by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Apr 19, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in the Israel National News It has become fashionable in Israel to repudiate any notion of a medinat halakha, a state that is run according to Jewish law. Religious politicians who utter the phrase are forced to retract, and still its mere...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Jan 26, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in the Israel National News Did the Supreme Court disqualify Aryeh Deri from serving as a minister because the justices genuinely believed that his multiple criminal convictions rendered him unfit to serve in high office? Or did the Court...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Jan 5, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in The Jewish Press Ben Shapiro’s exposure of the failures of Modern Orthodoxy has generated a lot of waves. Most of those who define themselves as such, he opined, fall into one of three classes: the Secular Orthodox, whose values are almost...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Dec 1, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News Is there a middle ground between Never Trumpers and Always Trumpers? Never Trumpers disregard any of the former president’s achievements and preferred a doddering, barely coherent octogenarian in the White House to...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Nov 15, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in The Jewish Press American Jews have every right to complain about, lament, oppose and even support the policies of the Israeli government. What happens here affects Jews in the Diaspora and for many American Jews, their whole Jewish...