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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?

August 26, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Game Over?

Eric Mink: Is 'Reality TV' the secret weapon in the War on Terror?

August 25, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q. Is it ever right not to give charity?

Tom Siegfried: Wouk's fiction reveals facts of science, politics

August 24, 2004

Bret Stephens: Is Bush an Israeli shill? Or a Saudi one?

Daniel Pipes: Iraq's disappearing Christians

August 23, 2004

Jeff Dunetz: Prophet School

Alan Dershowitz: Boot U.S. apologist for Iran's bigotry

August 20, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: We are responsible for the process, not the result

Ask Wendy: Fine line between pestering and persisting; gift grabbing granny?; out of control 2 year-old

August 19, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: We may be ‘One’,
but which ‘One’?

Steven Stalinsky: Iranian talk of an attack on America

Lloyd Grove: The rude, the bad, the ugly

August 18, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Sublimating strife

Jeff Dunetz: Making better prisoners

August 17, 2004

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr: DIVEST TERROR!

Michael Matza: Will the ‘Palestinians’ learn to be careful about what they wish for?

August 16, 2004

Jeff Jacoby: How Arafat's gunmen suppress the news

Elliot B. Gertel: Joan of Arcadia: ‘Innocent’ teen drama makes mockery of religion

August 13, 2004

Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn: Of Baltimore Bills and Denver Dollars

Jonathan Tobin: Sucker's Bet

August 12, 2004

Edward I. Koch: I've been branded a ‘turncoat’

Neal M. Sher: Pursuing Terror's Financiers: Time to Get Serious About The Saudi Connection

August 11, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q. Should corporations contribute money to charity?

Rachel Ehrenfeld: Ashcroft slow to prosecute Muslim charities who fund terror groups

August 10, 2004

Bret Stephens: When breaking a taboo means guaranteed self-destruction

Peter A. Brown: Public interest vs. minority rights

August 9, 2004

Zev Chafets: Why not say it bluntly? Islam is an aggressive, violent political ideology

Bob Alper: Shmoozin' with shamayim (Heaven)

August 6, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: You are what you eat — or should be

Julia Gorin: Multi-culturalizing anti-Semitism: The ADL's fanaticism for fitting in

August 5, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Lessons from the other Warsaw Uprising

Suzanne Fields: Flip-flopping for the Jews

August 4, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: History on the heart

Ask Wendy: Non-intrusive=bad friend?; best friend's daughter is not for my son; bris-less grandsons

August 3, 2004

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: Islam is a religion of WHAT? II: A response to our critics

Daniel Pipes: A slick Islamist heads to jail

Joel Greenberg: ‘Palestine’ continuing to self-destruct, as Arab on Arab violence increases

August 2, 2004

Ike Seamans: The coming ‘Palestinian’ civil war?

David Grimes: New book teaches you how to beat the ?%^ out of a suspected terrorist

July 30, 2004

Aharon Granot: His role for life

Kaukab J. Smith: Dems becoming the party of Muslims?

July 29, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: When do we cross the line from good corporate citizenship to irresponsible management?

Steven Stalinsky: Arab Guide to the 2004 Election

July 28, 2004

Zev Chafets: 9/11 panel IDs the enemy: The time has come to call the West's foe by its name

Jonathan Tobin: America's Europhile candidate needs to address the continent's anti-Israel tilt

July 27, 2004

Rabbi David Aaron: Tisha B'Av: Celebrating Jewish sadness

Jonathan Rosenblum: Knowing what we are missing

Dennis Prager: Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers

July 26, 2004

Judy Lash Balint: Third longest ‘human-chain’ in history sends message to Israel's Sharon — and the world

Jonathan Tobin: Media tales of victims leave out the real culprit

Joel Mowbray: Arafat's poisonous reign finally being challenged

July 23, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: The road taken

Yossi Klein Halevi: Real danger in Hague ruling is a lot more sinister than about right to a security fence

July 22, 2004

Zev Chafets: The intifadeh is over — just listen

Frida Ghitis: West Bank and Gaza Arabs fearing what life will be like after Israel leaves

July 21, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: The Corporation and the Community, Part 1 Corporate Philanthropy

Jonathan Tobin: There's nothing wrong with a pandering platform

Nate Bloom: Jewz in the Newz

July 20, 2004

Dennis Prager: Presbyterian Church defames Christianity

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Just say 'NO'

Daniel Pipes: Palestinian anarchy

July 19, 2004

Herbert London: Why the world hates Israel

Richard Z. Chesnoff : Return the ‘Palestinians’ back to where they originated?

