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In our view, the DOE’s decision to define what constitutes an appropriate yeshiva education by relying on lawyers rather than educators was plainly wrong.
For good or for bad, the new regulation was consistent with the policy agenda that President Trump laid out during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Urban Dove educates students who failed 9th grade. Disciplinary problems are rife. Many of its students reportedly are members of gangs.
Although federal law no longer excludes otherwise qualified entities from participating in general federal programs solely because of their religious nature, state law might bar religious entities from participating in state-financed programs.
Hapless Jews simply walking in the street minding their own business have become the face of the failure of bail reform.
The Palestinian mantra is now officially and proudly that killing Israelis is merely political activity and entitled to all of the respect and protections accorded to other such worthy endeavors.
The editorial invoked the theme of a “commoner marrying Prince Charming” and the nasty brouhaha triggered by their decision to quit the royal family.
At Sunday’s “No Hate, No Fear” solidarity march against anti-Semitism, a featured speaker, Chaskell Bennett, made plain that there is more in play than just feelings within the black community.
We were stunned by House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s letter to Democratic members of Congress announcing that the House will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution limiting President Trump’s military actions regarding Iran. This is Trump Derangement Syndrome out of control. According to Pelosi, the resolution “reasserts Congress’ long-established oversight responsibilities by […]
Perhaps there is also a growing appreciation of the patently absurd claim – advanced by some New York politicians – that President Trump and white supremacists are responsible for the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks.
What was deeply unnerving was the role of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – the FISA court – itself in the whole sordid episode.
The story quoted several witnesses who “expressed relief that the shootings did not appear to be an act of anti-Semitism.”
By declaring that the ICC would investigate that claim the Court is saying that it believes that it has legal merit.
In the impeachment of President Trump, however, no identified crime of any nature found in the federal criminal statutes was alleged.
Adding insult to injury, a member of the local school board, Joan Terrell, actually suggested that the murderous rampage was explainable as a reaction to Jewish interlopers displacing blacks in traditionally black neighborhoods.
This is serious stuff and will doubtless have really significant consequences for those involved.
Last week, she made yet another strange statement, doubling down on her curious comments on the news that Amazon had rented space in Manhattan’s new Hudson Yards development.
Of particular interest is the case of American refusal to support Israel’s desire to take preemptive action against the Arab states arrayed against it in the run-up to the Six-Day War in 1967.
The resolution also charges Mr. Trump with obstruction of Congress by directing the Executive Branch “to defy lawful subpoenas” seeking testimony and documents relating to its Ukrainian probe.
They want to coerce Iran into a long-term, more verifiable and restrictive agreement limiting its nuclear and conventional weapons programs and its ability to support terrorism.
This past Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett announced the approval of a new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron.
Cabrera said Ocasio-Cortez has not only done nothing to bring jobs to the district, she has actually kept jobs away.
After all, Israel gained control of this territory by successfully defending itself against Arab armies bent on its destruction.
It also doesn’t seem to matter to them that, in sum and substance, the only thing at issue is the receipt of some cigars and favorable press treatment.
At worst, B&H – and others in the same business – acted out of a particular interpretation of the applicable laws.
Obviously, Barr has been made aware of what both have turned up, and the odds are that he is not just blowing smoke.
Pompeo's announcement was essentially a direct repudiation of the infamous UN Resolution President that Obama allowed to pass, which declared that settlements are “a flagrant violation” of international law.
According to several accounts, he insisted that no one should be held on bail because of an inability to come up with the required cash.
If they fear that their case may be undermined by what the Republicans might bring to the table, then that only means their case against the president is not a valid one.
The United States is seized with issues that old style American liberalism simply couldn’t get its arms around.
The motive behind this impeachment process is highly suspect. On top of that, there are strange inconsistencies with the current frenzied impeachment project itself.
Given Sanders’s significant support in the Democratic Party, there can be little doubt about what a Democratic victory in the 2020 presidential election would mean for Israel.
A Newsweek story even suggested that at the time of his death, Baghdadi may not have been in charge of the Islamic State...
