[Op-Ed By Yossi Gestetner] As frum Jews, we often take for granted the freedoms that we are privileged to enjoy.  Our community simply assumes that our elected officials will take the necessary steps to ensure that we can practice our religion in accordance with the tenets of our faith. Unfortunately, it is the assumption that everything will [...]

As the campaign to replace Anthony Weiner for NY-9 heats up, both candidates rolled out their endorsements. After receiving a key endorsement from former Gov. George Pataki this week, Bob Turner, the Republican candidate, announced the support from Assemblyman Dov Hikind. Hikind’s support is noteworthy as he crossed party lines and endorsed Turner over his [...]

The anger being expressed against the Government of Turkey by Israelis on board Turkish Airlines flight 793 on Monday (Sept. 5th) is indeed understandable, a natural reaction to the deplorable behavior of security officials in the airport in Istanbul, but what is even more outrageous, and unforgivable, in the deafening silence of the Israel Ministry [...]

[By Patrick Brennan for National Review] The last time New York’s Ninth Congressional District sent a Republican to Congress, Warren G. Harding was president and wide swaths of Queens were still cornfields. Thanks to Anthony Weiner’s digital indiscretions, Bob Turner has a chance to break that streak. A new poll indicates that the race is at the [...]

Orthodox-Jews gain much when a fellow orthodox-Jew represents them in Congress. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) often came to the rescue of the Jewish community. Whether it was religious tolerance issues or Israel, Sen. Lieberman was a steadfast supporter of the community and served their needs. With his departure, the Jewish people will unquestionably experience a [...]

[Op-Ed By Yossi Gestetner] You gotta love it when people who sit at dry TV sets in DC or in dusty basements tell you that preparing for Irene – the Hurricane that killed someone in your neighborhood; left you without power for a day; flooded your friend’s house with five feet of water; disrupted food and [...]

The folllowing is a Daily News Op-Ed: Note to pols: Too much is better than not enough. Or as mom always said, better safe than sorry. Those words of wisdom are political winners. Sure, Irene wasn’t quite as advertised. Plenty of New Yorkers grumbled that mandatory evacuations and constant warnings were an extreme overreaction, but history will remember Hurricane [...]

The following is an op-ed piece that was written by Esther Pollard, the wife of Jonathan Pollard, which appeared in The Jerusalem Post: The extensive powers of clemency the American Constitution grants to the president are his solemn responsibility. This executive privilege is bestowed to enable the president to safeguard the rights of all American citizens. In cases [...]

[The following Op-Ed is by Michael Daly for the NY Daily News & was published on March 15th following the Japan earthquake and the Fukushima Nuke Plant disaster.] Gaze up the Hudson River and hope, hope, hope our regulators are right. Hope they could not possibly be as wrong as the regulators in Japan who said their nuclear reactors [...]

The following is an Op-Ed written by Al Sharpton twenty years after the Crown Heights riots. It appears in this mornings NY Daily News: Twenty years after the Crown Heights riots, the city has grown, and I believe I have grown. I’d like to share a few of my reflections about the choices I made, including [...]