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It is ironic that this dispute should have arisen so soon after Israel’s highest court debunked the notion that Israel discriminated against non-Jews.
Unfortunately, despite the lack of a realistic military option, President Biden indicated that he was prepared to drop most of the Trump sanctions in order to draw the Iranians to the negotiating table.
Nowhere in the Taylor Force is there any mention of the above exceptions – which is to say that the Biden Administration intends to openly and flagrantly ignore the unambiguous requirements of an American statute.
It seems ludicrous to us that the Poles are seriously concerned with preventing fraud at the expense of the rights of the very victims of an unparalleled wholesale theft of their property by an occupying foreign power.
Consider the mess April Powers, the former diversity officer at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), recently got herself into when, representing the group, she penned a statement denouncing the recent surge of attacks against Jews, but neglected to specifically condemn Islamophobia as well.
The President, although by no means a clone of President Obama on the Middle East, and a self-professed strong supporter of Israel, has been a longtime believer in a two-state solution as well as a substantial part of the Palestinian wish list.
At least publicly, the only concern that was being expressed was that the funds not fall into the hands of Hamas...
As an indication of the importance of this form of intervention, the town strenuously fought to keep the attorney general out of the case in arguments to the judge.
The decision has many shaking their heads that a secular court would not be troubled with having to decide a case with issues revolving around the termination of a marriage according to Jewish religious law.
Below is a list of candidates endorsed by The Jewish Press for the June 22nd Primary Election.
While he is on record as calling for changes in the NYPD, he strongly opposes defunding the police.
Do they really think the world will pause as they engage in their political gamesmanship? Do they think that Mr. Netanyahu will let things lie?
Senior department are also said to have tried to keep the new policy quiet and are “cagey” about explaining it.
Bennett made some solemn promises, which he promptly broke as soon as he realized that it would lead to his displacing Netanyahu and becoming prime minister for at least two years.
The New York State Court of Appeals announced that it declined to review a decision of a lower appellate court that had upheld Fordham University’s refusal to recognize Students For Justice In Palestine as a campus group entitled to financial aid from the school and the right to use school facilities for their activities.
He will make his voice heard in fighting for tuition vouchers and fight to make sure that government does not dictate the curriculum of private schools.
It was Netanyahu who made Israel the envy of the world in its distribution of the Covid vaccine. And of course, it was Benjamin Netanyahu who drove home the likely catastrophic consequences of the Iran nuclear weapons deal to anyone who would listen.
Consider the following incident at Rutgers University. It seems that the chancellor of the New Jersey school issued a statement condemning antisemitism and then, in the wake of flak from a pro-Palestinan group, apologized for it.
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Of course Israel had more than a right to defend its citizens. It had a duty to do all that it could to neutralize the attackers and restore deterrence.
He will tell anyone who will listen that gun buybacks to get rid of guns doesn’t work.
Without doubt, David Weprin is admirably prepared to serve as New York City Comptroller and we urge our New York readers to go out and vote, giving him the opportunity to do so.
What matters is whether there will be a cost to Hamas with respect to the very issues that prompted its military gambit to deter future such efforts.
A federal law passed last year in response to the corona pandemic authorizes home confinement for federal inmates on the basis of several enhanced virus risk factors, including advanced age and illness.
Some Democratic governors and other local officials who were sued have filed motions asking judges who heard their cases to impose sanctions.
The heartbreak and grief in so many families is unimaginable.
Sadly, it took the death of 17-year-old African American student Devonte Lewish to underscore the legitimacy of the point.
We are grateful that he will now be able to better address his serious medical issues.
De Blasio praised the first judge who tried in vain to lock Burnette up and said the controversial bail law should be reconsidered for hate crimes.
How did this tragic death inflame passions and prompt even the highest of our elected officials to throw respect for our legal process and its emblematic presumption of innocence to the dogs?
It further posits that, accordingly, some people, simply on account of their race, are inherently oppressors or victims and that our racial identities are more important than our common status as human beings and Americans.
Indeed, Minneapolis authorities got the point and have transformed the city into a virtual fortress with more than 3,000 National Guard troops in the city and shops and businesses boarded up.
According to The New York Times, the court noted that under French law, “a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control” over his acts.
To be sure, Israel denies having acted in this instance but it is widely believed to have been responsible.
