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The late Rabbi Reuven Biermacher, stabbed to death by a terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem on Dec. 23, 2015. Credit: Aish HaTorah.

Future Jewish leaders, how are you using your voice?

On the sixth yahrzeit of Rabbi Reuven Biermacher’s murder in Jerusalem, we need to ask ourselves how so many fellow Jews in the Diaspora remained silent.

December 15, 2021

Hanukkah menorah. Credit: Pixabay.

The Hanukkah story that Jews need to learn

Pressure to stamp out “hard-line Judaism” came from the Hellenists—the assimilated Jews. They resented the fact that their lives were made more difficult by a minority of their own people who refused to “give up their old ways.”

November 7, 2021

U. S. Representative Jamaal Bowman speaks during a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at NAN headquarters. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

Stop the anti-Semitic lies of Rep. Bowman and other inciters to violence

In the words of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: “The hate that begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews.”

May 23, 2021

An Arab youth slapping a yeshivah student on the light rail in Jerusalem on April 15, 2021. Source: TikTok Screenshot.

TikTok-inspired ‘Attack-a-Jew’ posts are a continuation of everything that’s come before

We must recognize the phenomenon for what it is—not an evil born of social media or other platforms or a political protest of any kind, but anti-Semitism, plain and simple.

April 25, 2021

Rep. Josh Harder (D-Calif., 10th District) visits the Glick Middle School in Modesto, California on Jan. 22, 2020. Source: Twitter.

California’s ethnic-studies curriculum is a serious issue for all of us

How can we stand up to defend our Jewish history being rewritten—or, worse, erased—if, as Jews, we aren’t even familiar with it or recognize when it’s being smeared?

February 22, 2021

Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel in March 2016. Credit: U.S. Embassy/Wikimedia Commons.

Trust and action: The US president’s first 100 days

President Joe Biden now has the opportunity to gain the trust of Israel and its supporters by demonstrating that he understands and respects the need for Israel’s security.

January 21, 2021

Dr. Howard Kaye and Aish HaTorah director Rabbi Steven Burg at Chabad of Poway in San Diego County in June 2019. Credit: Courtesy.

Finding light in the darkness at Chabad of Poway

Each and every one of us has a unique ability to be part of this fight. How will you fight darkness with light?

June 10, 2019