Rav Yitzchok Hutner's thoughts on the significance of the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks: 'The rekindling of the Temple Menorah on Hanukkah represents a new era of Torah transmission.'
The mayor-elect is spinning his wheels as he gaslights New Yorkers while pretending to recreate the wheel. Opinion.
Why does Zohran Mamdani hide the fact that 80,000 Asians, including his father, were expelled from Uganda in 1972? Opinion.
Socialist and Communist "messiah"-figures have long paved the way to political and everyday hell. Opinion.
An age-old phenomenon that is still with us, with one crucial change.
Acts of Chessed are especially important during the season of Rosh Hashanah, the holiday commemorating Creation, the greatest act of initial Chessed by God.
An ongoing religious, cultural, historical, military struggle and rivalry coming to a head today.
An ongoing religious, cultural, historical, military struggle and rivalry- Part II.
An ongoing religious, cultural, historical, military struggle and rivalry.
Why Zohran Mamdani, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar remain anti-Israel antisemites despite being educated and living in America. Opinion.
A young crop of radical Islamic smiling Jihadis and Intifadists subvert Academia, Public Relations and Politics to reach their Anti-Israel and Antisemitic goals in America. Opinion.
Doomed to failure, Mamdani's plans for New York sound like they were written by the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. He and his wife and parents' blatant antisemitism adds evil to the general madness. Opinion.
Modern Muslim tyrannies always lose. A one-by-one survey of five of the Muslim nations whose commonality is hating Israel: Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Pakistan. Part 2 (link to part I below).
The decline and fall of Islamic Regimes over the last 100 years.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as embodiments of God's divine attributes.
Reflections on the profundity of the first night of Passover,
Defending the Western World remains America's historical responsibility and destiny
Haman's sons would have to have been genuine converts to Judaism in that case. However, we (the Jewish People) do not accept Amalekite converts. Therein lies the paradox explained here by Rav Hutner.
For the last two thousand years antisemitism or hatred of the Jewish People has come from two main directions, Christianity and Islam.
The Jewish People found in both Rav Hutner and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Godly agents to help the world be a better place. A comparison of two giants.
Reviewing "Rabbi Hutner and Rebbe" by Rabbi Chaim Dalfin (Part One),
Part 2: Ongoing religious, cultural, historical, military struggle and rivalry.
Thoughts after the recent passing of Rav Mordechai Zev Yoffen (Jofen) Z"L Rosh Yeshiva of the Novardok Yeshiva in Brooklyn.
Five anti-Israel Arab dictatorships that went up in flames. Op-ed.
The song Od Yoter Tov caused a surge of optimism in Israel, lyrics written by Breslov Rabbis and sung by popular Israeli singers.
There was a major shift in the world of Torah scholarship 2,200 years ago. A new light was born in response to the Greeks' darkness that, paradoxically, strengthened Torah scholarship for all time.
A New Era of Torah Transmission. How and why it came about.
An introduction to the published correspondence of Rav Yitzchok Hutner, by Rabbi Israel Meir Kirzner.
The pattern of Jewish history throughout the ages is Churban, Golus, Geulah – Destruction, Exile, Redemption.
This lecture was translated into English during the renowned Rabbi's lifetime and is an enlightening read.
Challenges faced by Rav Yitzchok Hutner zts"l in the translation of his books and thought systems into English.
An English translation by Rabbi Eliakim Willner and a translated biography by Rabbi Shmuel Kirzner about Rav Yitzchok Hutner
Rabbi Yitzchok Alster's interpretations of Rav Hutner's works in English.
English translations Rabbi Pinchas Stolper nurture growth and interest in the English speaking world in Rav Hutner's writings and have made these briliant works available to the English-speaking reader.
The world inheriting the intermarried Kamala Harris is the sad ending to Joe Biden's career. The policies of Harris and her running mate spell an end to America's days of glory.
The love-hate relationship between Great Britain, the Jews and Israel.
Haredim are insular, most are non-Zionist while others are anti-Zionist, and only by peaceful means, allowing for voluntary conscription, will they serve. Opinion.
Irresistible force hits an immovable object as service in the IDF becomes a flashpoint in the confrontation between secular liberal society in Israel and the refusal of the traditionalist Haredim to comply.
For about 1,800 years, from the time of their defeat by the Romans to British rule, the Jews of the Land of Israel were pious and peaceful, accepting their fate as subjects of the occupying powers and praying for their Final Redemption from foreign occupation, persecution and exile.
Ignorance and antisemitism combined with pure malice and evil coalesce in the minds and hearts of Israel's enemies to cover up or turn a blind eye to direct Iranian support for terrorism and war against Israel. They are next. Op-ed.
Travesties of justice from the auto-da-fé in Spain, Dreyfus in France, Beilis in Russia, to the Nuremberg Laws in Germany and the ICJ & ICC in The Hague against Israel
Communism in the USSR and Nazism in Germany at their peak seemed insurmountable when they marched across the globe "triumphantly", but with the help of God they were defeated and crumbled.
The undermining of the West's will before WWII, during the Vietnam War and in Israel's war against Hamas follow a pattern. So it's not the first time. Opinion.
What nations like America do when they are attacked.
The Torah and Judaism do not hide from the topic of death and suffering and in fact early on in the Torah lay down the source of the problem in the first place.
There are three important Jewish holidays celebrating Jewish redemption each of which is the historical template and precursor of the establishment of the First, Second and Third Jewish Temples.
Part 5: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil
Part 4: Shabbos as the source of all holiness.
Part 3: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Founders and Pillars of the Jewish People.
Part 2: Stages and Patterns of World and Jewish History
There were general themes that emerged that were constants like axioms and premises in the vast Torah intellectual structure that Rav Hutner taught and built.
Difficult choices during difficult times. The Arabs of the Gaza Strip backed the wrong horse in this race and lost. They should pay for it. Op-ed.
Israel's army of Jewish soldiers is well aware of what genocide means because the Jewish People suffered a real genocide at the hands of the Nazis. There were no international aid organizations and shipments to relieve the suffering and hunger of Jews as they were shipped off to death camps. Op-ed.
A reality check for the world about Israel and the Jews..
A reality check for the world about Israel and the Jews.
A reality check for the world about Israel and the Jews. Part I.
Torah Templates of the past predict future patterns of Jewish History and Destiny.
The marriage of Esau the progenitor of Rome and the West to the daughter of Yishmael is no passing "romantic interlude" but a prediction.
Samson in war and peace as a metaphor for today's Israel.
The horrifying toll of Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, Arabs waging war and violating human rights. Look who criticizes Israel.
