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Hamas has found itself embroiled in a number of local and regional disputes that seem to have had a negative impact on its standing among Palestinians and Arabs.
In subsequent email correspondence with Berkowitz, the producer of NBC readily admits that Berkwoitz did not advocate that victims turn to rabbis instead of the police.
It is easy to go through the motions of our days, weeks, months and years and not ask ourselves, “What is it that God wants from me?”
Opposition movements usually get public support and encouragement from the masses because they challenge a corrupt and oppressive regime. This public support is what brings the opposition movement to power, either by democratic means or by violence. At first, the public is content because it it sure that its preferred movement, which used to be […]
Originally published at the Gatestone Institute. The next time U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Ramallah, will he actually violate U.S. law to make sure there are no Jews among his entourage, lest he upset his Palestinian hosts? "We will approve the meeting on condition there are no Jews." This is what you are […]
By David Pollock and Michael Eisenstadt
Israel’s cooperation with U.S. companies on information technology has been crucial to their success.
Her latest book, The Cushion in the Road, is replete with an abundance of anti-Jewish rhetoric.
By Nathan Lewin
The inauguration of an American president has, since 1937, always begun with an invocation by a clergyman
By Ali Salim
The clever plans of the ayatollahs, who, it is well known, have the capabilities and are divinely inspired to plot the fate of the world, are nevertheless going awry.
By J. E. Dyer
The announcement of talks with the Taliban coincided with a rocket attack by the Taliban on the U.S. air base at Bagram, in which four of our servicemen were killed.
Although Palestinians have lived in Lebanon for more than six decades, they are still treated as foreigners when it comes to obtaining a work permit
By Jeremy Rosen
Modern Orthodoxy has tried valiantly to deal with the issue through prenuptial, but the Haredi world has refused to make any concessions.
The West is not acquainted with Shi'ite culture and is not aware of the deep motives that drive Iran.
Many of the talented and motivated individuals who leave the Haredi world could choose Modern Orthodoxy, but they don't.
The outcry around the world against Nazi book burning included a moving letter from Helen Keller.
There is no other candidate running for mayor who supports our community’s values as Salgado does.
By Harold Rhode
Making Rouhani the president was a brilliant strategic move for Khamene'i.
The 686 men who expressed their desire to run in Iran's presidential election were whittled down to 8.
By Jeremy Rosen
Every American child seems to be on Ritalin and Israelis are imitating them.
By J. E. Dyer
Rohani’s election positions the regime to cater – superficially – to reform-minded voters in Iran, while improving Iran’s prospects in international negotiations.
By Meir Indor
The top Israeli advocate for letting the terrorists out of jail is none other than Shimon Peres.
By Ehud Tokatly
The "Community Democracy" model meets all the criteria of the liberal democratic outlook, but it is based on the Jewish heritage and the Torah.
"The Lord conferred statehood upon His people so that they might defend the enforcement of justice and preserve the truth contained in our Law as handed down by transmission."
With Iran and Hezbollah openly supporting the anti-Sunni side in Syria, the battle lines have been redrawn, this time according to ancient and familiar traditions.
By Guest Author
The boys who leave yeshiva to go to work are made to feel like they are second class and this makes it difficult for them to remain chareidi.
At some point I noticed an arresting picture on his wall and discovered that his maternal grandfather was Rav Dovid Lifshitz.
The Obama team included many outspoken advocates of U.S. action against the Bashir regime.
Israel, which is more threatened by Iran's nuclear program than is the U.S., has less time to make its up mind on how and when to proceed to avert a threat to its existence.
Police arrived when a confrontation between a screaming protester and a Walker supporter threatened to erupt into physical conflict.
By Guest Author
How can that substance which purifies the contaminated also render impure the uncontaminated priest who prepared it?
Rambam would not support the subsidized yeshiva system currently in place in Israel.
Mandatory data retention laws are already in place in certain parts of the world, but Europe has pioneered the practice.
By Peter Huessy
The Russians ginned up media opposition to the NATO missile defense deal, and then used threats of nuclear-armed missile attacks to delay its deployment.
By Guest Author
Reb Dov, I am perplexed. How did you move so far away so rapidly?
By Meir Indor
Why would you expect the leaders of the Jewish Home to listen to rabbis who didn’t get them elected?