That might explain why The New York Times decided to run an article last week and a follow-up editorial two days later about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.
The problem is that nothing like a quid pro quo appears in the transcript of the conversation between Trump and Zelensky.
Far from preaching religious zealotry, Barr was advocating an appreciation and retention of what has served us well in this country for 250 years.
Then there is the significant matter of the hearings by the Intelligence Committee being held in closed session to prevent the public from learning what is being testified to.
Frankly, it is hard to understand how this is a serious anti-discrimination measure in the traditional sense and not simply a statement against the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.
Small wonder, then, that the left is horrified, perhaps justifiably, by the very real prospect that some of their longtime core notions of public policy are in serious jeopardy before a newly fashioned right-of-center Supreme Court.
In Trump’s call to the Ukrainian president, he urges an investigation into Ukrainian ties to the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller and allegations of financial corruption involving Ukraine, Joe Biden, and his son. So what?
The DOE letter was published in the Federal Register and is seen as a move to put other universities on notice.
It seems clear that Israel’s Palestinian Arabs chafe at the notion of a Jewish state in what they consider Palestine.
The accusation was and is that McConnell was anticipating the possible election of a Republican in 2016 who would then choose a successor to Scalia and was thus inappropriately driven by “politics.”
In her first UN presentation, Ambassador Kraft did not disappoint.
To be sure, enactment of any legislation of this sort is always problematic.
When Iran downed an American drone in international air space, Trump first approved retaliatory air strikes, but then pulled back saying the attack may have been the result of “a mistake.”
Several commentators have pointed to Netanyahu’s alleged ethical challenges as the core of the disaffection.
The Democratic Party has never accepted the results of the last presidential election and has adopted a near total rejection of anything associated with President Trump.
We cannot drop the ball and fail to be involved in what comes next. The DOE is not simply going to adopt the sentiments of the majority of the commenters.
As it turned out, the story was not true. Indeed, he would only have had to go online where the documents were available to review them to find that out.
There was also the very disturbing news the other day of a European Union court having ruled that Hamas must be removed from the international list of terrorist groups.
Certainly, the continued presence of Kushner, a senior aide to the president, strongly suggests a continuity of existing policy.
At the time of these changes in U.S. policy, it was explained that they were not designed to close the door on Palestinian claims to part of Jerusalem.
Clearly some of our vaunted defense organizations with multi-million dollar budgets and highly paid staff ostensibly dedicated to dealing with this sort of thing are not up to the job.
The range of Gluck’s efforts included significant funding for most of Beit El’s educational institutions including yeshivas for both college and high school-aged men and a high school academy for girls.
The new guidelines would require New York City’s non-public schools to substantially adhere to standards followed by the city’s public schools.
The president’s critics were somewhat circuitous in their claim: to say someone is “disloyal” is to presuppose that there is a “loyalty” in the first place, to a country other than the U.S.
While it may not mean much to Tlaib/Omar and their supporters, there is an Israeli law on the books that prohibits entry to those who promote BDS.
As Byron York underscores in the Washington Examiner, what becomes clear from the transcript is that there was an acknowledgement of an institutional, programmatic anti-Trump bias amongst reporters.
The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it. Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.
The notion that a democracy must lay out the welcome mat to all comers defies logic. Israel’s democratically elected government made a decision that it believed to be in the country’s best interest.
Unfortunately, there are those on the left who believe that only ideas with which they identify qualify for entrance into the marketplace.
By denying the Jewish claim to a homeland, the BDS Movement is fundamentally incompatible with a two-state solution and pushes the cause of peace for both Israel and the Palestinians further out of reach.
Gun control is but one of many solutions necessary to address the scourge of gun violence in the country. Funding adequate mental health services, for example, is a critical piece of the puzzle.
Would they continue Trump’s cutbacks to Palestinian aid over violations of U.S. conditions, as mandated by law – or would they ignore them as his predecessors did?
There was also a subsequent revelation that Comey had been directed by then Attorney General Loretta Lynch to downplay the nature of the FBI’s Clinton inquiry by referring to it as a “matter” and not as an “investigation.”
