Yeshiva World News

[By Dick Morris] Natural disasters usually follow the same political trajectory: First the incumbent experiences a bounce as he tours the impacted area, shows his concern, and pledges help to his beleaguered constituents. But then reality sets in and the shortages, delays, mishaps, deaths, and devastation becomes apparent and people turn ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL: On Monday, in their final debate, Mitt Romney denounced President Obama for creating “tension” and “turmoil” with Israel and chided him for having “skipped Israel” during his travels in the Middle East. Throughout the campaign, Mr. Romney has repeatedly accused Mr. Obama of having ...

A group was assembled in front of the Shomrei Shabbos Shul in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The debate was heated and intriguing; at talk was the formation of a new third party. “School Choice Party” read the top of the petition a young man entreated me to sign. “Third parties in the United States are not that popular”, I thought to myself ...

[By Sheldon Adelson] “Americans who support Israel should take the president at his word,” wrote Haim Saban recently in the New York Times, claiming President Barack Obama is fully committed to the Jewish state. But is that true? Should we take him at his word? No, not when Israel confronts the threat of nuclear ...

Bewildered and lost without his teleprompter, President Obama flailed all around the debate stage last night. He was stuttering, nervous and petulant. It was like he had been called in front of the principal after goofing around for four years and blowing off all his homework. Not since Jimmy Carter faced Ronald Reagan has the U.S. ...

By Rav Aryeh Z. Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center While the “Neilah” experience for most people is an important one, climaxing the entire Yom Kippur Avodah,; for Rabbonim it’s that much more. For most people, though  uplifted and inspired by Neilah, I don’t believe that much thought goes into it, until it actually ...

The following appeared in Thursday's NY Daily News: Every grade school student knows that the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees our freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Yet if all goes as planned Thursday, the city’s Board of Health will adopt regulations that violate both of those freedoms. What is at issue is a ...

The twelfth Siyum HaShas earlier this month marked the second time in less than 11 weeks that tens of thousands of Jews took to a major American stadium to make a statement about what’s important to them. Though the Siyum was significant in its own right and celebrated an achievement whose significance virtually all Jews ...

[The following is by David E. Harris, President and CEO, National Jewish Democratic Council] In the last two weeks, the Republican Party has demonstrated that it is simply out of touch with the majority of American Jews. First, its standard bearer selected a running mate who has been criticized by the Jewish community for ...

By Niall Ferguson for Newsweek Magazine: I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the ...

[Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee] I am President Obama’s classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star ...

Is there really a singles crisis or is it a lack of understanding of what the singles need? Years ago, in the 1950’s, people were getting married—mostly to replenish what had been lost in the Shoa. Afterwards, they were still living in the times where women stayed home and men worked. In that era, if the girl was able to keep house and ...

The only person who could write such a piece is one with firsthand information of the chareidi lifestyle, one who knows from the inside. The last weeks in Eretz Yisroel have been accompanied by what many feel has been an unprecedented hate campaign against the torah tzibur, the chareidim. The animosity according to many has far surpassed ...

There can be no doubt that with the impending arrival of the Three Weeks the efforts of draft chareidim into the IDF against the position of gedolei torah shlita will result in a stepped-up campaign against the chareidi tzibur in Eretz Yisrael coinciding with the beginning of the Three Weeks. Unfortunately, the prominent media coverage of ...

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, puts me in mind of the old proverb: Be careful what you wish for. Democrats on a victory lap should watch their step, because John Roberts may have given Mitt Romney a gift. The impact on the health system will be much smaller than the political fallout, because ...

The Plesner Committee announces it is simply carrying out its duty based on the decision of the High Court of Justice that invalidated the current Tal Law. A new law must be in place by the court-set deadline, August 1, 2012. This is the mission of the Plesner Committee, to set the guidelines that will govern how many avreichim may continue ...

There are those who believe that Israeli President Shimon Peres is motivated by securing his lofty place in the annals of history, and by most accounts he has done an admirable job. Peres is revered by world leaders and is among a handful of people who can pick up a phone and speak with heads of state in many countries. Peres’ modus ...