Yeshiva World News

Today’s Hamodia newspaper attacks NYC Mayoral candidate Erick Salgado and me for sending out press releases claiming the endorsements of prominent Hasidic Rebbes. The editorial states that “…it is high time for those who serve as liaisons between candidates and our community to put an end to these shenanigans. If and when our spiritual ...

[By: Jake Stern] Lois Lerner, who heads the tax-exempt division of the IRS (the one that allegedly targeted right-wing groups), refused to testify to Congress yesterday, other than saying (six different ways) that she did nothing wrong or illegal. Then she pleaded the fifth. That's funny. I thought the fifth amendment was to protect people from ...

Journalists gasp and growl whenever prosecutors issue lawful subpoenas ordering them to divulge their confidential sources or to turn over potential evidence, such as notes, video outtakes or other records. It's an attack on the First Amendment, It's an attack on the First Amendment, It's an attack on the First Amendment, journalists and their lawyers ...

The following article was written in Hebrew by Dr. Mordechai Kedar for the May 10, 2013 issue of the Makor Rishon newspaper, and translated to English by Sally Zahav. An Open Letter to the Arab League by Mordechai Kedar To the Honorable Leaders of the Arab States, We in Israel received with great pleasure your agreement to normalize ...

“What’s he worth?” “What’s he worth?” How many times has this question passed your mind when speaking to someone? Have you ever asked this question to someone point blank? Well, there are certainly people out there who are interested in knowing about your worth. For example, the government is interested when trying to determine your ...

Events unfolded rapidly in Boston this week, from the bombing on Monday to release of photos of the suspects on Thursday to the citywide manhunt for one brother and the killing of the other. While we now know that the two young men are ethnic Chechens who spent time in Kyrgyzstan, we know nothing as yet about why they did what they did. But perhaps ...

The word is almost a cold comfort in post-9/11 America — a way to describe the inconceivable, to somehow explain the twisted urge to commit mass murder. So when the bombs exploded in Boston, the word quickly became inescapable: "terrorism." Dictionaries, and people who study the age-old activity, define terrorism as the use of violence and ...

Dear Michael: We were very saddened by your nationally-syndicated talk-radio show this past Monday, April ninth. On your show, heard by eight million people on almost 200 radio stations, you viciously attacked the most fundamental commandment of the Jewish religion—Ritual Circumcision, Bris Milah. Bris Milah initiates the Jewish child into ...

Why are you not up in arms, New York Times and Washington Post? Why so quiet, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Sacramento Bee? Weekly newspaper editors, students at the Columbia School of Journalism, government employees who have quietly revealed wrongdoing to reporters – why are you not raising hell about what is happening to Fox News investigative ...

The challenge of day school affordability is not just an economic but an existential one; it is about the continuity and vitality of the next generation of Jews. While enrollments are at an all-time high, so are tuition bills. That is why securing greater government support for our schools is an absolute priority focus for communal organizations. ...

Agudath Israel was on a high. They had just come off successfully redistricting a Senate seat into a super-Jewish seat in Brooklyn. They believed they could do anything, our sources tell us. That's when it occurred to them. Why not try and create 3 super-Jewish seats in Brooklyn in the New York City Council? Agudah's askonim quickly drew up ...

By Rabbi Daniel Schneierson Question:      Why is it that many younger guys and girls think that there should be "chemistry" by the second or third date in order to continue? Answer:  The word “Chemistry” strikes a mixed cord in my heart.  When I took Chemistry in 10th Grade, our teacher was trying to ...

[By Daniel Perez] We live in an age of cultural sensitivity run amok – to the point where political correctness supersedes actual correctness as a matter of course. For example, I live in the United States, where people, out of a fear of offending the Black community, will refer to any and all Black persons as “African-American,” ...

[By Avi Schick] In coming days, the Senate is expected to approve $50.5 billion in federal aid for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. This is in addition to the $9.7 billion in aid approved earlier this month. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Housing and Urban Development will determine how most of the aid is ...

[By Peter Bella] History was made. Not His-story, the saga of the messiah, Barack Obama, but real history. Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu was reelected to a third term as Israel’s prime minister. This election proved our president wrong. For months Obama has been privately saying that Israel, a sovereign nation, “does not know what ...

One does not have to be particularly astute to realize that now, following Operation Pillar of Defense that HKBH is out there in the front lines, intercepting the overwhelming number of rockets fired at major population centers. The statistics are astounding, realizing that less than 4% of rockets fired hit urban population centers and most of ...

Today I had the unique opportunity to meet Israel’s ambassador to the UN, the Honorable Ido Aharoni. He spoke in front of several hundred eager listeners at the Aish Hatora Conference in Connecticut and gave the audience a view of the current state of affairs stating that Israel had the responsibility to secure its citizens safety in the ...