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You can't blame the French for wanting to minimize their made-in-Europe Islamic terror problem. The problem is with how reality keeps messing with comfortable theories.
What is really being gained by continuing to force Haredim to stay in the beis medrash full time via a draft that exempts Haredim?
The video story was part of a theme that has run through Obama’s presidency from the beginning.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian took the hideous claim that the IDF fired mercilessly at a young boy until he was dead at face value, without even a hint of journalistic skepticism.
By Orat@Muqata
Two people have reported snow in the late May-early June, though in both cases, it was hearsay.
It seems Russia has decided that the "strong horse" in the Middle East is Iran and the Shiites.
Ouni Abed Botrous Hadaddeen compares the Jordanian king to Yasser Arafat, claiming that Abdullah to is two faced.
If Shas does agree to allow a secular core curriculum in their schools, that will put Ashkenazi Haredi leaders between a rock and a hard place.
What Rav Soloveitchik said in 1974 is truer than ever: normative Judaism is on the defensive in the modern world.
The Ruth story demonstrates how all Jews should treat the strangers among us.
The Egyptian ambassador warned against allowing Jews to pray at the Temple Mount even under a time-share system.
A response to Ahmadinejad's vitriol from a Jew of Persian descent.
the title rabbi (or its equivalent) is more than about recognition of achievement.
By agreeing with said gangsters that ‘Palestine’ is a state, Google is in effect agreeing that the Jewish people do not have a legitimate state.
A Jewish withdrawal from East Jerusalem would make the situation in Sderot look like paradise.
By Batya Medad
The proposed budget harms the poor more than the rich.
The issue is not our obligation to listen to our rabbinic leaders. It is about whether we should listen to the rabbinic leaders of others.
Shmuel Katz and a former Mapai MK Eliezer Livneh coauthored a pamphlet in 1971 arguing against the appeasement of Palestinian terrorists.
Experienced and professional Fashion Styling is the art that could help.
לְפַנֵּק In many countries all over the world yesterday it was Mothers Day - יוֹם הָאֵם, in Hebrew. Here's a song by Arik Einstein dedicated to his mother. I venture to say it might be sung for most mothers. One of the lines in the song is: אִמָּא, אִמָּא אַתְּ פִּנַּקְתְּ אֹתִי Mom, mom, you […]
At campuses in the University of Maryland and California systems, pro-Israel students say they are harassed, pro-Israel events are interrupted, viciously anti-Israel speakers are brought into speak, anti-Israel students are even accused of of assaulting pro-Israel students.
By Daniel Pipes
If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.
With all the good intention of Israel’s rabbinic leaders, how could they not see that this was going to happen?
Going forward, Guardian reporters would be well advised to keep their opinions firmly within the confines of the Guardian’s op-ed page.
The upcoming President's Conference has a rich list of speakers and unlike some others, I personally don't think Stephen Hawking will be missed.
In the snake pit of academia, where unfashionable explicit Jew-hatred has morphed into enthusiastic and widespread over-the-top anti-Zionism, Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin stands out.
It was only in 20120 that Geneva Initiative featured Jibril Rajoub in their 'peace partner' ad campaign.
What I do not understand is the harshness of his condemnation.
There is more than enough area on the Temple Mount to reach an accommodation for Jews who wish to pray there.
The Chinese proposal gives nothing to Israel except a vague "right to exist" — which of course is in not question regarding any other nation. Indeed, it could have been dictated by Mahmoud Abbas.
Jordan’s annexation of the East Jerusalem was never recognized by the international community.
By Batya Medad
Thousands of people want to buy homes in Judea and Samaria, but the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to finalize permits.
We are a people whose mandate is Torah observance in all matters - between man and God as well as between man and his fellow man.
If anyone is restricted in Jerusalem today - it is we Jews, who are not allowed to move our lips in a whispered prayer, on the Temple Mount. But for today, I will think of the greater celebration.
While the Palestinian refugee crisis needs to be solved, it should be solved in the Arab world, not in Israel.
There is only one word that can explain the over the top reaction by Haredi establishment to this: Paranoia.
It's a mistake to think that it's only the Islamist ultra-extremists of Hamas that are busy promoting self-destruction among the children of Palestinian Arab society.
By Adam Levick
A raw live version of the Israeli hit 'Ein Ani' performed in front of an IDF unit in 2012.
