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The critique is not merely legal but civilizational: instead of producing, building, or creating, the gambler sits passively, hoping that chance will deliver profit.
It was a convenient, calculated lie, eagerly swallowed by European appeasers who wanted to believe Tehran’s weapons could only reach as far as Jerusalem or Riyadh.
By Alan Magill
It wasn't the best time for me to give, as I would have to take my gloves off and reach into my wallet through many layers. But when it was a much better time to give, I always found reasons not to, so I decided this was the day.
The current war has inflicted some of the heaviest damage yet, destroying missile factories, launchers, storage depots, and command infrastructure. Large quantities of rockets and missiles have been eliminated. But analysts believe substantial forces still remain.
Every Jew, regardless of ideology or level of religious observance, is part of this collective project. Continuing to rely on abstract terms such as Knesset Yisrael or Klal Yisrael can lift Jewish peoplehood out of lived reality and recast it in theoretical terms.
In fact, the resolution demands that Iran immediately halt its attacks, but issues no such directive to the U.S. and Israel to halt their attacks on Iran. And the resolution was co-sponsored by a record 135 UN member states, signaling overwhelming international support.
The men watched their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters struggling and collapsing under their burdens and it broke their hearts and their spirits. Pharaoh smiled and his people applauded. His plan was working perfectly.
This arc – frank acknowledgment of failure, followed by unconditional reaffirmation – is not incidental to the haftarah. In truth, it is one reason the whole institution of the haftarah exists.
When the Nassau County Executive launched his campaign for the governor’s mansion, he was billed as the ultimate pragmatic counterweight to the profligate, progressive left.
Can anyone imagine what the progressive reaction would be to a conservative Christian pastor or an Orthodox rabbi who stood in the Blue Room at the mayor’s invitation and preached violence against outsiders?
By contrast, the more nebulous offense of fraud and breach of trust, which sits at the heart of the charges in Cases 1000 and 2000, has long been criticized by legal scholars for its vagueness.
It should be noted that Carlson offers no hard evidence to support what in the final analysis are only his own opinions.
From a pro‑Israel standpoint, the danger is not only that Gaza has turned the party leftward; it is that the moral and political reflex to stand with Israel under fire has been replaced by a posture of suspicion, apology, and punishment.
Carlson may have inadvertently done more for Chabad fundraising than any giving-day campaign.
Allying with Moscow or Beijing offers only empty rhetoric and faulty hardware when a true existential crisis erupts. Allying with Washington and Jerusalem offers the protection of the most lethal, capable, and technologically advanced military apparatus in human history.
Alongside true nuclear explosives, there is also the radiological category – dirty bombs or radiological dispersal devices. Iran’s 60‑percent uranium could be fashioned into several such weapons, dispersing uranium dust or fragments over a city with conventional explosives.
Iran’s enemies feared not open confrontation, but stalling tactics. An agreement that would relieve pressure, allow Iran to regroup, and perhaps wait for a weaker American administration in a few years. From a cold political perspective, buying time was the obvious move.
Both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu recognized that the traditional Western diplomatic approach – appeasement, nuclear deals, and localized ceasefires – only nurtured Khamenei’s imperial project.
That outside-the-pale groups Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow would attack Israel and America for bombing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime should come as no surprise.
By Alan Zeitlin
Even more bizarre is that both The New York Times and The Washington Post referred to Khamenei as avuncular. Normal people rarely use that word. I’ve heard it uttered less than 10 times in my life.
This is the hypocrisy of the modern academic bureaucracy. Hate speech is treated as a severe disciplinable infraction that demands immediate removal – unless the target is Jewish, in which case it is elevated to protected political discourse.
By Avi Ciment
If we only look through life seeing the bad without bringing into account G-d’s infinite goodness, then our perception and understanding of life and of G-d – not to mention our ability to grow – is limited.
