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Israel And The Reality Of Anti-Semitism

By Jonathan S. Tobin

it’s clear that Israel is just the latest, albeit a vicious, excuse for Jew hatred.

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The Left’s Hatred Of Israel Has A Rich History

By Stephen H. Norwood

Communists saw no anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union; modern radicals deny Arab anti-Semitism.

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Joy Of All The Earth: Meditations on Jerusalem

By Faigie Heiman

Beautiful Site, Joy of all the Earth; two of the seventy names provided for Jerusalem.

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On the Way to a Jewish State (Part 2)

By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

Declaring sovereignty over the country is a necessary reaction to the revelation of Divine loving-kindness in our era.

Op-Eds / US / News Briefs / Islamists / On Campus / Education

Brandeis Unbecoming: Chloé Speaks In Defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Allow Chloé to help you and those you know how to stop punishing truth and rewarding intimidation.

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Palestinians Unite to Preserve Corruption

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Palestinian Arab Government corruption makes normal economic development virtually impossible.

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My Problem With Dogmatic Evolutionists

By Fred Reed

One plausible explanation for this rigid evolutionary monotheism, though I think an incorrect one, is a fear that the children might come to believe in Creationism.

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Anne Frank and Florida's Latest Teen Rage

By Yonatan Gordon

The Jew-Nazi drinking game has trivialized, even fictionalized, the Holocaust into a mode of entertainment.

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Opening My Eyes on Lag Ba'omer

By Yonatan Gordon

Instead of a time when a race of sentient robots will roam the Earth, we prefer to focus on the time when humans will live according to their fullest potentials.

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Blaming Israel to Preserve a Theory

By Jonathan S. Tobin

The Clinton administration whitewashed Yasir Arafat and the PA then; Team Obama now whitewashes Abbas.

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Listening to the Nevermind Generation

By Yonatan Gordon

Now that I can speak to the world is anyone listening?

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There Was No Good Hitler

By Rabbi Mark N. Wildes

There was never a “good” Hitler, not even before 1939.

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On the Way to a Jewish State (part one)

By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

“All Jews are responsible for one another,” and every Jew has an integral part of the complete picture.

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The 'Talmudic' Objectivity of the Millennial Generation

By Yonatan Gordon

The fact that by Divine Providence this is called the “millennial” generation is also something to meditate upon.

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First Amendment Hypocrisy: Muslims and Israel

By Abraham H. Miller

the prospect of violence often guarantees their right to use the First Amendment while denying it to others.

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Lag B'Omer 1942, ‘Jewish Amazons,’ And The Pyramids

By Dr. Rafael Medoff

These "Jewish Amazons" were living proof of the failure of the enemies of the Jewish people.

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Where is King David Really Buried?

By Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky

Misconception: King David is buried on Mount Zion, in a room that bears the inscription “King David’s Tomb.”

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The Formula for Holding On to the Land

By Rabbi Yeheskel Lebovic

Israeli leadership doesn’t look to God for help, it gave away Gaza because of political predictions and calculations.

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Five Reasons Hilary Will NOT Get The Nod in '16

By Avi Tuchmayer

There is lots of evidence that Hilary Rodham Clinton, the former senator from New York, first lady and secretary of state, will to try to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. Even before formally announcing her candidacy, she's been campaigning and making waves, all in an attempt to keep her name not only […]

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Tears and Pride as a Grandson Joins the IDF

By Naomi Klass Mauer

The new soldiers received a gun and a Tanach, in which the “deed” to the land of Israel is found.

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What Happens When We Remove God From The Picture

By Dr. Lawrence Resnick

When one denies the objective source of value, the very meaning of those values becomes problematic.

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A Fearsome Test For French Jews

By Ben Cohen

While Jews are just one percent of the French population, 40 percent of French racist assaults target Jews.

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Selfies, Self-Image, Same-Gender Attraction

By Inspired Student

There is an answer past abstinence or avoidance for Torah-prohibited relations.

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Angry Mom Responds to Letter Writer

By Proud Mom

You want to exclude this group from supporting their homeland, using the Torah as an excuse.

