This week’s “review’’ is basically a personal note of tribute to one of our community’s leading educators, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, for the grace and eloquence …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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11/9/16
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Professors at a number of American universities have found a new cause: demanding the release of a terrorist who murdered two college students.
This disturbing story begins on Feb. 21, 1969. That …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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11/9/16
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JERUSALEM — Archaeologists unveiled a 2,700-year-old papyrus fragment, described as “the earliest extra-biblical source to mention Jerusalem in Hebrew writing” the Israel …
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By Sam Sokol, JNS.org
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11/9/16
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You probably haven’t heard of Karlheinz Kopf. He’s one of three Austrian politicians currently sharing that country’s presidency following the departure of the previous incumbent in …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/9/16
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Brooklyn’s political establishment rallied as it always does on the Friday morning before election day — at Junior’s Restaurant in the newly-chic Downtown district, for Steve …
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11/9/16
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Rabbi Chanina, the Deputy High Priest, said: “Pray for the welfare of the government, for were it not for respect for it, people would swallow one another alive.”
Eternal G-d: We thank …
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Benediction by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
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11/9/16
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Two leading Modern Orthodox rabbis in the Five Towns, Hershel Billet and Kenneth Hain, have published articles expressing their support for Hillary Clinton over Donald …
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The Jewish Star
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11/7/16
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Yeshiva University recently broke ground for a $3.6 million, 20,000 square-foot pedestrian plaza on its Washington Heights campus.
The redesigned space will include additional seating areas, …
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11/3/16
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Three local yeshiva day school students are semi-finalists in the prestigious Siemens math, science and technology competition …
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11/3/16
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Rabbi Mordechai Finkelman, mashgiach ruchani, Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim, Kew Gardens Hills, spoke to the JHS students at Yeshiva of Central Queens about the gift of yeshivah. …
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By Avraham Hochster
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11/3/16
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