Op-Eds

How much actual proof of the spreading white nationalism among the Orthodox are we left with? None at all. But unfortunately, that didn’t matter. To many, the article merely confirmed what they already “knew.”

It is imperative that every prospective convert demand — not “ask,” not “inquire,” but demand — of the converting rabbi to know, to receive a full disclosure, as to whether the conversion will be accepted elsewhere.

It is ironic that Open Orthodox leaders accuse the OU of divisiveness, when it is the Open Orthodox that have knowingly and deliberately broken away from mainstream Orthodoxy and consensus halachic practice.

The four extreme-left organizations in the OU fold are the end of a trend that once did not have to be discussed, because it was not imaginable.

Courage should not be required to disapprove the notion of Jewish female clergy, something that even Professor Shaul Lieberman of the Conservative JTS characterized almost forty years ago as risible and a “mockery” of Torah – but today, it is.

Under the oh-so-liberal Obama and the Democrats, more than 3,000,000 infiltrators were deported. Yes, more than three million!

The Democrats and their mainstream liberal media allies have leveled the same defamations against virtually every Republican President who has served during the past forty years. This is the latest in a series of never-ending Democrat efforts to find a weak spot in President Trump’s personal armor.

The Western Wall in Jerusalem could (and should) be a place of Jewish unity; instead, it has become for some a target of envy. How much more good would these American leaders do, were they to not increase jealousy but reduce it?

To those who are actually bitter that he was freed by our very not Antisemitic President Trump, let’s make a comparison to another criminal who shared a similar fate under our justice system. Namely, Jonathan Pollard.

It was shocking to read Shmuly Yanklowitz’ Dec. 22 Newsweek article lamenting the commutation of Rubashkin’s sentence and in effect seeking for Rubashkin to remain imprisoned.