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Feb. 16, 2005

Joseph Aaron: It's about time

Haytullah Gaheez: Out of money? Sell your daughter

Feb. 15, 2005

Wendy Shalit: Must Orthodox fiction be so fictional?

Caroline B. Glick: Question to Sharon and the peacemongers: If Abbas is the legitimate head of the PA, why must Israel weaken its security needs in order to give him legitimacy?

Daniel Pipes: When it comes to Jew hatred, what's old is new again --- but very different

Feb. 14, 2005

Mark Steyn: Destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides?

Jonathan Tobin: Who's Being Silenced?

Eric Edwards: Faking your way out of a relationship

Feb. 11, 2005

Rabbi David Aaron: Is the Divine beyond us or within us?

Charles Krauthammer: Why the 'Palestinians' came to the table

Feb. 10, 2005

Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg: Assessing a ‘quality teacher’

Dion Nissenbaum: ‘Palestinians’ frustrated that Israel is preventing illegal entrance, working in its borders

Feb. 9, 2005

Serena Weil: DISENGAGEMENT or DISASTER?

Caroline B. Glick: Condi's Mideast roadmap is being influenced by whom!?

Feb. 8, 2005

Daniel Pipes: When the authorities deny terrorism

Michael Matza: 'Palestinians' are -- wink, nod -- cracking down against terrorists

Feb. 7, 2005

Jonathan Tobin: Lower Our Voices?

Michael Hirsley: Nazi poster boy who saved Jews on Kristalnacht dead at 99

Feb. 4, 2005

Rabbi David Aaron: Love and idolatry

Rabbi Baruch Lederman: The power to change --- yourself and others

Caroline B. Glick: The peacemongers are back

Jay Root: Kinky Friedman launches bid for governor of Texas

Feb. 3, 2005

Anne Applebaum: Demonization double-standard

Tom Gross: Reporting Auschwitz, then and now

Feb. 2, 2005

Dr. Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn: Anger makes the soul go 'way

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: Israel: If Arabs can't control terrorism, we have no reason to continue negotiations

Feb. 1, 2005

Dennis Prager: On worthless humanity

Daniel Pipes: Saudi Venom in American Mosques

Mitch Albom: He was alive, but saw ghosts

Jan. 31, 2005

Lloyd M. Green: What Bush understands about ‘tikkun olam

Steven Stalinsky: Arabs and Holocaust denial sixty years later

Jan. 28, 2005

Rabbi David Aaron: Is the Divine just a Cosmic Party Pooper?

Matthew Schofield: The ultimate revenge: In the shadow of death, a celebration of life

Anne Bayefsky: The U. N.'s PR coup

Jan. 27, 2005

Victor Davis Hanson: The hard road to democracy

Bob Tyrrell: Answering history's call

Matthew Schofield: 'Enlightened' Europe turning even uglier as Jew hatred spirals out of control

Elinor J. Brecher: Nazi-hunting project brings bounty money to Europe

Jan. 26, 2005

Jay D. Homnick: Dare to win

Philip Sieradski, Ph.D: Real fighting spirit

Jan. 25, 2005

Shaindy Horowitz: A fruitful encounter

Andrea Simantov: Springing into Tu B'Shevat

Jonathan Tobin: Will good deeds go unpunished?

Jan. 24, 2005

Joel S. Kaplan: Today, U.N. will officially acknowledge the Holocaust

Rabbi Aryeh Spero: We are becoming paralyzed to do what self-preservation demands

Diana West: Seeking clarity on Islam and jihad

Jan. 21, 2005

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of Desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden — History's First Question: Where Are You?

Rabbi David Aaron: The Nourishing Power of Love

Jonathan Tobin: Harry Shirt flap obscures real anti-Semitism

Jan. 19, 2005

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: Orthodox Jews as new Evangelicals?

Mitch Albom: Lottery winnings and happiness

Jan. 18, 2005

The Jewish Ethicist: Should parents decide for grown kids?

Cal Thomas: INAUGURAL DOOMSDAY?

Daniel Pipes: Radical Islam's double

Jan. 17, 2005

Jonathan Tobin: Cheerleaders and skeptics of latest peace moves need to be careful

Alicia Colon: Dutch politician turning to American conservatives for ideas in reining in — and keeping-out — radical Muslims

Jan. 14, 2005

Rabbi David Aaron: The Miraculous Power of Love

Julia Gorin: Poor Palestinians? Poor New Yorkers!

