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... 

Editor’s Note: The following is the third winner of four recent entries by individual who will be heading to Washington, D.C. at the end of the month for JStreet’s first national conference: Driving Change, Securing Peace . The following... 

AND THAT’S NOT ALL by Tamar Yonah, INN I knew that Paula Abdul was Jewish, but that she lights Shabbos Candles? So, not one just to complain and talk about negative things happening, I thought that I would write something more positive now. So... 

SARID IS SITTING SHIVA ALREADY By Yossi Sarid, HAARETZ Mahmoud Abbas might as well be considered a dead man; Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak have killed him. Following a brief and angry meeting, they left a cyanide pill for him on the table and exited... 

Between services this Yom Kippur, I attended a talk by a revered and learned elder in my community. Michael had a number of urgent messages to share with us that day. One of them was that the biblical story of Job never actually happened. “The Job... 

Yoram Ettinger Assembled from various Jewish Sages 1. The US covenant with the Jewish State transcends contemporary policy. It precedes the establishment of Israel and the USA. Columbus Day is celebrated around Sukkot. According to “Columbus Then... 

Vandalism put Jewish worshippers on edge last week when a synagogue and community center in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Windsor Terrace was defaced just days before Yom Kippur. Here is the original post: Brooklyn Jewish Center Responds to Vandalism... 

By Isi Liebler The exploitation of Judge Goldstone’s Jewish background by our enemies intensifies our obligation to confront the enemy within – renegade Jews – including Israelis who stand at the vanguard of global efforts to demonize... 

This high holiday season was new for me in many ways.  It was my first away from my family, it was the first time I fasted without drinking water, and it was also the first time I didn’t go to services during the day on Yom Kippur.  This last... 

by Rabbi Jon Hausman (October 2009), New English Review [Delivered at the Stop Islamization of America launch in the Rayburn House Office Building, 25 September 2009] I am currently studying the Jewish tort laws contained in the Rabbinic tractate Baba...