Can one criticize Israel without being perceived as criticizing Jews? Is it political suicide to criticize Israel? Former President Jimmy Carter on Larry King Live the other night stated that Israel receives $10M per day from the USA. That's more than $3.5B a year. He also went on to say Israel's di...

I’ll leave the abusive words to your imagination. They were delivered through clenched teeth, the anger seeming to drip from the telephone into a rancid puddle on my desk. The long, acrimonious voicemail message played on and on, laden with insults and threats. Even more striking than the nasty to...

Negative spin cycle The news media not only tries criminal cases in the public forum, judging and condemning those who have not had a trial as yet, they have now moved on to telling the public who has won the election and who doesn't seem to stand a chance! Are they hoping America will stay home fro...

Rabbi Gil Student writes: I’ve been very busy for the past few months and haven’t been able to follow every major story. However, I knew something had happened about a Mr. Golubchuk in Canada, who was very sick and the medical establishment wanted to cease treating him despite his still ...

American Patriot Haym Salomon, a Sephardic Jew, who immigrated to the US from Poland in 1772 is shown in the photograph at the left. He was one of The Sons of Liberty almost immediately on arrival in the new land. The Sons of Liberty were a secret organization of patriots .. the American "undergroun...

Jonathan Rosenblum writes: I will never forget an address by Rabbi Ephraim Wachsman at an Agudath Israel of America convention on the topic "Living a Life of Ruchnios amidst Gashmius." I had never before heard Rabbi Wachsman, and I practically jumped out of my seat when he thundered: This ...

He’s a guy who’s withheld a get (Jewish divorce) from his wife for more than a decade. He also married off his daughter while she was still a child. Here’s more on the Isaac Hersh saga. Rabbi Sharashefky worked with Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, and Rabbi Shmuel ...