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MATZA: Mental Anguish TZviling Alert

PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 11 Dear Tzviling, Help! Passover is around the corner and I don’t know where to begin. I know I have to get rid of every […]

Religiously boycotting Israel

Ed Husain, a researcher with the Council of Foreign Relations, wrote a surprising piece last week in the New York Times on the Arab boycott of Israel. It was surprising...

The many faces of Jewish theft

MY career as a criminal began one hot summer afternoon when I was six years old and my mother suggested I help her clean out the closets. I was thrilled […]

Some dawns are golden, others are blood red

They laughed at the Nazis, too.? It behooves everyone inside Greece and elsewhere to see the ‘Golden Dawn’ for what it is: a frightening, growing, Nazi-like movement....

Insanity plea is often just an excuse

So, is there really no such thing as evil anymore? Are all the despicable murders attributable to a mental or emotional deficit beyond the control and responsibility of...

Angel’s tears

THE last time I saw him his health had already taken a turn for the worse. It was after another one-of-a-kind Chuck Vernoff Shabbos, permeated by his profound Torah...

How dangerous lies become truths

If “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on,” as Winston Churchill astutely observed, then secondhand journalism is...

Death saves Hugo Chavez from worse

One shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. So the saying goes. But, regrettably, there are exceptions. Hitler comes to mind. So does Stalin, Pol Pot and a host of other...

What is the kosher food system?

THE other day someone stopped me and asked if I can explain kosher to them. “Whenever I order protein shakes there is a choice of shakes that are kosher. What

Joan Rivers

Read on, and wonder. How could anyone, let alone anyone Jewish, let alone anybody with even a superficial knowledge of the Holocaust, comment on a dress worn by a German...