Tag: Thisweek

There is nothing more sensational than when a senior member of Hamas—or one of his sons—defects and turns to Israeli media to expose that...

Q: Were you surprised to be invited to the conference in Bahrain? A: No. The conference clearly related to Israel. Having this conference without Israeli...

“I don’t understand what you were thinking,” the principal scolded me, filled with righteous indignation. I stood mutely, next to my daughter, absorbing the brunt...

For over half a century as a rebbe and rosh yeshivah in Talmudical Academy of Adelphia, Camp Monk and Yeshivas Moreshes Yehoshua in Lakewood,...

My esteemed guest today is the Chabad shliach in Minnesota and dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies Rabbi Manis Friedman, who is...

There is a saying that America’s generals are always preparing to fight the last war. Pity. The history of American body counts suggests that our opponents...

It was a horrific sight, even for the most jaded of mispallelim. Early risers arriving at the Tiferes Shimon shul on Rechov Rabbi Akiva in...

When I was growing up, Williamsburg wasn’t the way it is today. These days it’s a bustling neighborhood populated by tens of thousands of...

On June 14, the New York State legislature passed the Housing Stability and Tenant Protections Act of 2019, which made a long list of...

Boruch Yida Ganz, a middle-aged Satmar Chasid from Williamsburg Roughly 120 years after the petirah of my elter-zeide, Dayan Rav Mordechai Rothstein of Holmein, I...