Editorial

(By: Zvi Gluck) It has been a flood of epic proportions. That is the only way I can describe what has happened in my inbox in...

(By: Zvi Gluck) Let me be the first to admit that I am not a math person, yet, unfortunately, it seems that right now my...

(by Chaskel Bennett) Imagine if an Orthodox Jew would be denied entry to the polls on election ‎day? The outcry would be swift and overwhelming....

By Rabbi Shaya Cohen, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Zichron Ayeh and founded Priority-1 in 1987 to help at-risk teenagers and their parents and families....

(By Joel Petlin) Last week, in a highly charged and controversial vote, the New York State Legislature narrowly passed a Bill to ban the use...

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) There is Chillul Hashem. And then there is something that we can call, "Avi Avos Chillul Hashem." What happened...

To better understand who and what the broader Jewish community has been up against in the vaccination civil war against measles, one only had...

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) In 1951, an article in Life Magazine celebrated the 100th year anniversary of the New York Times and called...

The following is via the New York Times: By Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein Today should have been my funeral. I was preparing to give my sermon Shabbat morning, Saturday,...

Attacks at places of worship and the security measures put in place to thwart them are still a relatively new concept in the US....

The following opinion piece is written by a former American who today is a resident of Yerushalayim. Thousands of Jews from across the world have...

If the article you wrote about a Mesifta in Lakewood of suspending their yeshiva bochrim, who attended the Levaya of the Skulener Rebbe ZT"L...

In apparent response to Rabbi Yaakov Bender's letter, posted yesterday on Yeshiva World News, the New York Times removed the picture of Yeshiva Darchei...

People throughout the world have been moved by the shocking murder of eleven Jews in Pittsburgh. Good people have approached strangers, recognizing that they...

Democrats didn’t care when Madonna said she had thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. Democrats didn’t care when Kathy Griffin posed...

By: Zvi Gluck Just one week ago I shared with you my thoughts on the excessive drinking that I personally witnessed in Eretz Yisroel over Succos,...

The Alcohol Keeps On Flowing By: Zvi Gluck Baruch Hashem, I had the zechus of spending a wonderful Succos with my family in the most beautiful...

(By: Chaskel Bennett) The headlines have taken dead aim and unless you have been sleeping you know the Orthodox Jewish community is under attack, in...

Oy vey. Shreklach. The sha'ilos I've personally received, as well as the issues that come to the BJX helpline are hair-raising, shocking and sad. The Yetzer Hara...

Sen. Cory Booker (D - N.J.) says if you don’t oppose the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, you are “complicit in the evil.” He then got biblical about the nomination and somehow compared fighting the nomination to walking through the “valley of the shadow of death.”

This is not accidental. This is not a professional decision at all. The decision of the IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eizenkott, not...

Most of us take for granted the fact that we were born into frum families and don't have to struggle to keep basic Mitzvos....

Dear High School Senior, As I sit down to write this article, I am just days away from attending my first significant graduation as a...

On June 5th the score card on who will be the contenders for the gubernatorial race in California will be set in print. While there are...

Miracles are happening all around us. In a time of astounding occurrences around the world, the greatest was this week’s official opening of the United...

In the coming months, the city and state education departments are expected to rule on an issue that may have huge repercussions for parental...

Tisha B'Av night at the Kosel is a uniquely emotional experience, but at the close of my first trip to Eretz Yisrael, it wasn't...

Over the last few months the headline news that has greeted us each & every morning has been about another famous personality that has...

The incomprehensible series of events the last few days has caused me to reflect on something very unsettling that I heard from a prominent...

This headline may sound familiar to many. I'll remind you. In August, I wrote a letter to YWN titled "The Alcohol-Drinking At Yeshiva Camps...

(By Ezra Friedlander) In the aftermath of the release of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, we've seen much jubilation. But that was followed quickly by speculation from...

When news surfaced that President Donald Trump had commuted Sholom Rubashkin’s 27-year prison sentence, the disagreements surrounding the way the government handled Rubashkin’s case...

As the dust starts to clear and the incredible details of Sholom Rubashkin's release come into focus, it is important to address some items...

With yesterday’s passing of the Right To Know Act the New York City Council continues its frenzied circus act. By passing this inane set of...

(By Yoel Friedman, London) It exploded! The reaction was spontaneous, a kind of which recent history gives little or no comparison. I received the news in the...