(Crossposted to Mah Rabu .) Independent minyanim have been popping up all over the press lately. First of all, they make an appearance in this CNN piece on “New Jews”, but that deserves a whole snarky post of its own, so I’ll leave... 

I suspect we direct our most bruised anger at those most likely to be our supporters…who don’t. That “self-hater” is such a cutting insult is part and parcel of that emotion. And it’s why it’s taken me a couple days... 

The Man The Gulag Couldn’t Break By Steven Plaut Fall arrived late this year in Budapest, where I am visiting from Israel, and it is still very warm on Yom Kippur. The largest Orthodox Yom Kippur services in the city are being held in a downtown... 

When I marked the recent anniversary of Peter Jennings’s passing with a column about an embarrassing incident in the ABC newsman’s career, a couple of readers chastised your gentle correspondent... 

To the Right – Judge Finkelstein Officer Shahar Mizrachi is the latest victim of the leftist assault on Israel via the court system. Officer Mizrachi is a hero. He should have been awarded a medal for stopping a violent car thief. Instead,... 

I just read the following on The Washington Times’ website: President Obama’s plan to inspire the nation’s schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser... 

Just when it seems that there is no expression of academic treason that Israel has not seen and that Ben Gurion University has not defended as “pursuing peace and justice,” along comes Neve Gordon, the head of Ben Gurion University’s... 

1. Isn’t there something wrong when the President of the United states spends every waking hour of the day worrying about some Jews who want to build homes, but nary a moment of the day worrying about Iranians who want to build nukes? 2. A survey... 

Going against the grain of most of the Orthodox community, I’ve never been enamored of the Catskills — to put it slightingly. “The mountains” give me the creeps, and it’s a deep-bred animosity that just won’t go away.... 

(Pictured: Lenin at rest.) Back in November 1991, Forbes FYI, a supplement to Forbes magazine, ran an composition that, as had to have been clear to anyone of even piddling intelligence, was an obvious put-on, a joke, a hoax. The commentary began with...