Op-Eds

During a busy fortnight when it is impossible to comment daily on the inanity and insanity of the 24-hour Fake News cycle in Year 2 of the Age of Trump, there is a certain equanimity that comes with realizing that so many of the daily crises are not crises at all, and that so much of the media screaming is like visiting an ice cream store — each day a different flavor, but all the same basic product ready to kill you.

Yanklowitz is a celebrity, with all the glitz and fame, but no serious Torah content. Let us try to solve the mystery of why a seemingly hyper-accomplished celebrity clergyman is a no-name in most Orthodox circles, and let us ponder the possibility that his influence and that of his movement may be far greater and ominous than we realize.

The way to convert law-abiding people into passionate fans of cheaters, the rich, and the ostrich.

Accepting the homosexual agenda and normalizing it in our schools has engendered identity confusion among some of our youth, impaired their love of Torah and weakened their commitment to mitzvot.

If Trump can put up with this nonsense for another 6½ years, so can we.

God does not need to apologize for His Torah, nor do we need to apologize for heeding the Torah. The Al Chet prayer for forgiveness is prescribed for those who violate the Torah and not for observance of the Torah.

How the Left has turned the Holocaust — and Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and treason — into a joke.

These possibly-halakhically Jewish naifs have been taught nothing about Judaism or Zionism and they actually cannot tell the difference between the aspiring murderers and the intended victims.

Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people” is seventy years old. Why are so many Jews throwing a hissy fit?

That’s why they all are billionaires and all got elected president.