2020
Tony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, is the stepson of a Shoah survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions, including …
2020
Under the stewardship of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Trump administration took new approaches to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. The results have been profound, …
five towns
CIMBY — which stands for Chesed In My BackYard — is on a roll to help Achiezer, the Five Towns-Far Rockaway commnity resource center whose wide-ranging services and referrals are …
opinion
It’s been decades since I ordered food at a McDonald’s. I’ve kept kosher since I was 18 and, outside of Israel, at least, Mickey D’s is decidedly treif. Except the other …
food
After Gal Graber and Tal Goldman had a disappointing experience with a store-bought jachnun, the two Israelis living in Amsterdam set out to make the slow-cooked …
food
Even without celebrating Thanksgiving, until recently, Israelis ate more turkey than people in any other country in the world. This record was all the more remarkable because most Israeli ovens are …
travel
Saul Berenthal, 75, was born and raised in Cuba, but left for Miami in 1960 following the 1959 Castro revolution. His parents were refugees, having fled the wars in Europe and settling in Havana …
opinion
One of the more reprehensible aspects of n Aug. 7, two gunmen on motorcycles fired shots on a white Renault L90 sedan in the affluent northern Tehran suburb of Pasdaran. Initial reports …
opinion
This weekend marks 75 years since the start of the Nuremberg tribunals, which tried leaders of Nazi Germany for their part in the Holocaust and other war crimes. A clear line links these …
schools
With teacher Shoshana Ayzin, CAHAL’s grade 4-5 class at YOSS learned what it’s like to be an engineer. They discovered that engineers must create a plan, build prototypes, test them …
food
Thanksgiving is the most widely celebrated American holiday, but this year, it’s going to look a little differemt — families in their homes, eating a festive meal separately, maybe …
health mind and body
When Mikael Dolsten, head scientist at Pfizer, heard the news that the COVID-19 vaccine that he has been helping to develop for the better part of a year was over 90% effective, he and his colleagues …
opinion
There are some ideas that are so seemingly logical and reflective of our best hopes about human nature that it doesn’t matter how often they are proved wrong. One such notion is the belief …
opinion
It was about time. Almost exactly 35 years to the day after Jonathan Pollard and his former wife, Anne, were refused entry to the Israel embassy in Washington, the spy that the Jewish …
This week in Torah
Many years ago, when I was studying for my doctorate in psychology, we had a number of fairly strict requirements in addition to our courses in psychology. For example, we were expected to …
Kosher Bookworm
ArtScroll’s “Blueprints: Torah Views of the World and Events Around Us,” by Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, posits that everything in the world can be understood through the Torah. The …
Caroline Glick
Three diplomatic events transpired last week. Together they describe the crossroads at which Israel now stands following the US presidential elections. First, the Palestinian Authority …
Jonathan Tobin
It was about time. Almost exactly 35 years to the day after Jonathan Pollard and his former wife, Anne, were refused entry to the Israel embassy in Washington, the spy that the Jewish …
Ben Cohen
While American democracy may be immersed in crisis, claims of its death are, as Mark Twain might have quipped, greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said on the other side of the …
Politics to Go by Jeff Dunetz
Anyone who follows the news or investigates the candidates should know there is only one choice for pro-Jewish or pro-Israel voters: a vote to re-elect President Donald Trump. Joe Biden and …