Menachem Rosensaft
NEW YORK — Assume for a moment that Bernard Madoff, from his jail cell, was to submit a sworn affidavit that he ran a legitimate business, and that he is not, and never has been, a crook. Would an...
Some years ago, there was Binjamin Wilkomirski, the author of a purportedly autobiographical account of his years as a Jewish orphan during the Holocaust; he’s actually a Swiss-born Christian clari...
NEW YORK — In the interest of full disclosure, I do not belong to J Street, the liberal, simultaneously pro-Israel and peace-oriented advocacy group. I am also not a member of either Chabad-Lubavic...
“Don’t let the light go out, it’s lasted for so many years.” Peter, Paul and Mary in “Light One Candle” NEW YORK — In late December 1948, my parents said a very special Shehecheyanu prayer as th...
NEW YORK — At a time when Judaeophobia — a more accurate term than anti-Semitism in the context of Israeli-Arab or Jewish-Muslim relations — is on a stark upswing in the Arab street, it is importan...
NEW YORK — Cantor Azi Schwartz does not consider himself a soloist. “The role of a chazzan,” he says, “is similar to that of the first violinist or the conductor of an orchestra. A chazzan’s main ...
One key difference between U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) and the editor-in-chief of the Polish Catholic newspaper Gosc Niedzielny (Sunday Visitor) appears to be that while the former has apologiz...
NEW YORK — As we sat in our synagogues during the Days of Awe, we were repeatedly confronted with the importance our rabbis, our prophets and our sages have always placed on the concept of truth as...

