Last Saturday night, I attended the funeral of Ezra Schwartz at Ben Gurion Airport. Ezra was spending this year in a yeshiva with a particular

Evil is as old as the world itself. The sixth chapter of Genesis tells the story of Noah, in which the evil, as embodied by

“You’ve come a long way, baby” is the slogan coined by the Leo Burnett Agency in 1968 for a thinner, more feminine smoke produced by

The death of any Jew at the hands of Palestinian terrorists should make American Jewish organizations sit up and take notice. But the death of

Twenty years ago on a Shabbos afternoon, my home phone started ringing. We did not have caller ID back then, but it was highly unusual

A few weeks back, there was an article written regarding the lack of commitment by Bergenfield’s Council as it relates to road conditions on Highgate

The decisions of the International Beit Din for Agunot (IBD) have generated powerful rabbinic critiques and countervailing declarations of unconditional support. Because the freedom of

Three years ago I was elected to the Board of Education as a Trustee. The Teaneck BOE is responsible for the K-12 education of nearly

There was an interesting twist to news media coverage of the most recent Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis. The stabbings, car-rammings and other Arab attacks

Only a handful of days had passed since the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and other organizations lobbied Congress against the impending nuclear deal with

President Obama repeatedly told the American people that no deal with Iran is better than a bad deal. Despite that promise, this week the House

Orthodox Judaism emphasizes Talmud study. Some people love the analysis-and-debate format of the Talmud but other people prefer studying the final decisions of the Talmud.