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Writings by Topic: American Jewry & Continuity
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| Genocide, Not |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 25, 2025 |
| Anti-Semitism Unbound |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 15, 2025 |
| A Week of Clarity |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 4, 2025 |
| What Can William F. Buckley Teach Us |
Mishpacha Magazine |
February 18, 2025 |
| The Campus Kiruv Imperative |
Mishpacha Magazine |
October 9, 2024 |
| Who's Paying to Fan the Chaos? |
Mishpacha Magazine |
September 3, 2024 |
| The Cycle Continues: Yes, the Whole World Can Be Wrong |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 18, 2024 |
| Sinwar Plays Us for Chumps |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 14, 2024 |
| If it Walks Like an Anti-Semite . . . |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 9, 2024 |
| Hey, Kids, It's Cool to Hate Jews |
Mishpacha Magazine |
April 30, 2024 |
| Anti-Semitism for Smarties |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 6, 2024 |
| Anti-Semitism Reconsidered and Reconsidered Again |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 21, 2023 |
| Eternity Envy |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 13, 2023 |
| No Shortcuts to Mourning Jerusalem; A Time for Everyone and Everything |
Mishpacha Magazine |
August 16, 2022 |
| The Dangers of Virtue Signalling |
Mishpacha Magazine |
April 26, 2022 |
| On Acquiring Wisdom; TThe Failed Iran Deal -- Again |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 2, 2022 |
| Seeds Planted Long Ago |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 19, 2022 |
| No Soul Left Behind |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 11, 2022 |
| No Soul Left Behind |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 11, 2022 |
| More Unites Us That Divides Us: A Haredi Perspective |
Sapir Journal |
November 3, 2021 |
| Bennett Betting on the Wrong Horse |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 1, 2021 |
| I've Got a Secret: Tishrei Thoughts for the Entire Year |
Mishpacha Magazine |
October 7, 2021 |
| A Key for Elul: Towards a Unified Theory of Anti-Semitism |
Mishpacha Magazine |
August 11, 2021 |
| Anti-Semitism is Getting Me Down |
Mishpacha Magazine |
August 4, 2021 |
| Two Rallies |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 28, 2021 |
| HIdden Heroes |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 21, 2021 |
| A Ray of Light |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 16, 2021 |
| His Secret to Success |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 16, 2021 |
| Reform's Last Gasp |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 1, 2021 |
| Wokeness is Coming for Us |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 4, 2020 |
| Who is An Anti-Semite |
Mishpacha Magazine |
August 5, 2020 |
| Sanders WIll Live On |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 18, 2020 |
| Why Not Take a Stand on China? |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 15, 2020 |
| A Shot in the Dark |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 11, 2019 |
| Houston as a Harbinger of Jewish Growth; SHUVU; Grabbing the Snake |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 20, 2019 |
| Just One Shabbos; Step Out of the Picture |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 13, 2019 |
| Attorney General Barr to the Defense |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 6, 2019 |
| Coddled on Campus |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 15, 2019 |
| Making It Our Pain; Two Countries One Fight |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 2, 2019 |
| An Irresistible Call |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 27, 2018 |
| The Pittsburgh Protests: All Politics All the Time |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 7, 2018 |
| Jeremy Corbyn Scares Britain's Jews: Anti-Semitism: Who Cares? |
Mishpacha Magazine |
August 22, 2018 |
| Watch What You Count; |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 4, 2018 |
