by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Apr 22, 2023 | Op-Eds, Family Values
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken in the Israel National News The Extraordinary World Zionist Congress took place in Jerusalem last week, filling the place of the canceled convention of 2021. As a delegate of the new Eretz HaKodesh slate, I was asked to serve as the Vice Chair...
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 Yonason Goldson | Apr 11, 2023 | Op-Eds, Missouri
by Rabbi Yonason Goldson in the St. Louis Jewish Light When society lacks any common code of morals or ethics, values become a philosophical free-for-all. But in a culture built on the bedrock of core principles, a system of absolute values will naturally emerge. The...
by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Apr 9, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes in Townhall Passover is an intriguing holiday. It features unusual customs and practices with deep and sometimes mysterious meanings. Not only is it the world’s longest continuous celebration of any kind but it features the earliest examples...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Mar 29, 2023 | Op-Eds, Family Values
As published in Newsweek. In 2020, various Jewish progressives organized a tendentious campaign of statements, articles, and even rallies insisting that Judaism permits—indeed, demands—unfettered abortion. I observed then that “few things have been said about...
by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Mar 28, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes in the Israel National News Israel’s newly proposed Judicial Reform Bill is all over the news, both in Israel and abroad, for all the wrong reasons. Thousands of protestors in Tel Aviv claimed that its passage would change the character of the...
