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Sara Lehmann is an award-winning New York based columnist and interviewer. For more of her writings please visit saralehmann.com.
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According to Sliwa, the dangers of a mayor Mamdani would be irreparable. Unlike previous decades, when NYC rotted and was then resuscitated, Sliwa does not believe NYC would recoup this time.
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Mamdani’s voters either are unaware or choose to ignore the failure of socialism around the globe for over a century. Worse, they ignore how socialism and communism always morph into the very fascism they decry.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows. Israel makes stranger ones
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I’ve spent so much time in yeshivas and shuls. The Rabbis joke with me on a Sunday, ‘Be careful when you leave the shul that you don’t walk into your Mass with a kippah on.’”
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HonestReporting CEO Jacki Alexander fights the perils of bias, misinformation, and propaganda prejudices that we Jews know all too well.
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Democrats and their cohorts are tripping over themselves while pouncing on Trump. But in the process, they are tripping themselves up.
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“If there is peace in Israel, then there is peace in the world.”
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Determining the value of life is a question of moral relativism on the left. Whether life is sanctified or not depends on whose life it is.
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Minister Sofer: Israel needs aliyah. It is important for the resilience and solidarity of the State of Israel. To this end, we help with housing, with learning the Hebrew language through an ulpan, and with many new programs.
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In contrast to how Jews felt this past year, Trump’s victory allows us to hope for the best rather than plan for the worst
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Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a 2008 Republican presidential candidate, completed a three-day tour of some of Israel's holiest and most contentious sites last week with leaders of Ateret Cohanim.
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The facts on the ground and the truth of what actually happened can settle debates. It’s just a matter of affirming it.
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Israel is getting back its mojo. Stunning military successes against Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran, have emboldened Israel’s leaders to act, despite worldwide pressure for restraint. Victories in Rafah and Lebanon, especially the obliteration of enemy chiefs and operatives, have encouraged Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli leaders to thumb their noses at detractors in the U.S. […]
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Israel has turned a military corner with the approach of this yahrtzeit.
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Antisemitism at the UN's diplomatic headquarters on 1st Avenue is hardly new. What is new is the welcoming milieu of that headquarters itself.
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You asked about the American administration. Right after September 11th, they all agreed they must destroy Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. And they did it. We must defeat Hamas if we want to survive.
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We need to take advantage of this moment of conciliation, sincere or not, that has resulted from the terrible event of July 13. Then we wait for November 5
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Israel supporters and Jews in general are facing an impossible uphill battle in the online world of post-October 7th.
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Israel’s version of 9/11 was far greater in terms of deaths per population than America’s tragedy. However, it went completely belly up in garnering the anticipated support.
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Israel needs to be less concerned about being liked than about being feared.
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Amnesty International is pardoning terrorists for the brutal murder, rape and hostage-taking of Jews. Worse, they are willfully conflating the perpetrators with the victims.
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ZAKA volunteers are all too familiar with the aftermath of violent death, but even their familiarity with raw tragedy could not brace them for the scale and savagery of the Hamas attack.
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Absent the merit of truth, or at a minimum of context, anti-Israel activists brazenly reprocess history as it unfolds so that the events of October 7th themselves are denied.
By Sara Lehmann
I hope everyone understands that these savages don’t differentiate between Orthodox, Ultra-Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, secular, right wing, left wing. They want to annihilate all of us. It’s exactly the Nazi ideology.
By Sara Lehmann
Dr. Hanson, who analyzes geopolitical topics from the lens of an historian, elucidates the ills of today’s society. In doing so, he demonstrates that there is nothing new under the sun.
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As an American used to freedom of expression, Ehud Olmert's request seemed ludicrous and offensive.
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In a conversation with Avi Abelow, he held nothing back in his portrayal of the challenges that Jews in Israel and the Diaspora face today and what must be done to combat the dangers of a politically correct world.
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The victimization of Trump has become the symbol of the left’s victimization of traditional America.
