Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

Discontent at the Kotel

Mutual respect calls for the newcomers to desist from defiling the sanctity of the Kotel and worship there as did their ancestors. Op-ed.

The Haredi conundrum

Survey: Bnei Brak is Israel’s poorest and most densely populated city but its residents are Israel’s happiest. Dan Perry disapproves. Op-ed.

Hatred – Baseless and otherwise

Issues that promote Israel’s interests should be supported even if – perhaps, especially if – the coalition supports them. Op-ed.

Naftali Bennett's new "government of change"

The proposed government is one of strange bedfellows whose only common goal is ending Netanyahu’s historic reign. Op-ed.

Israel's political predicaments

A Bennett and Lapid government is like a table serving kosher and non-kosher food. It seems best to walk away and not take a chance. Op-ed.

Intended consequences of Guardian of the Walls

The existence of Hamas plays a practical role in Israeli calculations. Hamas is the counterweight to the two-state delusion Op-ed.

Rockets Red Alert - a new oleh's story

I just emerged from my safe room. One alarm, one rocket, no damage. Moving on. Op-ed.

Virtue shaming

The virtue-shamers want to live but not let us live. They seek not just to cancel people but to erase G-d from society, Op-ed.

Jewish and Democratic

For all the left's fear of the Jewish state becoming too Jewish, there is a clear danger of the democracy becoming undemocratic. Op-ed.

The Conversion controversy

The courts have no more right to opine on “who is a Jew” than they have to move Shabbat to Tuesday or Pesach to the winter. Opinion.

Let's leave Hitler and his henchmen out of the discussion

The riot at the Capitol was despicable – but Kristallnacht? The hyperbole is disgusting, especially coming from a native Austrian. Op-ed

An open letter: Israeli-Americans for Trump

Trump is an unabashedly pro-Israel president whose opposition to 'cancel culture' and an activist court.will spill over to Israel. Op-ed.

Life in the exile is a holding pattern: A brand new oleh speaks

In the Diaspora, we are not building as much as trying not to fall off a spiritual and physical ledge. Op-ed.

The Deal of the Century: Cautious pessimism

Open season

The Trump "Dayenu"

Abolish the Rabbinate?

Pushback on LGBT

The real Jewish identity

The challenge of gratitude

The Orthodox Union speaks

Sometimes the obvious needs to be said

Anatomy of a smear

The two-state chimera and liberal Jews

How "A Novel Idea" became a "Culture War"

The Kotel controversy

POTUS or POUTUS?

World War IV

'Open Orthodox' or 'Neo Conservative'?

Can America's 'Open Orthodox' movement claim to be Orthodox at all? And do Orthodox rabbis have a duty to save it from itself?