A quickly deleted tweet summed up everything that is wrong about the discussion of anti-Semitism in 2019 America. When Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) heard about the tragic shooting in Jersey … more

Please pray for a refuah shlema for Avraham ben Mindel. B”H, Alan’s column will resume soon. more

Although pro-Trump voices currently dominate American Orthodox discourse, Jews and rabbis in all segments of American Orthodoxy actively support Vice President Biden … more

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski zt”l, a renowned Torah scholar, psychologist and the author of some 90 books, was niftar on Sunday in Israel at the age of 90. He had been battling COVID-19, according … more

From time to time, a carton of Ben & Jerry’s lurks in our house. Mostly, one of the teenagers bought it secretly in an hour of need and tucked it away deep in the freezer, somewhere beyond … more

Was Jacob right to take Esau’s blessing in disguise? Was he right to deceive his father and to take from his brother the blessing Isaac sought to give him? Was Rebecca right in conceiving … more

A best-selling book in 2014 was French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” a dense 700-page-long treatise on economic theory backed by massive … more

Aheteronym in the Torah appears in three contexts which have too many parallels to be ignored. The prophetess Miriam (M-R-Y-M) appears on the scene to sing about the splitting of the sea, and then we … more

Six students from Woodmere, Cedarhurst and Lawrence were among 28 college undergraduates participating in the 12th annual Summer Science Research Internship Program operated jointly by Bar-Ilan … more

Israel isn’t moving on. Nor are the Jewish people. Oct. 7 is like July 4: fixed in consciousness. It changed Jews inside and outside of Israel forever. I’m seeing double. So much … more