| Baking Up a Storm |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 13, 2018 |
| An Appropriately Abject Apology |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 30, 2018 |
| P.S. Can They Meet the Minimal Conditions |
Mishpacha Magazine |
April 26, 2018 |
| Homecoming |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 21, 2018 |
| No VIctim Here |
Mishpacha Magazine |
February 28, 2018 |
| A Little Help That Goes a Long Way |
Mishpacha Magazine |
February 7, 2018 |
| The Mitzvos We Do for Ourselves; Partisanship and Religion Don't Mix |
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January 4, 2018 |
| Birthright Drops Reform: Happy Birthday, Mrs. Halberstadt |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 7, 2017 |
| Tzipi Is Right |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 30, 2017 |
| If They Don't Pray at Home, Why Oblige Them at the Kosel? |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 9, 2017 |
| Sharing the Goods in Palo Alto |
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October 25, 2017 |
| Selling a Defective Product: |
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October 19, 2017 |
| The New Secular Orthodoxy |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 14, 2017 |
| A Battle over Symbols |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 7, 2017 |
| Two on the Six-Day War |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 26, 2017 |
| Drawing Our Fellow Jews Close: Beware of High Places |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 5, 2017 |
| The Conservative Movement Declares Bankruptcy |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 24, 2017 |
| On the Whole I'd Rather Be in Israel; Failing the Analogy Test |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 17, 2017 |
| Hanging by a Thread; Caring About American Jewry Despite Everything; Never Too Late to Learn Humilithy |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 20, 2017 |
| Knowing What You Don't Know; Preventing Needless Deaths |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 2, 2016 |
| The Shooting of Harambe and Us: Not All Minorities are the Same |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 17, 2016 |
| A True Educational Officer -- Paul Laster, zt"l |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 6, 2016 |
| Reclining as Free Men; Connecting to the Jewish Story |
Mishpacha Magazine; Jerusalem Post |
April 22, 2016 |
| The First Klal Perspectives Shabbaton |
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March 11, 2016 |
| Zuroff Redux |
Mishpacha Magazine |
February 5, 2016 |
| Interfaith Dialogue -- Not Just Pointless But Dangerous |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 30, 2015 |
| Something New for Bein Hazmainim |
Mishpacha Magazine |
August 28, 2015 |
| Campus Thought Control |
Yated Neeman |
July 10, 2015 |
| Michael Oren and the Decline of American Jewry; Good Riddance, Abe |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 30, 2015 |
| Michael Oren's Cri de Coeur |
Yated Ne'eman |
June 26, 2015 |
| A Model Shul; The Basis of the Mesorah: Parents Worthy of Trust |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 21, 2015 |
| An Agreement Worse than Munich; American Jews Serve as Enablers |
Mishpacha Magazine |
April 3, 2015 |
| Parashas Tzav 5775 -- Ideological Purity vs. Practical Consequences |
Mishpacha Magazine |
March 27, 2015 |
| Parachas Veyechi 5775 -- Remaining Bnei Torah after Kollel; Another Nail in the Coffin |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 2, 2015 |
| Parashas Chayei Sarah 5775 -- False Humanization; Judgment Rendered |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 19, 2014 |
| Kiruv Goes On: the Models Change |
Mishpacha Magazine |
October 5, 2014 |
| What Do Gaza and Ferguson Have in Common |
Jerusalem Post, Yated Ne'eman |
September 5, 2014 |
| Parashas Eikev 5774 -- Israel's New Torah Askanim |
Mishpacha |
August 14, 2014 |
| Shavuot, the Source of Jewish Identity |
Jerusalem Post |
May 30, 2014 |
| Be'Chukosaid 5774 -- For the Love of Jews |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 16, 2014 |
| Connecting to the Jewish Story |
Jerusalem Post |
