As the race for NY Attorney General entered its final days ahead of the November elections, the central debate shifted from ...

I am an emotional being. I am stirred by events that grab my sensitivity, feelings within my heart and soul. But there is one recent event that totally left me with a deep emotional response and sheer ...

There is no Israeli consent to these plans, and no permits were provided for these projects. Most of the projects are slated for areas under full Israeli control. It is described as “a well-oiled ...

Despite its apparent antiquity and worldwide familiarity, the custom of placing written prayers into the crevices of the Western Wall is neither biblical nor talmudic in origin. Rather, it is a ...

Vezos ha’beracha – And this is the blessing that Moshe, the man of G-d, gave the people of Israel before his death (33:1). A similar thing happened to Moshe. Just before he died, G-d took him up to ...

Next month, enrolled Manhattan voters in the Democratic Party will be going to the polls to take the first step deciding which one of six candidates will succeed the retiring 78-year-old Congressman ...

Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) was one of the most consequential figures in the history of American Jewish higher education. A rabbinic prodigy trained in the great Lithuanian yeshivot, a classically ...

Of all the social influences that our children are subjected to, peer pressure is probably the most powerful of all. Peer pressure exists for all ages. Even a three-year-old knows that she better not ...

Assessments derived from commercial satellite imagery that were conducted independently by David Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst ...

Three years ago, illustrator and portrait artist Dena Ackerman was sorting through a pile of current and old passports in her Beit Shemesh home when an expired American passport caught her eye. “I ...