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

Bruce Blakeman’s campaign for governor of New York rests on a straightforward argument: The state has become too expensive, too dangerous, and too out of touch with common-sense values. As Nassau ...

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks at the Knesset plenary in a special session scheduled to honor his visit to Jerusalem. The European Union has moved ahead to officially boycott Israelis and ...

Sarai’s entrance into Egypt is marked by silence. She is taken into Pharaoh’s house, and the Torah does not record a single word from her on the matter. That silence is not incidental. It is the Torah ...

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 ...

“I do not accept failure!” Caroline Shinkle responds when I ask her why she is attempting to run for New York’s 12th Congressional District on Nov. 3, in one of the most liberal House Districts in the ...

Senior Palestinian Authority official Jibril Rajoub reiterated in a recent interview that the Ramallah government clearly supports the murder of Israelis as a legitimate and welcome tool of ...

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 ...

On Sukkos, four species are taken in hand – the lulav, the hadassim, the aravos and the esrog. The first three species are held in one hand; the esrog is held by itself in the other hand. The Shach ...

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 ...