by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Mar 26, 2026 | Op-Eds, Religious Liberty
By Jonathan Guttentag in Conservative Home When a European government sends soldiers onto its streets to protect synagogues and Jewish schools, it is tempting to describe the move as a tough law-and-order response. It is not. It marks a more serious shift: from...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Mar 24, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Yaakov Menken and Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in the Jerusalem Post As we prepared this piece for submission, Israelis were repeatedly forced to seek shelter, while gunmen attacked Jews in both Israel and the United States. We pray for all of our safety. We also...
by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Mar 10, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in Mishpacha On a recent winter evening in the House of Lords, close to ten o’clock at night, peers were still debating the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill when an unexpected voice rose to defend Britain’s yeshivos. The...
by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Feb 27, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in Conservative Home Britain rightly prides itself on pluralism. But pluralism is not the same thing as passivity. A liberal democracy cannot survive if it refuses to defend its own moral boundaries. Yet in confronting Islamist extremism,...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Feb 22, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News Ambassador Mike Huckabee must have the patience of a saint; it is the only way to explain his serenity during his interview with Tucker Carlson. Huckabee was imperturbable, unflappable. Carlson, by contrast, has the...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Feb 2, 2026 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Yaakov Menken in the New York Post This year, the annual “All Peoples Celebration” run by Alliance San Diego (ASD) had a glaring omission: A Jewish religious leader was disinvited, due to his support for Zionism. ASD decided that Rabbi Hanan Leberman was...