The European response underscores something deeper about NATO’s structure. Its collective‑defense clause – Article 5, so often invoked as sacred text – is riddled with escape hatches.
Yet a motley crew on the left and right are not happy about the idea that national decline is a choice the president firmly rejects.
The removal of Maduro, who personally anchored the Iran–Venezuela axis and defended Hezbollah’s presence, abruptly deprives Iran of a loyal partner at the apex of this system and signals to other leaders in the region that acting as a host for Iranian and Hezbollah activities can end in arrest, indictment and loss of power.
This sort of technology unlocks immense potential in many fields – for its ability to increase efficiency, to handle menial tasks, and even shortcut the difficult work of creative synthesis, what we would call chiddush. It is no wonder then that the public has been engaged in a frenzied adoption of AI in nearly every field of activity.
Thankfully, the U.S. ambassador to Israel is a closer friend to the Jewish state than anyone who has ever been in the very sensitive role. Mike Huckabee recently told a delegation of more than 200 American lawmakers that Israel is akin to the “wife” of the United States.
Thankfully, the U.S. ambassador to Israel is a closer friend to the Jewish state than anyone who has ever been in the very sensitive role. Mike Huckabee recently told a delegation of more than 200 American lawmakers that Israel is akin to the “wife” of the United States.
Esther believes in herself, not because she knows she’s externally beautiful or talented or popular, but because she knows that G-d believes in her.
Esther believes in herself, not because she knows she’s externally beautiful or talented or popular, but because she knows that G-d believes in her.
By Alan Zeitlin
Carlson has great skill in magnifying and minimizing what he wants to, and is a charismatic con-artist who is unlikely to be discredited by a kind man who cares about decorum.
By Alan Zeitlin
Carlson has great skill in magnifying and minimizing what he wants to, and is a charismatic con-artist who is unlikely to be discredited by a kind man who cares about decorum.
Today, South Africa under the ANC, is one of Israel’s most implacable enemies on the world stage, something Nelson Mandela would have wept over.
Plainly, for this mayor, private enterprise is inherently exploitative and the enemy, while public ownership is inherently virtuous and must be cut all possible slack.
In the beginning, we were summer friends. Possibly we exchanged a letter or two during the year, but when summer came, we embraced each other, so happy to be together again.
By prioritizing quick exits and a Board of Peace over the total defeat of a genocidal proxy, the United States didn’t end the war or the Hamas threat – it merely enabled the next chapter.
There is a categorical difference between criticizing a government and singling out the world’s only Jewish state for obsessive denunciation while displaying indifference toward, or even apologetics for, far graver abuses elsewhere.
When Israel is viewed as the outcome of national liberation and survival after catastrophe, support feels natural. When Israel is cast primarily as an aggressor or colonial anomaly, support must be defended constantly.
How can a university like Georgetown honestly teach the history of the Middle East or the geopolitics of terrorism when its bills are largely paid by the very regime that funds the Muslim Brotherhood?
Priesthood is hereditary, only allotted to a few individuals. Holiness, by contrast, is applicable to, and attainable by, each of us.
By Alan Zeitlin
Qatar has already spent an estimated $6.5 billion to brainwash college students to hate America and Israel, while Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens seek to make Christians feel that support for Israel is a yogurt that has now soured.
The Mayor seems to be interested in tenant suffering only when it can be used as a cudgel against the private sector. When the suffering happens under public auspices, he spins it as a function of federal underfunding rather than a failure of municipal mismanagement and responsibility.
A sizable number of Israel’s supporters still call themselves Zionists. That includes many people who will never seriously consider making aliyah, let alone do it.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is the one holdover from the former administration who seems to be motivated by a real desire to hold the line against Jew-hatred in law enforcement, as well as to possibly further her personal future political ambitions.
In the real world, allowing a mentally ill person to sleep in a tent in sub-zero weather is not respecting their rights; it is abetting their deaths.
