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When I was in Saudi Arabia last January, I was amazed by the people's basic desire for a stable life, and that tells me two things
By Soeren Kern
" All this new law does is create a raft of civil servants being paid to move mountains of papers round all day."
PA official explained the rates on PA TV
By Jeremy Rosen
I know I am exceedingly privileged and fortunate to be able to live the life I live.
Netanyahu is a modern-day Chiang Kai-shek, seeking to be heard over the noises from his enemies and benefactors.
The current modus operandus that restricts Jewish presence as a way of keeping “peace” actually undercuts the prospects for peaceful co-existence.
In Blumenthal’s world, anyone who believes in the Jews’ right to a state even in a tiny slice of their ancient homeland is a fascist or a Nazi.
Hundreds of boats tried to run the British blockade on the dangerous, open seas.
By dvora
plans for a major coal-energy plant to be built in Ashkelon have basically been shelved.
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #186, November 08, 2013
The immediate choice for the world today is not between diplomacy and preventive war. We have a third option: to maintain or even increase the sanctions.
By Barry Rubin
"Israel has become an affluent and developed country that can afford to pay for its own defense."
The overhyped Arab Spring has been cancelled in Egypt.
The scary part is that the uninsured are not showing up.
By Selwyn Duke
Obama is a self-centered, arrogant, and quite probably megalomaniacal and narcissistic -- and possibly sociopathic -- jerk.
By Soeren Kern
"I find it shocking they won't list everything they've found." — Lawrence Kaye, Art Lawyer, New York.
By Jeremy Rosen
if you call it “kabbalah” you are guaranteed a whole legion more of suckers.
In the Middle East, as in Europe of the late 30’s, the drums of war will keep on beating.
By Shai Afsai
There are some 3,000 members of the Igbo ethnic group practicing Judaism in Nigeria.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Bad things happen, and when they do, the leader must take the strain so that others can sleep easily in their beds.
By Edwin Black
Under a sliding scale, carefully articulated in the Law of the Prisoner, the more heinous the act of terrorism, the longer the prison sentence, the higher the salary.
A plan by the State Department to transfer to Iraq 2,700 ancient artifacts and thousands of records that belonged to the Iraqi Jewish community but were seized by Saddam Hussein in 1984 has ignited an international firestorm.
If a teacher thinks his task is merely “to teach” – that it is no great thing to teach, that “anybody can do that” -- he must immediately be set straight.
Since I made aliyah with my family only about ten weeks ago, I don’t yet have the lexicon to describe what happened this morning.
A typical cow produces 70-80 pounds of milk daily while the Israeli cow makes 100 pounds!
By Chabad.org
We are brought into this confusing, fascinating, infuriating world for such a short amount of time, and it’s our mission to accomplish what we can for the several decades we are allotted.
The Oslo Accord state of mind, and the new Middle East vision, have been trounced by the Arab Tsunami.
"It appears that the suffering of the Jews has not transformed their view on how others should be treated." — David Ward, British MP.
By Jeremy Rosen
I strongly believe in legalizing drugs, soft and hard, but I am wary of drugs of any kind.
By Soeren Kern
"I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world." — David Cameron, Prime Minister, Great Britain.
Mrs. Cohen displayed that simple, unquestioning, adamant adherence to Torah-true Judaism that typifies many of our German-Jewish brethren.
As frustrating as it may be for Israel’s critics, support for Zionism is baked into the DNA of American politics.
The Jewish calendar is very slowly getting out of sync with the solar calendar, at a rate of 4 days per 1,000 years.
By Chabad.org
If one has only enough money to afford either a cup of wine for Shabbat kiddush or oil for his Hanukkah lamp, the mitzvah of Hanukkah takes precedence.
One out of every ten homes in Lebanon now has a rocket launcher or Hezbollah weapons stored in it, according to Gilad Erdan, Israel's Home Front Defense Minister.
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #185, October 28, 2013
By Dr. Daniel Berman and Prof. Brenda Breuer and Prof. Awi Federgruen
In a recent Jewish Press op-ed article (“In Defense of Parental Consent for Metzizah B’Peh,” Oct. 18), the reader was asked to “imagine” (emphasis ours) what the author described as a “commonplace scenario" where parents who are ignorant about MBP have a child die as a result of this procedure.
Saudi Arabia's rejection of a term on the UN Security Council likely reflects its view of itself as helping to establish an alternate international order based on Sharia law.
I had heard singing from across the street several times at the end of Shabbos but hadn't realized the singing was a prelude to Havdalah.
There's an eerie silence and tears can be seen running down the faces of young parents and elderly grandparents and siblings of all ages.
The two leading candidates for mayor of New York are intelligent, motivated and tenacious, with outsized egos and ambition.
PA Deputy Minister of Education is on the magazine's advisory board.
By Robert Ellis
The EU Commission's progress report deals with a polarized society and a government that takes repressive measures against citizens who assert their democratic rights.
By Soeren Kern
In a separate but related matter, the Al-Madinah School is being investigated by the government over alleged financial irregularities.
Fatah about its military wing: "When they strike - they cause pain."
By Jeremy Rosen
A thousand years ago Rabbeynu Tam, the greatest rabbi of his day, forbade beating men up as a way of compelling a recalcitrant husbands to grant a Get.
