by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Jan 15, 2026 | Headlines
By Rabbi Moshe Parnes and Jason Bedrick in Jewish News Syndicate Imagine your 12-year-old daughter announcing she’s actually a boy, or your son insisting he’s trapped in the wrong body. Online influencers promise you that medical transition will solve everything....
by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Jan 14, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Moshe Parnes in Jewish News Syndicate Americans love fantasy. We enjoy cheering the good guys, booing the bad guy and a story with a happy ending. Fantasy is innocent and fun in the make-believe worlds of movies, television and sports, but when it spills over...
by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Apr 8, 2025 | Op-Eds
Originally published in the Jewish News Syndicate. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) recently asserted that U.S. President Donald Trump regards Jews as “transactional” and that he tolerates antisemitism. Schumer placed himself in the role of arbiter,...
by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Oct 15, 2024 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes in Townhall The Jewish vote is, for the first time since Reagan beat Carter 44 years ago, likely to be close. Considering that Hillary Clinton garnered over 70% of the Jewish vote in 2016, and Trump less than one-fourth, this is a tectonic...
by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Apr 7, 2024 | Op-Eds, Human Rights
Rabbi Moshe Parnes in Townhall I wander through Kibbutz Aza with my friend. Together, Roi and I look at the burned shells of homes pockmarked with bullet holes and pierced through with rockets from the October 7th Hamas attack. It’s difficult to imagine that these...
