Modern Orthodoxy’s Moral Failure
The fate of our children’s children rests with us – with whether we surrender the legacy of our forefathers for a little temporary convenience, or whether we stand proud and strong in the face of the storms to come.
Menachem Begin To Joe Biden: I Am Not A Jew With Trembling Knees
America must respect the will of the Israeli public, whom overwhelmingly re-elected a Bibi led Likud
Dershowitz: Supreme Court MIGHT Reverse Chauvin Convictions because of Maxine Waters
Waters is not interested in neutral justice. She wants vengeance for what she and her followers justifiably see as the unjustified killing of George Floyd.... That is not the rule of law. That is the passion of the crowd.
Black Lives Matter: “We Will Burn Down This System” – Part II
"If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right?... I just want black liberation and black sovereignty, by any means necessary." — Hawk Newsome, leader of BLM's Greater New York chapter, New York Post, June 25, 2020
Dr. Seuss And The Jews
Seuss’s wartime cartoons denounced American discrimination against Jews and called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust.
Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself
Real slave traders and racists -- those who believe Western societies and values should not exist at all -- most likely look at the current Western self-flagellation and cheer their approval.
Gen. Patton’s Appalling Anti-Semitism
Patton not only showed utter contempt, even hatred, for Jewish survivors, he also expressed a kind of admiration for the Nazi prisoners of war under his watch and bitterly criticized attempts to bring Nazi leaders to justice for war crimes.
What Does It Mean to Be Jewish?
Divine affirmation is the foundation of Judaism. Everything else comes after.
Dr. Seuss And The Jews
Seuss’s wartime cartoons denounced American discrimination against Jews and called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Justified Violence Against Jews Twice in 7 Days
AOC also endorsed the anti-Israel progressive group IfNotNow, saying it is “amazing” and “organizing for justice.”
Experts Suggest 6 Firearms That Will Fit in your Tallit Bag
Jews must be armed. Today, and everyday. In synagogues, and everywhere else.
The Khazar Myth and the New Anti-Semitism
It is one of the great ironies of the 21st century that anti-Zionists and anti-Semites on both the Left and the Right, have returned to racialist arguments against Jews that most of us thought had died out after World War II.
What Judea & Samaria Mean to the Jewish People
For Jews, the ancient tribal territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh – a.k.a. Judea and Samaria or the West Bank – form the very heartland of the homeland.
Maimonides: Islam Good, Christianity Bad, Muslims Bad, Christians Good
Rabbi Moses Maimonides is our fundamental source for relating to Islam and Christianity, and his views are clear and occasionally unexpected.
The Saga Of Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi
Responsibility, taking acharayus for our actions, is something we could all start doing a bit more.
Blinken Warns Jewish State Not to Allow Prayer
Secretary of State falsely equated “violence in the West Bank, perpetrated by both Palestinians and Israeli settlers.”
The LA Black Lives Matter Rally That Became a Pogrom
{Originally posted to the FrontPage Mag website}
"It’s no coincidence that the riots here escalated in Fairfax, the icon of the Jewish community. I saw...
ICE Should Deport George Soros as a Nazi Collaborator
George Soros never paid for a lifetime of misdeeds. And it would also be fitting to start with what may be his oldest crime. The Holtzman Amendment leaves no room for Nazi collaborators in America.
Modern Orthodoxy And Morality: In Response To Ben Shapiro
This is a false choice. We must be forthright and confident in articulating our values, but we should also avoid being needlessly antagonistic, intellectually dishonest, or uncharitable in our interpretations.
Is History Repeating Itself? Ten ways Current Events reflect Holocaust History
Recent headlines show escalation of the same attitudes and actions as existed during the Holocaust
5778: A Year of Great Expectations
My urgent concerns in 5778 are not for Israel, but for American Jewry.
Islam’s Jew-Hating Hadith in Context
The infamous hadith about the Jew hiding behind a tree is not some apocrophyl canon held in esteem by an unimportant few, but runs parallel to anti-Jewish motifs throughout the Koran.
Assad’s Grandfather’s 1936 Letter Predicts Muslim Slaughter of Minorities, Praises Zionists
Many of the problems of the Middle Eastern states can be traced to the mistakes of the European state charged with developing them between the World Wars. The fierceness with which the Alawite minority - led by Bashir al Assad - will fight to retain control can be explained by their fear of Sunni Muslims. Way back in 1936, Assad's grandfather, Suleiman Assad warned France, which was then the power in charge of Syria, of the dangers of a Sunni Muslim takeover of Syria in 1936. He also spoke warmly about Jewish accomplishments in then Palestine and the injustice of Arab-Muslim violence towards Zionism.
The Holocaust’s Most Vicious Killers
During the Holocaust, one group of killers stood out as more vicious, murderous, and bloodthirsty than all others.
Jackie Mason’s Last Interview? The Famous Comedian Spoke At Length about his Long Relationship...
“Yes. You have to realize that Jackie’s father was one of the gedolim of the last generation, on the level of Rav Moshe himself!” Rav Singer stressed. While some may be tickled at such information, I could not help but feel a tinge of melancholy.
A True Fairy Tale: The Jewish Bahraini Princess
Rivka Abramovitz reads the e-mail, her curiosity intensifying into shock. She looks up at the Hasidic Jewish family seated around her. Should she tell them what the e-mail said? Definitely, no. Her long-lost mother’s sudden e-mail appearance had just told this Jewish woman that she is actually Arab.
Racists Murder People Of Color – Where’s The Outrage?
Palestinian Arab murders of people of color in Israel is a subject you won’t hear very much about.
America’s Jewish Left Just Declared War On Israel
What are these Leftist-Jewish organizations really doing? The answer is evident, political, and ominous. Far from representing the interests of Jews, these organizations serve an ascendant progressive movement growing more aggressive in its anti-Semitism.
Clarifying Abortion In Halacha – And Reasons Not To Favor Overturning Roe V. Wade
These disparate positions make it unsurprising that poskim are divided about precisely which prohibition is violated when terminating a Jewish woman’s pregnancy and also result in significant differences in the circumstances in which they permit abortion.
Putting the Oy Back into ‘Ahoy’
They did not sing "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Manischewitz," nor do they ever seem to appear in any of the Disney films about pirates in the Caribbean.