Caroline B. Glick: OOPS! Arab 'demographic bomb' revealed as dud

Jan. 13, 2005

Lisa J. Huriash: In goodwill gesture, Vatican allowing Jews to view priceless Maimonides manuscripts

Victor Davis Hanson: Islamicists hate us for who we are, not what we do

Cal Thomas: When you wish upon a star ...

Jan. 12, 2005

Susan Hogan/Albach: Yankee rabbi with a Texas-sized challenge

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's toon, Everything's Relative, gets serious: Faith in Action

Jan. 11, 2005

Daniel Pipes: Which Way Will Abbas Go?

Wesley Pruden: Thanking Allah for the infidels

Jan. 10, 2005

Jonathan Tobin: Jewish groups that take sides in budget and tax wars wind up pursuing somebody else's agenda

Jeff Jacoby: The problem with Mahmoud Abbas

Caroline B. Glick: Avoiding Israel's self-destruction

Jan. 7, 2005

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of Desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden — Friedrich Nietzsche and the Disc Jockey

Rabbi David Aaron: Why is the Celestial Miracle Maker hiding?

Charles Krauthammer: The ‘Zionist enemy’ — and her supporters — is in denial yet again

Jan. 6, 2005

The Jewish Ethicist: Turning loans into charity

Andy Borowitz: 'Palestinians' rise up against Richard Gere

Jan. 5, 2005

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The Tsunami and the Circle-maker

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: No good deed goes unpunished: Being a do-gooder should only go so far

Jan. 4, 2005

Rabbi Harvey Belovski: A Jewish response to devastation?

Daniel Pipes: Arab Victories in the Language War

Jan. 3, 2005

Jonathan Tobin: Do new 'brands' bring meaning, money and happiness to Jewish groups?

Steven Stalinsky: Top Ten Arab and Iranian Conspiracy Theories Ending 2004

Dec. 31, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: Identity crisis is a gift

Caroline B. Glick: How a decision by the Clinton administration continues to threaten the Israel-America alliance

Dec. 30, 2004

Cal Thomas: When ‘free elections’ means just further legitimizing terrorism

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen: The U.N's politics of humanitarianism

Dec. 29, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: Why is the Divine waiting to hear from you?

James Q. Wilson: What Makes a Terrorist?

Dec. 28, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Should I boycott a retailer that mistreats employees?

Daniel Pipes: What we can learn from the Japanese internment in our searching for Islamists

Dec. 27, 2004

Rabbi Ari Sytner: A tiny glimpse into the Divine's reality (FOLLOW-UP TO "An actor in a Divine comedy of ‘errors’" story)

Evan Osnos: France's government-approved training ground for homegrown Islamic clerics has ties to world's largest Islamic militant group

Dec. 24, 2004

Caroline B. Glick: Bigotry's harvest

Dec. 23, 2004

Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz: An actor in a Divine comedy of ‘errors’ — and I didn't even know it!

Jonathan Tobin: Faith in democracy is at stake in debate about Iraq and the Palestinians

Dec. 22, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: Is it ethical to use devices that warn drivers of speed traps?

Everything's Relative: Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's strip tells it like it is --- even if it shouldn't be

Dec. 21, 2004

Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg: An Orthodox rabbi's Christmas sermon

Daniel Pipes: Why is America upping the hundreds of million$ it already gives the ‘Palestinians’? Arafat's successor is hell-bent on destroying Israel

Dec. 20, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: A minyan in the White House

Debbie Maimon: A White (House) Chanukah

Dec. 17, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden — It's All in the I of the Beholder

Rabbi David Aaron: What you see is what you get

Caroline B. Glick: Wanted: Israeli neocons

Dec. 16, 2004

Suzanne Fields: Is McCulture spurring radical Islam?

Jonathan Tobin: That Old Standby --- the Scapegoat

Dec. 15, 2004

Lori Borgman: Chanukkah tradition lives in the window

Amy Worden: Church-state groups file lawsuit over teaching 'intelligent design'

Dec. 14, 2004

Libby Lazewnik: A Question Of Light

Daniel Pipes: Muslim institutions too often are not what they seem to be

Dec. 13, 2004

Marisa N. Pickar: Follow the Oil

Andrea Simantov: Chanukah: The quintessential female holiday?

