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Partly Cloudy 5 Towners are warned: No mask, no shul
If you want to pray, don’t throw your mask away. And keep your distance! That’s the message voiced over the weekend by Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious diseases at Mount …
torah
Pinchas and COVID-19: Morality versus politics
The coronavirus pandemic raised a series of deep moral and political issues. How far should governments go in seeking to prevent its spread? To what extent should they restrict people’s …
coronavirus
Israel locks up, again
It was just two months ago that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory over the new coronavirus. Ten weeks after recording its first cases, Israel had imposed …
opinion
Pandemic politics in America and Israel
Nothing better illustrates Thomas Mann’s famous statement that “everything is politics” than the response of opposing ideological camps to their government’s handling of …
opinion
Israeli settler says people don’t understand
It’s been surreal watching from Israel as Americans discuss my future. I’ve gotten used to presidents spending years developing plans for my neighborhood and other towns in Judea and …
zionism
Israel is not a colonial enterprise. Here’s why
Zionists and Jewish citizens of Israel are not colonists, and this has nothing to do with their skin color. It has everything to do with the causes, roots and historical processes of …
orthodox union
Joseph of Lawrence new Exec VP-COO of OU
The Orthodox Union has appointed Rabbi Dr. Josh Joseph of Lawrence as its executive vice president and chief operating officer. Rabbi Joseph will work alongside the OU’s recently appointed …
schools
HANC graduation a drive-thru in Roslyn Heights
Seniors graduating from the Hebrew Academuy of Nassau County High School celebrated their commencement on Wednesday evening, June 17, the 25th of Sivan, before an audience of 130 Hondas …
opinion
Trump, Netanyahu face rendezvous with destiny
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needn’t take heed of the “friendly advice” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson proffered last Wednesday. As UAE Ambassador …
2020
Dems and Repubs target Jewish swing voters
Jewish voters can make a difference. Take Florida: The Sunshine State’s Jewish voters helped deliver its critical electoral votes to Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. …
anti-semitism
Fighting back against Jew-hatred on campus
The following are adapted remarks by Alyza Lewin, president and general counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, at a townhall hosted recently by the Tikvah …
from the heart of jerusalem
Fighting is sometimes needed on road to peace
The image of his smiling, victorious face, aglow with the sense of vindication that seemed to be one step away from “I told you so,” has become the paradigm of the image of impending …
anti-semitism
Find poor Jew, win Argentine bounty
A university professor in Argentina has declared that he will give a bonus to “whoever finds a poor Jew.” During an online international politics class through the 21st Century …
This week in Torah
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Pinchas and Eliyahu and the Covenant of Peace
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Fighting is sometimes needed on road to peace
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Pinchas and COVID-19: Morality versus politics
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Waking up to a whole new world
These days, we find ourselves living in a new and different world. It was just this past Purim that we sat together in shul, listening to the reading of Megilat Esther. We exchanged mishloach …
Kosher Bookworm
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Reconsidering ‘Faith after The Holocaust’
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Rabbi Kagan’s ‘Authentic Emuna for Complex Age’
Maggid Books has released “The Intellect And The Exodus, Authentic Emuna for a Complex Age,” by award-winning author Rabbi Jeremy Kagan. Rabbi Kagan presents keen and powerful …
Caroline Glick
Trump, Netanyahu face rendezvous with destiny
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needn’t take heed of the “friendly advice” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson proffered last Wednesday. As UAE Ambassador …
Ben Cohen
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The trap of ‘original sin’: Democratic roots in Israel and US deliver redemption
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Donald Trump and the Western alliance
President Donald Trump’s plan to significantly reduce the number of American troops stationed in Germany has been causing ripples even among Republican lawmakers, who are — and not …
Melanie Phillips
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Echoes in the culture war against the West
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Don’t identify Jews with ‘white imperialism’
The experiencexq of being an immigrant group and living as a minority in an often hostile culture is, of course, one that Diaspora Jews know only too well. There are obviously huge …