Avi Weiss

Elliot Engel listened. He spoke with clarity and purpose. And he never forgot where he came from; he never forgot his Jewish roots.

Rep. Eliot Engel during a visit to Manhattan College, in Riverdale, in 2019.

The mayor is failing to meet his obligations in protecting Jewish New Yorkers, writes the national president of AMCHA — the Coalition for Jewish Concerns.

Hebrew Institute of Riverdale honors Raba Sara Hurwitz, first publicly ordained Orthodox clergy

Today, July 8, marks 40 years since Kurt Waldheim — a man already known to have concealed his inhuman Nazi wartime crimes against civilians — was inaugurated as president of Austria

The Mayor of New York has turned the Jewish state, the Jewish people, and its democraticallye elected leader, into a collective Dreyfus. Op-ed.

I made my reputation as a rabbi based on loving every fellow human being; how can I decry New York City's mayor as an antisemite?

I made my reputation as a rabbi based on loving every fellow human being; how can I decry New York City's mayor as an antisemite?

In the past, I have written op-eds for the Times of Israel and other publications accusing Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City of using language that endangers Jews. The pieces were tough. They were meant to be. Since they appeared, a number of...

This year, the 25th anniversary of 9/11 falls on the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.