May 15, 2014 |
| Kedoshim 5774 -- Taking the Reins of Torah Leadership; Who Wants to be Like Us?; Upshlugged, Happily |
Mishpacha Magazine |
April 25, 2014 |
| Why Yair Netanyahu's Love Life Matters |
Jerusalem Post, Yated Ne'eman |
February 7, 2014 |
| Why Would Anyone Care Who Yair Netanyahu is Dating? |
CNN On-liine |
February 6, 2014 |
| Parashas Mishpatim 5774 -- Facts Trump Theory; What Sam Taught us All |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 24, 2014 |
| Can the Reform Movement Stanch the Bleeding? |
Jerusalem Post, Yated Ne'eman |
December 27, 2013 |
| Ve'eira 5774 -- Where to LIve?, What about Yissachar and Zevulun?; The Daf for Dovie |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 27, 2013 |
| VaYigash 5774 -- Betrayal: American Jews, Israel, and a Nuclear Iran |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 4, 2013 |
| VaYeishev 5774 |
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November 22, 2013 |
| In re Limmud: A Rejoinder to Rabbi Cardozo |
Jerusalem Post |
November 15, 2013 |
| Parashas Toldos 5774 -- Judaism in not a Smorgasbord; We are all losers |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 1, 2013 |
| Can the Death Spiral be Reversed? |
Jerusalem Post |
October 18, 2013 |
| Ki Seitzei 5773 -- Envying the Ger; Why the Smile |
Mishpacha Magazine |
August 16, 2013 |
| Parashas Shlach 5773 |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 5, 2013 |
| Eternity Envy |
Jerusalem Post |
May 31, 2013 |
| Response to Jay Michaelson |
Jewish Forward |
May 28, 2013 |
| The Feminist Story the Media Missed at the Kotel |
Jerusalem Post |
May 17, 2013 |
| Shavuos 5773 -- Eternity Envy; What Lies Behind the Israeli Attacks on Syria |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 14, 2013 |
| BaMidbar 5773 -- Apology to Rabbi Ilan Feldman; Meet Richard Falk; A Shavuos Initiative |
Mishpacha Magazine |
May 10, 2013 |
| Sincerity is Not Enough |
Jerusalem Post, Yated Ne'eman |
April 19, 2013 |
| Where the American and Israeli Torah Communities Differ |
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March 22, 2013 |
| Lieutenant Meyer Birnbaum, zt"l |
Yated Ne'eman |
February 28, 2013 |
| Parashas Shemos -- A Fearful Community; Revelers Alert; Remembering Robert Bork |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 11, 2013 |
| The Damage is Done |
Jerusalem Post |
January 4, 2013 |
| The State of Kiruv Today |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 4, 2013 |
| Va'yechi 5773 -- Too Early to Celebrate; A Lesson from Senator Daniel Inouye |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 29, 2012 |
| Chayei Sarah 5773 -- Who Needs the Jews?; Hashem's Humility and Ours |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 9, 2012 |
| Spare Me "Never Again" |
Jerusalem Post |
October 19, 2012 |
| Will Romney's Visit Mark a Criticial Turning Point? |
Yated Ne'eman |
August 3, 2012 |
| Sinai and Jewish Unity |
Jerusalem Post |
May 25, 2012 |
| Tazria-Metzorah 5772: The "Blue Model" and Torah Jewry; A Parenting Nugget from Rav Sheinberg, zt"l, Reset on Israel after the Elections |
Mishpacha Magazine |
April 18, 2012 |
| Beshelach 5772 -- Titanic II and Yeridos Hadoros; A Tale of Two Bus Rides; Minority Mandate |
Mishpacha Magazine |
February 1, 2012 |
| Va'Yechi 5772 -- Learning from Shimon and Levi; If They Can Mention G-d, Why Can't We |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 4, 2012 |
| Va'Yigash 5772 -- Getting Out to Go Up; Hammering Hammerman |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 30, 2011 |
| Va'yetzei 5772 -- Are We Viewing the Past through Rose-Colored Glasses?; When a Tzaddik Leave the City |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 30, 2011 |
| Pinchos 5771 -- The Emptiness is Total; Modern Greeks; Sarah Can Write |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 13, 2011 |
| Korach 5771 -- Something New, Something Old; Look Who's Dancing; Canadian Jews Change Course |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 22, 2011 |
| Parashas Nasso 5771 -- Why Bother Debating?; Everyone Needs a Mussar Mentor; Who's Brain Dead? |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 18, 2011 |
