New York state educational authorities voted this week to enforce their curriculum preference on conscientiously objecting Jewish religious schools. A fierce and passionate popular reaction is boiling over in the communities affected by the government’s overreach. Jewish law requires respecting…

Yeshiva University (YU) was established in 1886 and serves as America’s flagship Modern Orthodox Jewish institution. Since its founding, YU has graduated some of the nation’s foremost Jewish thinkers and leaders who have led committed Jewish lives professionally and personally….

A newcomer to town attended daily Mincha minyan (Judaism’s mandatory afternoon prayers) at his shul but mysteriously always would rush away a few minutes later, right before the Maariv (mandatory evening services) would begin. Members of the congregation bad-mouthed him…

Nearly three weeks ago, I wrote of the saddest period in the annual Jewish calendar. This Saturday night and Sunday will mark the apex of tragedy. It is the Ninth Day of the Hebrew month of Av — better known…

There are approximately one million Orthodox Jews in the United States. The main group of Orthodox rabbis speaking on public policy matters is Coalition for Jewish Values. It speaks for 2,000 — two thousand — American rabbis. The largest collegial…

My wife, daughter, and I traveled east last week to go to a wedding. Before we headed back home, we went to visit my aunt. My dear aunt is in her 90s and just as much of a live wire…

Because my several thousand readers in The American Spectator seem mostly to be devout Christians (although rumor has it that Jews read me, too, as do agnostics and even anti-Semites), I present herein more universal thoughts rather than purely Judaic…

Last year, the Pew Research Center conducted a study on the current state of religious affiliation in America. Its polling suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a trend of a country becoming more secular. In its findings, 20 percent of…

Biden and Pelosi, you wanna blame guns and gun manufacturers for school shootings? It has been a longtime meme of the conservative Second Amendment pro-gun lobby that guns do not kill people; rather, people kill people. Look at Orthodox Jews…

Saturday It’s a gloomy, cloudy day here in Beverly Hills. On days like this, gloomy, cloudy thoughts come into my brain. Or, maybe it’s because it’s spring and it’s Prom Time and Prom Time back in 1962 was one of…