by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Nov 24, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in Queens Jewish Link I returned a couple of days ago from a magnificent twelve-day trip to Eretz Yisrael. I had not been to my father’s kever since his passing as Covid interfered at each attempt. My wife had also not been to her...
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...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Oct 27, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator How to respond to someone who insults you? It depends. How deep was the insult? How personal? How dangerous? Will a response enhance your own position or embroil you in a conflict that you don’t need? Let’s say you are...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Oct 13, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator We are over-inundated — not just inundated, as in a deluge or a Category 5 hurricane, but over-inundated — with virtue signaling that tells us that our humanity and compassion can be gauged only by whether we join up with...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Oct 2, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in the Israel National News How to tell whether a rabbi or Jewish layman who advocates for “LGBTQs” is speaking of needing to treat “LGBTQs” with sympathy because he or she is motivated by Torah-based compassion — or by the “progressive” Wokeness...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Sep 29, 2022 | Op-Eds, Religious Liberty
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer in the Israel National News In an effort to force the hand of Yeshiva University president Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman and the YU administration to grant undergraduate club status to YU Pride Alliance, over 1600 students, alumni and professors from...