It’s interesting to study the haftorahs, the Prophetic scriptures added to weekly Torah readings. If you first scan the portion of the week and then read the haftorah, inevitably there is a … more

Nachum Segal brought his popular JM in the AM radio program to Cedarhurst on Wednesday, airing three hours of upbeat pre-holiday banter and music from a portable studio in front of ChapANosh in … more

President Obama last Thursday signed into law the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (H.R. 644). As is often the case, the White House issued a signing statement along with the … more

There are a lot of unknowns with Zika, but there’s no reason to be scared. That was the message of a lecture about the mosquito-borne virus at South Nassau Communities Hospital on Monday, … more

Elie Schiff will tell you flat out that she was born into a family of Zionists. As far back as she can remember, her parents taught her to love Israel, and in 2014 both her brother and sister made … more

An Ellison win would be another signal of the Democratic Party becoming the anti-Israel party. “Ellison’s association with the Nation of Islam … more

Parashat Vayishlach contains the rather perplexing pasuk: “And G-d went up from him [Jacob] in the place where He had spoken with him.” (Bereishit 35:13)* We immediately find that … more

Birthright trips — the 10-day Israel tours offered free to young Jews — are so much part of mainstream culture that they have been copied by other religions, parodied … more

Republican Jews have President Donald Trump to thank for their party’s renewed dominance of Washington politics. So what do they think of him? Marlyn Appelbaum paused to … more