Sharpton’s National Action Network then led protestors in front of Freddy’s Mart, referring to Jews as “bloodsuckers” and threatening “to burn and loot the Jews.”
This got us to thinking about the reaction to President Trump’s rebukes of Congressman Elijah Cummings and the deplorable state of parts of his congressional district and the so-called “Squad.”
Sadly, we also see a connection between Omar’s pro-BDS resolution and the pass she got when the House failed to rebuke her by name over her anti-Semitic comments in March.
In our legal system, in the absence of compelling evidence – that is, evidence of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt – a presumption of innocence governs.
If nothing else, elections are the way we in a democracy choose the people who will make authoritative decisions for us.
As we see it, the process by which the religious exemption was accomplished raised many serious questions.
It also sends the message that Israel will not willingly give up what it achieved at the cost of much blood and treasure in the course of defending itself from murderous Arab attempts to destroy it.
The guidelines mandated minimum hours of instruction in required secular subjects that cut sharply into the time traditionally dedicated to religious studies and opened the door to compulsory study of subjects like evolution and modern notions of gender identification.
In recent weeks, however, Iran has been openly violating the deal incrementally as a transparent effort to pressure the other major powers to help it get around the U.S. sanctions which have already devastated its economy.
Regrettably, this notion that Iran was a full negotiating partner in the JCPOA talks was spawned by the Obama administration’s pattern of making breathtaking concessions to the Iranians.
Even traditional Democratic champions of Israel have taken to railing against the relocation of the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Nadler certainly knows what’s at stake, but seems overtaken by his hatred of President Trump, reflexively seizing on anything that may paint him in a harsh light.
Those talks foundered on the failure of the Palestinians to come down from their negotiating starting points.
We cannot stress enough the importance of participation in both the primary and general elections.
It is very troubling that Stringer, who aspires to be mayor of New York, has gotten behind someone plainly committed to crippling the enforcement of our criminal laws.
Many jurisdictions across the country have banned so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, but New York’s law goes even further by covering patients of all ages.
Obama’s decision not to veto the Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank “flagrant violations of international law” bolstered the Palestinians cause even more.
The article proceeds to describe the pitfalls inherent in the tariff regime had it been imposed; it is only much later that the specifics of the agreement are addressed.
A current lawsuit playing out in federal court involving the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst and the NYS Department of Education demonstrates that the rules are easier described than implemented.
The President maintains that Mexico has failed to get serious about stopping the enormous numbers of illegal immigrants from across Latin America that regularly cross the Mexican border into the U.S.
Would law enforcement, faced with an epidemic of bank robberies, ever think of urging banks to close their doors as a suitable response?
We fully recognize that Democrats do not have to accept what the Republicans come up with.
Little, if anything, was heard from those upmarket Jews who had seamlessly blended into Germans culture. But perhaps, by then, it was already too late for them as well.
Highly regarded as the spiritual leader of his congregants, his writings on Jewish topics educated thousands.
Yet we have found no expressions of dismay in the media over these invocations of divine imprimatur – not even over the murderous rampages they glorify.
But we are also concerned with the here and now, as Democratic House leaders Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued statements rallying behind her.
No New Yorker should be forced to view these ads every single day.
Evidence surfaced some time ago suggesting that contributions to the foundation were tied to securing meetings with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
While it was clear that Israel was still firmly in the military driver’s seat, 700 missiles fired within a period of a little over a day does still stand out.
Despite careful attention by the bill’s sponsors to First Amendment concerns, full-blown pushback is well under way in the form of letters to DeSantis.
The eldest of the chassidic leaders, the Kaliver was acknowledged as a foremost halachic authority and dedicated his life to perpetuating the memory of victims of the Holocaust.
There was no apology, only that the image was “offensive,” an error in judgment in publishing it and that it had been deleted.
Congress has legislatively added to this general power, authorizing the executive branch to conduct the census and the basing of aid to various localities on the numbers.
As it turned out, Judge Ryba ruled that NYSED did not follow the procedures set forth in the NY State Administrative Procedure Act for the promulgation of the guidelines.
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