Category: General

The Jewish Press August 24, 2005 Even as most Israelis, including those who strongly supported the withdrawal from Gaza, shed tears and felt and shared the pain of those who were being forced out...

Just over one hour ago, fully mindful of the negative reactions that my article has provoked, I approached an elderly neighbor of mine here in Jerusalem. This man is a survivor of Auschwitz who...

As you may have heard, a 21-year-old British student of the Mirrer Yeshiva Jerusalem was murdered Wednesday evening by an Arab terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem. He was to be married in...

Mishpacha Magazine August 25, 2005 Reading the lead essay in the June issue of The Jewish Observer, “Struggling with Success,” by Rabbi Mattis Roberts, I was reminded of the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson,...

Recently, my wife and I took our kids to a theme park for younger children. I made two observations — besides how expensive it is to take a family with several children to even...

Along with other members of my family, I was at the massive Tefila and Tehillim gathering at the Kotel prior to the painful commencement of the withdrawal from Gaza. The event was extraordinary because...

We were privileged to have Dr Judea and Ruth Pearl at our Shabbos table a week ago. They left us a copy of their book, I Am Jewish, which collected reactions of several scores...

Today, Erev Shabbos Nachamu, my brother wrote the following, which I am taking the liberty of posting here: Newspaper-reading Jews all over America have doubtless found it quite vexing that in the reporting of...

Mishpacha Magazine August 18, 2005 The first casualty of the Gaza withdrawal has been the sundering of the relationship between secular Israel and the national religious camp. The national religious have become the new...