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The bottom line is that the highest performing middle schools will start admitting many sixth graders who score lower on standardized tests that has been the case in the past.
It will be recalled that the thrust of the Trump campaign was to roll back the creeping liberalism that he said had overtaken America.
Given the president’s previous pledge that he would only favor a “two state solution” if both Israel and the Palestinians agreed, this comment is sure to create a ruckus.
And now we know that the effective head of the Department of Justice, Rod Rosenstein, has taken to discussing a coup against Mr. Trump with officials and Cabinet members.
The request for the information was made to the Department of Education in May of 2017 but Department officials failed to comply.
He referenced the open secret that most of the aid for Palestinian causes was misspent anyway.
According to the Associated Press, Israel had claimed that on Monday its fighter jets were on a mission targeting a Syrian military facility involved in supplying weapons to Hezbollah.
President Trump has just ordered the documents to be declassified and this is truly a story with legs.
And then there was the cut-off in aid because the PA would not suspend its stipends to terrorists who were either killed or jailed by Israel.
Events in recent weeks reveal that the Trump administration is, in fact, taking a rather broad view of the changes it has in mind.
One wonders what they thought would be overlooked if they didn’t have access to research memoranda he drafted providing options on policy to presidents?
The “fake news” accusation – popularized by President Trump and now embraced by many Americans disenchanted with the mainstream media – is not easily characterized. To be sure, it suggests that reporters – and certainly commentators and pundits – spin and sometimes make up facts in promoting a particular fictive reality. But it is also useful […]
Yet, for the Times, the lack of virtual symmetry between public and private school curricula is not the beginning of the inquiry, but the end of it.
His refusal to go along to get along didn’t always endear him to his colleagues and some of his policy choices were not always universally appreciated.
The yeshivas are being accused of not offering a curriculum “substantially equivalent” to that offered in the public schools.
How does someone who has been involved in serious politics since his teenage years (under the tutelage of his eminent father), and served as New York’s governor and attorney general, not have the smarts to foresee what critics would make of such a statement?
So what should the government do if an employer claims the anti-discrimination laws force him to violate his religious beliefs?
It is an interesting thing he does – suggesting that Israel's adherence of eternal verities is a sign of the country “losing its way.”
She was the wife of Rav Reuven Feinstein, shlita, the rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Staten Island, and contributed mightily to his work there and for the Torah world generally.
Should a media that knowingly stirs racial violence be classified as a friend or a foe of the American people?
Not only was the white nationalist crowd much smaller than last year, members of Antifa were recorded attacking police officers, pelting them with eggs, fireworks, and water bottles at both venues.
There were calls for The Times to reconsider giving an editorial seat to someone who openly thinks of people, not as individuals, but as members of a group.
It will also be recalled that last year a number of Republican participants in a softball game were targeted by a Bernie Sanders supporter, which resulted in the serious wounding of a congressman.
By contrast, at great political sacrifice, the late Governor Mario Cuomo, the current governor's father, opposed the death penalty, citing several principled arguments, including that it was not an effective deterrent. The fact that he himself was a Catholic was irrelevant to the debate.
She viscerally portrayed all Palestinian actions in opposition to Israel as legitimate protest – even those that are part of a terrorist master plan.
One wonders, though, how these critics would explain why an American president, duly invested with the power to conduct the nation’s foreign policy, should be unduly restricted in the manner in which he carries out his duties.
But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society.
Although Kushner’s and Greenblatt’s direct focus is Hamas, what they write applies to Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority as well.
A careful reading of the new law suggests that the rights of non-Jews are not harmed by it.
The Obama administration had come up with a virtual roadmap that guided schools how to push the envelope but also survive judicial scrutiny.
She admitted she is “not the expert on geopolitics on this issue" but said, "I just look at things through a human rights lens.”
Moreover, since there is no way the U.S. government can force the accused to appear in a U.S. court, the probability is that the presumption of innocence will stand.
Literally within seconds of the announcement of Kavanaugh's nomination, Greenblatt tweeted that Kavanaugh lacked the “independence and fair treatment for all that is necessary to merit a seat on the nation’s highest court.”
The incident recently came to light when the driver filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking unspecified damages from the TLC and the return of his license.
Generally speaking, Kavanaugh will likely be a far more reliable conservative vote than Justice Kennedy was.
Israel21c reported that the technology behind these radio units took 10 years to develop and is exclusive to Maxtech.
Amazingly, the judge argued that the Frenkels had assumed the risk of deadly violence by living close to the Green Line and sending their son to school over it.
The president was accused of giving his seal of approval to the white supremacists.
To have ruled otherwise would have been to invite second-guessing by the courts to any and all presidential actions.
It should be noted that the Democratic Socialists of America, with which Ms. Ocasio-Cortez identifies, supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.
But what those courts did was tantamount to opening up any presidential action to an inquiry into his motives and thereby create the possibility of unceasing hamstringing of presidential activity.
Although a senior elected official, she seems to have gone rogue, urging opponents of the Trump administration to confront and harass its members as they go about their daily lives.
To be sure, Russia and Iran are both significant presences in the area since both were part of the effort to defeat the opposition to Assad, and there is a distinct air of tension between the two.
Significantly, the demonstrators are pointedly calling for more attention to be paid to domestic concerns and not to the alleged depredations of the U.S. and Israel.