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Two Aspects of the Mitzva of Counting the Omer

By Yeshivat Har Etzion

Rav Soloveitchik asserted that Shavuot is sanctified not only by the court’s counting, but even by the individual’s counting.

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I am Shelly Dadon

By Mark Langfan

I am Shelly Dadon. I was murdered because I was Jewish.

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Price Tag Hypocrisy

By Douglas Altabef

The price tag perpetrators have become the symbol for leftist hatred of the "settler" movement.

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Iran Counting on Obama's Weakness

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Iran seems closer to its nuclear goal today than it did before Obama’s interim capitulation.

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The Promise and Potential Peril of Oculus Rift

By Yonatan Gordon

We wish everyone learns to fully interact with reality, unfettered by limits of space and time.

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A Free or Democratic State - Which Do You Prefer?

By Eli Hertz

Freedom may include democracy but democracy does not necessarily include freedom.

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The Search for Objective Journalism

By Yonatan Gordon

Running a country according to the God-given laws of the Torah would result in something very great indeed.

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Nazi Epithet Removes Amos Oz From Israeli Discourse

By Avi Tuchmayer

Oz claims graffiti or slashed tires are today’s equivalent of Dr Mengele; what is left to discuss?

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Dear J Street: Time to End the Hypocrisy

By Chloe Valdary

J Street favors dialogue with a genocidal terrorist group but calls for shunning a 21 year old college student with differing political views.

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Let the IDF Win (Tnu LiTzahal LiNatzeach)

By Eytan Meyersdorf

These restrictions placed on the soldiers result from international pressure as well as campaigns initiated by radical left-wing Israeli NGOs.

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Walking A Mile With Their Cell Phones

By Rabbi Dr. Naphtali Hoff

For our children, technology is not just another activity that is forbidden on Shabbos.

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The Maltz Maneuver: Interfaith Dialogue or Hear No Evil

By Tabitha Korol

The ISNA imam compared Sharia to Judaism and Jewish dietary laws (Kashrut - Kosher), and Christian laws.

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Criminal Failure by the International Community

By Colonel Richard Kemp

Silence and inaction by the UN and the EU add up to at least a degree of culpability.

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Making A Deal With The Devil

By N. Aaron Troodler

With his decision to unite with Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas has thrown away diplomacy and chose terrorism instead.

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The Internet's Mussar

By Rabbi Gil Student

If we can learn to fear the surveillance of the Internet, we can learn to fear God's constant watching.

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Rejection of J Street Best Possible Outcome...for J Street

By Jonathan S. Tobin

J Street has no interest in working with rivals or allies, its purpose is the defeat of consensus.

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Yitzhar Yeshiva Dean: Jewish State's Spiritual Malady

By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

There is a spiritual malady causing our people to turn against each other.

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The Obama Administration’s Stealth Anti-Israel Rhetoric

By Jeff Dunetz

While the Obama administration has moaned about Palestinians taking “unhelpful” steps, their “scolding” has not approached the criticism that has been leveled at the Jewish State.

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A Public Call to Increase Peaceful Protests

By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

We must return to the values of Jewish morality, and the ability to distinguish between friend and foe.

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Palestinian Terrorists Smuggle Sperm Out of Israeli Jails

By Anat Berko

Prisoners who smuggled sperm out of jail knew it was the only stage of the process they could monitor.

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Defining Israel as the Jewish State

By Yitzhak Klein

Proponents of the new Basic Law proposal view it not as a threat to democracy but as essential to Israeli democracy.

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The Vote Heard 'Round the World

By Rabbi Pesach Lerner

J Street is like the kid in the schoolyard who makes the rules in his favor, but when he loses, claims it was unfair.

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An Open Letter to Abir Kopty

By Avi Tuchmayer

Dear Abir I read with interest your blogpost objecting to having been included in Haaretz’s list of 66 Israeli Women You Should Know, published by that newspaper ahead of Yom HaAtzma’ut. Of course, respect your right to self-definition, and your desire to be known as a Palestinian, not as an Israeli (although I would point […]

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Blaming the Victim

By Alan Joseph Bauer

The Arab Bank had to admit that it serviced accounts of terror-associated organizations marked as such by the US government.

