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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Op-Ed: Washington should hold off on selling F-35s to Turkey

History shows how quickly allies can turn into adversaries • By Moshe Phillips...

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Op-ed by Rafael Medoff: Art in the Service of Antisemitism

by Rafael Medoff • It’s not against the law to paint an antisemitic mural. But that doesn’t mean that a museum is required to display it—especially when that museum is funded by taxpayers....

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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 ...

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Op-Ed: The UN War on Israel’s High Ground

By Moshe Phillips • American Jewish leaders must come to understand that to critics of Israel, there is no difference between “settlements” in Judea and Samaria and “settlements” on the Golan....

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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...

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Op-Ed: No F-35 fighter jets for Saudi Arabia

Op-Ed by By Moshe Phillips: This is not a routine arms sale. Granting Riyadh access to the F-35 means placing America’s most advanced stealth and sensor technology into the hands of a regime that has no democratic checks and balances...

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Op-Ed By Rafael Medoff: The Pope’s Kayak—A Lesson for the Jews

It took 100 years, but the Vatican has finally agreed to surrender a kayak and other cultural artifacts that it stole from indigenous Canadian tribes for use in Pope Pius XI’s “Vatican Missionary Exposition” in 1925....

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Op-Ed: J.D. Vance’s Israel Comment Puts Him in Strange Company

Dr. Rafael Medoff: Vice President J.D. Vance’s response to an antisemitic college student this week raises troubling questions....

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Op-Ed: The War In Israel, Draft and Achdus 

Klal Yisrael is experiencing a period of enormous difficulty as Israel is surrounded by active threats and Jews everywhere face growing antisemitism. We are fearful of what the immediate future holds...

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Eretz Yisroel

OPEN LETTER — It Had Nothing To Do With October 7

Make no mistake, Hamas Terrorists attacked Israel because it was Simchas Torah! Not because “October 7.” They knew the majority of IDF soldiers were going to be home and off-base spending the Simchas Torah Yom Tov and holiday with ...

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Op-Ed: What Was The Best Moment Today?

I'm talking about the spiritual leadership and the jewish leadership in general. By refusing to talk about it we are in fact failing again and again...

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Death By WhatsApp – BDE!

“Why are you publicizing this? I’m his wife and no one told me yet!” – These words were typed Chol Hamoed Pesach, moments after a horrific car accident in which Reb Chaim Har-Kessef of Bnei Brak was killed. ...

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Op-Ed: The Need For New York Yidden To Obtain Firearms

Jewish safety has always been an issue in NY. The frum community, who stand out as obvious Jews, has long been a target for attacks. We need the ability to protect ourselves by ourselves, and embrace our right to bear arms to deter the...

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Lakewood

A New Proposal to Address The Lakewood Community’s Chinuch Needs

I would like to introduce the idea of opening a community elementary school. The level of chinuch would be comparable to other private schools in Lakewood. The school would offer a solid Frum Chinuch to any family seeking it for their ...

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Op-Ed: Still Not Enough! What Are We Waiting For?

By Rabbi Zvi Gluck - Amudim.
It’s our worst nightmare—and it’s happening again. In the past seven weeks, 16 people in the Frum/Jewish community died by suicide...

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