All Jews, irrespective of their stance on the Iran Deal, can participate in the “Day of Jewish Unity“. As Congress prepares to hold a monumental vote on the Iran nuclear deal, the outreach organization Acheinu has organized today, Sept 8, as a “Day of Jewish Unity” calling for “Jews around the world [to join] together to recite 2 chapters of Psalms in an attempt to deflect the acute danger that would result from allowing Iran a path to obtain nuclear warheads.” MJE (Manhattan

“This is our life here and I consider it an honor to serve and protect the Jewish people.” An army base in Hebron of 88 soldiers guards and protects approximately 600 Jewish residents living amongst nearly 40,000 Palestinians, and when I ask a 19 year old soldier how he feels serving in the 100 degree heat knowing that his Jewish friends in America are starting off to four years of fun in college — this is his response. This is a true soldier of Israel. Without deliberation,

This past Saturday night, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, over 300 young Jewish men and women flocked to MJE to participate in an age-old custom of staying up all night to study Torah. The learning part of the program began at 10:30 pm and continued until 4:45 am at which point our whole group ascended to the rooftop of MJE’s headquarters on West 86th Street to pray at sunrise. Other than MJE’s trips to Israel each year, this event is my favorite and I think I fi

One question I’ve always had in regard to the Seder: where is the blessing? We make a blessing before virtually every mitzvah in the Torah. Before we put on our Tefilin, before we shake the Lulav, before we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanna, there’s always a blessing, except it seems for the mitzvah we perform on the Seder night. The Torah tells us in four places: vhigadeta l’bincha bayom hahu- “and you shall relate (the story of the Exodus) to your sons on this night”, so the

After listening to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to AIPAC in which he justified his decision to address Congress tomorrow, I have just one comment: Get over it. The world needs to get over the political question as to whether Netanyahu should have accepted the invitation to speak before Congress and focus on the real issue: how best to deal with Iran. Israel and the United States have legitimate differences over how to prevent Iran from going nuclear and that is all we sh

The image of a man set on fire is haunting. The fact that this brutal act against a fellow Muslim was performed in the name of God makes it even worse. If this is not a call to moderate and peace loving Muslims to join the battle against ISIS and radical Islam, than I don’t know what is. The silence of moderate Muslims needs to be broken and I’m hoping that Jordan’s revulsion at their air pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh’s kidnapping and murder will propel them and other Muslim nation