יום שלישי, ל׳ חשוון תשפ״זTuesday, November 10, 2026
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Let us not forget that Mrs. Clinton responded 39 times to the FBI that she could not answer their questions due to her concussion.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Monday that he anticipates the president will veto the legislation but that it hasn’t been presented to him yet.
Her soaring insight, creativity, and erudition drew untold numbers to her message.
A small turnout is expected this coming Tuesday, September 13. Therefore, your votes could very well make the difference.
The appeals court held, however, that American courts had no jurisdiction over the groups because there were insufficient connections to the U.S.
The scourge of Islamist extremism has already altered for the worse the way citizens of England, France, and Germany go about their daily lives.
The conflict calls to mind the now familiar differences between AIPAC and J Street that have emerged over the past few years.
Again, this story has dominated the news for days and is doubtlessly known to a wide audience. Yet, for all its potentially serious import, it has still to be fully explored.
He and his family have been key to the remarkable renaissance the borough has enjoyed in recent years.
In any event, Mr. Pollard seems unable to persuade federal judges to override the dictates of our prosecutorial bureaucracy and cut him some slack.
Notwithstanding the media spin at the time, led by The New York Times, there were no two sides to the violence.
The candidates we have endorsed are capable, bright, personable, and enthusiastic, and have shown they work well with the Jewish community and all the many other ethnic and religious communities that comprise or will comprise their districts.
As a leader who understands that freedom and earned success are the pathways out of the ghetto, I’m disappointed, too, in any Republicans who feel they need to tiptoe around the patently obvious issue at hand...
The voters will ultimately have to decide how far she can reasonably rely on the competence issue.
Her election to the civil court would be an inspiration to all frum girls, from chassidic as well as non-chassidic
Mr. Trump insisted he had made “a lot of sacrifices,” elaborating that he had “created thousands and thousands of jobs” and “built great structures.”
Although many of the dictators in question were savage despots, they kept their countries together.
At bottom, J Street believes the Palestinians are fundamentally right in asserting entitlement to most of the land Israel conquered in 1967; that their cause is therefore a just one; and that they will not and cannot be expected to abandon their claims in any significant way.
What was particularly intriguing was a somewhat garbled discussion about using Mr. Sanders’s faith – or lack thereof – to dilute support for him.
She repeatedly condemned the growth of Jewish settlements over the green line, at one point calling for “a stop to settlements – not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions.”
So any cop, anywhere, becomes part of the problem being addressed and thus becomes a potential target of those pursuing violent retribution.
So the president had no real information here but was essentially giving Mrs. Clinton a pass.
He described the findings as “the most surprising result of my career.”
He seemed never able to resolve in his own mind whether the world had for a season been polluted by demons from a nether world or that humanity had simply run amok.
An inspiring writer, illuminating teacher, and revered pulpit rabbi. So many accomplishments in a life well lived.
“Know or should know” is classic legal language suggesting criminal responsibility.
A legendary and savvy networker, he enjoyed the confidence of many public officials over the years, working with them on many communal issues.
The 27 remaining members of the EU reportedly are already contemplating their own new strategies necessitated by the UK withdrawal.
How strongly will Turkey counter the anti-Israel sentiment that animates the Islamic world of which Turkey is such a prominent part?
Though he made friends easily, his casual manner masked a sharp business acumen.
He championed the right of Jews to live anywhere in the biblical land of Israel and inspired and called upon many to join with him in asserting this right.
But the height of absurdity was reached with the announcement by Attorney General Lynch, in response to requests by media outlets for the transcripts of Mr. Mateen’s remarks, that only redacted versions would be released.
What particularly rankles is that Mr. Nadler’s statement accompanying his declaration of support for the Iran deal actually made a better case for opposing it.
Clinton didn’t even hint at the notion that Islamic terrorism or radical Islam played a role in the Orlando attack.
To be sure, the Times in 2008 reported on a controversy at Harvard over its having set separate gym hours for Muslim women. But it did not editorialize about it.
The key is that in the first instance a judge will have discretion and “may” deny the request for a stay if he or she is not persuaded by the government’s case.
He has strongly criticized Israel’s settlement policy and characterized Israel’s responses to Palestinian terrorism as “disproportionate.”
As for the legislation passed by the Senate, if it becomes law it would carve out an exception to a 1976 law that largely immunizes foreign nations from being sued in U.S. courts.
Although these issues have been raised before, they were dismissed when prosecutors denied any purposeful efforts to deflate the selling price.
Significantly, though, there is precious little leverage the president has with Russia, North Korea, and China.
Actually, the public doesn’t appear to share the media’s obsession with the minutiae of a candidate’s tax returns...
We had hoped that Mr. Silver’s prodigious accomplishments on behalf of all New Yorkers would play a greater role in his sentencing than they apparently did.
The article was built around an interview Mr. Samuels conducted with Mr. Rhodes and clearly shows how the public and Congress were purposefully misled.
“Almost any deal is better than no deal,” seemed to be the operating principle.
The strong likelihood that prosecutors violated the plea agreement didn’t matter.
This form of preachiness is unknown in the ordinary interactions of nations but has become quite de rigueur when American officials come down hard on their Israeli counterparts.
Where would the IDF direct its fire if not at the sites of the missile launchers?
It has long been clear that Mr. Obama feels frustrated for not having resolved the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Significantly, at the time of his detention Israel was under extreme international pressure to show that it was serious about responding to Jewish attacks against Palestinians.