At this point, describing the ensuing campaign as mere bias is no longer plausible. What has emerged over decades is an institutional war on Jewish sovereignty.
For Israel though, there is a special problem. By aligning with Turkey – a nation that has arguably become the primary champion of the Palestinian cause on the global scene – the Saudis are signaling that the Palestinian veto is back.
The speech sparked excitement and inspiration. It provided something rare: a vision of Jewish strength rather than just a lamentation about the hatred Jews face.
What if the time we spend caring for our parents is not deducted from our lifespan but added to it? What if G-d is granting us additional years precisely for this purpose?
Although Mayor Mamdani’s deep-seated problems with things Jewish emerged during his mayoral campaign, we saw a ray of hope, however faint, when he pledged to retain the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism established by his predecessor, Eric Adams.
Liberal media in the West mostly treated this not as a revolt against Islamist rule but as an “economic protest,” a spasm of hardship and inflation, as if the central fact – that millions of Muslims were openly rejecting political Islam – was too impolite to honestly report.
A democracy that bans some anti-system actors while indulging others ceases to defend principle and begins to enforce raw political preference.
Last month, Vance rejected the notion that antisemitism is growing within the Republican Party, arguing that the focus should be on broader issues and not on internal fighting.
Is it permissible to pressure someone to sell property they do not want to sell? May one try to obtain a job or position already held by another?
Chazal teach us that tree planting is the best way to emulate and draw close to G-d (V”R 25:3). Hashem planted trees when He created the world, and we are commanded to do so upon entering Eretz Yisrael.
By Alan Magill
I didn’t want her to hurt herself, but sometimes it hurts more to be denied opportunities for enjoyable, meaningful experiences.
Size matters, more than even many of Israel’s friends and supporters appreciate. To describe Israel as a small country is to understate the issue. The Jewish State is about the same size as the state of New Jersey. The West Bank is a little smaller than Delaware. Gaza is roughly twice the size of Washington, D.C.
But we wonder about the role of faith leaders here. After all, the protests are being mounted against enforcement of a duly enacted federal law protecting the integrity of our borders – one of the core responsibilities of any government.
The night of the event, when the protestors marching toward Glick’s home realized it had been moved, they marched toward the shul, eventually meeting a group of Jews gathered in the shul parking lot. That’s when things escalated.
In a word, Samuels represents an educational philosophy that views rigorous testing and merit, not as diagnostic tools, but as implements of segregation.
A friend of mine recently posted a comment on a WhatsApp group about the cost of Orthodox life. Well, eight hours later the responses were still flooding in. Obviously, cost is something that people have very strong opinions about. And a lot of anxiety. The statistics bear this out. Every time we have asked […]
A lecturer defending Israel isn’t seen as an opponent to be debated but a blasphemer to be silenced or prevented from speaking in the first place, even violently, if necessary.
By Ruthie Blum
Predictably, the tragedy has become yet another bone of political and cultural contention, since the people involved are charedim. Never mind that disasters of all kinds have occurred in both licensed and unlicensed daycare centers, in various socioeconomic areas with no particular religious affiliation.
By giving Turkey a formal executive role in the reconstruction of Gaza, the Trump administration is effectively laundering a major Hamas political patron.
The Birmingham Muslim community lobbied hard to have the match cancelled and all Israelis banned from the city. The police sought the input and opinion of the Muslim community and claimed to have pursued the same process with the Jewish community. This last point too was a complete lie. The Jews were never consulted.
The idea of the book is to show exactly how to identify and then run a business in the field of your dreams. I show readers, based on my own experience as an entrepreneur, how they can master the mindsets and skill sets of successful small businesspeople.
There is no ambiguity here. No mistranslation. No context that softens the meaning. This is not the rhetoric of a partner for peace or the language of a movement committed to a peaceful future. It is a declaration of intent – one that mirrors, almost perfectly, the genocidal aims openly proclaimed by Hamas.