Dec. 10, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: Chanukah: The Light of Love

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden --- A Dark and Rainy Night in Manhattan

Caroline B. Glick: A week in a Middle East Utopia

Dec. 9, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: A 'Chrismukkah' world

Suzanne Fields: The dark side of the lights

Nachum Segal's Chanukah music special: Listen while you surf! Jewish superstars, "bubble gum bands," and other genres --- in English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. And, of course, satire.

Dec. 8, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Soulless

Marilynn Marter: Latkepalooza

Dec. 7, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Should hospitals treat indigent foreigners free?

Hillel Halkin: Tale of a madman?

Dec. 6, 2004

Richard Z. Chesnoff: Jewish Congress tsuris must end

Lenore Skenazy: Can we put some fun into the toys?

Dec. 3, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden --- A World of Broccoli and Pizza

Rabbi David Aaron: Can You Surpass Yourself?

Dec. 2, 2004

Rabbi Berel Wein: ‘Natural disasters’ can in actuality be much more

Ron Rosenbaum: Sanitizing Merchant: Pacino Plays Shylock Like a Grouchy Tevya

Dec. 1, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: No-Shop Day(s)

Cecil Johnson: Despite violent environment, Israeli companies focus on performance

Nov. 30, 2004

Neal M. Sher: Reasons for concern at the CIA

Dennis Prager: Is it OK to hope anyone is in hell?

Jonathan Tobin: A pro-Israel group teaches us a lesson about Evangelicals and ourselves

Nov. 29, 2004

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: Radical vegetarian group seeking to slaughter one of the world's largest kosher meat processors

Zev Chafets: Let's be honest, peace is nowhere in sight

Nov. 25, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden --- Beauty and the Beast

Rabbi David Aaron: The Secret to Happiness

Nov. 24, 2004

Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg: Thanksgiving: Let us not be warped in our perspective

Robert Zelnick: If Arafat had been aborted, there would've been a Palestinian state

Nov. 23, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Can I use fake bids to raise prices in an auction?

Lisa J. Huriash: Lots of help available for moms who make their own baby food

Nov. 22, 2004

Jeff Jacoby: When hatred is necessary

Ike Seamans: The Arafat I knew

Paul Wieder: …Oh, CDs I will play: It's the Chanukah wrap-up

Nov. 19, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden — What's in it for the Snake?

Rabbi David Aaron: Real Love means embracing Conflict

Jonathan Tobin: Conventional wisdom rides again

Nov. 18, 2004

Cal Thomas: Toward a moral foreign policy

Larry Elder: Arafat and the 'peace process'

Nov. 17, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Piggyback or Just Piggy?

Sidney Zion: Still no one Israel can do a deal with

Lawrence F. Kaplan: One Way --- finally

Nov. 16, 2004

Cal Thomas: More killers for President!

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Window for war?

Nov. 15, 2004

Charles Krauthammer: Arafat's Legacy

Tom Gross: Arafat-mania

Nov. 12, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden --- The Naked Truth

Rabbi David Aaron: Do Good Feel Good, Do Bad Feel Bad?

Jeff Jacoby: ARAFAT, R.I.P.!?

Cal Thomas: Arafat's legacy

Nov. 11, 2004

Jeff Dunetz: The Health Crisis Caused by Arafat's Death: Whacko News Syndrome

Jonathan Tobin: They still don't get it

Nov. 10, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Money and marriage

Dov Fischer: Nothing will change in 'Palestine' during the transition from kaffiyehs and holsters to suits and ties

Nov. 9, 2004

Daniel Pipes: Arafat's last threat to Israel?

