The Woodmere home of Bonnie and Jack Rybsztajn is chock-full of photos of their three children and seven grandchildren; pride and love of family permeates the place. While reaching 70 years of … more

The special election to fill Dean Skelos’ state Senate seat turned this week on the relationship of the candidates and their political parties to BDS and J Street. Republican state senators, … more

This past week commemorated the sheloshim, one month, since the passing of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, zt”l. Much has been written in tribute to his legacy. This week’s essay will note some of … more

  Everything has already been said about Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination: that the GOP establishment is wary of him, that he intentionally makes … more

South Nassau Communities Hospital will construct a medical pavilion with an emergency department on the former Long Beach Medical Center campus, using Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, … more

Both the pro-Israel and anti-Israel camps are celebrating the passage of a college campus divestment measure. That doesn’t happen too often, if ever. But for the pro-Israel side in this Chicago … more

Lying on a hill not 400 yards from two terrorists who were firing indiscriminately on the local Jewish civilians behind us, it should have been simple. It’s you or them, on top of which you are … more

Ask two Jews, you get three opinions—or is it four? Two millennia after the fall of the Second Temple—due, it is said, to the bickering among factions—not much has changed. From J … more

A press conference called by Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky to discuss a bill that he was sponsoring in the Assembly was interrupted by an operative from Christopher McGrath’s campaign. Kaminsky, … more

There is a famous machloket between Rashi and the Ramban as to whether the Mishkan (tabernacle) was created before or after the horrific incident found in our parasha of the Chet Haegel Hazahav (the … more