Sharing Israel’s Best
Around this time each year, dozens of cities host “Honor Israel” nights, in which Christian friends of Israel gather to show their support for Israel and the Jewish people. The folks in Grand Rapids,...
Segulot and Yeshuot
by Dovid Landesman Many of us, based on personal conversations as well as perusal of various blogs, seem to share discomfort when confronted with yet another advertising campaign by Kuppat ha-Ir and its fellow...
Rabbi Yanky Horowitz’s Welcome Contribution
In the closing years of the Evil Empire, I accompanied a group of high-school seniors to Moscow and Leningrad, essentially to smuggle in sefarim, jeans, and cameras through which to sustain families of refuseniks...
Agudah Statement on SF Circumcision Ban Measure
May 19, 2011 Statement from Agudath Israel of America concerning the proposed circumcision ban on the ballot in San Francisco That nearly 8000 San Francisco residents were willing to endorse the placing of an...
The Irrelevance of the Settlements
Given all the attention focused on Israeli settlements beyond the 1949 armistice lines (known colloquially and erroneously as the 1967 borders), one would never know how irrelevant they are to Israeli withdrawal from land...
“Like We Massacred Them in Hebron”
Arab reporter interviews a 92-year-old Hebron resident. He wants to talk about the “Nakhba” — she wants to talk about murdering innocent Jews, the same way her father murdered the students of the Hebron...
Letter to the Editor
How heartening that Mahmoud Abbas declares that the State of Palestine that he hopes for will be a “peace-loving nation.” Now his task is to somehow square that with his embrace of Hamas, solemnly...
Whither Syria? Whither America?
So far Arab Spring has done little to increase Israelis’ optimism. According to the latest Pew survey, a solid majority of Egyptians support abrogation of the peace treaty with Israel; the Egyptian-Israeli gas pipeline...
Roman Rite Leads to Jewish Thought
Roman Catholic rituals aren’t usually even a small part of my family’s Shabbat table discussions but a recent Sabbath meal was an exception, granted in the spirit of revisiting an ever-timely Jewish concept. The...
Better Than Sunscreen
“Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.”...