Tears coursed down her face as she detailed a history of deception and physical and emotional abuse and her fears of her ex-husband. With determination and the help of ORA (the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot), she was able to break the chain that bound her and escape with her two children with a get, a Jewish divorce. more

Fifty years ago this week, on Feb. 7, 1964 four charismatic, long-haired young men from Liverpool landed at the newly renamed JFK airport. They were met at the Pan Am arrival terminal by 5,000 screaming fans (mostly young women). Two nights later, they made their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. more

Europeans are viscerally hostile to manifestations of Jewish identity. They loathe the culture of Holocaust commemoration, they deeply resent Jewish identification with Israel, and more and more, they regard Jews as privileged interlopers undisturbed by the economic blight that has descended upon much of Europe. more

When a story like this comes around, secular media — and some politically-driven Jewish media — are apt to seek an exploitive angle, to “sell papers,” drive web traffic or, ominously, poke fresh holes in our already fragile communal unity. more

When a story like this comes around, secular media — and some politically-driven Jewish media — are apt to seek an exploitive angle, to “sell papers,” drive web traffic or, ominously, poke fresh holes in our already fragile communal unity. more

In the early 1950s, with the legendary folk group the Weavers, he sang Tzena Tzena Tzena — in Hebrew (link: http://bit.ly/1aIbJvZ). more

There are lots of biographies of famous people lining the shelves of bookstores. There are movie stars who hire press agents, whose job is to make sure that everyone knows all about them. There are politicians who measure their success by how many times their names appear in the newspapers. But there are very few books I know of whose purpose it is to acquaint us with saintly people. That is what makes Rabbi Hillel Goldberg’s newly published “The Unexpected Road: Storied Jewish Lives Around the World” (Feldheim Publishing, 228 pages) so important. more

“In the back of my mind, I always assumed my three kids would grow up, marry someone of the opposite sex and have children. In the instant that Elie told us he was gay, I realized that dream did exist in my mind and it could no longer be that way,” says Dickler. “I needed to replace it with a new dream.” more

I am overwhelmed, at Auschwitz, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, where I join somberly with fellow Israeli leaders to remember and to learn lessons for the future. more

I figured I would compare it to the Freeze Bowl between the Bengals and the Chargers, when Jerry, “I’ve got it, you’ll knock it out of the park with this one: Sid Luckman.” more