As the race for NY Attorney General entered its final days ahead of the November elections, the central debate shifted from ...

I am an emotional being. I am stirred by events that grab my sensitivity, feelings within my heart and soul. But there is one recent event that totally left me with a deep emotional response and sheer ...

Bruce Blakeman’s campaign for governor of New York rests on a straightforward argument: The state has become too expensive, too dangerous, and too out of touch with common-sense values. As Nassau ...

Sarai’s entrance into Egypt is marked by silence. She is taken into Pharaoh’s house, and the Torah does not record a single word from her on the matter. That silence is not incidental. It is the Torah ...

The problem is Mitch McConnell. He’s been unwilling to allow debate on any amount of state and local funding.

There is no Israeli consent to these plans, and no permits were provided for these projects. Most of the projects are slated for areas under full Israeli control. It is described as “a well-oiled ...

Despite its apparent antiquity and worldwide familiarity, the custom of placing written prayers into the crevices of the Western Wall is neither biblical nor talmudic in origin. Rather, it is a ...

Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) was one of the most consequential figures in the history of American Jewish higher education. A rabbinic prodigy trained in the great Lithuanian yeshivot, a classically ...

The first mention of Mount Sinai in the Torah does not occur amidst thunder, lightning, and the giving of the Ten Commandments. It appears much earlier, when Moshe, tending the sheep of his ...

When people think of Jews and the American Revolution, they tend to think of figures like Hayim Solomon, who helped fund the American cause and financially saved the Continental Congress. Others may ...

We know that every word of the Torah contains infinite wisdom. Indeed, one could dedicate many lifetimes to even just one word of the Torah. While this is true of every word, probably the Torah’s most ...

Next month, enrolled Manhattan voters in the Democratic Party will be going to the polls to take the first step deciding which one of six candidates will succeed the retiring 78-year-old Congressman ...