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On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the waivers will end May 2 and all companies buying oil from Iran will face stiff U.S. economic penalties.
Weren’t more than a few of them on pre-investigation record as being sharply disdainful of Donald Trump?
Not only are non-favored councilmembers like Yeger rendered unable to do their jobs, ultimately the citizens of New York are the losers in the absence of a clash of ideas.
It would have been easier to accept had the letter and the Congress members spoken about the effect annexation would have on American interests abroad.
Moreover, a comparison of the recent episode with Rep. Ilhan Omar reveals the perfidy in play here.
Recall that the Obama administration declined to include the issues of Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile development and its fomenting and supporting global terror.
They also make no mention of the Arab side’s inability to finally accept Israel’s existence in the Middle East and its entitlement to borders that would be defensible in the next Arab onslaught.
Growing families on a budget will either have to shell out money for paper bags where available ... or invest in reusable cloth or other bags.
Despite being roundly attacked, he stood his ground, stating at a news conference, “There is no state by that name [Palestine]. There is no place by that name. That’s a fact.”
A long revered fixture in New York’s Jewish community, he was for years among the very senior chasidic leaders and widely acknowledged as a wise and sagacious elder.
New technologies such as electronic locks can easily prompt conflicts with our religious needs since most of our fellow citizens don’t share them.
We are concerned that the new legislative proposals make no provisions for the religious use of fur for making shtreimels.
But since a president has the constitutional authority to direct and terminate his employees, there would only be a crime if he had exercised those powers in a corrupt fashion.
Unfortunately, no other country acknowledged the legitimacy of the move and there have been periodic calls for Israel to relinquish the Golan to Syria and withdraw.
While some may minimize these no-shows, this is clearly a departure from years past, when supporting AIPAC was seen as an uncontroversial move.
Sounds like something the timid Jewish officials could sink their teeth into? After all, she seems to disavow the Palestinian narrative that Jews have had scant historical connections to Israel.
Although the 1977 ruling has benefited countless Sabbath observers over the years, the requirement of only a limited accommodation has prevented the law from reaching its full potential.
Under intense pressure, Omar deleted her tweets. But she has not recanted her latest remarks.
Some Democratic Party members want to treat Felder as a traitor to the party and expel him.
First, the National Emergencies Law doesn’t define "emergency" and is thus subject to abuse. Okay, fair enough.
The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Richard Burr, says that his committee has not uncovered any evidence of any collusion after a two year investigation
Surely, someone with such skewed and prejudiced views on international affairs has no place on the foreign affairs committee to which she was appointed by Pelosi.
It is important to keep in mind that it is not only Israel that has a significant interest in Israeli control of the Golan.
This incident is the latest of several apparent breaches of various city protocols, which heretofore had recognized Hatzoloh’s life-saving role.
Indeed, from our own perspective, we do not recall the current critics of Netanyahu having publicly attacked those efforts.
Not only was there no constitutional conflict occasioned by the president’s declaration, one hardly seems to be in the making.
In his role as public advocate, he will have a bully pulpit to hold the mayor publicly accountable for his actions.
Problem, though, is that the $3 billion was a plan for tax breaks – not money otherwise available to the state for spending.
Senators Kamala Harris and Corey Booker, both now having declared for the presidency in 2020, were particularly intense and argumentative. And the media followed suit.
It would seem unthinkable that Americans would be asking the question as to whether high officials of the DOJ and FBI actually met to seriously discuss a plan to remove President Trump from office.
Either way, anti-Semitism didn’t seem to matter enough to trigger some discipline.
Now all Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulances have the standard Magen David Adom insignia on them.
We found intriguing a report in Sunday’s New York Times that could end up explaining the unusual length and sparse results both now and at the end of the probe, if that should be the final result.
Corbyn has made some virulently anti-Semitic statements these past few years and Ocasio-Cortez supporters were warning her of a looming backlash from the Jewish community.
With Former Public Advocate Letitia James’s election as NYS Attorney General last November, a non-partisan, special election will be held to elect her successor.
It remained somewhat speculative as to how far Democrats would go once they controlled the governorship and both houses of the legislature...
But the court’s decision is as much about court procedure and how policy is properly set as it is about the rights of transgender people.
What this new law does, however, is require a foreign entity – as a condition of accepting U.S. aid – to agree that American courts have personal jurisdiction, whether or not U.S. citizens were the targets.