U.S. law requires separating a child when an adult becomes the subject of a legal proceeding involving detention.
It is sad that in these topsy-turvy times, identifying with the president of the United States can be controversial and even hazardous to your health.
The Tosafos series will render accessible the rigorously analytical approach of the Baalei Tosafos to a far larger audience than it currently enjoys.
Papadoupolis’ connection to Israel? It seems that he had a long history of working on eastern Mediterranean energy issues and advocated that there should be closer diplomatic and economic bonds between Israel and the United States.
In other words, utilizing a familiar device in Supreme Court jurisprudence, Justice Kennedy decided the case on the easiest grounds available without having to reach conclusions on more momentous ones.
Plainly, Israel has much to offer; if the Palestinians choose to ignore this emerging reality, it is at their great peril.
The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the passing of HaRav Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld, the Mattersforfer Rav.
Mr. Obama's shenanigans were front-page news for months.
Israel only targeted Hamas operatives but were nonetheless charged by the media with disproportionate use of force and the slaughter of innocent civilian protesters.
In our view, the jury erred in its guilty verdict, relying on evidence that we believe only tenuously, at best, linked him to criminal acts.
He shrewdly concluded that the Palestinian issue was no longer the center of gravity in the Middle East – if it ever really was.
While prosecutors typically charge one individual believed to be involved in a crime in a minor way to pressure him or her to “turn” on someone more heavily involved, the practice is ordinarily limited to participants in the same activity.
We think, however, that the president's primary motivation in leaving the deal now was a desire to undermine the regime of the mullahs and to cut it down to size by depriving it of funds to export terror and extend its influence around the world.
According to The Post, Cuomo is personally involved in trying to get a strong candidate to challenge Felder.
They emphasized that Ms. Huckabee used the word "had," not "has." Thus, Iran is not in violation of JCPOA, they said.
A federal judge, though, recently declared that the parsonage exemption is unconstitutional, finding that "the point of the law was to assist a subset of religious groups."
His 48th Assembly District includes Boro Park, which has one of the largest Jewish communities outside of Israel, and also part of Flatbush, which also contains a large Jewish constituency.
Plainly, if the DNC had confidence that the Mueller probe would turn up a Trump-Russia connection before the 2018 midterm elections, the lawsuit would hardly be needed.
Although not required by the NY Open Meetings Law, our reporter identified himself and began taking pictures, whereupon he was asked to stop.
Importantly, also, despite a reputation for impetuousness and penchant for eccentricity, he opted to enlist the participation of America’s top allies, England and France.
Cheney turned out not to be the leaker and so the hapless Libby had nothing to trade, even if he was inclined to cooperate.
Somehow, religious freedom has been pushed to the sidelines in the course of our slouch leftward despite its pivotal role in the history of the republic.
In the accident, five people were injured with two of the injured now under arrest as police are reportedly investigating whether they were driving while intoxicated.
Richardson apparently was contemplating making some controversial remarks as she asked that digital recorders be shut off before she began speaking.
We have heard several reliable reports of outright anti-Semitic comments from legislators – some from those in leadership positions.
Essentially, the Felder legislation addresses the impending shift and directs the Department as to how the “substantially equivalent” standard is to be met.
The court refused to review decision of a U.S. appeals court, which threw out a $655.5 United States District Court jury verdict against the PLO.
The folks who work at NYCHA are trying to hold something together…that really should’ve gotten investment a long time ago.
Both have long been vocal in their disdain for the agreement and their pro-Israel advocacy on Middle East issues.
These hapless folks simply got caught up in the investigation because they were thought to possess incriminating information about others and were vulnerable to being pressured by the threat of prosecution to give that information up.
Rabbi Hager was the leader of thousands of chassidim and, at the time of his death, is believed to have been the oldest chassidic rebbe in the world.
Rabbi Pelcovits was a formidable talmid chacham, widely recognized as one of the preeminent pulpit rabbis of the last half of the 20th century with unsurpassed oratorical skills.
The messages seem clear. For one thing, the U.S., the major Arab states, and some European ones are fast moving away from the notion that the PA is part of the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian controversy.
In fact, we have not heard of any criticism of Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic remarks from any Women’s March leader.
Should newspapers publish anonymous letters to the editor? For many years The Jewish Press has refused to do so, in line with standard industry policy. The rationale behind such a policy mainly boils down to the theory that a “person of integrity does not have to hide when they speak, or write,” as one former […]
There are also accounts of individuals and groups mounting challenges to religious circumcisions and ritual slaughter.
The World Values Network was founded by Rabbi Boteach to promote Jewish values but, as we see it, has now morphed into a group devoted to spread his teachings.
The reported plan was instantly denounced by the Palestinians who said, rather amazingly, that it was plainly too pro-Israel.
Israel is not a party to these discussions, but is being kept abreast of them.
After all this ambiguity, now finally comes the announcement that the U.S. will call its current consulate in Jerusalem its embassy and have U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman move there with some of his staff.
In a democracy, where the rule of law is transcendent, police investigators should not be permitted to run roughshod over a defendant’s right to a fair trial.
One of the IAF planes returning from the attack was shot down by Syria after the IAF had destroyed many Syrian anti-aircraft batteries in the area.
September 4, 2026 