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Orthodox Jews fortunate to believe in Hashem as that higher authority have a bedrock of faith that sustains them through the vagaries of a deviant and duplicitous society. However, as American Jews, that society sadly creeps into the Orthodox world like through osmosis.
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Nathan Lewin, Esq. is a household name synonymous with legal scholarship for more than 55 years. Consistently listed among the “Best Lawyers in America”, Lewin is a champion for civil liberties and has argued 28 cases before the United States Supreme Court. Many of those cases represent Jewish causes, and Lewin’s achievements and advocacy in […]
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Stuart Force is quite literally the father of the Taylor Force Act. The law came into being after lobbying by Stuart and Robbi Force, parents of Taylor Force. Taylor was a former army officer who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist while he was visiting the city of Jaffa in Israel on March 8, 2016.
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I spoke with Dr. Pipes about the topics he specializes in: the role of Islam in public life, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S. foreign policy.
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The irony of installing a temporary exhibit memorializing the 6 million Jewish Holocaust victims at the UN was likely not lost on attendees.
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Eight years later, Hamas still holds on to the bodies if Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, Hy”d.
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My week in Israel was replete with a range of often contradictory and paradoxical experiences.
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Several men in a car accosted three boys from my son’s yeshiva at gunpoint and hurled anti-Semitic epithets at them. It was not the first time guns were brandished at yeshiva boys in that vicinity.
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As with most leftist campaigns, Jews are marching in the front. They champion open borders in the name of the Biblical injunction, “Love the stranger.”
By Sara Lehmann
It seems that Orban has been called everything but what he truly is.
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Last week, First Lady Jill Biden was kvetching to a small crowd of donors in Nantucket about the pitiful set of obstacles that poor Joe faces.
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We are witnessing the crumbling of presumed alliances and the blurring of heretofore supposed friends and foes.
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It would have been so simple to save him. The doctor lived only two blocks away, but no one called him. That’s when I realized that every single day people die waiting for an ambulance.
By Sara Lehmann
I understood that if I don’t get involved to represent the younger generation and fight for what we believe in, no one will do it instead of us.
By Sara Lehmann
“We want a Jewish presence in Portugal,” said Mendes Godinho, “and we look to Jewish investment.” Citing low unemployment and calling Portugal the “third most peaceful country in the world,” she stressed the importance of bringing Jews to visit and live in Portugal.
By Sara Lehmann
Elior Azaria’s abandonment by his military superiors and by Israel’s president was enough to cause the humiliated soldiers in Nabi Salihsoldier to bear the slaps and kicks of a teenage girl rather than defend himself and the honor of Israel.
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What could be more ironic than the fact that we are experiencing an unprecedented outbreak of long-belated sexual harassment charges in a generation defined by its sexual licentiousness?
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The program really changed my life. I come from a good, religious home, but I like to do my own thing. For the first time, I met teachers I identified with and who guided me.
By Sara Lehmann
There were hundreds of thousands of people wounded and all of them needed our care. We felt our mission was to restore hope for the people of Haiti.
By Sara Lehmann
While flying Confederate flags may or may not indicate white supremacist proclivities, let alone a penchant for violence, the burning of American flags by antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors almost always signals a hatred for what America stands for.
By Sara Lehmann
The good news is that we are going to shatter all safety records in Brooklyn in 2017, in ways the naysayers said couldn’t be done.
By Sara Lehmann
Non-Orthodox denominations seem to have declared war on the status quo at a suspiciously convenient moment, their uproar coming at a time of declining identification with Judaism and Israel throughout their ranks.
By Sara Lehmann
After Netanyahu lost his bid for reelection in 1999, I met with him and discussed ideas of how he could again become Israel’s leader. We’ve worked together ever since then.
By Sara Lehmann
As the smear campaigns against Israel and President Trump continue unabated, partisans of both need to remain confident in order to maximize their effectiveness.
