The Watching
Morning dawns. It is Sunday, but not just any Sunday morn – it is the dawn of the Hallowed Day. America a secular land? Hah! Silly Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, et al – sacred devotion...
Letter to an Outgoing President
[by Rabbi Meyer May, Executive Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and President of the Rabbinical Council of California. This letter was hand-delivered to President Bush a few days ago. The text also appears...
Operation Cast Lead – Week III
Let us start with the good news. First, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has removed the stain of the 2006 Second Lebanon War. The Winograd Commission found drastic failures in both the political echelons...
Operation Cast Lead – Week II
At the outset of Operation Cast Lead, Israel had two immediate precedents in front of it. The happy precedent is Operation Defensive Shield launched in 2002, after a month in which 130 Israelis were...
Combating Abuse: A Model That Works
Abuse, especially of children, continues to be the elephant in the Orthodox room. The news stories won’t go away. The cynicism won’t go away. The problem won’t go away. While victims cry out for...
Pictures From the Home Front
Unless you are living under a rock, you realize by now that we are at war. It is not they who are at war – a much beloved they to be sure – but...
Rabbi in Israel – War in Gaza
I am sitting in the National Library at the Hebrew University on the third day of a visit to Israel. I am in here to catch up with young people from my community who...
Israel Awakens
Israel’s long-delayed response to missile attacks on its southern region began in earnest this past Shabbos. (One hopes that Shabbos was chosen because of the opportunity presented to wipe out 160 Hamas fighters at...
Terrorized Times
Does all an organization that routinely attacks innocents have to do to achieve respectability is garner the support of a population and open health clinics?