by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Aug 13, 2026 | Headlines, Human Rights, Op-Eds
Originally published in Israel National News American Jews are dealing with the reality of distressing Jew hatred, manifested by sporadic physical attacks and more prevalent verbal confrontations. Worse, it has become mainstreamed in the Democratic Party, with elected...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Aug 11, 2026 | Headlines, Human Rights, Op-Eds
Originally published in JNS Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary was a clarifying moment. By endorsing the winner, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) abandoned all pretense of serving as a shomer, or “guardian,” of the...
by Rabbi Ze'ev Smason | Jul 27, 2026 | Op-Eds, Religious Liberty
Originally published in St. Louis Jewish Light Few Americans realize that one of the country’s most beloved entertainers was born Israel Iskowitz, the orphaned son of impoverished Jewish immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side. He later changed his name to Eddie...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Jul 27, 2026 | Headlines, Human Rights, Op-Eds
Originally published in Washington Examiner NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s bogus threat against Israel’s prime minister revealed something essential about his political career — and even more about his sycophants. When Mamdani promised to arrest Benjamin...
by CJV | May 1, 2026 | Op-Eds, Religious Liberty
At nearly ten o’clock on a winter evening in the House of Lords, one of the clearest public defences of Britain’s yeshivot came not from a rabbi, a Jewish communal spokesman, or a campaigner, but from the Bishop of Manchester. For months, the debate over under-16...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Apr 24, 2026 | Headlines, Human Rights, Op-Eds
Originally published in Israel National News When Tucker Carlson described the Book of Esther as celebrating a “genocide of Persians,” he did the world a favor. Not because his perspective was correct or well-informed, but just the opposite. His obvious lie, so...
