After a yearlong pandemic that eliminated just about every traditional activity, the Cedarhurst-Lawrence Memorial Day Parade defied rainy weather to return on Monday, proceeded up Central Avenue to a … more

The Knesset on Wednesday elected Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Isaac Herzog as Israel’s 11th president. The vote was conducted in a special session during which Knesset members cast secret … more

As attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions continued last week, two-to-three thousand people rallied in Cedarhurst Park on Thursday night to condemn the scourge of anti-Semitism … more

Despite everything you may have been reading or hearing these last few weeks, Israel has delivered the greatest moral miracle in the history of warfare. The conduct of the Israel Defense Forces … more

On the first day of June, nearly all pandemic-related restrictions came to an end in Israel due to rapidly falling rates of Covid-19 infection. While masks are still required in indoor … more

We bar the door and avert our eyes, but history proves itself an irrepressible companion, jumping out from our past to become our future. First, understand and acknowledge the history. The … more

It was perhaps the single greatest collective failure of leadership in the Torah. Ten of the men Moses sent to spy out the land came back with a report calculated to demoralize the … more

It was the time when there was no State of Israel, before there were Arab refugees, occupied territories and Zionist crimes and criminals. The Kotel, the Old City, the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan … more

This week, I begin by sharing two very personal experiences. The first occurred several decades ago when a group of Israeli scholars visiting Baltimore, where Chavi and I then resided, … more

Our parasha, Shelach, begins with Moshe sending the tribal leaders to Eretz Yisrael to discover the beauty and bounty of the land. But what took place nearly brought Hashem’s plans for our … more