July 16, 2004

Rabbi Berel Wein: On the road again —
and again and again

Tom Siegfried: Asimov's ‘Foundation’ theories on society move from fiction to academia

Charles Krauthammer: U. N. will go to any length to condemn Israel, including enabling murder

July 15, 2004

Douglas Bloomfield: She's baaaack!

Erick Stakelbeck: Will the Peach State give America its first significant electoral victory for a champion of the radical Muslim cause?

July 14, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: Do I have to cooperate with co-workers if we're in competition for benefits?

Jonathan Tobin: International court grants Arabs a right to terror and Israelis a right to die

Binyamin Netanyahu: A fence of last resort

July 13, 2004

Rabbi Aryeh Spero: French Indifference to Evil Escalates

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: These Arabs fear being branded traitors — and you know what that can mean! — because they find the security fence beneficial

July 12, 2004

Alan Dershowitz: Hague deserves world's contempt for anti-Israeli bigotry

Yossi Klein Halevi: The pattern of Palestinian rejectionism

July 9, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Mastery over oneself

Jonathan Tobin: Political pulpit-phobia

July 8, 2004

Adam Dickter: Hamas Link On Madison Avenue?

Geneive Abdo: Can a parliament of leaders from traditional religions and those with a more New Age flavor save the world from itself?

July 7, 2004

S. Horowitz: The Wandering Jew, updated

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: Islam is a religion of WHAT?

July 6, 2004

Daniel Pipes: The FBI loses its way

Steven Stalinsky: Saudis behind surge of beheadings

July 2, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: The hallmark of a person

Nate Bloom: Rivers of Babylon Piece Creates Flood of Reader Letters — Here's My Answer to a Few

July 1, 2004

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and Michael Matza: Israeli High Court orders changes to placement of security barrier, even at risk to Jewish state's security

Joel Mowbray: Nice talk can't hide U.N.'s anti-Jewish bigotry

June 30, 2004

Jonah Goldberg: The New N-Word

Betsy Hart: When girls' civilizing influence turns brutal

June 29, 2004

Zev Chafets: When both houses of Congress voted to show support of Israel last week Kerry was MIA --- that should be sending a potent message to friends of the Jewish state

Daniel Pipes: Israel's wayward prime ministers

June 28, 2004

Steven Stalinsky: Must-see Saudi TV

Lisa Haddock: New book looks at life and love in a Jerusalem few see

June 25, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: A spiritual budget

Jonathan Tobin: Attempts to cast the war in Iraq as a plot should give its critics pause

Jeff Jacoby: Anti-Semitism and the UN

June 24, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: What does Judaism say about the work ethic?

Dr. Ergun Mehmet Caner: Moore's 'hate-riotism'

June 23, 2004

Amy H. Lederman: The good, the bad and the human

Walter Williams: Will the West survive?

June 22, 2004

Dennis Prager: So, we're hated

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: The company Powell keeps

Michael Freund: How Wen-Jing Became 'Shalva'

June 21, 2004

Suzanne Fields: One noisy nation, under …?

Jeff Dunetz: Let Madonna — OOPS! I mean ‘Esther’ — take the blame

June 18, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Quantum leap to evil

Charles Krauthammer: Israel's Intifada Victory

June 17, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Creatures and teachers

Toby Klein Greenwald: The Mommy who busted the bomber

Jason Maoz: JWR in the news

June 16, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Too high a Wall

Michelle Malkin: America's insane asylum for terrorists

June 15, 2004

Dick Polman: Jews for Bush?