By Sara Lehmann
In an era when Israel has become the new symbol of Jews and Judaism, Israel bashing has replaced Jew bashing. Instead of burning the Torah and other Jewish texts, Israeli flags are now put to the torch
By Sara Lehmann
The Trump administration is waiting to hear our suggestions. They are looking to us to be proactive and speak out about what we would like.
By Sara Lehmann
The “Settlement Law" is an Israeli 'declaration of independence' from the restraining shackles of the Obama years and an expression of confidence in the new Trump administration.
By Sara Lehmann
I didn’t want to run, but I campaigned as if I did because I don’t know any other way to do things except with my whole heart and soul.
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Fighting 'fire with fire,' Israel has begun to stand up for itself against proponents of BDS by denying entrance visas to those engaged in “anti-Israel activity and by threatening retaliatory boycotts
By Sara Lehmann
The Met’s exhibit, “Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven” focuses on “a city of fascinating complexity – home to many cultures, faiths, and languages” Despite UNESCO claims, including Jewish
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Like everything else about Trump, his foibles seem outsized. They are not, merely tolerated by blind devotion; they augment the urgency of his message.
By Sara Lehmann
On a governmental level, the present government has made it a priority to deal with the challenge posed by the BDS.
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Known for her outspokenness, Shaked is a computer engineer by trade who has been a member of Knesset for the Jewish Home party since 2013.
By Sara Lehmann
The facts on the ground and the truth of what actually happened can settle debates. It’s just a matter of affirming it.
By Sara Lehmann
The clock probably can’t be turned back to that shining city on a hill, but we still might be able to make America great again.
By Sara Lehmann
An interview with Jason Greenblatt, chosen by Trump as an adviser on Israel, who is emerging as a positive and constructive force in his boss’s campaign.
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Israeli leaders have been too ready to cede to demands undercutting Israel’s sovereignty, thereby failing to protect their citizens. Each capitulation is met with increased terror,
By Sara Lehmann
Anti-Semitism in our day has been creeping up worldwide much as it did in Nazi Germany – slowly and seemingly linked to other phenomena.
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Netanyahu and Ya’alon figuratively" shot" one of their own soldiers in a preemptive attempt to placate critics of Israel who look for every excuse to blast Israel for the use of “excessive” force against terrorists.
By Sara Lehmann
Why is Bibi courting US Reform Jews, the very group that opposes his policies for protecting Israel?
By Sara Lehmann
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Sanders admitted to not believing in God in a traditional manner.
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To promote tolerance & offset extremism, Britain mandated faith schools teach 2 faiths NOT 1
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Too many of these young students are growing up in an era and atmosphere of extreme political correctness.
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Nothing short of publicly recognizing the entire land of Israel as God-given and using that as a starting point will change the treacherous course in which Israel finds itself.
By Sara Lehmann
Merkel’s reiteration of Germany’s sharp opposition to Israeli settlement policies, her endorsement of a Palestinian state, and her country’s rush to cement the Iran deal show where Germany’s true sentiments lie.
By Sara Lehmann
Hikind slams Nadler’s grumbling about the criticism being heaped on him.
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Schumer’s decision, while welcome, comes as no surprise considering the irreversible mark of Cain a vote in favor of the deal would have left on his political career.
By Sara Lehmann
Though unadulterated ambition may have been a prime motivating force behind Ed’s denouncement of Israel and embrace of the Palestinians, no one denies his belief in what he says.
By Sara Lehmann
Despite efforts to revive Jewish cultural life in Poland, which has met with a measure of success and support from Polish officials, Poland still remains a virtual graveyard of its prewar glory days.
By Sara Lehmann
One look at the breakdown of competing parties in the Israeli elections lends credibility to the old joke of two Jews and three shuls.
By Sara Lehmann
The fact that a congresswoman and head of the DNC felt the need to recant what is obvious and at the same time threatening to American Jews is more of a commentary on the state of American Jewry and less on the dishonesty of a dithering politician.
