How to Handle the Iran Deal
Don’t dismantle, enforce.
December 9, 2016
The Russian-Born Rabbi Who Helped Shape American Orthodoxy and Saved Jews from Hitler
For him, the individual was paramount.
Born in Russia in 1891, Aaron Kotler had by the 1930s developed a reputation as one of Eastern Europe’s leading talmudic scholars. After World War II began, he managed to escape both the Nazis and the Soviets, arriving in the U.S. in 1941. He thereupon devoted himself to the activities of the Vaad Hatzalah, an Orthodox organization founded to help Jews, especially those affiliated with religious institutions, flee Nazi-occupied Europe. In 1943, he founded a yeshivah in Lakewood, New Jersey, now a leading institution of American ultra-Orthodoxy. Moshe Rackove writes:
December 9, 2016
Aharon Barak Brings His War on Israeli Democracy to the Next Level
Israel’s supreme court didn't come to play fair; it came to win.
The U.S. Government Expresses Greater Concern over the Death of a Palestinian Than over American Citizens Murdered by Terrorists
Turning perpetrators into victims.
Jacob, Laban, and a Biblical Lesson about Anti-Semitism
The first anti-Semite.
The Russian-Born Rabbi Who Helped Shape American Orthodoxy and Saved Jews from Hitler
For him, the individual was paramount.