Sunday we removed the majority of our synagogue’s Torah scrolls from the aron hakodesh (ark) and danced with vigor, purpose and unabashed joy for the holiday of Simchat Torah.
Our next-door Reform neighbors had done the same...
(JNS) – On Monday, Britain’s foreign secretary Ed Miliband delivered a diatribe against Israel, accusing it of ethnic cleansing and war crimes, and vowing to punish it for the crime of allowing Jews to “settle” in their...
We live in an era in which fashionable opinion holds it to be an unquestioned truth that biological gender must be considered fluid and changeable, but racial and ethnic identity is not. That’s more a function...
(JNS.org) – According to many American as well as some Israeli pundits, the marked decline in Israel’s popularity can be primarily attributed to one man. Those who cite the many polls that document the shrinking support...
When I was a little boy, I read the propaganda distributed in the classroom. I watched the films and TV shows the teachers showed us and, like most of my classmates, I believed what they said.
(JTA) — We live in the age of the strategic apology. A politician apologizes days before an election when an opponent surfaces uncomfortable dirt. A CEO issues a lawyered “I take full responsibility” when a product is...
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by members of Al Queda, the most deadly and most coordinated terrorist attack in our nation’s history. While it’s not necessary to compare numbers, the ignoble number...
By FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN (JNS.org) – There is a pack of fanatics in Italy that wants to take control of airports for the purpose of excluding Israel from international air routes.
They organize protests so that Israeli men, women and children...
