In the latter part of the twentieth century, American Jewry witnessed a fascinating phenomenon: the teshuvah movement. Suddenly, there were hundreds of ba’alei teshuvah—returnees to Judaism—Jews who… Read more

One of the challenges of contemporary life is the treadmill we often unwittingly find ourselves on. The tempo of modern life simply does not allow time for reflection, for introspection, for… Read more

It’s no secret that we live in troubling, turbulent times. Anti-Semitism is growing worldwide, the threat of a nuclear disaster is becoming more and more of a reality and, to top it off, the economic… Read more

As I write these lines, a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza has just taken effect, bringing Israeli soldiers home, and ending, at least for now, the war in Gaza. Here in the United States, we are in the midst… Read more

Israel is a country built on immigration. In the early years of the State, Holocaust survivors came by the thousands, helping to build its infrastructure and contributing enormously to the fledgling… Read more

In 1964, in an article entitled “The Vanishing American Jew,” Look Magazine predicted the demise of American Jewry, and, of course, Orthodox Jewry along with it. Ironically, Look Magazine no longer… Read more

Growing up as I did in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn of the 1950s and 60s, my world was filled with Holocaust survivors. The grocer down the street had a number on his arm, as did the… Read more

A little over sixty years ago, more than six million of our people perished during the Holocaust. Many of the survivors, broken in body but extraordinarily resilient in spirit, went on to build the… Read more

No matter where we live, terror is a cruel phenomenon that we have grown to accept as an unfortunate fact of twenty-first-century life. Indeed, the current war on terror that our nation is facing is a… Read more

When each issue of Jewish Action hits the newsstands, I eagerly—though somewhat guardedly—await the inevitable feedback from readers. We, of course, thoroughly appreciate the thoughtful praise we… Read more