| Shelach 5771 -- Don't Judge a Parent by the Child: Follow the Money; "Pro-Israel J Street's Interesting Friends; Too Old to Fight |
Mishpacha Magazine |
June 15, 2011 |
| Resist the Counsel of Despair |
Jerusalem Post, Yated Ne'eman |
June 3, 2011 |
| Why America Hearts Israel |
Jerusalem Post |
May 20, 2011 |
| Is Israel Dividing American Jewry? |
Jerusalem Post |
May 6, 2011 |
| Jewish Students Under Assault -- Part III |
Yated Ne'eman |
May 6, 2011 |
| Jewish Students Under Assault -- Part II |
Yated Ne'eman |
April 8, 2011 |
| Jewish Students Under Assault -- Part I |
Yated Ne'eman |
April 1, 2011 |
| Bo 5771 -- A Closed Mouth and a Blind Eye: Jonathan Pollard |
Mishpacha Magazine |
January 5, 2011 |
| Vayeishev 5771 -- The Value of an Ivy League Education; American Jewish History Museum |
Mishpacha Magazine |
December 3, 2010 |
| Vayishlach -- Russian Refuseniks 30 years later; American Jews Flunk Again |
Mishpacha Magazine |
November 23, 2010 |
| Ambassador Out of Bounds |
Yated Ne'eman |
October 29, 2010 |
| Mishpacha Blog 324 -- Parashas Nitzavim-Vayeleich |
Mishpacha Magazine |
September 1, 2010 |
| Confronting the Zeitgeist Head-On |
The Jerusalem Post |
June 11, 2010 |
| A Response to Peter Beinart |
Yated Ne'eman, Jerusalem Post |
May 22, 2010 |
| Will American Jews Pass the Test? |
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May 3, 2010 |
| Free Speech Follies |
Jerusalem Post |
February 18, 2010 |
| Tapping into Their Idealism |
Mishpacha Magazine |
February 14, 2010 |
| "Do You Know Where Your Boychik Is?" -- Revisited |
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August 19, 2009 |
| Just Because It's the Right Thing to Do |
Mishpacha Magazine |
July 16, 2009 |
| The Israel Lobby -- Missing in Action |
Jeruslalem Post |
May 21, 2009 |
| Who Feels Chosen? |
The Jerusalem Post |
April 24, 2009 |
| Ignore the Grandchildren |
Jerusalem Post |
October 9, 2008 |
| Separate Swimming at Harvard - and Us |
Jewish Observer |
October 1, 2008 |
| Why Barack Can't Win |
Yated Ne'eman |
May 2, 2008 |
| Not a Doctor's Decision |
Jerusalem Post |
December 27, 2007 |
| Lucky Shlomo |
Mishpacha |
December 13, 2007 |
| What the Ba'alei Teshuva Do for Us |
Yated Ne'eman |
November 22, 2007 |
| Stupid, Yes, but is it Anti-Semitic? Part II |
Yated Ne'eman |
October 31, 2007 |
| Rabbis as Heroes |
Mishpacha |
August 19, 2007 |
| On the Road |
Mishpacha |
August 12, 2007 |
| Rabbi Angel's Lament |
Mishpacha |
July 29, 2007 |
| Israel's Bright Spot |
Mishpacha |
April 11, 2007 |
| Jewish Intellectuals - Then and Now |
Yated Ne'eman |
March 7, 2007 |
| Turning Down the Noise |
Mishpacha |
January 31, 2007 |
| Too Many Girls for Too Few Boys |
Mishpacha |
December 13, 2006 |
| Moving to the burbs |
Yated Ne'eman |
November 29, 2006 |
| People in glass houses |
Maariv |
November 23, 2006 |
| Democrats go European |
Jerusalem Post |
November 3, 2006 |
| No need to travel |
Mishpacha |
November 1, 2006 |
| A bad idea that won't go away |
Yated Ne'eman |
October 18, 2006 |
| Cause for Concern |
Maariv |
September 2006 |
| American Jewry's Cassandra |
Jerusalem Post |
June 28, 2006 |
| Shtadlanus: A Matter of Perspective |
Mishpacha |
May 17, 2006 |
| First come words |
Jerusalem Post |
April 22, 2006 |
| A new threat from the groves of academia |
Yated Ne'eman |
March 29, 2006 |
| But for the madmen… |
Mishpacha |
March 15, 2006 |
| Some thoughts on visiting the U.S. Holocaust Museum |
Mishpacha |
March 8, 2006 |
| Bye-bye Tommy |
Mishpacha |
January 25, 2006 |
| Minority Advantage |
Jerusalem Post |
December 1, 2005 |
| The Real Crisis |
Maariv |
November 24, 2005 |
| Rabbi Naftoli Neuberger, zt"l, and Us |
Mishpacha |
November 10, 2005 |
| American Jewry Finds its Scourge |
Hamodia |
November 4, 2005 |
| Conversion is not the answer |
Jerusalem Post |
June 17, 2005 |
| Exercise for Life |
Mishpacha |
April 14, 2005 |
| Sharing the secret |
Jerusalem Post |
March 13, 2005 |
| Of rites and risks |
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February 11, 2005 |
| Thinking as a community |
Mishpacha |
December 8, 2004 |
| The realization of a vision |
Mishpacha |
November 24, 2004 |
| The fruits of victory |
Mishpacha |