“Have we lost our minds?” asked Bennett. “We are at war. War against vicious terrorism.”
The ability of relatively marginal groups bent on destruction to project their power is unprecedented.
The politics of the matter should have pushed him in a different direction.
Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, was far more substantive and thus open to more scrutiny.
This is arrant sophistry. The “new” resolution “calls upon” Iran not to engage in ballistic missile activity while the earlier one declared “that Iran shall not engage in such activity.
President Obama, resigned to his failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, is looking past his time in office and weighing a plan that would preserve at least the principle of a two-state solution for his successor to pursue.
Is “called upon not to” as legally binding as “shall not?”
President Obama was inclined to push Israel to take some unpleasant bargaining positions with the Palestinians, especially concerning settlements.
But underlying the current dispute is something of even broader moment than the establishment of a separate prayer space for non-Orthodox prayer in close proximity to the Kotel.
We were deeply concerned by some of Donald Trump’s comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during last Thursday’s Republican debate. Moderator Wolf Blitzer noted that Mr. Trump had recently said that as president he would try to bring peace between the two sides – but not by favoring one side or the other. Mr. Blitzer recounted […]
Just imagine – Republicans were specifically induced to support the entire bill with promises that products from over the Green Line would be protected the same way other Israeli companies are.
We urge readers to contact officials and ask them to support an investigation.
The new law will require the U.S. government to take specific action in response to BDS activity.
It is instructive that no Democrats reacted negatively to some old statements by Vice President Biden that have surfaced.
Committed to the welfare of his fellow Jews, Rabbi Tannenbaum spent much of his day involved with the shidduch and agunah problems affecting so many in the Jewish community.
But it would be a mistake to look at this only from the perspective of the bitter partisan politics that has driven Washington for the last 25 years – although there is surely a measure of that in play.
Ironically, the mosque he chose to visit has been linked to extremist elements and was formerly led by an imam who reportedly had extremist ties.
The Times acknowledges that “Certainly, the Israeli-Palestinian crisis deepened during her tenure” – and then hastens to add “but she did not cause that.”
It is also noteworthy that Israel and the Middle East have not garnered significant attention on the Republican side either.
A renowned Talmudist, he was also noted for his compassion and self-effacing efforts to assist those in need...
Can they be anything other than a “justification of violence” when he describes terrorism as a natural reaction to Israeli policies? Statement of “a simple truth?”
He was an uncompromising foe of the Reform and Conservative movements and each year issued condemnatory statements on behalf of the UOR prior to the High Holy days.
Rav Refael was, until his passing last week at age 78, one of the roshei yeshiva at Mir and an internationally renowned scholar, especially noted for his uncommon grasp of the intricacies of the Talmud
For decades a larger than life fixture on the Jewish communal scene, Rabbi Greenwald played key roles in behind the scenes efforts to resolve several high-profile issues of concern to the Jewish community, including negotiations that helped win the release of imprisoned Soviet Jewish activist Natan Sharansky.
Ms. Hotovely makes a powerful common sense argument for transparency with regard to international aid to the PA.
German chancellor Angela Merkel seems to have backtracked from her recent expansive welcome to the refugees
For his appeal, Dr. Pincus turned to Avi Schick, a partner at the Dentons international law firm, who took on the case pro bono, which led to the Pentagon reversal.
Sting operations must be based on a target’s predisposition to commit a crime similar to the scripted crime.
Indeed, last week the administration notified Congress that new sanctions would be imposed – but soon afterward announced there would be a delay of uncertain duration.
DA Thompson confirmed the arrests and declared that “We will now fully prosecute those defendants under the law.”
Many of the extremist groups are affiliates of Al Qaeda, which has had its roots in North Africa since the 1990s.
In a sense, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia were drifting apart well before the nuclear agreement.
The lack of an American presence on the ground to challenge ISIS has become an issue in the presidential campaign.
Indeed, the advent of social media has fostered an information and networking explosion. Clearly it is in our nation’s interests to somehow stem this information interaction.
And there are still rumblings about various immigration issues including out-of-control illegal immigration and “legal” Syrian migration.
We note the silence of our elected officials on the Pincus case – not a word thus far from Senators Schumer and Gillibrand or anyone else in New York’s congressional delegation.
To be sure, it is hard to understand how such a plan could work in practical terms.
The RCA’s stance has also been centered on the issues of ordination and tefillin.
There was nary a mention of Chanukah being “Jewish” in terms of our belief in Hashem or that Chanukah was celebration of the Maccabees as Jewish patriots overcoming occupation.
The president also raised some collateral issues plainly intended to distract from the issue at hand.
Mr. Kerry seemed to suggest there had been some “rationale” for the Charlie Hebdo killings last January
He has earned the prayers and best wishes of all of us in his time of travail.
It could not be lost on Mr. Obama that the Syrian refugees as a group carry with them a different culture, value system, and religion from most Americans.
Whatever the facts, Turkey could make the crisis go away by apologizing to the Russians.
Of course this argument ignores the fact that Mr. Pollard by then was already in federal detention and would not in any way have been accessible to the press without approval by the bureau of prisons.
There’s no question the Paris attacks will enervate the public debate over whether and how to escalate U.S. operations in Syria and Iraq.
There is nothing surprising in Erekat’s position. But the new EU labeling rule perplexes.
To be sure, Mr. Miller is primarily concerned with the survivability of those countries with whom Israel might strike a deal and thus the enforceability of any such deal.
Time will tell whether this apparent spirit of collegiality will last – international dipomacy is a tricky business.
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