Last week President Obama called for any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement to be based on the pre-June 1967 borders: Forgetting for a moment whether Obama was right or wrong for making that declaration, there is a serious problem with his statement as a pre-1967 border does not exist! more

The Jewish world lost a major supporter of many worldwide Torah sustaining causes this past Monday. Zev Wolfson, z”l, a resident of Lawrence, NY, passed away after a short illness at the age of 84. His levaya was at Shor Yoshuv Yeshiva in Lawrence. He was buried in Israel. more

President Barack Obama wants the Jewish vote. Really, he needs it. After his party’s embarrassing defeat in the Ninth Congressional district to Republican citizen-candidate Bob Turner last week, the president has made some “painful concessions.” more

As Jay Feinberg, founder of Gift of Life, looks ahead to the upcoming twelfth annual Partners for Life Gala to be held on May 17, he concisely describes the vision of his organization — one that has touched so many lives in the Five Towns. more

Since its founding in 2008, J Street, the liberal Jewish advocacy group, has expended a great deal of energy trying to convince American Jews that it is a credible and more ethical alternative to traditional pro-Israel organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). more

Issue of January 15, 2010/ 29 Tevet 5770 Don’t buy Facebook argument To the Editor: Regarding “Why I don’t facebook” (Opinion; Rabbi Reuven Spolter; Jan. 8, 2010). Wasn’t this … more

The New York Times raised some eyebrows in the Jewish community over the weekend, with a lengthy feature about four self-described religious Jews who oppose Israel. The article appeared as the newspaper’s “Beliefs” column in the print edition circulated on Shabbat. more

During one of the classes I teach on weeknights, our topic turned to the different kinds of love mentioned in the Torah. One insightful participant commented that if G-d tells us to look out for … more

By Michael Orbach James Kugel is the author of “In the Valley of the Shadow” and “How to Read the Bible.” A former chair of Near Eastern Languages at Harvard, Kugel is now the chair of the … more

Tired of battling for the legitimacy of the chassidic movement against the mitnagdim, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Vitebsk decided to make aliya in mid-life, to live his remaining years in Eretz Yisrael. more