MDA also announced that the Ministry of Health has designated MDA as the recognized dispatcher for all first responders in Israel.
Given the fact that Cohen is on his way to jail, it is inconceivable that the report was true.
Yet the legislation languished because of evidentiary concerns: memories fade, what exactly occurred, if anything, could not be clear in the accuser’s mind.
What seems to be totally lost on the governor is that unlimited and unchecked immigration, irrespective of any racial or ethnic makeup, is anathema to the notion of a sovereign America.
Perhaps the new congresswoman should study up on the history of Israel’s international recognition as a sovereign state – even by the Palestinian Authority and the PLO.
Since the issue broke, The Jewish Press has consulted with several key figures from our community who have now assumed leadership roles on the issue – most notably Rav Yisroel Reisman, a rosh yeshiva at Torah Vodaath, and Rav Elya Brudny, a rosh yeshiva at the Mir.
Felder may have been the public face of the caucusing maneuver, but eight other elected Democrats also occasionally voted with the Republicans.
There are some savvy observers who are suggesting that old-time manipulation by key traders – and maybe even foreign powers – may be in play.
Lev Tahor reportedly avoids technology and requires its female members to wear black robes from head to toe.
The Trump Department of Education has now revised another, even more bizarre Obama Guidance, this one designed to apply to disciplinary actions in lower public school and ensure racial equity.
To be sure, we are concerned that the Turks and Saudis will not have the same deterrent effect on the Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah vis-à-vis Israel as has the presence of U.S. military personnel.
As far as we can tell, there was nothing in his background that suggested that he would be anything but impartial and not a person with integrity.
We suspect that the New York education officials behind the new guidance are insufficiently informed as to the effectiveness of the various yeshiva programs in play.
Indeed, did the Congressman miss this riveting exchange between his Judiciary Committee colleague Trey Gowdy and former FBI Director James Comey?
While we can fully understand the chagrin expressed by many conservatives that Justice Kavanaugh had somehow scammed his supporters with his no vote, there is more to the story.
What appeals most about her to us at The Jewish Press was the way she handled then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s apparent coolness towards Israel.
He was revered for his great Torah scholarship and halachic expertise, and his influence reached across the Sephardic world.
Of course, the issue of obstruction of justice by a president is an additional concern. Yet, it is hard to see any possible legal liability here either.
Democrats reacted with fury, crowding the halls of the State Capitol in Madison on Monday and accusing the Republicans of trying to undo an election they had lost.
Considering the rise in anti-Semitic attacks, it is time for police to start using circumstantial evidence to a greater degree than is the current practice.
There’s no other way to say it. The Democrats have Trump on the brain.
We only have to think back to World War II and America’s making common cause with the Soviet Union to defeat the Nazis.
Obama's statement was ludicrous. The Supreme Court regularly overturns congressional enactments.
In retrospect, we cannot understand how some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged voting against Kavanaugh.
It is important to keep the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas in proper perspective.
There is talk of the passengers filing a lawsuit, and the facts will most certainly be ferreted out at that point if that occurs.
Can it really be contended that there cannot be honest, unfavorable opinion about Mr. Mueller’s work, only biased ones?
Ironically, therefore, they may be more inclined to deal with Mr. Trump than when they were relegated to the political wilderness.
Understandably, these comments caused a firestorm. The outrageous characterization of the shootings as “random” defied belief.
Weren’t Jews unable to walk safely in many European cities well before Donald Trump began his quest for the presidency?
American citizens born in Jerusalem are still not permitted to list Israel as their country of birth.
The tale of NYCHA’s outrageous treatment of its tenants is a long and notorious one and includes not only lead paint, but also water and heat deprivations and rodent infestation.
Federal law has been interpreted as allowing the use of race as one factor in the admission process but not the only or primary one.
Frankly, in terms of true “Jewish” issues in America, we can think of nothing more significant than the viability of Jewish education and facilitating the ability of Jews to avoid having to choose between a livelihood and fealty to their religious beliefs.
Something more seems to be in play, if only because of the shrillness of the calls for harassment of Republicans.
She has followed the paths of several UN ambassadors who distinguished themselves in their roles at the UN.
Extraordinary. After all the wholly uncorroborated shmutz and vile accusations thrown Kavanaugh’s way, it doesn’t matter if they are true or not or that he has categorically denied them? Can the man be serious – or be taken seriously?
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.
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