History
Eldridge Street Synagogue Reviewed
For more than 20 years, the Eldridge Street Project worked to restore the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue on New York’s ...
The Real Ron Paul
Yesterday I wrote that no politician in his or her right mind would do anything “bad for the Jews.” Not ...
Hillel Finally Recognized
This week Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life announced that it has been made a full member of the ...
NYTimes on Rabbi Berenbaum
Yesterday I noted the passing of Mir rosh yeshivah, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. The New York Times obituary cites the AP ...
Who’s Better for the Jews?
It’s primary day in New Hampshire, and it seems the whole country is (and rightfully should be) talking about who ...
Can Secularism Save Judaism
In response to PBS’s new series chronicling Jewish Americans, Jonathan Sarna has an essay on “On Faith” that examines the reemergence ...
OU Condemns Hate Speech
Kudos to the Orthodox Union for swiftly condemning Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe’s public remarks that Israeli leaders Ehud Omert, Tzipi ...
Lantos to Retire
Congressman Tom Lantos has announced that he’ll be retiring because of illness. Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor ever elected ...
Israel News for the New Year
-An association of hundreds of Israeli rabbis called the Rabbinical Congress for Peace – Pikuach Nefesh recently wrote U.S. President ...
Charlie Wilson’s Jews
Yesterday, I took in a viewing of Charlie Wilson’s War, the Aaron Sorkin-written, Tom Hanks-acted film about the congressman responsible ...