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What appeals most about her to us at The Jewish Press was the way she handled then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s apparent coolness towards Israel.
A person can be anywhere in the world and he or she can feel the holiness of the holiday or of the Shabbat, no matter what.
He was revered for his great Torah scholarship and halachic expertise, and his influence reached across the Sephardic world.
By Hannah Rubin
Daughters and sons were washed away: many drifted, some drowned. Each child that left the woman dealt her a fresh salvo of pain.
Can we really be persuaded to do or buy something in that amount of time? Apparently, we can. Skeptical? Even the Torah discusses the power of a few moments. We can accomplish much in "the blink of an eye"
We can take our hard moments and turn them into a deep connection to the one above. We can take each opportunity of hardship and turn it into our special prayer to G-d.
There’s no other way to say it. The Democrats have Trump on the brain.
In our relationships, when do you forgive and forget, and when do you demand redress from those who hurt you? When do you say “No”? When do you say “Yes”?
In retrospect, we cannot understand how some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged voting against Kavanaugh.
If one wins the lottery and is instantly transformed from pauper to millionaire, although at first he can hardly give enough charity, he soon acclimates to his new lifestyle.
Sometimes a person who rises to heroic heights for the sake of ideals is routed by the day-to-day hardships of living.
Ask any counselor or therapist and you will hear of the great damage caused to children who were insulted by their parents or teachers, siblings or peers.
Ironically, therefore, they may be more inclined to deal with Mr. Trump than when they were relegated to the political wilderness.
Understandably, these comments caused a firestorm. The outrageous characterization of the shootings as “random” defied belief.
Cold-blooded, fanatical, baseless, relentless hatred can be uprooted from its core only by saturating our world with pure, undiscriminating, unyielding love and acts of kindness.
Weren’t Jews unable to walk safely in many European cities well before Donald Trump began his quest for the presidency?
Rachel, our loving mother, still lays buried near Bethlehem. Though she was buried along the road, today her grave is included in the city proper, yet it is still far from the grave of her husband Yaakov Avinu.
By Hannah Rubin
I feel it’s crucial that a school exudes warmth, and that I get the sense that my child will receive the attention he needs. At too many schools, one of these ideals is neglected in pursuit of the other, she says.
If we want to achieve personal greatness, we have to hold onto our goals and dreams.
When a child is born and we give them a name, we really have no idea how this child will develop and in which way this little neshama will grow.
The tale of NYCHA’s outrageous treatment of its tenants is a long and notorious one and includes not only lead paint, but also water and heat deprivations and rodent infestation.
Federal law has been interpreted as allowing the use of race as one factor in the admission process but not the only or primary one.
Frankly, in terms of true “Jewish” issues in America, we can think of nothing more significant than the viability of Jewish education and facilitating the ability of Jews to avoid having to choose between a livelihood and fealty to their religious beliefs.
Jewish women made their mark in education, welfare for the poor, and care for orphans, sometimes even manipulating public policy.
Does G-d answer our prayers? Definitely! Sometimes the answer is "Yes" and sometimes it's "No." And whatever God's answer, it's always what's best for us.
She has followed the paths of several UN ambassadors who distinguished themselves in their roles at the UN.
When should we be tough, soft, when are we truly honest with ourselves and our surroundings? And when are we just putting on a show.
Extraordinary. After all the wholly uncorroborated shmutz and vile accusations thrown Kavanaugh’s way, it doesn’t matter if they are true or not or that he has categorically denied them? Can the man be serious – or be taken seriously?
The bottom line is that the highest performing middle schools will start admitting many sixth graders who score lower on standardized tests that has been the case in the past.
We will never find happiness when all we see is the surface of life, without examining its core.
And now we know that the effective head of the Department of Justice, Rod Rosenstein, has taken to discussing a coup against Mr. Trump with officials and Cabinet members.
There are so many examples of something that looks harsh or not pleasant when in fact it is for the benefit of the individual suffering.
The request for the information was made to the Department of Education in May of 2017 but Department officials failed to comply.
Life in this special land can be difficult. Sometimes what makes it so hard is not so much the physical work but the mental and spiritual work.
Bitachon is not measured by your success in climbing over the gate. Bitachon is measured by your response upon seeing the gate – whether you grimace and give up, or whether you appreciate that God has put the gate there for your ultimate benefit.
Yet, for the Times, the lack of virtual symmetry between public and private school curricula is not the beginning of the inquiry, but the end of it.
Even before the Renaissance, the meager scattering of sources that reveal the Italki experience suggest that Jewish influence was alive and well on the peninsula.
How does someone who has been involved in serious politics since his teenage years (under the tutelage of his eminent father), and served as New York’s governor and attorney general, not have the smarts to foresee what critics would make of such a statement?
It is an interesting thing he does – suggesting that Israel's adherence of eternal verities is a sign of the country “losing its way.”
If one were to make a vow or promise to Hashem, it is something that must be fulfilled.
The wise Sages declared that every individual is related to himself! In fact, we are our own closet relative, even more than our own parents and children.
And yet G-d himself presents himself, so to speak, on a very simple level so that anyone can just go up to him and talk.
Should a media that knowingly stirs racial violence be classified as a friend or a foe of the American people?
Not only was the white nationalist crowd much smaller than last year, members of Antifa were recorded attacking police officers, pelting them with eggs, fireworks, and water bottles at both venues.
Love is a contagious mitzvah: When others see someone whose life is motivated by the love of G‑d, they unfold their wings to fly along with him or her.
