Answering Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart’s “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” in last week’s New York Review of Books is an important piece – important in the same way as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006...
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In the Trenches Against Abuse
Earlier this week, I attended a fundraiser for the Aleinu Family Resource Center, a project of Jewish Family Services in Los Angeles that provides an array of specialized assistance to the Orthodox community. Aleinu...
Hate Crime
No responsible journalist outside the Arab world and North Korea would ever dare report an unsupported allegation as fact.
Ais Tzarah Hi L’Yaakov
I don’t care so much about what went wrong. I want to know what I should be doing to help. Israel is on the ropes. The people who coordinated the flotilla are part of...
A Day We Will Not Forget
For those who are in a position to do any damage control with friends and neighbors, this is still the most compelling video showing what the naval commandos who boarded the lead ship had...
The Rebbe and the General
Israeli historian Arie Morgenstern tells of a fascinating difference of opinion between the Lubavitcher Rebbe, z”l, and Moshe Dayan in the current (Winter) issue of Azure. The setting is the Yom Kippur War. Morgenstern,...
Quite Unconventional
When you attend a convention over Shabbos and several days later you still feel your neshama tingling, you know that what you experienced was rather . . . unconventional. That captures the experience my...
Rapper’s Sabbath
Despite having eclectic tastes in many things, I have no appreciation of urban music. And so I had never heard of Q-Tip (the person, that is; the object is familiar to me). He is...
Mr. Klal Yisrael
The precondition for the acceptance of the Torah, which we will be experiencing again in a few days, was that the Jewish people first achieve the status of “k’ish echad b’lev echad – as...
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