By Bernard Beck
Jewish identity has been an issue in the Jewish community at least since the beginning of the Common Era, and perhaps even before.
Galloway refuses to recognise my national and civic identity. He denies my cultural existence.
I recently heard someone say that it would be hard for a frum Jew to be a good comedian, because most good jokes are putting others down.
Netanyahu’s speech was far from the denunciation of the peace process that some of his detractors are depicting.
On certain public policy issues, Orthodox opinion stands in sharp contrast to the views of most American Jews.
Not only does it not infringe on the religious liberties of mohelim, it actually protects the religious liberties of parent.
Even youngsters in Israel, years away from voting age, are knowledgeable about politics and don’t hesitate to discuss their opinions.
My husband tried to raise the children Jewish. Now grown up, his children eschew all Jewish traditions and values.
One can expect an intensification of the steadily rising Jewish share of the total population of the Land of Israel.
PA TV stressed that it considers as "heroes" 3 terrorists who are serving a total of 166 life sentences for planning suicide bombings.
By Soeren Kern
"The rules of the city and the country are mandatory for everyone, and Mollet del Vallès will be uncompromising toward any kind of radicalism or blackmail." — Josep Monràs, Mayor of Mollet del Vallès, Spain
What the Republican and Tea parties have to recognize is that despite the validity to many of the arguments they make and the principles they support, they are missing the fundamental value that Americans prize over all else: ethics.
By Steven Plaut
American non-Orthodox Jews are intermarrying their way into post-Jewish oblivion, and they’re doing so as a direct result of having emptied their version of Judaism of all meaning.
The pressure to live a lifestyle of the rich and famous can be overwhelming. This just serves, of course, to increase the risk of fraud and deceit.
Iran might well conclude that the sanctions could disappear in the course of endless rounds of diplomacy.
Young Jews desperately need to experience both the serious and lighter sides of Judaism.
"The sniper of Palestine was here... He left a signature of [real] men."
Egypt has finally decided to tackle the security threat from the Sinai Peninsula.
By Anat Berko
Jihad, a holy war against the infidel, is the personal duty of every Muslim, and if he does not wage it, he will die as a religious hypocrite.
By Ben Cohen
In this drama, J Street, much like other left-wing groups, is an enthusiastic cheerleader, nothing more.
Iran’s real boss, Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was wise to back Rouhani’s play.
By Tevi Troy
The crowd, though nearly all frum, is nonetheless quite a diverse mix of the entire range of frumkeit, including haredi, chassidic, Modern, and barely.
The presence of a strong Israel gives credence to the Torah’s message that God is not finished with the people of the Covenant.
Because of the "5% hurdle," Germany's new coalition will tilt be to the left, while voters clearly wanted Germany to turn to the right.
Jihad will spread outwards to the region, then threaten global security -- possibly with biological and chemical weapons.
By Guest Author
The art show represents its theme, the identity of joy in Judaism.
By Soeren Kern
The Muslim Association of Iceland now admits that foreign donors will be paying for the mosque's construction costs.
As the Torah teaches, poverty will never be eradicated, nor will our obligation to assist those in need.
By Ben Cohen
Rather than the “Lobby” running the administration, it is the administration that runs the “Lobby.”
The davener stands, sits, stands, bows, straightens up, turns, takes steps backward and forward, sits, stands, sits, stands, bows, and so forth.
Before I knew it, we were suddenly busy with shopping, packing, and more shopping. My daughter was going to Israel.
By Anat Berko
The suicide bomber's education and attack preparations are diametrically opposed to that of mass killers, as is their socialization.
By David Wilder
A few hours after the murder, the Prime Minister issued a directive to allow Jews back into Beit HaMachpela immediately.
By David Wilder
People here develop "antennas" which pick up vibrations in the air, and the vibes were definitely there.
PM Hamdallah: "The PA will pay at least 4,000 shekels a month to prisoners released after serving a long prison term, and considers them to be returning soldiers."
By the time I was 10, my mother and I had hitchhiked for thousands of miles and befriended hundreds of exceptionally strange people.
The professor claims Israel’s collapse will lead to an alliance between secular Palestinians and post-Zionist Jews and others to build a secular democracy.
It all comes down to our state of mind.
The trial was a shock to American Jews, as was Frank's lynching two years later.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s startling Sept. 11 op-ed article in The New York Times was sobering evidence that President Obama’s self-created Syrian debacle has fostered the appearance of a sea change in international affairs – a sea change to America’s detriment.
By Timon Dias
The entire Palestinian Authority leadership lives off an international welfare check that keeps coming only because the conflict still exists.
There can be little doubt that the train of thought Secretary Kerry expressed is part of the unfortunate zeitgeist.
Belgian children aged 6 to 12 are being instilled with a deep hatred for.
The day after she was awarded the Liberty Medal, the Washington Post broke yet another Hillary-linked scandal.
"He who lives outside Eretz Israel is like one who does not have God" (Ketubot 110b)
Israel has one life support. It starts with Yom Kippur.
Several fundamental issues must first be addressed before a substantive and enduring peace agreement can be reached.
J Street is at odds with the man they once served as his main Jewish cheerleaders.
In death as in life, Menachem Begin remained who he had always been: a proud yet humble Jew.
Studies show that large numbers of Europeans hold a demonic view of Israel.
July 10, 2026 
