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Op-Ed Opinion

You Can’t Defend Haredi Jews Against Violence While Demonizing our Schools

By: Rabbi Avi Shafran Relentless campaigns calling for curricula reform in the nation’s yeshivas. Misleading headlines about educational standards at Orthodox schools. Zoning efforts aimed at keeping large Jewish families out of suburban towns. Some see a direct link between such things and the anti-Semitic violence that has erupted on the streets of Brooklyn. I […]

Op-Ed Opinion

Is Trump’s Peace Plan a Plot, a Fantasy or an Exercise in Realism?

It’s not clear whether it will bail out Bibi or hurt Gantz, but imagining a future Middle East that accepts most of these terms is actually a practical idea By: Jonathan S. Tobin As far as many Israeli commentators are concerned, it’s all a plot to help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and undermine the chances […]

Jewish Features Torah

ABCs of Tu B’Shvat

The “new year for trees” has a special set of meaningful customs. By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Tu B’Shvat appears in the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 2a) as one of the four “new years” in the Jewish calendar: “Beit Hillel says that the ‘new year for the trees’ is the 15th of Shevat – Tu B’Shvat.” The […]

Parsha Torah

Parshas Bo–The Redemption Comes When Things Seem Bleakest

By: Rabbi Yissocher Frand This week’s parsha contains a “famous pasuk”: “They baked the dough that they took out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for they could not be leavened, for they were driven from Egypt for they could not delay nor had they made provisions for themselves.” [Shmos 12:39]. I refer to this pasuk […]

JV Editorial Opinion

The Anti-Jewish Bias of the Royal Family

Prince Charles, heir to the British Crown, attended the recent World Holocaust Forum at the Holocaust Remembrance Center at Yad Vashem last week, to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He also met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, and in a strange set of circumstances, later joined and graciously […]

Education

Ohr Torah Stone Convenes Polish & German Rabbis

Edited by: TJVNews.com Ohr Torah Stone’s (OTS) Straus-Amiel Rabbinical Emissary Program convened pulpit rabbis from Poland and Germany here this week to address critical issues affecting their communities, one of which is the growing numbers of non-Jews who come to synagogue and wish to participate in programs and services. The rabbis lead Jewish communities in […]

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