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In honor of the 15th Yuhrzeit of my mother

How do you explain the importance of Rosh ha Shana and Yom Kippur to a young child?

Leave it to my late mother, she always found a way.

“You know what Hashem is doing right now?”
She would ask…

Pakistan has long flirted with Islamist rhetoric, but under Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir its posture has hardened into open hostility toward Israel. Islamabad today is not merely pro-Palestinian — it is pro-Hamas. Its parliament passes…

Donald Trump returned to the United Nations General Assembly stage this week with trademark bravado. He mocked the U.N. as a place of “empty words,” urged nations to slam their borders shut, and presented his worldview as if it were the…

When Yom Kippur asks us to forgive others, what about forgiving ourselves? Why is that the more painful act?

Can I forgive myself for being a tender person in a very, cruel, cold world? Can I forgive myself for carrying shame for being…

We stand today at a precipice, not merely of a conflict, but of a historical moment that will define the next century. We have been tested by fire, by treachery, and by the cold indifference of a world often quick to judge but slow to…

The Ganges River, a lifeline for 600 million people in India and neighboring countries is experiencing its worst drying period in 1,300 years. Using a combination of historical data, paleoclimate records and hydrological models, researchers…

This week’s Parsha talks about Moshe Rabbeinu saying goodbye to Klal Yisroel saying:

“I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in, and Hashem has told me you shall not cross this Yarden.” 

Rashi…

Seneca, not just a Stoic,
but at his suicide heroic,
being quite unsanctimonious,
once showed his buddy Posidonius
how flasks of glass are blown with breath.

Like human mortals at their death
glass vessels always tend to shatter
when dropped, like…

Spain’s Shameful History Against Jews and Its Dangerous Embrace of “Palestine”

Spain has a long, disgraceful history when it comes to Jews and the Jewish state. From the Spanish Inquisition to the modern recognition of a so-called…

Rabbi Sam Kates-Goldman had a message for his congregants — and his city — on Rosh Hashanah when he acknowledged and offered gratitude to a prominent regular and a special guest in the pews.

Brad Lander, New York…