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Mar 13, 2025, 3:41 PM

Looking back after 50 years (gulp), Purim spoofs tell a story

Let’s face it, long before this year’s arrival of Purim, the holiday of v’nehafechu — opposites, inversions and ironies — the world already has turned upside-down and topsy-turvy. Examples abound. The leader of the world’s first and greatest democracy is...

Feb 27, 2025, 7:02 PM

For Caring Jews, Trump Is Both Angel And Devil

In dealing with a contradictory ally, Davd Ben-Gurion offered a creative approach worth noting. Many of us are truly grateful for President Trump’s full-voiced support for Israel in its conflict with enemies who seek its destruction. At the same time,...

Jan 22, 2025, 11:41 PM

Brave New Words: Taking God To Task For The Shoah

A prominent communal leader has written a dark, bitter response to The Book of Psalms in the hope that Holocaust remembrance will become an integral part of Jewish liturgy. Gary Rosenblatt Jan 22, 2025 Since Biblical days, Jews have not only sanctified...

Dec 6, 2024, 10:37 AM

‘The Triumph of Life’: An Inspiring Response to Eternal Questions

At 91, modern-day sage Rabbi Irving ‘Yitz’ Greenberg has written a magnum opus based on his faith in God – and humanity. In the mid-1960s, on my first day of college at Yeshiva University, I enrolled in Prof. Irving “Yitz”...

Nov 24, 2024, 7:26 AM

Not Your Conventional ‘Sabbath Queen’

Two decades in the life of Amichai Lau-Lavie, a spiritual Pied Piper for countless disenfranchised Jews, are captured on film in ways that will resonate deeply with many. Imagine a film whose Jewish characters include a Conservative rabbi, a Chasidic...

Nov 14, 2024, 7:51 PM

Scoop! Secret Tapes Of Bibi-Trump Phone Calls Revealed

Two leaders out-do each other in making outlandish cabinet picks. Fact: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump three times in recent days, according to numerous reports this week. “These were very good and...

Nov 6, 2024, 4:18 PM

In US and Israel, stunning setbacks for democracy

Trump the Avenger prevails; Netanyahu sacks a hero. American Zionists who cherish democratic values and leaders who place country over self suffered a devastating double blow on Tuesday night. In the US, Donald Trump, who has flaunted the Constitution and seeks...

Nov 4, 2024, 3:27 PM

Scoop! Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue

The ultimate conclusion to America’s most outrageous election. In a rapid series of events, Donald Trump demanded today that Election Day, scheduled for this Tuesday, be canceled, citing reports of “past, current and future voting fraud.” Trump insisted that he...

Oct 9, 2024, 9:56 PM

The November Dilemma: When American and Israeli Priorities Clash

Will the election require Jews to choose between ensuring democracy at home and bolstering security for Israel? Donald Trump says Jews who vote Democrat hate Israel, are bad Jews, and that only he can end the current war and protect...

Oct 1, 2024, 3:40 PM

‘And for the sin of silence’: The OU and Baruch Lanner

Baruch Lanner, at his 2002 trial at the Momouth County Courthouse in Freehold, where he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls who attended the school where he was principal. (via LinkedIn)

Will the Orthodox Union ever repent for refusing to heed the reports of abuse by victims of one of its starring rabbis?

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Gary Rosenblatt, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the former editor and publisher of The Jewish Week of New York. Follow him as a free or paid subscriber at garyrosenblatt.substack.com.

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