oppose their ideology and activities.

Op-Eds

Shidduchim for the Rest of Us

By Michelle Mond

Moms, I want to assure you I am not in any way belittling your efforts to research your child’s shidduch prospects.

Op-Eds

Curing Internet Addiction with Torah Novelties

By Yonatan Gordon

Travel back to a time before smart phones, SMS and Facebook.

Moshe Feiglin

Let the Nation Decide – Before It’s Too Late

By Moshe Feiglin

From what I know of Netanyahu, it is clear to me that he is not happy about giving up parts of our land.

Op-Eds

Pursuing Positivity In The Digital Age

By Dr. Eli Shapiro

Our emotional response to events has much to do with how we process events.

Op-Eds

The Discordant Notes of Open Orthodoxy

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran

Nothing defines a community so much as its recognition of common leadership and willingness to respect its authority.

Op-Eds

The Shabbat Morning Service: Like an Opera, Only More

By Harvey Rachlin

Each week, the Shabbat morning service tells a different dramatic story.

Op-Eds

The Pew Study and Zionism: the Inconvenient Truth

By Rabbi Elchanan Poupko

What's lacking on all sides of the discussion is a frank consideration of what we might learn from each other.

Editorial

Is Kerry On His Own?

By Editorial Board

Recent stories in the Israeli media, citing “unnamed sources,” indicate that Mr. Kerry failed to get backing from President Obama to confront Israel over its rejection of his peace proposals

Editorial

AIPAC And Iran Sanctions Legislation

By Editorial Board

For us, the key factor is that support in Congress for new sanctions has collapsed in the face of the president’s blandishments.

Editorial

More On The Tefillin Controversy

By Editorial Board

This week Rabbi Hershel Schachter, one of the most prominent roshei yeshiva of Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, not only issued a stinging rebuke of the practice of women wearing tefillin but also the process by which such decisions are made.

Interviews and Profiles

‘Liberals Have Abandoned The State Of Israel’: An Interview with Professor Stephen Norwood

By Elliot Resnick

There’s also the issue of accusing the Jews of being excessively materialistic and exploitative of non-Jews. You see a lot of that in far-left propaganda – that the Jews are overwhelmingly concentrated in the petty bourgeoisie, which in itself is an archaic class form, and thrives on tricking people and squeezing money out of them through illicit methods of trade.

Front Page

The Presidents Conference: A United Voice For Jewry

By Alex Grobman and Malky Tannenbaum Haimoff

“To be a Jew is to open one’s tent on all four sides so that any stranger in need of food and shelter can enter from every direction. To be a Jew is to believe that the world can be redeemed. To be a Jew is to be carried by the current of the ancient Jewish river that keeps on flowing. The journey will continue.”

Op-Eds

GOP Looking Good But Election Still 9 Months Away

By Silvio Canto Jr.

We begin with 4 obvious pick ups: Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia and South Dakota.

Daniel Pipes

Obama's Hollow Promises Abroad

By Daniel Pipes

As U.S. credibility and stature diminish, the president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial.

Op-Eds

Stunning Insensitivity from Michelle Obama

By Thomas Lifson

Michelle Obama's lust for luxury has always been a bit of a problem for her husband and Democrats in general.

J.E. Dyer

Nouveau Sheesh: Obamas Preen for Hollande

By J. E. Dyer

Could the Obamas be any more “let ‘em eat cake”?

Khaled Abu Toameh

Fatah and the 'Armed Struggle' against Israel

By Khaled Abu Toameh

While in English Abbas was touting peace, in Arabic his officials were supporting "armed resistance" against Israel.

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

America’s Most Courageous Senator

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The world and the United State continue to give Rouhani a pass.

Op-Eds

Jewish Guilt and the Deterioration of Jewry

By Ori Bieder

Jews should be excited and participate in their culture and faith from a place of enthusiasm and love.

Op-Eds

Act like a Ghetto Jew and Be Treated as a Ghetto Jew

By Gil Solomon

Is Kerry an Emperor who issues decrees from on high over which poor ghetto Jews have no power whatsoever?

Op-Eds

Women Wearing Tefilin

By Jeremy Rosen

The Talmud (Eiruvin 96a) mentions that Michal, the daughter of King Saul, wore Tefilin and no one objected.

Op-Eds

Appeasement and Economic Sanctions

By Yoram Ettinger

According to Winston Churchill, "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

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