Rabbi Shmuley: Governor Cuomo, Prayer Is an 'Essential' Service

What Cuomo failed to recognize is that faith is a vaccine for hopelessness and worship an antibody against despair. People need to believe that they’re going to live.
What Cuomo failed to recognize is that faith is a vaccine for hopelessness and worship an antibody against despair. People need to believe that they’re going to live.
Those who said Trump would be the next Hitler should acknowledge that they were wrong, even if they want to vote for the alternative.
The decision of the Nobel committee should be based on which person did the most to ensure that there is less war and greater peace. That is Trump.
For us Jews, the anniversary of the end of World War II is pregnant with meaning, as it marks the end of the Holocaust, the greatest crime in world history.
When China was a place free from coronavirus but riddled with dictatorship, human rights abuses, and political oppression, no one had any problem visiting and doing business with it.
But Cory’s stunning unfaithfulness in abandoning the world’s only Jewish state is now being rewarded by AIPAC which, in an act of mystifying absurdity, has honored him with the opportunity to address 18,000 pro-Israel activists in Washington, DC.
When it comes to the world’s one and only Jewish state, Israel is really “feeling the Bern.” And not in a good way.
If AIPAC can apologize to the Democratic party for a mistake they made on Facebook, they can apologize to President Donald Trump for a mistake they made before 20,000 of their members.
While many Iranian officials have threatened genocide, Qasem Suleimani was actually tasked with it. Trump brought him to justice.
President Trump, unlike his predecessor, put Iran's regime on the defensive. Now is no time to let them off the hook.
President Donald Trump once again proved his unequaled friendship with Israel earlier this month when his administration declared that the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") was not illegal.
It is not for me to say why Roseanne sent the tweet or what was in her heart. It is for me to say that Roseanne seeks to repent and make amends.
President Donald J. Trump has rid America of the shame of the Iran nuclear deal, which completely overlooked all of Iran’s sins.
Natalie Portman's cowardly decision to abandon Israel as it is fighting a war with terrorists trying to overrun its border is shocking and hypocritical.
Poland's restrictive Holocaust law must be abolished so that misunderstandings can be addressed honestly and Polish-Jewish relations can improve.
On March 8, the World Values Network will honor Caitlyn Jenner as a champion of Israel at our Sixth Annual Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala, honoring men and women who stand up for human rights, fight genocide, and promote human dignity.
We are at a historic moment when the Iranian regime can be destroyed. Obama let the moment pass in 2009. President Trump and other world leaders cannot.
It's so sad to see a pop star like Lorde going over to the dark side of bigotry and antisemitism at such a young age.
Donald Trump is not perfect and I have offered my share of criticism. But to overlook the incredible friendship he continues to show Israel and Jewish people is to violate the core Jewish principle of gratitude.
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged that he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. He has now made a courageous announcement making good on his campaign promise.
The Qatar blockade is working. It must remain crystal clear to the men of Doha that only real change, and not paid campaigns, will ever serve to rescue them.
The Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is coming to America. This year, he is bearing gifts.
Every now and then, former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters rises like a ghost from the depths of his own depravity to spew his blatant Jew-hatred shamelessly across the airwaves.
The lesson of the Western Wall debate, as always in the Middle East, is that the real danger to peace is not from people of goodwill, but from extremists and fundamentalists who only know how to disagree with their opponents by demonizing them.
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