Dr. Jeffrey Folks is the author of Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq., is a New York attorney who has written many articles on secular and Jewish topics, and has written, edited, and/or supplemented various biographies, most notably of Rabbi ...

Jews who live in the Diaspora sometimes ask, “Is it a Mitzvah to live in Israel in a time of danger?” Occasionally the question takes different forms. “Is it permissible to live in settlements in ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

Zohran Mamdani during a campaign event in the Queens borough of New York City, on June 19. New York stands on the edge of a moral and political precipice. If Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, it will ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Harvard University has shown appropriate sensitivity to the African American community by agreeing to relinquish seven photographs of half-naked Black slaves, which a professor commissioned in 1850 ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...

On Shabbat, when I can’t read my X feed, I usually read the newspaper and magazines, and recently I was reading a local magazine we get in our mailbox once a month. On one of the last pages, a small ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

The Jewish Press published an article expressing a powerful and sympathetic defense of people who request a “private shiva” (“A Private Shiva? Comforting a Subject, Not Handling an Object,” by Rabbi ...

IAF Boeing F-15I Ra'am fighter jet. IDF aircraft carried out more at least 20 bombing runs in southern Lebanon on Thursday in a mission to destroy Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure that posed a ...