Saul Jay Singer serves as senior legal ethics counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is a collector of extraordinary original Judaica documents and letters. He welcomes comments at at sauljsing ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

The author (right) in shul with his father’s first cousin Larry Ciment. The plaque behind them is dedicated to the author’s grandparents and the one on the right to Larry Ciment’s parents. I have a ...

The classic sefer, “Chafetz Chaim”, begins with listing 17 negative commandments, along with 14 positive ones, associated with Lashon Hara. For example, השמר בנגע הצרעת , (Dvarim 24:8) as evil speech ...

I have never met you but have appreciated you from your emergence in the public eye, as during that early Congressional hearing and your early debates on Fox with Cornell West. You became a superstar ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

IAF Boeing F-15I Ra'am fighter jet. IDF aircraft carried out more at least 20 bombing runs in southern Lebanon on Thursday in a mission to destroy Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure that posed a ...

The Council of Ulema (scientific-theologians) of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (DUM) of the Russian Federation last week issued a fatwa allowing Muslims of the Russian Federation to enter up ...

Abu Muhammed al-Julani (Ahmed al-Shara'a), Syria's president. The Islamist regime of Ahmad al-Shara’a in Damascus has declared war on Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, the Hezbollah terrorist army, with ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...