Author: Jonathan Rosenblum

On Tuesday night, I spoke at Yeshivat Shala’avim to the American students on the level of Jewish identity in Israel today. After concluding a fairly depressing survey, I then inquired as to the potential...

Hamas surprise victory in last week’s elections for the Palestinian Authority parliament has sent policy makers in Jerusalem, Brussels, and Washington D.C. into a tizzy. Diplomats prefer dealing with a known quantity, however noxious,...

Not often do Torah Jews find much cause for rejoicing in the headlines. The recent implosion of the virulently anti-religious Shinui and the public humiliation of its acid-tongued leader Tommy Lapid, however, is a...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s relationship with religious Jews has been an up and down one over the years – of late mostly down. I was at a Shalom Zachor one week ago at which...

In the early 1930s, Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler set himself the task of battling the cult of science of his time. To his private students in London – mostly teenagers from Orthodox homes who...

The reduction of Judaism to a political position roughly identical with the editorial page of the New York Times constitutes one of the greatest threats to American Jewish continuity. That reductionism was on full...

Proponents of a speedy withdrawal of American troops from Iraq advance two major arguments in support of their position. The first: “Bush lied.” According to that argument, the fact that no weapons of mass...

Only rarely does history provide an unambiguous answer to hotly debated issues of policy. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, for instance, was a complete rebuttal to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s boast at...

Though the economic crisis of the chareidi community in Israel is much discussed subject, that discussion typically focuses on the threat to our yeshivos or trumpeting the percentage of children under the poverty line...

If you’re rich enough, you can command an audience for virtually any nonsense. So when mega-philanthropist Michael Steinhardt recently told a group of 50 graduates of Yeshiva University that the Orthodox were not fulfilling...