Bret Stephens: Book seeks to end Jewish support for Israel

June 14, 2004

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Thrill-seekers don't know what they're missing

Jeff Jacoby: Mutilations and Muslim law

June 11, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Emotion v. intellect

Steven Stalinsky: The Making of A Mid-East Conspiracy: Nicholas Berg Was Not Beheaded

June 10, 2004

Zev Chafets: The only good infidel is a dead infidel

Gal Luft: How would Reagan end the Muslim madness?

June 9, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Can a gift to charity ever substitute for paying what we owe?

Jonathan Tobin: Reagan's place in Jewish history rests on more than record number of votes

June 8, 2004

Natan Sharansky: The prisoners' conscience

Daniel Pipes: 'Don't Be Afraid, We Won't Kill Muslims'

Dennis Prager: Taliban come to L.A.

June 7, 2004

Doron Kornbluth: Ronald Reagan's Jewish visions

Lewis A. Fein: Now he belongs to the ages

June 4, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Humility: The finest of all traits

Nate Bloom: More Tears by the Rivers of Babylon: Jewish Servicemen Killed in Iraq

June 3, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Articles of faith

Jonathan Tobin: Pause and Remember

June 2, 2004

Michelle Malkin: The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal

Dayle Shockley: A child's lessons start early

June 1, 2004

Greg Crosby: How we will lose the Islamo-Fascist War

Daniel Pipes: 'If you are Muslim, you are suspect'

May 28, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: In quest of spirituality

Jonathan Tobin: The same old song

Zev Chafets: Cold feet and cold beers

May 25, 2004

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Shavuos: The eternal vow

Jay D. Homnick: Desert (brain)storm

Dennis Prager: The greatest sin

May 24, 2004

Martin Peretz: Lonely crowd

Alan Dershowitz: Does oppression cause homicide bombings?

Stefan Kanfer: On the Fritz

May 21, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Beyond physical limitations

Rabbi Berel Wein: Not ‘man of the people’, but
‘man for the people’

Jonathan Tobin: Politics and pictures

May 20, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Does favoring local labor discriminate against the truly needy?

Ask Wendy: Wife letting herself go; kid wants to ban dad from bar mitzvah; visiting mom has nerves rattled

May 19, 2004

Michael Freund: Who does Powell think he's kidding?

Bob Alper: To die for

May 18, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Why interfere with ‘love’?

Daniel Pipes: Threat to the West is European import with Islamic accent

Dennis Prager: The news media and Nick Berg

May 17, 2004

Jay D. Homnick: To be a Jew: What the murderers of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl knew

Nate Bloom: Jewz in the Newz

May 14, 2004

Rabbi Berel Wein: Striving

Faygie Levy: Hoagies & Hasidics

May 13, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: Right now I can't find an employer who needs an MBA, so for the jobs I'm seeking I'm overqualified. Can I omit my MBA from my resume?

Jonathan Tobin: Tortured reasoning

May 12, 2004

Sharon First: Blessing the tree of life

Joe Berkofsky: Videotaped execution of U.S. Jew not shaking commitment to bringing democracy to Iraq

May 11, 2004

Daniel Pipes: The human comedy of the coming Muslim Europe

Dennis Prager: Shame on the news media, too

May 10, 2004

Sidney Zion: Sharon is down, but far from out

Jeff Jacoby: Making the case for parochial school

Jimmy Breslin: No joke, he stole it all

May 7, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: The world is a mirror

Jeff Jacoby: Abandoning Gaza will not end terrorism

May 6, 2004

Roger Severino: Score one for the faithful in the culture wars!

Jonathan Tobin: Why Did They Do It?

May 5, 2004

Joel Mowbray: About that Israel-bashing letter to prez, consider the source

Michelle Malkin: CAIR's war on talk radio

May 4, 2004

Jonathan Mark: Yakov Birnbaum’s Freedom Ride

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen: And the world still remains silent

May 3, 2004

Joel Greenberg: Likud referendum a blow to Sharon, party's stability

Jonathan Tobin: Unilaterally Yours

April 30, 2004

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: The Divine is present where He is welcomed

Yossi Klein Halevi: Kabbalah goes Hollywood

Charles Krauthammer: The Real Mideast 'Poison'

April 29, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Can I defend myself against workplace blame-shifting?

