Over 400 students, faculty and staff gathered in the Lamport Auditorium on the Wilf Campus of Yeshiva University on May 4, 2016, to commemorate Yom Hashoah and remember the six million Jews murdered … more

Cholent on Shabbat day. Brisket on Rosh Hashanah. Matzo balls and challah — lots of challah. Jews love food, and much of Jewish culture centers on sitting around the Shabbat yom tov table … more

HAFTR’s eighth grade girls began their shabbaton last weekend with Kaballat Shabbat in the Beit Medrash. Rabbi Dovid Kupchik, menahel, introduced the theme of the Shabbat, “all for one … more

To hear the news media tell it, Israel’s Knesset has approved extreme right-wing legislation that will steal Palestinian land by legalizing illegal outposts and thereby demolish the last hopes … more

American Jewry is under assault. A wave of bomb threats called into Jewish community centers and schools, cemetery desecrations and vandalism aimed at other identifiable targets such as synagogues … more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wants a deal with Israel and the Palestinians. The Israeli and Palestinian leaders say they want Trump to make the deal. What could go wrong? For all … more

When presidential adviser Jared Kushner said in a recent private discussion that “there may be no solution” to the conflict between the Palestinian Arabs and Israel, he was just stating … more

The holidays culminate next week with the joy of Simchat Torah. Before we settle down to the long year ahead and the approaching dark winter days, we celebrate with dancing and singing and, for … more

This year I have the honor to bring to your attention a unique anthology of essays related to Chanukah published by the OUPress. This work, titled “The Light That Unites: A Chanukah Companion. … more

While much of American and Israeli Jewry view Europe either as a “flyover continent” or as a vast and dangerous pit of anti-Semitism from which all Jews must flee, many overlook the fact … more