Editorial

The The New York Times editorial page isn't cute when it's angry. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Old Gray Lady's longstanding antagonism to the...

Continuing with the previous installment if Foreclosure Defense, we will now discuss what should be done when served a borrower is served with Foreclosure...

Amid the recent troubles between Israel and the Palestinians, many Americans and media commentators are drawing disturbing lines of parallelism between the two societies,...

Natural disasters usually follow the same political trajectory: First the incumbent experiences a bounce as he tours the impacted area, shows his concern, and...

You gotta love it when people who sit at dry TV sets in DC or in dusty basements tell you that preparing for Irene...

The Sephardic community has a well deserved reputation for its outstanding levels of tzedaka and chesed. It serves as a model of generosity, dedication,...

Recently, we've been hearing much in the news about a group that calls itself Yaffed (Young Advocates For Fair Education). They sent a letter...

What most of us know as the Mogen Dovid is the subject of an unusual teshuva written by Rav Moshe Feinstein, ZATZAL nearly forty...

There can be no doubt that with the impending arrival of the Three Weeks the efforts of draft chareidim into the IDF against the...

While it is inappropriate to try to blame mainstream political movements for the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, there is at least some...

It is not only the Torah’s words that hold multiple layers of meaning.  So do those of Chazal – even the words of the...

Hamodia – Editorial – April 22, 2015: NB: When President Obama held back-to-back meetings with leaders of major Jewish organizations and Jewish supporters —...

The Yalkut Shimoni writes that when Yeshayahu Hanovi spoke the immortal words of this week's haftorah, "Nachamu nachamu ami, "the Jewish people wanted to...

The following is an editorial which was printed in today's Washington Post: With George W. Bush gone, Venezuela's strongman has found new enemies. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,...

A 22-year-old white supremacist was sentenced Tuesday to life in federal prison for killing a woman and injuring three others when he burst into...

In response to the recent attacks on yeshivas, Rabbi David Niederman - a member of the executive member of PEARLS - set the record...

As summer unfolds, we behold and endure graduation ceremonies – the recognition of academic milestones, the bestowing of diplomas, the conferring of awards and...

Recently, my wife and I visited Yeshiva University's museum on 16th St in NYC to see the Arch of Titus exhibit. We saw the...

They warned us. The geniuses at Peace Now warned us. The brilliant diplomats warned us. The think tanks warned us. Even the Arab dictators...

The following is the "Editor’s View", By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz. It appears in this weeks Yated Ne'eman. I look at the picture of his face, And see...

Gaze up the Hudson River and hope, hope, hope our regulators are right. Hope they could not possibly be as wrong as the regulators in...

Stephen Schwarzman is a very wealthy man.  And a very generous one. The CEO and co-founder of The Blackstone Group, a New York investment bank,...

Just over a month ago, Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz made a rare and direct appeal in these pages. The cause that prompted him to abandon...

Let’s picture the true story of a wonderful Bais Yaakov girl in high school. She has friends, she loves her Torah classes.  She does well...

Who is Tamar Fogel? The chances are that you will have no idea. She is a 12-year-old girl who arrived home late on Friday,...

That the unveiling of a new Reform prayer book didn't elicit applause from the Orthodox world was hardly surprising. Despite media hailings of the...

In this week’s parsha, we learn that following the passing of Sarah Imeinu, Avrohom Avinu sends his trusted aide Eliezer to find a shidduch...

There are three distinct ways to look at school vouchers. One is to regard them as a bogeyman threatening to destroy the American public educational...

This year, Purim falls on Friday. As if that isn’t bad enough, Uncle Sam did his best to put a further damper on Purim...

Nearly a half century ago when I was a talmid of HaGaon Rav Moshe Feinstein zt'l, the yeshiva summer camp was shaken when one...

What makes a good public servant? Do they have to look like you? Act like you? I have known Lew Fidler for over 25 years....

The following article is from The Des Moines Register: In early December 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested by federal agents for allegedly masterminding a $65...

In mid-August, after complaints from local residents, a priest in Tilberg, the Netherlands, was fined several thousand dollars for ringing his church bells just...

The following is an Op-Ed by Howard Beigelman of the OU, and appears in the Indianapolis Star: Bringing the school voucher case to the state's top...

The funeral of Rav Ovadiah Yosef ZATZAL brought, according to some estimations, close to a million mourners to the streets of Jerusalem. In every...