By Jeremy Rosen
Yiddish is a strange language that was and is pronounced differently across the geographical and sectarian divide.
By Raheel Raza
Upon my return from Israel, I praised the country and the people, but many of my Muslim friends were not interested in knowing these details.
By Soeren Kern
An appeals court in northwestern Germany has decided a contentious divorce case based on Islamic Sharia law.
When rape is politically-motivated by antisemitism, the punishment for such a crime should be en par with terrorism.
The demonstrations against Erdoğan stem from a sense among his opposition that he has crossed the line in Turkey.
John Kerry’s effort to revive the Middle East peace process has posed an interesting challenge to the Palestinians.
With the newest Superman film, “Man of Steel,” set for release next week, it seems only fitting to look back at the two men who created the world’s most famous superhero.
The welfare of the child requires that every allegation be investigated.
By Steven Plaut
I favor eliminating the exemption of yeshiva students from military service and, without quibbling about details, I endorse the initiatives designed to end that disgraceful exemption.
A society where anarcho-tyranny exists is a society without fundamental justice.
By Malcolm Lowe
Anyone with a grain of theological education knows that the original Scripture of the Early Church was exclusively the Scripture of the Jews.
By David Wilder
Jabari minces no words: "You hold up the Bible and say that God gave you this land. I hold up the Koran and say that Allah gave us this land."
By Robert Ellis
Alcohol consumption fell by a third from 2003 to 2008.
Unfortunately for the president's strategy, the savage enemy treats his professed "humility" as groveling -- an invitation to double down on aggression.
By Soeren Kern
In the 2011 Census, Christianity was still the largest religious group in England and Wales with 33.2 million people (59% of the population).
By Irwin Zalkin
Ask the Catholic Church how it feels about that.
Forty-six years ago, in the first week of June, Israel stunned the world when it wasn’t looking. Four years later, Israel stunned me when I wasn’t looking.
By Steven Plaut
American news headlines over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of conservative groups. But Israel is experiencing its own form of political targeting by the state. The attorney general is leading an initiative to have a small group of radical juveniles who engage in mischief declared a terrorist organization.
During his visit to China last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled that the city of Shanghai was “one of the few places that opened its gates” to Jews fleeing Hitler. Officials of the Chinese Communist government, standing nearby, beamed with pleasure at the expectation that people all over the world would read how their regime rescued Jews.
By Bruce Walker
There are good reasons for Republicans to be hopeful about the 2014 midterm election.
By Daniel Pipes
Far from presenting "new and diverse perspectives," this $1 million project offers the usual academic obfuscation mixed with Islamist triumphalism.
By Elad Uzan
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was educated within an anti-Jewish political framework.
Does Kerry think it would be better for Israel to approach negotiations from a position of precarious poverty?
By Meir Indor
Let’s bring back the country’s Jewish soul and return the sanctity of Shabbat to the public sphere.
Good people cannot accept the evil and sick deeds that are done by some in our community.
An alliance between Turkey and Israel will make the current Syrian regime tremble in their boots.
Islam expert Andrew Bostom charges that Daniel Pipes' claims about the differences between Islam and Islamism contradict Pipes' past writings on the political nature of Islam.
If you’re lucky enough to avoid losing your children, you’re still not home free.
France 2 and Enderlin must have their press accreditation revoked and be thrown out of Israel.
Slaughter is a routine, widespread practice among many Moslem families.
parently an affront to J Street's worldview, the focus of which appears to be the creation of a Palestinian State, whether or not that will bring peace.
It comes down to his being famous.
The Talmud (Berachot 26b) says, "tefillot avot tiknum" – “prayer was established by the avot.” The Talmud then uses the following verse (Bereshit 19:27) to prove how Avraham established prayer: "Vayaskem Avraham baboker el hamakom asher amad sham et pnei Hashem" – "And Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before God."
Nearly 13 years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak journeyed to Camp David to end the conflict with the Palestinians. With the approval of President Clinton, he offered Yasir Arafat an independent Palestinian state in almost all of the West Bank, Gaza and in part of Jerusalem. Arafat said no.
The news that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative groups has brought renewed spotlight on a 2010 lawsuit filed by the pro-Israel group Z Street, which alleges it was also singled out by the IRS when applying for tax-exempt status.
Neither Secretary of State Kerry nor the president he serves seem to understand Russia's goals in the Middle East.
