Who will speak when last survivor is gone?
As Holocaust survivors pass away, so, too, fades our most powerful defense against hatred: their stories. In a time when antisemitism is rising and historical distortion runs rampant, we must …
Shoah
Meng salutes a survivor centenarian
Rep. Grace Meng visited 100-year-old Shoah survivor Hanna Slome at Sloane’s home in Flushing, bringing with her a proclamation declaring Slome’s birthday “Hanna Slome Day” in …
Beloved Artist
Kirschen, 87, was a cartoonist and more
Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, whose iconic daily cartoons were distributed by JNS over the last several years, died at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba last week after a lengthy illness at 87. …
Politics
Great Neckers celebrate with Huckabees
The Brody family from Great Neck and Jerusalem (longtime friends and supporters of Mike Huckabee, who brought him to Israel on several fact-finding missions) were among a handful of dignitaries …
From YU to Israel
It’s aliyah for Rabbi Blau, after 48 years at YU
Rabbi Yosef Blau, 86, had been talking for about an hour when he admitted, with a chuckle, that there’s “a bit of Don Quixote in me.” “I tend to tilt at windmills,” …
kosher kitchen
Taking stock as we resume a life of chometz
For Passover, we thoroughly cleaned out our cabinets and refrigerators. Now, as we finish putting back all the chametz foods, we can look at what we have and take stock of our eating habits. …
Gymnastics
An Orthodox gymnast fights after Florida. derails her Pesach workaround
For the past year, Dan Hoffman, of Hollywood, Fla., has watched his 11-year-old daughter Nessa train several hours a day, five days a week for the 2025 USA Gymnastics Florida Xcel …
Schools
After ‘Mockingbird,’ YCQ students head to court
After reading Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” eighth graders at YCQ visited the Queens County Criminal Court to see the American justice system up close. Students observed the …
schools
HALB STEMers make games
HALB sixth graders made Jewish holiday-themed games in their STEM class, including a game using electrical circuits to either light up or buzz when played.
Cartoonist Legacy
The other legacy of Dry Bones’ Yaakov Kirschen
I first encountered two of Yaakov Kirschen’s cartoon characters in the late 1980s when I was about 8 or 9 years old. But I’m not talking about Mr. Shuldig, King Solomon, Doobie the …
global focus
Bangladesh: ‘Valid for all countries except Israel’
There’s an unwritten rule among governments in many Muslim countries — when things go wrong at home, turn on the State of Israel. Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely …
gaza war
Antisemitism goes back to Moses and Pharaoh
King Pharaoh of Egypt’s propaganda campaign might seem distant, but look a little closer and you’ll see something chilling: The script hasn’t changed much in 3,500 years. Here …
kosher kitchen
It’s a good time to eat both healthy AND tasty
Type 2 diabetes is on the rise. The reasons are numerous; some experts say that high fructose corn syrup is to blame, others that statin drugs have caused a spike, most say that the food choices we …
Election for WZC
22 groups vie for cash in World Zionist election
Elections for the American representatives of the World Zionist Congress continue through May 4 with major ramifications for the allocation of more than $1 billion of funding for Israel and world …
Schools
MTA boys lobby in DC
Close to 40 MTA talmidim accompanied by four faculty chaperones headed to Capitol Hill on the annual MTAPAC Lobbying Mission to Washington. Similar to the much larger NORPAC mission that takes …
schools
Grow Torah at HALB’s Lev Chana
The Grow Torah garden is back at HALB’s Lev Chana and the children got to see how the things they planted in the fall are now growing tall.
Antisemitism
What the Shapiro attack says about America
I t seems like a lot longer ago than just eight months since then Vice President Kamala Harris tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate. Picking the inept Walz to stand beside her on the …
Antisemitism
The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro
The attack on the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro carries a number of lessons, none sharper and more urgent than the wake-up call for those who are least likely to want to acknowledge it. …
gaza war
Fighting Israel’s second war of independence
I t’s been 18 months since Hamas’s invasion of Israel and the barbaric pogrom that followed. Hamas is still holding and torturing hostages. The Israel Defense Forces is still fighting not …
This week in Torah
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Transforming even eating and sex into holy acts
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Choosing our leaders and quizzing authority
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Finding our personal path to proper humility
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For Aharon, a silence that every parent dreads
In Israel, at Yizkor, the national is personal
Returning home to Israel is filled with incredible joy, but tinged with an element of sadness. Joy because one is returning to home, to family and friends, to the land of our people, the place chosen …
Jonathan Tobin
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Palestinian terrorists and foreign supporters
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Can great art transcend political disgrace?
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What the Shapiro attack says about America
I t seems like a lot longer ago than just eight months since then Vice President Kamala Harris tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate. Picking the inept Walz to stand beside her on the …
Ben Cohen
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It’s been a bad week for the Muslim Brotherhood
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Time to quash UN’s pro-Hamas bureaucracy
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Bangladesh: ‘Valid for all countries except Israel’
There’s an unwritten rule among governments in many Muslim countries — when things go wrong at home, turn on the State of Israel. Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely …
Kosher Bookworm
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This is a season for real miracles — and learning
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Her spark was ignited and a Jewish soul found
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Sefiros: A Jewish morally-based math lesson
In his commentary on the Counting of the Omer, “The Siddur Illuminated By Chassidus, Shabbos” (Merkos/Kehot, 2015), Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, formerly of Cedarhurst, now of Har Nof in …
On Campus
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Department of Education opens 5 probes
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Radical ideology of ‘diversity’ fuels Jew-hate
As I sat in my hotel bed at the Revere Hotel in Boston, my stay covered by Emerson College because they “couldn’t guarantee my safety” as a Jewish student during the pro-Palestinian …
More Opinion Columns
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To explain Zionism, you need to explain Palestinians
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Jews and Zionism: Ancient, unbreakable bond
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The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro
The attack on the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro carries a number of lessons, none sharper and more urgent than the wake-up call for those who are least likely to want to acknowledge it. …
Food: Dining In
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Gearing up for a Pesach that’s vegetable-filled
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Taking stock as we resume a life of chometz
For Passover, we thoroughly cleaned out our cabinets and refrigerators. Now, as we finish putting back all the chametz foods, we can look at what we have and take stock of our eating habits. …
Travel
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New JFK-TLV flights
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El Al’s King David: Modern bar, top coffee, quiet
A significantly upgraded King David Lounge opened last week at Ben Gurion International Airport, expanding EL AL’s luxury passenger experience. “We believe that the customer’s …
Health
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Does health care for terrorists betray Israelis?
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Devastating health impact of captivity revealed
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Jew-hatred’s long-term psychological impact
A clinical psychologist says that Israeli expat children are suffering psychological distress at schools in Massachusetts amid a documented effort by anti-Israel elements of the Massachusetts …