by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Sep 25, 2024 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in Queens Jewish Link Many Jewish and non-Jewish pundits are headlining the fact that Donald Trump last week in Washington told his Jewish audience that the Jews will be to blame if he does not win election. It may be true, but no one in the...
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Jun 26, 2024 | Op-Eds, Human Rights
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link I was recently sent an Instagram under the name Carlasesenco, in which a young Jewish woman with watery red eyes pitifully expresses how abandoned she feels as a Progressive Jew, which had been her world. As she...
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Oct 11, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link I did not think I would be able to write this week. Like most Jews, my head has been spinning since the news of the atrocities in Israel broke out on Sh’mini Atzeres. “If only someone would turn my head to water and my...
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Aug 30, 2023 | Op-Eds, Human Rights
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link I will be taking off to Israel for a family wedding in a few moments. But I wanted to get this thought in before I left. Israeli minister and firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir has once again been universally condemned by the...
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Feb 15, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link Last week, the local Jewish media carried the story of a very prominent Upper East Side (Manhattan) Orthodox synagogue and its falling out with its leading candidate to succeed the current rabbi, who is 92 years old....
