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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.
In other words, Iran would not be given a pass for its continuing activities as the leading supporter of terror groups around the world.
For anyone to think for one minute that this woman loves Jews but hates Zionists, they have to be out of their mind.
Just a reminder about elections: there are no sure bets and every vote counts.
Of course, there’s a good reason why liberals go out of their way to whitewash or ignore the constant stream of anti-Jewish declarations by Mr. Abbas and other Palestinian leaders:
The organization’s mission statement describes its role as “ser[ving] as a bridge between the Arab community and the greater New York City community.”
To be sure, after some quick pushback from the Jewish community, the State Department strove mightily to walk back the statements.
Under the circumstances, Prime Minister Netanyahu has adopted policies that seem to be the only practical way of protecting Israeli citizens.
Mr. Harper has long gone well beyond the usual official expressions of support for Israel one typically hears from western leaders.
Iranians continue to insist the nuclear sanctions regime is to be lifted as soon as they have embarked on the road to compliance.
With three new supporters, the bill now has 48 of the council’s 51 members behind it.
Depressing as it is to contemplate, despotism kept the region from falling apart and becoming prey to non-democratic insurgencies.
“Cycle of violence”? The Jews killed over the past few weeks were innocently going about life’s routines: walking to prayer, riding in a car, etc.
As Secretary of State Kerry put it at the time, “Iran is currently a major actor with respect to adverse consequences in Syria.”
The enormous magnitude of the issue, coupled with the troubled logic of its supporters, got us thinking about whether these same Democrats would have supported the deal had it been negotiated by a secretary of state appointed by a Republican president.
As President Obama put it, Russia’s actions amounted to a “strategy that’s doomed to failure.”
The vast majority of Americans are not at all bothered by presidential aspirants signaling their esteem for Israel. Now why do you suppose it drives Ms. Coulter to a foul-mouthed primal scream?
In case anyone didn’t get the point, right underneath that story was one exultantly titled “Pro-Israel Group Went ‘All In,’ But Suffered a Stinging Defeat.”
We don’t for a moment give any credence to the sermonizing of this former KGB chief who presided over cold-blooded aggressions against Georgia and Ukraine.
We think both are admirable choices. But we also want to emphasize the special importance of a large turnout from our community.
Congress was not provided with these side deals as required by the Corker bill, so the 60-day review never legally commenced.
Perhaps she doesn’t accept the fact that those children’s parents are taxpayers as well.
So it is critical that readers in the districts indicated come out to vote.
We urge readers to seek out upcoming rallies scheduled for times and places that work for them.
To be sure, the worst of what was directed at Mr. Nadler by some random hotheads with no real power or influence (calling him a “kapo,” for example) was over the top.
We can readily understand that it would be an embarrassment to the president were Congress to reject the deal he struck, even if that rejection would be vetoed and go nowhere.
Mr. Nadler’s support for the deal is a naked political gift to a president who has defied logic in his quest to reinvent international affairs according to his ideological inclinations.
In practical terms, the proclamation surely makes a compelling argument:
BDS activists are not shy about discriminating against Israelis simply because they are Israelis -
The Jewish Press will be keeping tabs on the public positions taken by Democratic members of the Senate and House.
If the reports are accurate, it’s hard to fathom why Sen. Schumer feels it necessary to eschew urging his colleagues to oppose the Iran deal.
President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry seem never to miss an opportunity to caution us that Israel’s opposition to the agreement will further isolate it around the world.
What is downright infuriating, however, is that her statement seems to both acknowledge these problems while papering them over.
Since Republicans are expected to almost uniformly oppose the agreement, the key to its fate will be how many Democrats oppose it.
Under the deal, sanctions will no longer be available as a way to force compliance.
Jonathan Pollard’s presumptive release in mid-November 2015 had long been a matter of public record, though many may not have been aware of it.
First, of course, the contrast with the Arab treatment of Arab murderers of Jews is striking.
We daresay there are many stories of successful business ventures among chassidim.
By most accounts, the one person with the political muscle to swing enough Democratic votes to override a veto is Sen. Schumer.
The next day, in a speech in New York to the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Kerry substantially upped the ante.
Mr. Kerry may or may not be genuinely disturbed and troubled by the Iranian leader’s continued belligerence. With the deal completed, that’s not even a matter of concern anymore.
One of the more troubling aspects of the path to this agreement is the way the administration repeatedly revised its end-game expectations.
Mr. Silver’s legislation changed the primary date to April 19, which avoids any conflict. And, we are happy to say, he received the support of Republicans in the legislature for changing the date.
The issue of the Chief Rabbinate’s control over conversions and other life-cycle matters has long been a contentious one.
The U.S. vote was the sole negative one cast (India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Macedonia, and Paraguay abstained).
The president described the attack as “an act that drew on a long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, not random, but as a means of control, a way to terrorize and oppress...”
Can adoption agencies limit the placement of children to heterosexual couples only?
And whereas at the outset the plan was that Iran would have to surrender most of its centrifuges, it will now be able to retain several thousand.
Seventy-one members of the Assembly, including Glen Cove Assemblyman Chuck Lavine, who heads the New York chapter of the National Association of Jewish Legislators, joined in the effort to secure a majority to protect the rights of Jewish voters.
Students in New York City schools are protected by publicly funded security guards, so it would seem a no-brainer that students attending non-public schools be similarly protected.
Seems like Israel is being faulted for not tying both hands behind its back instead of just one.
We still have trouble understanding why anyone would care, except perhaps if she had tried to qualify for special status under a government program designed to benefit members of minority communities.
He says government should be in the business of seeking ways to include citizens in the voting process, not to exclude them.
Last November, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a New York City audience that Israel “went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.... In this type of conflict, where you are held to a standard that your enemy is not held to, you’re going to be criticized for civilian casualties.”
The court’s finding that the president has exclusive jurisdiction in recognizing foreign countries might have been be apt if the issue at hand were a congressional attempt to grant recognition to “Palestine” as a state.
It wasn’t too long ago that Mr. Erdogan, in his determination to burnish Turkey’s credentials as an Islamist state at the cost of the secularism that had brought much economic and political success to Turkey, upended his country’s decades-long cooperative relationship with Israel.
Does the pope really believe that Father Dehon’s destructive anti-Jewish calumnies do not disqualify him from the highest honor of the Catholic Church because in his time everyone did it?
This is the same president who recently acknowledged that, at best, the proposed deal with Iran will expire in ten years and that afterward Iran basically would be free to do whatever it wanted.
As for the president’s new, softer tone vis-à-vis Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel, this is most likely being driven by the results of the recent Israeli election.
What especially appeals to us is his grand – some critics would say extravagant –view of what the borders of Israel should look like.
There was something else of great importance in play – something we would have liked to see him take into account before deciding to stand with the boycotters.
Somewhat surprisingly, the Vatican’s unwelcome gesture was diametrically at odds with what President Obama signaled in an interview with the news outlet Al Arabiya.
June 19, 2026 