By Reza Kahlili
Ahmadinejad may plan to reveal proof that the 2009 elections were rigged if his candidate's registration for presidential candidacy is not accepted.
The Russian Yakhont missiles already delivered to Syria threaten Israel Navy ships carrying out vital missions in the Mediterranean.
By Daniel Pipes
Islamism represents the transformation of Islamic faith into a political ideology.
The Japanese do not feel the need to apologize to Muslims for the negative way in which they relate to Islam.
By Meir Indor
The contractors received the land at a bargain basement price, moved the prices up to 1.8 million NIS and pocketed one million NIS per apartment.
We must confront Islamist groups with what Prime Minister David Cameron referred to as “muscular liberalism.”
By Irwin Cohen
Readers of my monthly Baseball Insider column may have noticed its absence last week (the column appears in the second issue of every month). The reason for that is I have something more serious and personal to share with you, something that didn’t seem appropriate for a baseball column.
Herbert Romerstein died last week after a long illness. With Herb’s passing, we lose not only a good guy but a vast reservoir of knowledge that is not replaceable.
Freedom House recently released its annual report on press freedom throughout the world at an event sponsored by the Newseum in Washington. But along with the usual and appropriate condemnations of dictatorships and totalitarian states, the group decided to slam the one democracy in the Middle East as well as one of the few states in the region where press freedom actually exists: Israel.
Now is the time for Ankara to take some corrective domestic and foreign policy measures consistent with what the country has and continues to aspire for but fails to realize.
I explain that their cancer diagnosis might have resulted from something they could also have passed down to their children.
Every week nearly three million viewers tune into the Bravo cable channel to watch the hit reality franchise “The Real Housewives” – several shows that follow the lives of affluent housewives and professional women residing in several American metropolitan areas (“The Real Housewives of New York,” “The Real Housewives of Los Angeles,” of Miami, of Atlanta, etc.).
By Farley Weiss
Yom Yerushalayim, which we marked this week, is a monumental day in Jewish history. It is a celebration of the first time in 2,000 years that Jews regained sovereignty over the Kotel, the Western Wall, and the Temple Mount, which is Judaism’s holiest site. And it is a time to thank God for giving us the extraordinary gift that is Jerusalem.
By Daniel Payne
Predicting the future of huge laws is next to impossible, except, in this case, to say that it will either fail or cost taxpayers a lot of money, or both.
If Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh want to go to The Hague – we will be there to meet them.
For Lapid to successfully challenge Netanyahu, he will need to find the right time for a strategic exit from the government.
Europeans are rebelling against the unelected E.U. and its grandiose, self-regarding project of abolishing the national sovereignty.
The fourth Great War is less 'Islam against the West' than it is Sunni expansionists vs. Shiite expansionists.
Ahmadinejad keeps standing up to America and America keeps doing nothing to stop him.
By Meir Indor
Terror victims have families that expect justice to be done, just as they were promised.
By Rivkah Rybak
No words can satisfactorily describe the joy and love which resonates in the heart of a father, as he looks upon his son.
As Jews, we assume a myriad of financial obligations in order to ensure that we live in accordance with the tenets of our faith. We give generously to our shuls and make charitable donations to various organizations that service the Jewish community. But one of the biggest investments we make is in our children’s future, as we enroll them in one of the many quality yeshivas our community boasts.
By Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
A flag with the Star of David hung prominently in the synagogues of Prague since the mid-14th century, with the approval of their great rabbis.
By Yair Lapid
Last week, a few minutes after my stormy exchange with haredi members of Knesset, I went to what we in the Knesset call the "back cafeteria." It is not exactly a cafeteria but rather a lounge area behind the plenum where members of Knesset alone can enter.
The ticking of the clock is uniformly, maddeningly constant. Tick, tick, tick. In equal, perfectly differentiated, precise segments. One second after another. Tick, tick, tick. A minute. An hour. One day. Another. Then a week. A month. A year. A lifetime.
Jerusalem was never real to me. It was a name I came across in books of Bible stories as a child. If I’d ever tried to imagine it, it would have been like places in my books of fairy stories. I knew it was a city with crenellated walls, with domes and towers and minarets. In my mind, I saw it peopled with old men with long beards and flowing robes, and women with clay jugs precariously balanced on their heads.
July 3, 2026 
