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By Jeremy Rosen
The CIA intervened to get rid of Iran's unpredictable prime minister Mossadegh, in 1953.
If you lack emunah, how can you develop it merely because you’re commanded to believe?
Now the blip is beginning to look more like a wave.
By Steven Plaut
When the Temple was in existence, Jews were religiously obligated to eat roast meat at least once a year.
This is a political version of replacement theology.
Why Orthodox women tend to favor black over colorful clothing.
I began to hear rumors that North Korea was using poison gas to kill selected political prisoners.
"In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions." — Ali Gomaa, Egypt's former Grand Mufti.
What originally seems like fun can quickly turn into a buzz kill.
There is no way to know how much damage the leftist lunacy has done to the NBC News brand.
The Nazis intended to obliterate our religion, as well as our bodies.
In modern political parlance “compassionate” is a euphemism for ever-expanding government.
A wake up call to action for the Jewish community.
The Yesh Atid-sponsored draft law is very different from what you have been reading in the haredi press and hearing from haredi politicians and activists.
We live in a world where a people returning to it’s ancestral home is accused of occupation, and redemption has become colonialism.
In mainstream America, people believe in instant romance and not physically keeping to oneself prior to marriage.
By Meir Indor
“Arise, Reb Yechiel—honored with the firing of one bomb!”
Larger and larger swaths of people in the West keep coming back with the wrong opinion.
A key component of the Geneva Accords between the 5+1 and Tehran is limiting the latter' striking range to Middle Eastern targets.
Shortly before the afternoon service began, the lights and heat went on in the synagogue.
The birth of the Palestinian refugee phenomenon, in the form of a massive Arab flight, occurred during the Arab riots of 1936-39.
Gideon Levy ignores the fact that Germany, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. were by far the biggest traders with the apartheid regime, choosing instead to focus on Israel.
I first met Mandela in Geneva in 1990 as part of a delegation of American Jewish leaders.
How much wealth exists in the American Orthodox community?
They didn’t have to ask twice – I was there.
Although she survived the attack, she was demonized on Egypt's talk shows for the violence she endured.
With the conclusion of the Syrian fiasco, the Obama administration had to turn it’s attention to a more imminent threat.
By Soeren Kern
Adebolajo said there was an ongoing "war between Muslims and the British people" and he was a "soldier of Allah."
The Saudis are signaling that they will unleash a pre-emptive war in the Middle East.
The fact that ObamaCare was sold with lies multiplies the political resonance tenfold.
Like his father, Lapid believed that the Hareidim, together with the Palestinians, are parasites.
Released prisoner: "[In prison] we'd chat, talk, eat, drink, joke and play throughout the day."
Singling out Israel is not only malevolent, it is absurd.
The term “apartheid” is often used by advocates determined to achieve their own goals for their own purposes.
By Chabad.org
“It was quite an institutionalized racism, and we didn't come to get involved in politics.”
Israel's R&D expenditure is higher than any western country.
With the passage of time, fewer and fewer people are left to testify about life and death in the camps at the hands of the Nazis.
Like Chamberlain, Obama sued the ayatollahs for peace, insisting the only alternative to appeasement is war.
By Steven Plaut
I have frequently drawn up lists of what I love most about Israel, and Arik Einstein has ranked high.
By Ben Cohen
This new mood among Christian Arabs has worried the communists and Arab nationalist.
By Veli Sirin
"We will not allow boys and girls to live together in state-owed student residences... All kinds of messy things are happening."
By Jeremy Rosen
Meditation is all the rage in cyberspace it seems and what’s more “it is keeping capitalism alive.”
Since 2011 there have regularly been unprovoked attacks by black teens against non-black victims.
It was down to the press to expose the problem on behalf of everyone else.
Muslim Antisemitism is well documented
Rabbi Aharon Bina is dean of Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh
The Free World must overcome its inherent temptation to subordinate common sense to delusion and wishful-thinking.
By Meir Indor
Instead of being treated as common criminals, Palestinian terrorists receive an exceptional degree of autonomy within the prison walls.
No matter where we look, our lives are touched by miracles.
Hellenism captured the imagination and hearts not only of the Greeks but of the majority of Jews in ancient Judea.
By Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
All secular wisdom is essential for our Holy Torah and is included in it.
Many American experts—diplomatic, nuclear, political, economic—believe that even the risks to the United States exceed the benefits.
By Tibbi Singer
Music artist KopShtick converts "Jingle Bell Rock"
Not honoring your own voice begins to erode who you are and what you have to offer in this world.
President Barack Obama has a short term view of world affairs that does not breach the time limit and legacy concerns of his presidency.
My dad did not budge, finally releasing the two to cops who happened to be walking by.
By Shai Afsai
"Sigd" means bowing or prostration in Ge’ez, and the service includes frequent bowing and prostration on the part of worshipers.
By Jeremy Rosen
In Britain it is very rare for Orthodox and non-Orthodox rabbis to come together or to appear on a common platform.
America's foreign policy accomplishment since the end of the Cold War have all but vanished.
Chanukah is the only Jewish holiday that commemorates a Land of Israel national liberation struggle, unlike Passover, Sukkot and Shavuot.
By Daniel Perez
Iran has repeatedly called for a world without America.
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
His is not a record that inspires any confidence.
Bullying has been documented in virtually all cultures and contexts, with all ages and types vulnerable to falling prey to its negative impact.
By Steven Plaut
In the past, the law school prohibited the singing of Hatikvah.
By Isaac Kohn
Ms. Foreign Minister, do some reading that won’t cure your insomnia over buildings going up in Israel but may broaden your horizons.
Response to Rabbi Wallerstein's Agudah convention speech.
By Ed Lasky
He refuses to fulfill his duties and his leadership is being described as incompetent.
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.
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