Please Support This Petition
Please Support This Petition It is not everyday that a cause is endorsed by Prof. Shnayer Leiman, the A list of Israeli roshei yeshiva, the RCA and the RCC. But it is not everyday...
Clash of Civilizations: Chanukah Was Just the Beginning
While Chanukah has come and gone, the ideological conflict at its core remains ever-present. In fact, it looms larger than ever before. Observant Jews need no reminder of the nature of the conflict, but...
Does the LA Jewish Journal Treat the Orthodox as Deplorables?
Danielle Berrin, described as a senior writer for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, had only words of praise for Rabbi Simcha Krauss, founder of the International Beit Din (IBD) and scorn for the Rabbinical Council...
Does the Gay Issue Threaten the Continuity of Orthodoxy?
An essay penned by the lead educator at a Modern Orthodox high school warned of possible shock. “This may surprise many adults, but the reconciliation of the Torah’s discussion of homosexuality represents the single...
Loss and Legacy
Like so many of his generation in Europe, he had an all too short childhood. At the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was 14, he found himself, along with his family...
I Abstain from the Outrage
True or False? 1) The U.S. abstention to the recent U.N. resolution was the first time an American administration declined to veto a Security Council resolution critical of Israel and opposed by her. 2)...
The Pathetic Ms. Power
Ms. Power is the public face of a U.S. administration that might as well have been using her own work as handbook for justifying inaction.
O-WOW Calls to End Prayer at the Wall
“In actuality, there wouldn’t be a Mechitzah (divider) there at all, and I would send all of them to their synagogue. Perhaps I would earmark certain hours for them.”
A Window into the Past
It’s barely visible. Taped to the inside of the front bay window of a neat, modest house on a nondescript street in Toronto is a photocopy of a spoon. The window, off the living...
Obama’s Antipathy Towards Israel
Why would Obama risk angering his friends and provoking his successor, who could do away with much of his legacy?