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Why Many Orthodox Jews Can’t Face Up To History

By Rabbi Berel Wein

The Holocaust and the rise of Israel occupy no space or time in many Orthodox schools.

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Jacob Birnbaum: Unsung Father Of Jewish Freedom

By Rabbi Avi Weiss

Birnbaum was unyielding, uncompromising, relentless, stubborn, steadfast and tenacious.

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Kerry’s Apartheid Slur Sabotages Peace

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Rather than pushing the parties toward an agreement, Kerry has sabotaged the process.

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Kids At Risk: Are We Making Progress?

By Dov Hikind

The cold fact is that kids go off the derech and end up in the most dire situations.

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Countering A Kidnapped Reporter's Claims

By dvora

Now that he's free, it's time to counteract Ostrovsky's many inaccuracies and innuendos.

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From Holocaust To Rebirth

By Gilad Schwartz

Unfortunately, my idea that Israel is a country that fights for Jewish values, and would do anything for Jewish citizens, was shattered just one month after coming back from a trip to Poland.

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J Street's Phony Liberalism

By Professor Elihu D. Richter MD MPH

J Street's leadership is silent on the real issues of concern for liberals and progressives.

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Greetings from Apartheidia

By Douglas Altabef

Jerusalem? No way. Its out of central casting for It's A Small World.

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Kerry - Don't Go

By Shalom Bear

With all due respect to President Obama, he's got nothing, and I mean nothing, on Secretary of State John Kerry.

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The Celebrate Parade and the 'Boycott Israel Fund'

By Matan Peleg

The New Israel Fund presents itself as supporters of Israel, while its actions prove the opposite to be true.

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Keeping Haredim Excited About Torah

By Yonatan Gordon

It is in our best interest to find new ways to infuse life and vitality into observant life.

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Hamas is Not Alone

By Yaakov Lappin

There are also 4,000 or so members of smaller well-armed Gazan terror groups, not just Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

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The Holocaust and Jewish Morality: The Views of a Survivor

By Yeshivat Har Etzion

The question of Jewish identity, for example, has been greatly affected by the legacy of the Holocaust.

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'A Road Never Traveled, Leading Nowhere’

By Elliot Resnick

If a child is seldom required to yield his desires and needs to those of others, surely doing so as an adult will not come naturally to him.

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Tradition And Technology: E-learning In Jewish Day Schools

By Laurie Rappeport

Day schools can have boys and girls participate in the same online class but they don't meet or interact in "real time."

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Jews In Space

By Bruce Bawer

Jews so hostile to their own people they’ve spun out into the orbit of rabid anti-Israeli and pro-Islamic radicalism.

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Breaking The Fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd Chain

By Rabbi Dani Staum

Rav Pam said we must realize that God has no pleasure from such negative speech.

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Talmudic Journalism

By Yonatan Gordon

Since Torah is the great equalizer, the great reconciler of divergent but valid opinions, this is also the place where common ground is reached.

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Mass Shofar Blast Against Anti-Israel Enabling on April 29

By Edwin Black

Some American Jews feel their community has been hijacked from within by groups waging war against Israel seemingly in the name of the Jewish people.

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Islam's Tenuous Connection to Jerusalem

By Eli Hertz

Jerusalem only seems important in the Islamic world when non-Muslims control or capture the city.

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Brandeis's Dishonor Diaries

By Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov

At Brandeis, much of what counts as Western civilization got cold feet and won’t stand with Hirsi Ali.

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Ukraine and the Question of Jewish Identity

By Yonatan Gordon

But the lesson from this meditation is that hidden behind the anti-semitic act is the greatest light.

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Would HaLevi have Turned in Rushdie? Or Banished Spinoza?

By Phyllis Chesler

As support of their messianic dream, Halevi and Antepli approve dishonoring Hirsi Ali as a 'renegade.'

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Throwing Stones of Love

By Yonatan Gordon

When we are united with unconditional love, no stone will be raised against us by our enemies.

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Start-Up Journalism

By Yonatan Gordon

The reporter simply reports the news, but it is greater to be inspired to better the situation.

