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June 5, 2013
2:06 pm

Round two at the Kotel

This Sunday is going to be round two of the Reform-led Women of the Wall vs the newly-founded traditional Women for the Wall. The long-running debate about......

March 25, 2013
1:42 am

Nu, when do we eat?

“Nu lets get on with it, it’s late.” Sounds familiar? How many times have we heard this at Passover Seders. For many Jews, Passover has become a......

February 27, 2013
12:31 pm

The last laughs on Jew

The Jewish world is in a tizzy about Seth McFarlane’s comedy routine at the Oscars. His jokes about Jews running Hollywood touched a raw chord. Facebook posts are buzzing,......

January 30, 2013
6:41 am

Who’s afraid of Hassidic Jews?

The ominous image of two Hassidim in a dark, foreboding background appears in an advertisement asking for support for the American Jewish University. The liberal Jewish college sits astride......

January 15, 2013
6:49 pm

The rabbi, the President and a moment of silence

It was the Sunday evening after the terrible tragedy in Newton. Rabbi Yisrael Deren and his wife Vivi, directors of Chabad in Connecticut, had come to the console the......

December 28, 2012
12:20 pm

Protesting E1 is not grounded in Judaism

Imagine for a moment that in the Hollywood Hills a local planning commission ruled that Jews, Latinos or blacks could not build or own homes. No question that ...

December 10, 2012
8:02 am

Whitewashing Hamas

One has to wonder about both the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times lately. In two articles that appeared this past weekend they took a strange parallel......

November 19, 2012
11:33 pm

Moral equivalency at the NY Times

The world media is beginning its effort to sound neutral and create a moral equivalency between Hamas and Israel. On Friday, the New York Times front page was an......

November 13, 2012
11:46 am

What really freed Soviet Jewry?

An historic conversation took place at the GA, the Jewish Federation Conference in Baltimore on Monday. Two Jewish icons, Eli Wiesel and Natan Sharansky reminisced about their involvement in......