It is even being alleged that he undercounted because he was intent on keeping his image as the anti-Covid leader intact and he also wanted to avoid diminishing the sales of a book he wrote on the topic.
The Jewish Press does not see why Elliot's personal views on former President Trump should make him any different from the dozens of other journalists covering the events.
No longer would recalcitrant Palestinians be able to stymie progress with patently unrealistic territorial demands. A Palestinian state would no longer be a given, although it was still achievable.
According to YNET News, the Ra’am Party is a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a political network whose centers are located in Qatar, Turkey and Gaza, and which has been blackballed throughout the Middle East.
An American project to eliminate poverty and violence in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala? With an estimated price tag of $700 million? Is he for real?
It is truly ironic that the person most closely associated with official admonitions of compliance (or else) with corona health rules should now be prominently identified with their violation.
Cuozzo pointedly ignores the fact that the Bronx, which adjoins Manhattan and which has areas with scant Orthodox populations, has a 10% positivity rate.
As far as Iran is concerned, if for nothing else than being seen as reversing a major Trump policy, Biden is anxious to return to the Iran deal. Yet he has also indicated that he respects some of the Trump criticisms of it terms.
The Times also reports that Speaker Pelosi had initially only been willing to support an allocation of up to $200 million but ultimately went along, apparently after a deft parliamentary maneuver by Schumer.
We have long felt that Democratic attacks on former Barr – that he acted as Trump’s personal lawyer rather than “the peoples’ lawyer” – was simple politicking.
While Iran has also expressed interest in America rejoining the deal, it wants the American sanctions lifted as a condition for it to come to the table.
This move, we believe, will help foster in Israel a less coercive Orthodoxy and worldwide will embrace all our people as part of Am Yisrael, with a shared past and shared future.
It is not usually the case that a court so freely admits to having encroached on legislative prerogatives.
Airline personnel say they were not fixated on the child but were rather concerned with a wider violation of the rules.
It was very surprising that Garland testified that he would make the federal investigation into the storming of the Capitol in January his first priority.
Several things just don’t add up. If the information they were providing directly to the Feds wasn’t damning, why couldn’t it have been provided to the state authorities as well?
That Abbas is desperate is an understatement. The Trump administration cut off all aid and backed a Mideast peace plan that almost completely favored Israel’s wish list.
Mr. Graham seemed to be suggesting that the vice president might be punished because she had expressed support for a bail fund for Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota last summer.
The war there has rightly been called a humanitarian catastrophe with the Houthi committing atrocities typical of the most notorious terrorists groups around the world – of which it certainly is one.
At a time when the court system continues to accumulate an ever-growing corona-induced backlog of cases – already numbering in the many thousands – getting rid of senior and experienced judges seems to be as wrongheaded as one can get.
A spokesman for Schumer promptly responded, “We respect their request and of course will accommodate it.” No questions. No comments. No qualifications. No equivocations.
The governor failed to mount a serious defense, reportedly out of fear that his top officials would have to testify.
He headed one of the celebrated Jerusalem branches of the Brisk Yeshiva that had originally been established by his father in Europe...
Rabbi Scheiner was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah and venerated both for his erudition and wise counsel.
Not only has he yet to document his charge of the federal mandate and his directive mysteriously disappeared from the internet, he claimed that the directive permitted nursing homes to deny the admission of the corona infected.
Not only is this sort of thing counterintuitive, a parallel policy announced two days later covering the military shows that even Biden is not so sure about where he is taking the country.
Rabbi Twerski was a Talmudic scholar and a medical doctor with a specialty in psychiatry who became a leading authority on the treatment of drug addiction and other forms of addictive behavior.
Why Malliotakis had a problem with the release of an ill, 77-year-old, former Democratic politician, with no prospect whatsoever of returning to politics, simply eludes us.
Companies, law firms, and colleges are being pressured to not hire, or to fire, anyone who had been associated with Trump or expressed support for his policies.
He concluded: “To me, after 10 years, if Iran is the same nation as it is today, we will be worse off with this agreement than without it.”
While Fatah’s claim to wanting peace with Israel is out there – which is laughable considering what’s taught in PA schools and on PA TV – Hamas still publicly denies the legitimacy of Israel and is publicly committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
According to Halbfinger’s logic, Trump’s peace proposal was driven by Friedman’s strong pro-Israel personal views and not a concern for U.S. national interests in the Middle East and, moreover, did little to promote it.
