October 2, 2015
8:31 am

What Do You See?

Look at the ink blot. What do you see? The ink blot is used in what's called a "...

By N.S. Palmer  

October 2, 2015
8:30 am

205/929. Stop Praying. Do Something. Yehoshua 18.

Warning: Heavy handed Zionist sermonizing follows. Not for the weak-kneed. We arrived at the Kotel plaza the other day, my daughter and I, right as the repetition of the Musaf......

By Avidan Freedman  

October 2, 2015
3:03 am

Levels of Tragedy

Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife Na'ama Henkin were murdered last night. They were shot as they drove with four of their six children in the car.......

By Paula R. Stern  

October 2, 2015
2:54 am

Israel wins Philatelic Grand Prix in Slovenia

It was a great honor and privilege to be invited as the Israeli Commissioner to the 7th Bi Annual One Frame ‘Sedmo Okno’ Stamp Exhibition with international participation of......

By Les Glassman  

October 2, 2015
2:00 am

Chocolate in Prison

Yesterday I went to prison. In fact, I go to prison once a month to meet the Jewish inmates, offer them a word of encouragement, teach some Torah, and......

By Eliezer Zalmanov  

October 2, 2015
1:21 am

Suddenly I heard my children scream

Today was the scariest day of my life. They tried to murder me, my husband and my children. There is no other way to put it. It is the stuff of......

By Erica Chernofsky  

October 1, 2015
11:42 pm

Bring Back the Mandate

During the turbulent years in Palestine in the 1930s and mid-1940s, Arab riots against Jews resulted in deaths for both populations. Jews retaliated against terrorist Arabs, incited and inspired......

By Esor Ben-Sorek  

October 1, 2015
11:21 pm

An excerpt from a textbook in the future

An excerpt from a textbook in the future: "And so it was that the greatest country on Earth met its end. It was not through famine, war, or poverty, though......

By Sam Millunchick  

October 1, 2015
11:18 pm

Five things (not) to do — if you want your child to have a Jewish identity

As we approach the end of the holiday season -- or as I call them, “the Fall Four” -- most of our children’s schedules now will be guided by the......

By Dan Shlufman  

October 1, 2015
11:08 pm

Two kinds of time

As we sit here in what looks to be an approaching monsoon, all dull gray -- not the glinting steely gray but the dishwater kind -- trying to figure out how......

By Joanne Palmer  

October 1, 2015
11:05 pm

Primary responsibility

Some time in the third century, Rabbi Chiyya bar Abba and Rabbi Abbahu -- two of the finest sages of their time -- happened upon the same small village to speak......

By Joseph H. Prouser  

October 1, 2015
10:59 pm

Dear Rabbi Zahavy

Dear Rabbi Zahavy, My rabbi often cracks jokes in his sermons from the pulpit. I feel this is wrong, mainly because his jokes are sarcastic and sound more like biting......

By Tzvee Zahavy  

October 1, 2015
10:50 pm

The Aravot: A Model of Servant Leadership

The Beauty of the Aravah Second Day of Sukkot 5776 ~ Rabbi Yosef Weinstock Young Israel of Hollywood - Ft. Lauderdale It’s only the second day of Sukkot,......

By Yosef Weinstock  

October 1, 2015
10:40 pm

Who Is Edward Lowassa?

It is UN week in New York and all eyes are seemingly focused on Russia, Syria and ISIS. I will leave it to better-informed pundits to decide if President......

By Joel Moskowitz  

October 1, 2015
10:33 pm

Netanyahu’s dissonance sweeps New York and Washington

Every October, I anticipate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) address with a morbid curiosity. Not because of any naïve expectation that he’ll say anything new......

By Shai Franklin