Opinion
Op-Ed: The Message of Nachson – The Hero of Splitting of the Sea
By Moshe Phillips • Pesach is behind us. In our post October 7th world the question of what can we learn from Shvi'i shel Pesach, the last part of the holiday, is a question I encourage you to ask...
Op-Ed: When a Nobel Peace Prize winner urged moving Gaza’s Arabs to Jordan
This month marks one year since President Trump presented his idea during a White House press conference that Gaza’s population be relocated to “a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” in another country. ...
Op-Ed: Opening Rafah While Hamas Is Armed Repeats a Deadly Mistake
“Gaza Crossing to Egypt Reopens in Step Forward for Fragile Cease-Fire,” celebrated The New York Times on Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. And it feels like we are seeing the same thing occur yet again....
Op-Ed: The missing cry not heard around the world – Free, free Iran
By Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin • There is a kind of unspoken pact in which leftists and Muslims living in Western countries do not criticize fellow Muslims even if they are massacring other Muslims....
Op-ed by Rafael Medoff: The Holocaust, Without Jews
You wouldn’t think Vladimir Putin, the BBC, and the National Education Association have much in common. But in recent weeks, they have demonstrated that they share a peculiar understanding of the Holocaust—one which omits the Jews....
Op-ed: No Postwar Role for Bangladesh in Gaza
By Moshe Phillips: Bangladeshi officials wants to deploy to Gaza, as part of the planned “International Stabilization Force” in the Gaza Strip. This is very disturbing, as Bangladesh is completely unfit to be involved in any way wi...
Op-Ed: Jews Outside Israel – Protect Yourselves
October 7, 2023, will be remembered as the day that changed Israel forever. From the first news report and right up to this very moment, world Jewry “stepped up to the plate” and shared a tremendous burden with fellow Yidden in Ere...
Op-Ed: I Ate In a Kosher Restaurant, But Is It a ‘Jewish’ Establishment?
A reader writes, It began with the change to non-Jewish music. Soon, the benchers and washing station were tucked away, hidden in hard-to-see places. Ask the waiter if the bread is Hamotzi or Mezonos and you are met with a blank stare ...
Chanukah: Rav Yitzchok Hutner on the significance of the Maccabees’ victory over the Greeks
From "Hidden Lights: Chanukah and the Jewish/Greek Conflict" (David Dov Publications, 2005, pp. 41-3) by Rabbi Pinchas Stolper (1931–2022) based on a lecture by Rav Yitzchok Hutner (1906–1980) in 1978. Presented by Rabbi Yitschak ...
Op-Ed By Rafael Medoff: Do “Dirty Jews” Cause Antisemitism?
The current alliance between Jewish anti-Zionists and non-Jewish antisemites has its precedents, as we are reminded by the statements made at a Jewish-Christian interfaith conference in London, one hundred years ago last week. Then and...