People would rather believe that Walid Shoebat is an undercover operative working for (choose one): A. the Arabs, B. the Israelis, C. the Americans, than…
Spring 2007(5767)
A Taste of Spring
Misconception: A person’s Hebrew and English birthdays coincide once every 19 years. Fact: There is a 19-year cycle within the Jewish calendar, but it only…
The English-reading public has been blessed with an extraordinary array of Haggadot. We have come a long way from our forefathers’ story of the Exodus,…
A well-known advertising guru once told me that it’s not enough to come up with a good idea. Ideas are born every day. To be…
In all addictions, I have found the same dynamic: A person feels a compulsion to drink, use drugs, eat, gamble or smoke, and it is…
Now in his twentieth year as executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella organization consisting of fifty-one…
In 1897, at the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Theodor Herzl challenged the Jewish people with the words, “If you will it, it is…
A New Course of Action In the aftermath of the disengagement from Gush Katif, it became apparent that many OU members and synagogues were concerned…
Thread of Blue By Judy Belsky Targum/Feldheim Israel, 2003 104 pages This powerful, wrenching, and astonishing book is a memoir of the months surrounding the…
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