Donna Gehrke-White: Link between faith and health getting more attention

Nov. 8, 2004

Yossi Klein Halevi: With Sharon's goal of outlasting Arafat seemingly close to fruition, there's satisfaction in the prime minister's office, but little joy

Jonathan Tobin: What 'reform' wrought

Steven Plaut: The Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch with Minor Corrections

Nov. 5, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden --- The dark side of paradise

Rabbi David Aaron: Making every day count

Rabbi Aryeh Spero: Arafat Burial on Temple Mount Unthinkable

Nov. 4, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Vaccination Vacillation

Zev Chafets: Above everything else, Arafat was a shrewd geopolitician who knew how to manipulate the world to his -- not his ‘people's’ -- advantage

Oct. 3, 2004

Rabbi Mordechai Biser: The new ideology in health care… and how to survive

Mike Carter: Citizens use Internet to spy on, thwart terrorists

Nov. 2, 2004

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: The senseless murder of a 'hero' and 'saint'

Cal Thomas: Bin Laden points at Lebanon

Everything's Relative: Your Official Guide to the 2004 Jewish Vote

Nov. 1, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Civic Sacrament

Jordan Max: FOUND! Arafat's Last Will and Testament

Oct. 29, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden — A Tale of Two Trees

Rabbi David Aaron: Abraham: The Master of Personal Transformation

Steven Stalinsky: International Arab media crusaded for Kerry and American Muslims are heeding their call

Oct. 28, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Can my employer underpay me?

Suzanne Fields: Ghosts and goblins at U.N.

Tim Collie: Arafat may have cheated death this time, but his 'people's' real problems may be just beginning

Oct. 27, 2004

Jonathan Rosenblum: In praise of the President's faith

Michael Matza: In historic vote, Israeli parliament OKs Sharon's plan to remove Jews living in areas won in defensive war

William E. Gibson: Bubba in a beanie and other acts of desperation in the Sunshine State

Oct. 26, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Trains: An American story

Dennis Prager: How Jews should vote?

Oct. 25, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: In praise of inertia

Sam Schulman: For Kerry, ‘Multilateralism’ is Yiddish for ‘Au revoir, Israel’

Daniel Pipes: In the Mideast, Bush dared to be different

Oct. 22, 2004

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden — Adam, Eve, and the Elephant in the Room

Rabbi David Aaron: Intimate with the Infinite

Charles Krauthammer: Sacrificing Israel in the name of 'peace': Redux

Oct. 21, 2004

D. Sofer: Remembering, on his 30th yahrtzeit (anniversary of death), the protagonist /hero of one of World War II's most unusual human dramas

Zev Chafets: Kerry's forced tears

Everything's Relative: Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's strip tells like it is — even if it shouldn't be

Oct. 20, 2004

Jonathan Gurwitz: Jacques Derrida is dead --- maybe: ‘Deconstruction’ and the death of common sense

Tom Gross: A mild sign of hope in the media?

Oct. 19, 2004

Daniel Pipes: In Sunshine State, battle over coddling of accused Islamist terrorist at center of senatorial race

Jonathan Tobin: Doubts about 'Palestinian' credibility ought to sound alarm for journalists

Oct. 18, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Super powers

Martin Peretz: A President Kerry would be a disaster for Israel

Jeff Jacoby: Why marriage can't be left to the states

Oct. 15, 2004

Rabbi Berel Wein: Uniformity as a negative

Rabbi David Fohrman: Serpents of desire: Good and evil in the Garden of Eden

Oct. 14, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Should I fire a racist worker?

Gary Rosenblatt: Madonna's Challenge to Jewry

Oct. 13, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Zero -Sum Game: Decoding ‘Palestinian’ strategy helps us understand another threat

Ann W. O'Neill: Progress reported in lawsuit over alleged looting of ‘Gold Train’

Oct. 12, 2004

Frida Ghitis: Egyptian terrorists will succeed — in moving relations with Israel forward

Suzanne Fields: Fear and loathing in the Fatherland

Oct. 11, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: At U.N., No Division Between Aid and Terror

Charles Krauthammer: Terrorists' candidates?

Diana West: The unnerving ‘Plot’

Oct. 6, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: Simchas Torah: Love at the High Holidays' climax

Nancy A. Youssef: Israel's effort at outreach to
Iraq is — literally — rebuffed

Oct. 5, 2004

Daniel Pipes: What Kind of Airport Profiling?

Zev Chafets: Iran's nukes: Israel's on the case

Oct. 4, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Vulnerable and secure

Jonathan Tobin: Self-congratulatory stupor

Sept. 29, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: From Fasting to Feasting

Everything's Relative: Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's strip tells like it is --- even if it shouldn't be

Jeff Jacoby: In the Jewish time-warp

Sept. 28, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Does Jewish tradition favor income equality?