One wonders, though, how these critics would explain why an American president, duly invested with the power to conduct the nation’s foreign policy, should be unduly restricted in the manner in which he carries out his duties.
I try to open up the eyes of the people around me to have more sensitivity and awareness regarding all people who were not blessed with optimal health.
Although Kushner’s and Greenblatt’s direct focus is Hamas, what they write applies to Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority as well.
A careful reading of the new law suggests that the rights of non-Jews are not harmed by it.
The Obama administration had come up with a virtual roadmap that guided schools how to push the envelope but also survive judicial scrutiny.
In earlier times, it was the custom already from Tu B'Av to use as one's greeting "Ketiva vachatima tova,” the same blessing that we use today during the month of Elul and on Rosh Hashana.
Till this day, many Jewish homes continue to observe the tradition of maintaining a half-meter square patch of wall scraped clean of plaster as one enters the house. For how can we complete our houses when G-d's house lays in ruins?
She admitted she is “not the expert on geopolitics on this issue" but said, "I just look at things through a human rights lens.”
Moreover, since there is no way the U.S. government can force the accused to appear in a U.S. court, the probability is that the presumption of innocence will stand.
The incident recently came to light when the driver filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking unspecified damages from the TLC and the return of his license.
Through a series of expulsions, forced conversions and general violence, European Jewry looked eastward, particularly towards Poland and Lithuania for respite.
When one vows to do something, or to refrain from doing something, the Torah views that pledge with tremendous seriousness. Violating one’s word is referred to as a “desecration of one’s word.”
We all try to go on the right path, we all try to set goals and go ahead and achieve them.
Israel21c reported that the technology behind these radio units took 10 years to develop and is exclusive to Maxtech.
Shabbos is a window into the euphoric Messianic world when this world will be completely devoted to G-d, on all levels.
As Jews, we try to connect all of our daily events to the guiding hands of The Almighty. And yet, how often do we look at G-d’s connection to the world and His intervention in the public realm?
The older we get, the wiser we get, and the more mistakes we have made over time, the more experience we have gained.
But what those courts did was tantamount to opening up any presidential action to an inquiry into his motives and thereby create the possibility of unceasing hamstringing of presidential activity.
All the suffering that has been our lot since the day the Temple was destroyed is a result of our exiled state. This is why we mourn the destruction of the Temples.
All of these children, including my son, take an enormous amount of physical care. It is not a simple matter. And yet, taking care of such special children is an honor.
Papadoupolis’ connection to Israel? It seems that he had a long history of working on eastern Mediterranean energy issues and advocated that there should be closer diplomatic and economic bonds between Israel and the United States.
Turkish Jews and Muslims would flock to her door with bribes or requests for her to exert her influence with the royals.
How do misunderstandings arise? Often the cause is a kind of egocentrism – the belief that other people think the same way we do, especially if these people belong to “us.”
Ultimately our job is not to overcome sin but to transcend the pitfalls and challenges of life.
Royalty is a concept that brings respect and awe to whoever thinks about the true essence of the word.
The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the passing of HaRav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld, the Mattersforfer Rav.
Sometimes we are so busy looking for the next great thing to plan and prepare for that we seem to forget that the simplest things in life, and finding happiness in those tremendous simplicities.
Jews everywhere are proud of their unhesitating acceptance of the Torah and of its wonderful teachings.
He shrewdly concluded that the Palestinian issue was no longer the center of gravity in the Middle East – if it ever really was.
While prosecutors typically charge one individual believed to be involved in a crime in a minor way to pressure him or her to “turn” on someone more heavily involved, the practice is ordinarily limited to participants in the same activity.
Power and influence do not come without consequence.
I value solidarity and community, but I also think it is healthy and desirable to be able and willing to think and act independently with a strong sense of self.
If one's fear of sin exceeds wisdom, his wisdom will endure.
The entire mountainside is transformed into a promenade where superstars of the Israeli religious music scene participate in impromptu jams with tourists.
They emphasized that Ms. Huckabee used the word "had," not "has." Thus, Iran is not in violation of JCPOA, they said.
A federal judge, though, recently declared that the parsonage exemption is unconstitutional, finding that "the point of the law was to assist a subset of religious groups."
His 48th Assembly District includes Boro Park, which has one of the largest Jewish communities outside of Israel, and also part of Flatbush, which also contains a large Jewish constituency.
On Memorial Day, as I remembered all the soldiers and great people who died protecting this little but so important and significant piece of land, I felt so proud to be part of the Jewish nation in its homeland.
Plainly, if the DNC had confidence that the Mueller probe would turn up a Trump-Russia connection before the 2018 midterm elections, the lawsuit would hardly be needed.
Think what the world would be like it we gave more respect to even one person. The more similar people seem to be, the more they find to argue about. The less we have in common, the less we care!
Cheney turned out not to be the leaker and so the hapless Libby had nothing to trade, even if he was inclined to cooperate.
Today, counting the Omer can be a time of meditation where we renew our spirits as we prepare for Shavuot.
In the accident, five people were injured with two of the injured now under arrest as police are reportedly investigating whether they were driving while intoxicated.
We have heard several reliable reports of outright anti-Semitic comments from legislators – some from those in leadership positions.
The court refused to review decision of a U.S. appeals court, which threw out a $655.5 United States District Court jury verdict against the PLO.
The folks who work at NYCHA are trying to hold something together…that really should’ve gotten investment a long time ago.
We perceive these moments to be filled with grace, and we might feel that our lives are worth even one such experience.
June 26, 2026 
