If you live in New York City and need to keep kids busy on a hot summer day, you go to a good museum and hope that the kids will take interest in at...

We note with great sadness the petirah of one of the deans of the American rabbinate, Rabbi Maurice Lamm. My most vivid recollection of Rabbi Lamm is of the person who firmly put a...

In a new twist on the old “Jews to the back of the bus” routine, Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, wants the Jewish G-d to take a back seat...

I cannot imagine a better, succinct, even-keeled examination of global BDS than this. Not surprisingly, it was penned by a commentator without peer – Yossi Klein Halevi. Bookmark this one, and then give copies...

A new “blockbuster” survey has been published online to offer insights into why some people “leave” Orthodox practice and go OTD (“Off the Derekh”). This most recent entry in Jewish demography is based on...

Rabbonim Issue Call for Action on Child Abuse and Molestation and Call to Action Judaism: Behaalotcha (Diaspora): The gap year – A must-read. The Bostoner Rebbe of Beit Shemesh, zt”l Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Finkel z”l Reb Heshy...

Nearly two weeks ago, Arutz Sheva conducted an interview with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin about a number of subjects, the first of which was Knesset legislation to bar non-Orthodox Israeli clergy from using state-regulated mikva’os for conversions...

This article originally appeared in Times of Israel. The art of deflection and of evading reply to the substance of the argument is not limited to the discourse in the current US Presidential campaign....