Mortimer B. Zuckerman: A wall — and a way forward

April 28, 2004

Michael Feldberg: The Making of a Jewish Citizen

Mark Steyn: Why the Palestinians are in such a state

April 27, 2004

Jonathan Mark: Satmar's Sisters of Mercy

Zev Chafets: Columbia U's new friends

April 26, 2004

Mark Steyn: Mideast instability? Bring it on

Jeff Jacoby: America-hatred among the Arabs

Bret Stephens: The meaning of Vanunu

April 23, 2004

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The secrets of ‘Ein Keloh-enu’

Jonathan Tobin: A historic shift

Alan Dershowitz: Back Bush on extra-judicial killings

April 22, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: Is it ethical to buy from low-wage suppliers?

Melanie Phillips: The hard lessons of terror (BRILLIANT!)

April 21, 2004

Rick Jervis: Your institution doesn't deserve government protection, you're religious!

Michael Graham: THEY HATE ME! THEY REALLY HATE ME!

April 20, 2004

Dennis Prager: People are beautiful, the world stinks

Daniel Pipes: The Palestinians' unmitigated disaster

Cal Thomas: Sharon's big gamble

April 19, 2004

Jeff Jacoby: Faith in the depths of hell

George Will: Mideast Realism: Why the prez backed Sharon

April 16, 2004

Rabbi Y. Y. Rubinstein: Big Worries (MUST READ!)

Jonathan Tobin: The Javits Factor

April 15, 2004

Sidney Zion: Sharon's master move

Hillel Halkin: There was a plan

April 14, 2004

Michael Freund: White House Lessons

Ask Wendy: Bat mitzvah gift bounced — now what?; senior wants to move to new facility in another daughter's town; CFO opens employee's mail

April 9, 2004

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: To be a matza

Andrew Silow-Carroll: He's making a list, checking it twice…

April 8, 2004

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Passover: The freedom to serve

Jonathan S. Tobin: There's no such thing as an intellectual justification for Palestinian murderers

April 5, 2004

Rabbi Harvey Belovski: Multimedia tool of antiquity

Rabbi Avi Shafran: The Karpas conundrum

JPaul Greenberg: The search

Leonard Felder: Meshuganeh relatives are good for you

April 2, 2004

Rabbi Berel Wein: The Hagadah: Story of a People in flux

Rabbi Yaacov Polskin: A truly American Passover

Jacob Berkman: Tastes great, less chametz

April 1, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Tenth Plague Revisited

Suzanne Fields: Hope and fear in Germany

Michael Arnold Glueck: The Horseradish Chronicles: The Pain of chrain

March 31, 2004

Abe Novick: Morphing of terrorist image

Elliot Gertel: Along Came ‘Toxic Jewish Women’

March 30, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: The magnificence in the mundane

Yaffa Ganz: A matter of life and death

Dennis Prager: What does 'Judeo-Christian' mean?

March 26, 2004

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Do thoughts count?

Joel Mowbray: Why are Jews lending legitimacy to dangerous Muslim groups?

Jonah Goldberg: Palestinians' use of kiddy bombers appalling

March 25, 2004

Mark Steyn : We tried appeasement once before

William Neikirk: The Pledge finally gets its day in (High) Court

March 24, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Yassin's death is justice long overdue

Paul Greenberg: NI-I-CE TERRORIST

Cal Thomas: Living and dying by the sword

March 23, 2004

Wesley Pruden: A sheik departs, very, very quickly

Joel C. Rosenberg: And when Israel actually applies the Bush Doctrine?

March 22, 2004

Rabbi Y. Y. Rubinstein: When political discourse misses the point

Nate Bloom: Grammy Jews

March 19, 2004

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Is intimacy holy? For whom?