By Sara Lehmann
In his September speech to the UN, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed to that fox when he compared Iran to the Nazis.
By Sara Lehmann
It is hard to believe that only one hundred years ago religion played such a central and accepted role in the personal and governmental lives of American citizens that its invocation was standard.
By Sara Lehmann
We see pictures of mosques, monuments for terrorists, illegal schools, and hundreds of apartments being built on Jewish land without repercussions. We are losing Jewish property, so it is up to us to protect it.
By Sara Lehmann
What’s important is to make the case for Israel more forcefully and to give it the articulation that the next presidential candidates ought to have.
By Sara Lehmann
From Obamacare to Common Core to gay marriage, radical agendas are pushed through the legal system.
By Sara Lehmann
In the fury and flurry of publicity surrounding the Klinghoffer opera, another musical affront to Jews almost went unnoticed.
By Sara Lehmann
You’re not going to change public opinion. The media are so biased you can’t get your story through. But what counts is America.
By Sara Lehmann
I understand how two governments can negotiate a ceasefire, but terrorists by definition are not playing by the same rules as you are.
By Sara Lehmann
Like all patriotic Americans, I cheered implementation of the Bush Doctrine to preemptively protect American lives from the perceived threat of WMD.
By Sara Lehmann
Though the school district eventually pulled the assignment after coming under pressure, the fact that an American school would ask its students to debate whether the Holocaust was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain” is both astounding and frightening.
By Sara Lehmann
It is not the role of schools or government to make people feel good about themselves. Self-esteem comes with productivity, not in the absence of it.
By Sara Lehmann
Despite the exodus thousands of years ago and our break from the ghettos hundreds of years ago, the slave mentality follows us like a long shadow.
By Sara Lehmann
While Brooklyn College is famed for its plethora of Jewish professors and students, it is not a Jewish institution. The 92nd Street Y is. According to its own mission and history statement, it’s “a proudly Jewish institution since its inception.”
By Sara Lehmann
In a recent tirade on a public radio station in Albany, Governor Cuomo lambasted New York conservatives in one broad stroke. While lashing out against New Yorkers who oppose his SAFE Act, a draconian gun-control bill rammed through the New York legislature soon after the Newtown massacre, Cuomo targeted all Republicans and conservatives as the enemy.
By Sara Lehmann
Proud as I am of my daughter’s enthusiasm and her proclivity for outreach, I somehow can’t shake a niggling regret that it had to be in Germany. As the daughter of a Hungarian mother who escaped deportation by running with her family from the Nazis and the daughter-in-law of a Dutch Jewish man whose parents were shot by the Nazis and who was liberated from Bergen Belsen at the age of 12, I am one generation closer to the Holocaust than my daughter. And one degree closer to the idea of shunning anything and everything German.
By Sara Lehmann
Only 26 years ago, 250,000 Jews demonstrated on the National Mall in Washington. It was an unprecedented display of solidarity with Soviet Jewry and played a significant role in facilitating the release of Soviet Jews. The demonstrators were Jews of all stripes and from all across America, Orthodox and non-Orthodox. I know, because as a young student I was there.
By Sara Lehmann
The lack of an effective and proactive public relations campaign by the Israeli government has long been lamented. Somehow, advertisements showcasing Israel’s gorgeous beaches and the Tel Aviv nightlife just don’t cut it when the international media regularly bash Israel for its “apartheid” treatment of the Palestinians. But even a superficial Israeli hasbara effort wouldn’t get snickered at if it had consistent and corresponding government policy to sustain its claims.
By Sara Lehmann
With national and international crises making headlines, the New York City mayoral race has all but receded to the back pages. But with the first of three scheduled debates between the two remaining major party candidates less than a week away, voters will finally be able to concentrate on substantive issues and policy rather than the circus we were treated to over the summer.
July 10, 2026 
