Book of Proverbs

ASKED ABOUT THE SITUATION IN EGYPT, IN THE wake of Tunisia’s so-called Jasmine Revolution, the newly appointed head of the Israel Defense Forces…

AMPUTEES HAVE it rough. No one ever prays at the Kotel for recovery of their lost limbs. Why? Because it seems there are some irrefutable laws of…

Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Monday night defended those “who in their attempt to safeguard the Torah are perceived as racists,” in what may have…

Even after explicitly being ordered to do so by the Shas Council of Torah Sages, maverick MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem on Tuesday remained firm in his…

Everybody loves Hanukka. That is one of the beautiful things about it. It unites us – ultra-Orthodox, national religious and secular – rather than…

Many suspect that the American and British governments knew all along there were no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. Dr. David Kelly, head…

In the past few months, I have been attending Christian gatherings supporting Israel. There is an awakening within the Christian world as more and…

The recent suicide of an American college student because of an embarrassing posting about him on an Internet site has caused a great deal of…

Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, sparked controversy last week by declaring in a speech at an Orthodox synagogue…

The three major festivals at this time of year – Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Succot – are filled with drama and pageantry; with the piercing sounds…

As anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment gain momentum worldwide and many performers continue to boycott the nation, one artist is bringing a…

Each of the Jewish holidays has a specific emotion or mood attached to it. Pessah, for example, is marked by a kind of exhilaration. The excitement…

The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Israel has received a significant halachic backing for this year’s annual campaign against the…

Taysir Abu Saada was once a PLO sniper known as “The Butcher,” and a personal chauffer for the late Yasser Arafat. But then his life was transformed…

‘Who wants to be a millionaire?” asks the song in my favorite movie, High Society. I thought of the song recently when I heard of a new educational…

At the heart of the storm around the bar mitzva of Judge Richard Goldstone’s grandson stands an ancient and sacred principle: open synagogues. The…

Every festival requires preparation but no holiday is approached with the kind of frenzied, frenetic cleaning which marks the approach of…

‘He who disdains gifts will live,” it is written in Proverbs. The following is a story about a gift, bestowed to the city by a benefactor, which has…

I think that the Scroll of Esther, read on Purim, provides the best critique I know of our present day “situational ethics” environment. What led me…

Once again we are approaching that time whenchildren will be singing "Tu Bishvat has arrived - a holiday fortrees!" and Jewish National Fund tree…