Rabbi Moshe Parnes in Jewish News Syndicate: Let’s play make-believe

by Rabbi Moshe Parnes | Jan 14, 2026 | Op-Eds

By Rabbi Moshe Parnes in Jewish News Syndicate Americans love fantasy. We enjoy cheering the good guys, booing the bad guy and a story with a happy ending. Fantasy is innocent and fun in the make-believe worlds of movies, television and sports, but when it spills over...

Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in The Jerusalem Post: Zionism built on shared responsibility, not ideological conformity – opinion

by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Jan 14, 2026 | Op-Eds

By Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in The Jerusalem Post Zionism has always been a broad movement. From its earliest days, it brought together Jews of sharply differing philosophies and temperaments, united less by unanimity than by a shared sense of destiny. That diversity...

Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag in JNS: Why ‘The Guardian’ newspaper’s Yiddish socialist analogy doesn’t hold

by Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag | Jan 4, 2026 | Op-Eds

Originally published in Jewish News Syndicate The Guardian’s recent defense of New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, relies on a striking and emotionally resonant historical analogy. We are invited to see Mamdani not as a radical break, but as the heir to an old...

Rabbi Yaakov Menken in the New York Post: Jew-hating California Mayor must go

by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Dec 19, 2025 | Headlines, Op-Eds

Originally published in the New York Post Sometimes it is best to put things simply: Eduardo Martinez, mayor of Richmond, CA, is a Jew-hating bigot unfit to serve in any official position. Were his hatred against any other minority group, he would have been expelled...

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Esq. in Israel National News: Just because people criticize Israel does not mean that they are not anti-Semites. Those who claim to love Jews but hate Israel should prove it.

by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Nov 28, 2025 | Op-Eds

Originally published in Israel National News It is high time we reconsider one of the most hackneyed clichés of our era – the one that claims that just because a person criticizes Israel does not mean he hates Jews. In its most concise form, it is the assertion...

Rabbi Yaakov Menken in JNS: ‘The Forward’ takes education backward

by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Oct 26, 2025 | Op-Eds, Headlines, Religious Liberty

Jewish education is undergoing a renaissance. Burgeoning antisemitism on campus has made Chabad houses the first destination for Jewish students under siege, while one of the hottest trends among teenagers in Israel is, of all things, Shabbat observance. And for the...