Jonathan Tobin: No Way Out of War

March 18, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Do I need to report an undercharge if it will indict the cashier?

Libby Lazewnik: Person To Person

March 17, 2004

Jay D. Homnick: Yanqui go home

Tom Purcell: When Americans pretend to be 'Irish'

March 16, 2004

Dennis Prager: It's the heart versus the Bible

Carrie Devorah: Murder at the Hague

March 15, 2004

James Kuhnhenn: Jews' loving embrace of Dem front-runner is far from certain

Jeff Jacoby: The cancer of anti-Semitism in Europe

March 12, 2004

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: The world is not the Divine's place

Bill Tammeus: 99 years of proof: Albert Einstein is still right after decades of verification

March 11, 2004

Lawrence F. Kaplan: Tim Robbins' Devious Plot

Julia Gorin: Will we fail to learn from another experiment in Muslim diversity?

March 10, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: Tap dancing to Washington: Instead of partisan spin, supporters of both candidates should hold their men accountable

Lisa J. Huriash: Myths easily spring up, but take them with grain of kosher salt

March 9, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: When do I have to return a lost object? When can I keep it for myself?

Daniel Pipes: Capturing Osama

March 8, 2004

Jeff Jacoby: Same-sex marriage vs. civil rights

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen: Are lunatics running the Arab asylum?

March 5, 2004

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Purim and the Ultimate Question: Why?

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: The highest presence is absence

March 3, 2004

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The Book of Esther: The Story of Human Importance

Leo Lieberman: The Wise, the Wicked and the Fool

March 2, 2004

Jeff Dunetz: Is Kofi Annan missing?

Ethel G. Hofman: Sunny, Zesty Shalachmones

March 1, 2004

Alan M. Dershowitz: Stop terrorists' vehicle of choice

Paul Wieder: NEW PURIM PARTY MUSIC!

March 1, 2004

Jonathan Tobin: A safe place for what?

Jonathan Gurwitz: The other fence

Diana West: Building fences in Israel and America

Feb. 27, 2004

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: The Real Wonder Bread

Paul Greenberg: The U.N., the Hague and justice

Feb. 26, 2004

Frank James: High Court rules states can deny scholarships to divinity students

Stephen Henderson: U.S. Supreme Court takes up issue of art looted by Nazis

Feb. 25, 2004

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Zero-sum game

George Will: The Left's Anti-Semitic Chic

Feb. 24, 2004

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: What Bach could have taught Spinoza about Judaism

Jonathan Tobin: The Children of 'Commentary'

Feb. 23, 2004

Joel Mowbray: Alleged traitor's Saudi influence

Jeff Jacoby: The courage of Muslim moderates

Feb. 20, 2004

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Rethinking verbal abuse

Rabbi Berel Wein: Jews and money

Feb. 19, 2004

The Jewish Ethicist: Should I tell a clerk about a petty shoplifter?

Ask Wendy: Purse v. propriety; poor sport or do the right thing?; changing wills after breakup

Feb. 18, 2004

Evan Osnos: At Arab bastion of ‘enlightenment’ student politicians campaign on which party has killed more Israelis

Joel Mowbray: Don't be fooled by European Union's move against Palestinian Authority

Feb. 17, 2004

Joe Aaron: Our own worst enemies?

Ken Garfield: Keeping kosher the Krispy Kreme way

Feb. 13, 2004

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Between ten and seven: A spiritual distinction

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: Destiny: A Chassidic love story

Feb. 12, 2004

Edward I. Koch: Yes, Jews do engage in anti-Semitic behavior

Jonathan Tobin: Don't Bow to the 'Beeb'

Cal Thomas: Do Sharon and Bush grasp they are helping create a terrorist breeding ground?

Feb. 11, 2004

Michael Freund: A CALL TO PSALMS

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkle's Everything's Relative --- the Jewish Gen-X strip that crosses cultures and generations. Online exclusively at JWR

Feb. 10, 2004

Daniel Pipes: About Those Israeli 'Settlements'

Steve Lipman: Google Goes Yiddish

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