What do you do when you find yourself in a no-win position?
Long term trends are mostly in Israel’s favor, although there are serious short-term threats that have to be overcome.
I must ask, where is the hotline for victims of sex abuse? Or victims of financial fraud? What are the remedies for the victims? Or the sanctions for the perpetrators?
The Israel Academia Monitor organization hosted a conference in Tel Aviv to raise awareness about anti-Israel professors who contribute to the delegitimization of Israel.
Sexual dysfunction can take various forms for both men and women. If those statistics are right, it is a much bigger problem that I ever thought.
By Batya Medad
In actuality, Lapid as Finance Minister, isn't doing all that well.
What is developing behind-the-scenes? What secret diplomatic activity is occurring? Will there be a new 'holy basin' plan?
I, of course, have no problem with such a library. But is this what the State of New Jersey had in mind in approving $10 million dollars to Lakewood?
By Batya Medad
This 'peace' the politicians and media are touting only causes more death and destruction for Jews.
If an Arab barged into your home and demanded to marry your daughter, it was impossible to refuse him.
We have never understood how Abbas continues to be called 'moderate.'
Despite the risks, Ozbudak believes that 'someone should speak up and say the truth, so others can follow.'
By Daniel Pipes
Muslims make up 30 out of 31 most wanted terrorists, or about 97 percent of them.
In the spirit of 'elu v’elu' we should just agree to disagree and respect each other’s views and lifestyles as long as they do not impinge on the rights of others.
Blaming foreigners, however hostile they may be, yields only further self-delusion and suffering.
The record number of kipa-wearing Jews in the new Knesset surely shows that secular Jews do not really hate religious Jews.
By Adam Levick
Israeli artist Idan Raichel blends African, Latin American, Caribbean and Middle Eastern sounds.
For the vast majority of students who truly want the best of both worlds, I would strongly recommend YU over any Ivy League school.
By Batya Medad
With regards to Iran, the United States is reverting to its pre-World War II isolationist mode.
In one anti-Israel protest outside of Nablus, Palestinians even dressed up like Native Americans in order to make a political point.
Anyone anyone who talks negatively about Islam is accused of bigotry and hatred on the level of the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi party.
In Israel today, how many of our religious leaders instill pride in being Jewish into the secular public?
Scrambled air force jets shooting down a drone, an Arab attacking them with rocks are not the usual concerns with sending your children on a school trip.
The United States pays about 22% of the UN’s budget, which amounted to almost than $8 billion in 2010.
Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney blamed the 'old policies' for the grant of a pardon and permanent residency to the accused terrorist.
The entire idea of partying on Lag BaOmer is based on... a typo.
Our battles with the Conservative movement are over. They no longer pose a threat to Orthodoxy.
Palestinian have no shame when it comes to lying, even easily exposed lies.
'No one ever told me 'Kol HaKavod' for not killing anyone,' my daughter once told me.
Deterrence requires a credible threat. It isn’t enough to issue ominous-sounding ultimata unless they are believed.
Those who carry the herpes virus cannot always tell when it is present in the mouth.
None of these archaeological relics would have existed if there weren’t an ancient Jewish kingdom within the Land of Israel.
By Daniel Pipes
Sometimes one is better off when an opponent feels compelled to prove his bona fides.
By Batya Medad
The highlight, of course, was the chance to pray and say Tehillim, Psalms to God, in the very spot experts believe the Mishkan had once stood.
When it comes to immigration policy, ignoring Islam’s part in this because of a misguided form of political correctness is why things like the Boston bombings happen.
I find it fitting and just that Tsarnaev will live his life, knowing that it was Jews that saved his life.
By Adam Levick
The mantra that terrorism is only used in reference to Muslims has no basis in fact.
A lack of patriotism is not a cause for punitive measures.
The Israeli humanitarian organization IsraAid works with the South Sudanese government to stop the abuse of women.
By Adam Levick
Israeli artist Moshe Ben-Ari writes music with a blend rock, soul, reggae and world music.
Martyrdom-minded religious fanatics have a bad reputation in this part of the world, so this "folksy" sermon is less than good news.
By Batya Medad
This is a Marie Antoinette government whose theme is, "Let them eat cake."
By Adam Levick
Is there really any mystery as to why Vanunu is so admired by the Guardian?
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