Spirituality/Tradition
What Judaism Says About the Dangers of Facebook
I recently attended a panel session at Limmud Oz in Australia entitled "Is Facebook good for the Jews?" The panel - all experienced media...
The Nonsense of State Religious Holidays
There is so much evil in the world that one almost gets inured. The senseless killing of innocents, regardless of where, is a disgrace to humanity. But obviously when it touches us personally...
Proud to be a Zionist
Zionism represents self-determination and freedom. It was created to empower the Jewish people in a world where anti-Semitism thrived and dictated how my people lived their lives. The words of Jabotinsky, Herzl, and Ben-Gurion remain etched in...
The Leftward Tilt of American Jews
Twenty years after the Oslo peace process, and now with the collapse of the recent negotiations mediated by John Kerry, Jewish American leftists groups are still trying to figure out what "peace" means. But the...
New Jerusalem Eatery’s Uniform Pricing Seeks to ‘Help People Make It’
JNS.org - Omelet sandwich: 5 shekels. Iced coffee: 5 shekels. Tuna sandwich: 5 shekels....
Why Israel Must Reach Out to the Jewish Media
Despite star turns from Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres, the loudest spontaneous applause at last...
In Memory of Israel’s Murdered Teens
This past Shabbat we read the parsha of Chukkat with its almost incomprehensible commandment of...
Grand Larceny
TOTD: Palestinian identity has been forged out of a vacuum of historical nothingness. It culturally...
Twenty Years Later, the Rebbe’s Leadership Endures
For those of us who had the privilege of spending special time with the Rebbe,...
What Judaism Says About the Dangers of Facebook
I recently attended a panel session at Limmud Oz in Australia entitled "Is Facebook good for the Jews?" The panel - all experienced media professionals...
The Nonsense of State Religious Holidays
There is so much evil in the world that one almost gets inured. The senseless killing of innocents, regardless of where, is a...
Proud to be a Zionist
Zionism represents self-determination and freedom. It was created to empower the Jewish people in a world where anti-Semitism thrived and dictated how my people lived their...
The Leftward Tilt of American Jews
Twenty years after the Oslo peace process, and now with the collapse of the recent negotiations mediated by John Kerry, Jewish American leftists groups are...
New Jerusalem Eatery’s Uniform Pricing Seeks to ‘Help People Make It’
JNS.org - Omelet sandwich: 5 shekels. Iced coffee: 5 shekels. Tuna sandwich: 5 shekels. Fresh-squeezed orange juice: 5 shekels. Cheese bureka: 5 shekels. There's plenty...
Why Israel Must Reach Out to the Jewish Media
Despite star turns from Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres, the loudest spontaneous applause at last week's Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem was bestowed on a...
In Memory of Israel’s Murdered Teens
This past Shabbat we read the parsha of Chukkat with its almost incomprehensible commandment of the red heifer - whose ashes, mixed with "living water,"...
Grand Larceny
TOTD: Palestinian identity has been forged out of a vacuum of historical nothingness. It culturally appropriates the history of the other (namely the Jew) and...
Twenty Years Later, the Rebbe’s Leadership Endures
For those of us who had the privilege of spending special time with the Rebbe, now, 20 years after his passing, there is a tremendous...
Don’t Forget Some Inconvenient Truths About the Rebbe
Twenty years ago this Tuesday, I awoke early in Oxford because I was taking a President of our L'Chaim Society named Cory Booker to Israel...
Israel Mourns as Slain Teens Laid to Rest
JNS.org - The citizens of Israel were shocked and saddened on Monday when news emerged that the bodies of the three Israeli teenagers who...
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, His Murdered Students and a Call to Action
Today, I watched my mentor cry. I picked up the car phone to learn that the bodies of the three kidnapped boys - Naftali Frenkel, Eyal...
Prayer and Unity: The Quintessentially Jewish Response to a Kidnapping
JNS.org - JERUSALEM—With their pictures posted on countless Facebook pages and widely published in newspapers and on websites, the faces of the three missing...
How Two Women Work to Shift Public Opinion on Israeli Sovereignty
JNS.org - Almost every day, Nadia Matar, 48, steers her battered white SUV along the hilly roads between Jerusalem and Gush Etzion to visit...
