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Councilman Mamdani,

As an Israeli, I’m disgusted by your words and behavior –
as a New Yorker, I’m appealing to your conscience.

I was raised in New York, as were my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. We’ve seen mayors come…

B”H

11/9/2025

18 Heshvan 5786

What is real Strength?

Written by Tzedeck

Tzedeck is the authors Pseudonym

To all of those going through a hard time right…

Israel’s war in Gaza was not only against Hamas, but also an ideological war within Israel itself, a tug-of-war between two Israels. One Israel wants to build, to expand, secure, and restore what it believes is divinely and historically its…

Full first day in Porto. Tired, we joined an afternoon walking tour. Dropped out early. But joined long enough to identify that couple, close to our age, American Jews from Scottsdale. She, the daughter of German Jewish Shoah survivors. She…

As The World Zionist Congress Collapses, Chabad Succeeds

For me, it was the tale of which side of the road you crossed one recent Tuesday night in Jerusalem. On one side, in the International Convention Center of Jerusalem, the World Zionist…

When language loses its grounding in truth, moral clarity becomes collateral damage. That is what happened in Masha Gessen’s recent New York Times essay, “These Israeli Dissidents Can Show Americans How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad…

Eighty-seven years have passed since Kristallnacht – the night when 91 Jews were murdered in Germany and Austria, tens of thousands were arrested and sent to concentration camps, Jewish shop windows were smashed, synagogues were set on…

Our Parsha opens with Avraham “coming to Kiriat Arba which is Hevron” in order to mourn Sarah and ultimately to bury her where she had lived, apparently on her own.

Last we heard, Avraham was living in Beer Sheva. This begs the rhetorical…

The Qur’an in 5:44 states: “Indeed, We (God) revealed the Torah, containing guidance and light, by which the prophets, who submitted themselves to Allah, made judgments for Jews. So too did the rabbis and scholars judge according to…