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The First Time I Ever Truly Felt the Pain of Tisha B'Av
21+ hour, 30+ min ago (360+ words) Categories: Featured /" Features /" Focus /" Guest Blog July 8, 2026, 4 PM ET The year 2005 was the first time I ever truly felt the pain of Tisha B'Av. It was the year of "the disengagement" from Gush Katif. At the time, I was living…...
Achdut, Tisha B'Av and October 7th
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (739+ words) Categories: Blogs /" Featured /" Features /" Focus July 7, 2026, 2 PM ET Tonight we will be observing the first Tisha B'Ave since the unprecedented Hamas massacre of October 7th. The profound sadness, deep pain and anguish of Tisha B'Av is difficult to bare under normal…...
Shall Your Brothers Go to War While You Sit Here?
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (1665+ words) Categories: Headline /" Perspectives /" Op-Eds By"Rabbi Yehuda L Oppenheimer July 9, 2026, 10 AM ET In this week's sidrah, the tribes of Reuven and Gad approach Moshe with what must have seemed to them like a reasonable request. The land east of the…...
The UN Did Not Create Israel
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (1241+ words) July 3, 2026, 11 AM ET It appears in the most respectable places, dropped in passing, as though it were a fact too obvious to footnote. A few days ago, it surfaced again in a Fox News column by the media analyst Howard…...
The Great State Debate
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (919+ words) July 3, 2026, 3 PM ET Any comprehensive series on hashkafa must address perspectives on the State of Israel. This issue represents a major point of division among Torah-observant Jews, not only due to ongoing debate but also because of the highly polarized…...
Q & A: Medinat Yisrael al pi Torat Yisrael
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (175+ words) Categories: Ask the Rabbi /" Torah July 3, 2026, 7 AM ET Question: Have any of the Gedolei Torah of the religious right been supportive of the Jewish State " Medinat Yisrael " even though it is not completely religious in nature and in fact governed…...
Torah, Not Bagels, Sustains the Jewish Future
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (647+ words) Categories: Front Page /" Features July 2, 2026, 7 AM ET Our daughter Alisa did. Nearly fifty years ago, Alisa announced that she was going to a Jewish school. Roz and I smiled. We were proud Jews. We belonged to a synagogue, celebrated the holidays,…...
Mamdani's One Country Rule
1+ week, 1+ day ago (431+ words) Categories: Headline /" Mamdani By"Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder July 1, 2026, 1 PM ET Zohran Mamdani has a universal principle, and it applies to exactly one country on earth. Asked on ABC's This Week on Sunday whether he supports Israel as a Jewish…...
The IRGC's Nuclear Declaration Must Upend American Policy
1+ week, 1+ day ago (263+ words) July 1, 2026, 12 PM ET To appreciate the gravity of this declaration, one must understand who is actually running Iran in the summer of 2026. The opening salvos of Operation Epic Fury severely decapitated the traditional clerical establishment and eliminated Supreme Leader Ayatollah…...
A Jewish Pivot to the Eastern Part of the World?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (326+ words) July 1, 2026, 7 AM ET There is no history of a parallel sustained, perennial, Jew-hatred in the Eastern world." That brings us to today. After October 7 there has been the latest explosion in the long series of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel hatred around the…...