Tom Hundley: New film re-examines Hitler in a more humane light

Sept. 27, 2004

Abe Novick: Could Philip Roth's forthcoming novel tip the scales in favor of Bush?

Jonathan Tobin: Do Journalists Take Sides?

Paul Greenberg: Because the West dares to exist

Sept. 24, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: Yom Kippur: The fast track to love and forgiveness (INSPIRING, PROFOUND!)

Everything's Relative: Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel returns --- and in keeping with the spirit of the day, he's gone serious on us

Joel Mowbray: 'Palestinian' penchant for prevarication

Sept. 23, 2004

Suzanne Fields: Days of atonement and renewal

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: GET THEE TO A SYNAGOGUE, DAN

Sept. 22, 2004

Esther D. Kustanowitz: In the Margins: Imagining a ‘Book of Lives’

Jonathan Tobin: A monument to failure

Sept. 21, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Momentous moments

Daniel Pipes: Civil rights before safety

Sept. 20, 2004

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Down but not out

Yossi Klein Halevi & Michael B. Oren: Israel's unexpected victory over terrorism

Jonathan Tobin: Get Out Your Crystal Ball!

Sept. 15, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: Rosh Hashanna: Who's Judging?

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Rosh HaShonnah: A defense of the defenseless

Ari L. Goldman: Thank Heaven for the simple, spiritual life

Sept. 14, 2004

Ron Grossman: 350 years after first Jewish settlers, Judaism thrives in America

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: American Jews should consider emulating the eagle, rather than the ostrich

Daniel Pipes: Beating terrorism by beatings — and worse?

Sept. 13, 2004

Joel Greenberg: Tens of thousands of Israelis protest Sharon's withdrawal plan

Zev Chafets: The new fascism reunites one of history's great alliances

Diana West: Memo to Spielberg: We're facing a 'War of the Worlds'

Sept. 10, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Why man is greater than the angels

Mona Charen: Why Jews should support W

Sept. 9, 2004

Cal Thomas: Moderate, peaceful Muslims — where is the evidence?

Edward I. Koch: Muslim terrorists are victims: The view from NYTimes Land

Shaina Feinberg: City of Weasels: We Dump and Run, But We Can't Hide

Sept. 8, 2004

Noam Scheiber: What Orthodox Jews will be doing for Bush — and, more importantly, why it matters

Frank J. Gaffney Jr.: FBI witch hunt?

Melanie Phillips: Terrorism only became such a potent weapon because the West allowed it to happen

Sept. 7, 2004

Zev Chafets: The jihadists' dream is a return to empire

Mark Steyn: Being sad isn't enough

Dennis Prager: They shoot children, don't they?

Daniel Pipes: They're TERRORISTS — not activists or victims

Sept. 3, 2004

Rabbi Berel Wein: Improve oneself or society?

Ike Seamans: ‘Fair and balanced’ Muslim-style

Sept. 2, 2004

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis: An American question and vision

Steven Stalinsky: Kerry picks up another important endorsement — Egypt's

Sept. 1, 2004

Jeff Dunetz: Terrorism is not a crime!

Jonathan Tobin: Shadow on the Alliance

August 31, 2004

Eli Lake: ‘Spy’ case not what originally claimed by GOTCHA! media

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr: Who is the real enemy?

Jonathan Mark: And on Tuesday the Rebbetzin spoke at the GOP convention

August 30, 2004

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs: About that ‘spy’ for
Israel in the Pentagon …

Gabriella Burman: Religious mall rats?

August 27, 2004

Chayyei Sarah: A fair fare

Shmarya Rosenberg: A blind date, prayer and a double blessing

Daniel Pipes: Prominent Islamist scholar banned from America — but for how long?

Feb. 11, 2004

Michael Freund: A CALL TO PSALMS

Jonathan Rosenblum: Mikey's song (INSPIRING!)

Jan. 26, 2004
Omer Bartov: Did Hitlerism die with Hitler? (SUPERB!)

Oct. 29, 2003
Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Bill Tammeus: We can't live fully without books