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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.
John Kerry says an Israeli-Peace peace pact is “important to “regional security and stability.” ZOA says he is full of nonsense: Arab wars on Israel have nothing to do with their own internal problems.
Many of the speakers described the vast chesed that Reb Shlomo performed on a daily basis.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson was urging Christian Copts not to protest Muslim Brotherhood rule, even though they would suffer under it most.
By Sevda Gözler
We have a big problem with cognitive dissonance in most Arab countries.
Iran’s blaming the Zionist entity for a deadly earthquake in the country was pushing the limits of credulity.
By Esther and Jonathan Pollard
If anyone can bring the prayers of Am Yisrael before the Kisei HaKavod, we know that Shlomo can.
If the media and the international community continue to enable these tyrannical regimes, the cynical dead baby strategy will expand in scope.
By Henok Gabisa
Can interested state[s] intervene militarily to stop heinous crimes without the Security Council’s authorization?
The enemies of the Jewish people look longingly to the day when they will, God forbid, have the means to make good their threats to kill as many of us as possible.
On Facebook, young and old alike fool themselves into believing they are better than the person they see in the mirror.
It is high time we stopped empowering those who wish us ill: not just to recognize a blood-soaked regime, but to keep on recognizing it.
By giving the issue to Congress, he evades sole responsibility and makes himself look "principled."
By Soeren Kern
"The Left has singularly lacked courage in the difficult fight to defend secularism."
By Guest Author
We should remind each other of the value of Israel in our lives every chance we get.
By Guest Author
A letter to my American cousin who's going out with an Italian girl.
By Chabad.org
Most Jewish communities continue reciting Selichot throughout the Ten Days of Repentance.
By Jeremy Rosen
Zechariah was ready to scrap all the sad fast days and turn them into joyful celebrations.
By Guest Author
Gihon’s members are Nigerians who have embraced Judaism, but have not gone through a formal conversion process.
Numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore.
In a short span of time our shul raised and distributed thousands of dollars for relief organizations.
By Ben Cohen
Sarcasm aside, this is anti-Semitism of the ugliest, most primitive kind.
I learned that the Mormons have great respect for Jews and the state of Israel.
Islamic immigrants are hoping that by turning out a large number of their voters at a time of German voter apathy, they will be able to promote the further Islamification of Germany.
By Ali Salim
It is the lack of American action that will cause the situation to right itself in Egypt, Syria, North Africa and other centers of unrest in the Arab-Muslim world.
By Guest Author
If tears could melt stone, the Kotel wouldn’t be standing.
After the last freeze, there was a building boom. And the talks never took place. Let’s do it again.
August 28, 2026 