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Echoes Of The Big Bang

By Rabbi Yosef Bitton

The Big Bang theory marked the scientific community's first sense of the universe having a beginning.

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Brig. Gen. Rabbi Rafi Peretz, Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Shares his Thoughts for Passover.

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

We, soldiers of the IDF, who stand guard over the people and the land, fulfill the hopes of the millions of Jewish people across the generations who sought freedom.

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The Deeper Dimension Of Passover

By Rabbi Yeheskel Lebovic

How much is the human mind able to grasp of the Divine?

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Trite But True: A Lesson For Passover 2014

By Shelley Benveniste

Jews have brought the baggage of the galut (exile) mentality to the modern state of Israel.

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Pesach In Exile: Why The Haggadah Was Compiled

By Moshe Dann

The Haggadah is an instruction manual on how to survive as strangers in strange lands.

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April 1944: A Jewish Exodus From The Polish Army

By Dr. Rafael Medoff

Jewish soldiers in the Polish forces often encountered anti-Semitic prejudice.

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Halakhot of the Seder: Korekh

By Yeshivat Har Etzion

At our seder we emulate the way it was celebrated in Temple times, as if the Temple still stood.

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What's Really Holding Up Middle East Peace

By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper

Not one world leader holds Abbas accountable for his part in the breakdown of negotiations.

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Passover Guide for the Perplexed, 2014

By Yoram Ettinger

The 1948 re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty was a modern day Exodus and Parting of the Sea.

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Precisely to Whom is Gov. Chris Christie Pandering?

By Sarah N. Stern

Christie's "good friend" is an Imam who supports murderers of Jews and defames Israel and Christians.

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Poof the Clueless Kerry (Tune of Puff the Magic Dragon)

By Steven Plaut

One grey night it happened, Bibi caved no more & Poof that Foggy Bottomer, he vanished from our sight

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Assert Your Right To Observe Yom Tov

By Nathan Lewin

Federal and local laws protect your right to workplace accommodations for your religious observance.

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The New Oracle Of Delphi

By Dr. Ari Lapin

Rebbeim are consulted on all of life’s major decisions and a fair number of minor ones.

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Dear Fred Lawrence, President of Brandeis University

By Chloe Valdary

Do you value popular opinion over the freedom and sanctity that every woman deserves?

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An Attack On Torah And Tradition

By Rabbi Yehoshua S. Hecht

AJC, the Federations and others seek to undermine the Chief Rabbinate in Israel.

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An Anti-Israel Tourism Subterfuge

By Janet Levy

Truth is a casualty in these anti-Israel tourism narratives so popular with colleges and church/shul groups.

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Daniel Pipes is Blocked by the British Library

By Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes's websites cannot be accessed through the British Library's system. Why? Intolerance.

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Identity and Loyalty in Islam and the Middle East

By Harold Rhode

Middle Eastern culture has never developed ways to leave the past behind.

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How to Passover Clean Your News Feed

By Yonatan Gordon

The slightest amount of “puffing up,” leavening of the ego is too much when it comes to Passover.

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Israel as 'Golus by Jews'? We Never Had it Better!

By Rabbi Sholom Gold

Hamodia ought denounce that abhorrent hashkafah, seek forgiveness and thank Hashem for His kindnesses

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Abbas to Kerry: 'Please Beg Me More!'

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Kerry has literally been "begging" Abbas to agree to the extension of the peace talks.

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Curing Hacker Anonymous' Split Personality Disorder

By Yonatan Gordon

OpIsrael is once again taking place on a most auspicious day for the Jewish people.

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A Response to Thomas Friedman: We Need More Sheldon Adelsons

By Joshua Nass

Apparently Thomas Friedman needs a history lesson to learn why those aren't "occupied territories."

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Labels, Lies, and Libel: Words and Weapons

By Yonina Pritzker

The protection and help that Israel extends to others does not stop at Israel’s borders.

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The Palestinian Country of Lies

By Reuven Berko

US global failures in dealing with radical Islam, Iran and Russia, should have taught them a lesson.

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'Breaking the Silence?' I Was Silenced.

By Hen Mazzig

Why was someone misrepresenting Israel given credibility by Hillel and J Street U?

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