In addition, as several commentators have pointed out, Nassau County’s political geography offered a natural launching pad for building coalitions across different constituencies, located as it is adjacent to the five boroughs and sitting at the intersection of urban and suburban New York – exactly what a Republican needs to compete statewide in a heavily Democratic state.
The New York Post Editorial board argued that with Mamdani in office, the city desperately needs some steady hands at the top, framing Menin as a necessary alternative to avoid the Council becoming a rubber stamp organization for the far-left agenda.
Instead of establishing a state commission of inquiry under the existing legal framework, one in which the president of the Supreme Court appoints the commissioners and defines their independence, the government has opted for a politically constituted body.
Like their Cold War predecessors who were stunned by the sudden Soviet crackup, the liberal intellectual class is imprisoned by a narrative that rules out the possibility of Islamist regime change.
For decades, Venezuela served as a strategic hub for China, Russia, Cuba and perhaps most significantly for Iran. Thus, the removal of Maduro effectively disrupted this axis of aggressors in the Americas in practical ways.
Everyone is elderly, and most have gray hair, but their eyes shine, especially when they speak of their past.
Yet, even as she railed against the demonstrators, she was careful not to say anything about the substance of their message – which was decidedly anti-Israel – only about the manner in which they chose to deliver it.
There is an even more remarkable – and troubling – fact than the election of a 34-year-old radical left-wing Assemblyman with no executive experience to manage America’s greatest city. According to exit polls, Mamdani, an avatar of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America, received roughly one-third of the Jewish vote.
The issue at hand – Israel’s recognition of Somaliland – was itself revealing. Rather than treating Israel as a sovereign state exercising normal diplomatic judgment, the United Nations inexplicably escalated the matter into an emergency session, underscoring the very double standard Bruce later chose to address.
Unfailingly gracious and respectful, his understated demeanor, balance, and unassuming brilliance made him the ideal mentor, and in fact, he guided the many who saw him as a role model.
By Nathan Lewin
Hundreds will – or should – write about the astounding accomplishments of Julie Berman during his life.
Thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of generations, and with some caveats, a realistic conduct of its affairs, the Jewish state today stands as the military and economic superior of all its rivals, and therefore as a worthwhile and powerful ally in the eyes of those of its neighbors not hostile to it for religious or ideological reasons.
rue to form, Maduro blamed what he termed “the extremist right” for the unrest that swept the country. He accused these groups of being supported by international Zionism.
Question! Are these the sort of rules that had the kind of urgent negative impact that would prompt a new mayor to act to get rid of them immediately upon taking office? Seems unlikely. In fact, they seem to be directed at real and growing problems faced by Jewish New Yorkers.
Their aim isn’t to reduce Israel from the size of New Jersey to that of Rhode Island, say, but to cut the state out of the Middle East entirely.
While I do not know what is truly the biggest issue facing Klal Yisrael – what about the intermarriage and apathy consuming the majority of American Jews, the crisis between charedim and the rest of Israeli society, or the frightening rise of antisemitism on both the right and the left? – one cannot deny the corrosive impact of this financial culture.
Plainly, he now has some measure of deniability as to claims of antisemitism. Yet we remain persuaded that he is still committed to a reinvention of New York in an Islamic image.
In my view, far too many valuable resources and an extensive amount of energy were spent in generating votes for the American portion of the World Zionist Congress elections. And I say this as a delegate to a previous congress.
Now that our grandson is three, it’s easier – not totally possible, but easier – to imagine him as the beneficiary of our legacy. Often, though, it is impossible to imagine myself as the guardian of a legacy since I am still processing the legacy that has been left to me.
Following the June conflict, Iran emerged strategically paralyzed with its own military capacity – and that of Hamas and Hezbollah – at greater risk from Israeli military action than at any time in memory.
Many American rabbis and other leaders at the time encouraged people to pray for Israel, to pay for Israel, and even to make aliyah, but relatively few did more than preaching, praying, and donating.