November 10, 2004 |
| Faith and the presidency |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
November 5, 2004 |
| Leader |
Mishpacha |
November 3, 2004 |
| Don't believe Kerry |
Maariv |
November 1, 2004 |
| Terrified of the Goyim |
Maariv |
October 25, 2004 |
| No time to go wobbly |
Hamodia |
October 20, 2004 |
| God-phobic Jews |
Jerusalem Post |
September 23, 2004 |
| Solving the dual loyalty conundrum |
Hamodia |
September 3, 2004 |
| Get out and vote |
Mishpacha |
August 12, 2004 |
| Gibson's unwitting allies |
Ma'ariv |
February 26, 2004 |
| A battle lost before it begins |
Jerusalem Post |
January 16, 2004 |
| A battle lost before it begins |
Maariv |
January 8, 2004 |
| The secret of a successful Bar Mitzvah |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
July 18, 2003 |
| Reach out and help someone |
Hamodia |
July 11, 2003 |
| Better free than a hero |
Jerusalem Post |
July 4, 2003 |
| Can Anything be Done about Intermarriage? |
Hamodia |
June 27, 2003 |
| The end of the chain |
Hamodia |
June 20, 2003 |
| What the Ba'alei Teshuva Do for Us |
Yated Ne'eman |
November 22, 2002 |
| Why be Jewish? |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
November 1, 2002 |
| Creative Jewish Accounting |
Jerusalem Post |
October 25, 2002 |
| Payback time for New York Jews |
Hamodia |
September 6, 2002 |
| Time to Switch Political Horses? |
Hamodia |
May 10, 2002 |
| Is American Jewry Ripe for Realignment? |
Jerusalem Post Int'l Edition |
May 10, 2002 |
| Ariel Sharon's war |
Jerusalem Post Int'l Edition |
April 19, 2002 |
| What ever happened to Jewish unity? |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
February 1, 2002 |
| Survey reveals Jews are dumb |
Jerusalem Post Int'l Edition |
January 11, 2002 |
| Jewish day schools and their critics |
Jerusalem Post |
December 28, 2001 |
| What is a fundamentalist? |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
December 21, 2001 |
| Go team go! Fight team fight! |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
June 22, 2001 |
| Crisis at the top |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
June 1, 2001 |
| From Mt. Sinai to Rabbi Wolpe |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
May 25, 2001 |
| Double Failure |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
May 4, 2001 |
| The Jewish student--a minnow among sharks |
Jerusalem Post |
March 30, 2001 |
| Get Me To The Church On Time |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
February 9, 2001 |
| Get me to the church on time |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
January 5, 2001 |
| More musings on the American election |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
December 8, 2000 |
| Musings on the American presidential election |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
November 24, 2000 |
| New hope for Jonathan Pollard |
Jerusalem Post |
November 3, 2000 |
| The ADL vs. Joseph Lieberman |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
September 29, 2000 |
| The ADL vs. Joseph Lieberman |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
September 8, 2000 |
| Lieberman is a symbol |
Jerusalem Post |
August 25, 2000 |
| Misplaced generosity |
Jerusalem Post |
July 1, 2000 |
| Vive La Difference |
Baltimore Jewish Times |
May 5, 2000 |
| Bush Talks to the Creator. Are we listening? |
Jerusalem Post International Edition |
February 2, 2000 |
| When being right is wrong |
Jerusalem Post |
January 14, 2000 |
| Misplaced generosity |
Jerusalem Post |
January 7, 2000 |
| The incredible attraction |
Jerusalem Post |
November 26, 1999 |
| Dr. Joe, we owe you |
Jerusalem Post |
March 26, 1999 |
| Bring Jonathan home |
Jerusalem Post |
January 8, 1999 |
| There is no continuity without content |
Jerusalem Post |
November 20, 1998 |
| What? Me think? |
Jerusalem Post |
November 13, 1998 |
| One Jew, wanting to marry another Jew, is not racist |
Jerusalem Post |
September 11, 1998 |
| Anti-Semitism without anti-Semites |
Jerusalem Post |
July 3, 1998 |
| Heed the heart |
Jerusalem Post |
March 20, 1998 |
| Free the Yale five |
Jerusalem Post |
November 21, 1997 |
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