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Manhattan’s Beth Hamedrash Hagodol on Norfolk Street is legendary. It was the first Eastern European congregation founded in New York City, and it later...

The opposition facing David Friedman, President Trump’s pick to be the next US ambassador to Israel, became clear at his confirmation hearing before the...

And so here we are, an article that starts off with the rare word “and.” But how else should this article have started—with the...

As a preface to my remarks this week, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who reached out to us...

Yesterday our new President met with Prime Minister Netanyahu. You probably watched the press conference. What was your take? I didn’t just watch the press...

For the first time, 600-plus students, parents, teachers and lay leaders traveled to Albany to fight for their yeshivah education. “When I signed up...

A few years ago I had the great privilege of visiting Rav Mordechai Sheinberger in his modest apartment on Rechov Hayehudim, in the Jewish...

On the day I started the consortium, they burned my car, they burned down part of my home and I was inside with my...

“Judy?” Bubbe’s voice was frantic. I’d never heard her this way. “Bubbe? What’s the matter? Is Grandpa okay?” My grandfather had a mini-stroke a couple...

The Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot in plain sight last week. While standing at the podium at an art gallery in Ankara, Andrey...