To be sure, we are now on the cusp of widespread availability of vaccines to fight Covid-19.
He was also a strong supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the agenda of Israel’s right-wing parties on issues related to settlements and the Palestinians.
As The Jerusalem Post reports, the last Palestinian presidential election was held in January 2005 when Abbas, who heads the Fatah faction, was elected to a four-year term that has now lasted 15 years.
Some experts say: How can Iran be blamed if the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from JCPOA?
According to The Guardian newspaper, the student complained that anti-Semitic graffiti was painted throughout the school and that pro-Israel students were called “Zionists.”
In addition to the denunciations and condemnations, the PA announced that it was withdrawing its ambassadors from the two countries in protest.
China is the only rival with the combined economic and military potential to present a long-tem, comprehensive challenge to he United States, the report states.
So in order to avoid the aura of illegitimacy that would surround a Biden presidency, we have urged a thorough investigation of what happened as being in the interests of all sides.
EU regulations state that member states can make exceptions for religious rituals, but such exemption are not required as a matter of religious freedom.
Isn’t now the time to pay attention to the numbers and the prospect of imminent additions?
RFRA is a federal law that prohibits the federal government from placing a “substantial burden” on an individual’s exercise of religion unless there is a “compelling” government interest in doing so and the government can demonstrate that there is no less onerous way of pursuing it.
Just last week, NYC Police Commissioner Dermot Shea lamented the drastic jump in shootings across the city.
I respect the incredible value of keeping traditions alive, especially those that centuries of persecution have sought to erase.
Does anyone believe that she and the original tweeter had a peaceful transition in mind?
Now, rightly or wrongly, over half of Republicans believe the 2020 presidential election was fatally corrupted and that the reported results in favor of Biden are, to put it simply, bogus.
Six months ago, the Supreme Court narrowly rejected challenges to virus-related restrictions on churches in California and Nevada which had argued that churches were prohibited from organizing gatherings in sizes permitted in commercial entities.
As most readers know, the life sentence itself was unprecedented for someone charged with passing classified information to an ally of the United States, a crime that ordinarily draws a sentence of 2 to 4 years. He was not charged with spying or treason.
Abbas has also recently called upon Palestinians to end their public criticism of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and the Sudan over the normalization agreements they recently concluded with Israel.
Prior to the Trump order, under the Obama years, school administrators would merely conduct a fact-finding inquiry, interviewing all concerned but without the accused being able to confront the accuser.
On exactly what parallel universe has the former president been living? Put another way, exactly what didn’t Netanyahu get about Obama’s plans for the Middle East?
If there were any doubt about what Biden was up to, consider his white supremacy comment.
Warnock claims he was referring to the deaths of Palestinian civilians who demonstrated in support of Hamas militants and that he is a strong supporter of Israel, crediting it with being the greatest proponent of democracy in the Middle East.
Universally recognized as a prodigious Talmudic and halachic scholar and foremost Torah personality, Rabbi Feinstein was also known for his humility, unfailing grace, and matter-of-fact demeanor.
Rabbi Sacks presented a vision of a Judaism that encompassed broad concern for such matters as globalization, capitalism, environmentalism, and the welfare and happiness of all of mankind.
And what about the Democrats’ hyper-partisan reading of that Trump-Ukrainian president phone call? Or the unprecedented Democrat-only impeachment of President Trump? All embraced and trumpeted by the media.
It was also fitting that the next day, the first passport issued under the new rules was issued to Menachem Zivotofsky.
With the new 6-3 lineup of conservative-leaning justices believed to be open to broadening protection for religious rights, this promises to be a pivotal time in our history.
A week before the November 3 presidential election, the Admorim of Pupa, Bobov, Munkach, Vishnitz, Skver, Rachmanstrivka, and Satmar, and a dayan of the Crown Heights Beis Din joined rosh yeshivos of Lakewood, Philadelphia, and South Fallsburg in praising President Donald Trump for his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his declaration that “houses of […]
Is there anything that runs more counter to BDS than the Abraham Accords?
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There was much anger at the hearings despite the fact that the debate was an intellectual one over the appropriate approach a justice on the Supreme Court must take.
That the mainstream media last week largely sat on – and sometimes tried to actively squelch – the explosive story of e-mails indicating that Joe Biden used his position as vice president to advance his son’s business interests in Ukraine suggests what’s at stake.
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July 31, 2026 
