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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…

When rockets rained down from both north and south, more than 200,000 Israelis fled to the country’s center. In that flight, the soul of the nation was laid bare.

Doors swung wide. Strangers became hosts; hotels turned into temporary homes….

Vayera: The Wealth of Light

This week, as we read the Torah portion Vayera, something happened to me that I can only describe as hashgacha pratit — Divine Providence.

I came to the evening minyan at the synagogue on Avenue M and East 24th…

How is it possible that the entire world repeats a lie so confidently that it has become accepted as truth? How can people; journalists, academics, politicians,  say with a straight face that “Palestine has always been an Arab…