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By Jeremy Rosen
In Judaism sex is regarded as something wonderful, positive, and a gift of God.
By Guest Author
Many Igbo, even while practicing Christianity, nonetheless consider themselves Jewish.
If you want to move de line, you have to let go of hurt and anger.
Can you recall any time you hurt someone, perhaps a friend, neighbor, family member, fellow congregant or business associate?
By Alan Krinsky
Why aren't crime and corruption considered heresya kind of denial of the Torah and its precepts?
By Chabad.org
The rabbi, in his early 30s, hails from Miami, Fla., and Raizy, in her late 20s, grew up in Israel. What’s it like to live in the least populated state in the nation?
By Soeren Kern
The imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house because, according to him, she is an "infidel" as she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends.
For Krugman the move from 1.3 trillion to 1.1 trillion is "down a lot."
Near the Sinai peninsula, the Israeli Defense Forces continue on high alert, watching every suspicious movement in the sands near the Egyptian border for signs of the next attack.
By Soeren Kern
"The next thing could be that Danish nurses are forced to go under cover as Muslim women..." — Danish People's Party
By Jeremy Rosen
My father was always known as Rosen, but his elder brother Hashy became Shaw.
You never give me your money / You only give me your funny paper / And in the middle of negotiations / You break down. (Lennon/McCartney)
Thirty-eight Sejm members representing Tusk’s ruling Civic Platform party joined with the opposition in voting to outlaw ritual slaughter.
I hoped the school would be supportive, and though the teachers were wonderful, the administrators made it clear they did not feel their school was the right place for her.
Though Ryan may prefer to stay in the House rather than put himself through the agony of a presidential candidacy,his numbers make his fans salivate about the possibility of his running.
By Ehud Tokatly
Whatever step that needs to be taken in pursuit of the war against terrorists will hence be considered legal.
By Bob Campbell
The blame always rests with the enemy -- that would be us, the conservatives.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
What is in Eretz Israel that draws so much attention? Water? Mineral deposits? Open spaces? Oil? Gold? Diamonds?
By Soeren Kern
Efforts to create a "European Islam" are naïve and misguided, and will "mainstream" an ideology that contradicts the European way of life.
By Chabad.org
Sami Rohr’s impetus for building Jewish community in the former Soviet Union.
My son and I were injured in a suicide bombing in 2002.
"The occupation of Palestine and Jerusalem is a wound that has sat on the body of the Muslim world for years and needs to be removed," says Iran's new "moderate" President, and the centrifuges keep spinning.
By Jeremy Rosen
I suspect the survival of torture for so long owes as much to the Church as to human nature.
By Ehud Tokatly
The Rabbi Motti Elon scandal has to do with much more than just a fallen sage or the plague of sexual abuse by the rich and famous.
By Adi Moses
With your decision to release the murderer you spit on the graves of my mother and my brother.
By Danny Danon
Like Erekat, Indyk has been a major player in the peace industry since the early 1990s, and he also can point to zero achievements in bringing peace and prosperity to our region.
Divine affirmation is the foundation of Judaism. Everything else comes after.
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
In this morally unjust, tactically unwise, strategically harmful, militarily hazardous and life-endangering unilateral concession, we see the erosion of Israeli will.
By Gary Bauer
The people of Israel love what we Americans love and honor what we Americans honor. Israel is built on the rule of law. Its Declaration of Independence is modeled after ours. We are joined at the heart.
By Steven Plaut
The Taliban is all too willing to obliterate anything attesting to ancient Jewish life and culture.
By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
Across Europe, the lid has come off the demons repressed for a few decades after the Holocaust.
By Soeren Kern
"If we deal with him one time, with violence, and show him what time it is, he will never disrespect our religion again ... For Muslims, you'd say it's good, but for non-Muslims, it's very, very bad."
By Jeremy Rosen
But surely, you will say, Judaism requires one to respect one’s religious leaders. In theory this is so.
By David Wilder
The first time was many years ago. I had just concluded explanations about Yeshivat Knesset Yisrael” which arrived in Hebron from Slobodka, in Lithuania in 1924. The Hebron Heritage Museum at Beit Hadassah features an exhibit about this illustrious Torah-learning academy, nicknamed the ‘Hebron Yeshiva,’ which includes a ‘class picture’ from 1928. As I finished […]
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatens the US-led "peace talks," saying he will back “Palestine resistance” to ensure that all of the Land of Israel will not remain in Jewish hands.
By Guest Author
After helping themselves to large salaries and allowing fraud to persist under their noses for over a decade, the Claims Conference is too broke to serve the survivors.
Since a majority of Palestinians cannot envision mutual recognition even after all issues are resolved and they get a state, they see it as merely a pause before the conflict would begin anew.
History shows that people who become inconvenient to the Clintons, even close friends like Webb Hubbell, do not have happy endings.
By Guest Author
Rouhani's campaign symbol was a giant golden key that symbolized his ability to open locked doors, but now he may find it difficult to deliver on his promise.
By David Wilder
Everything is up for grabs. Beginning with Hebron, Beit El, and Elon Moreh, onwards to Jerusalem and finally, Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva and Haifa.
As thousands of radical jihadis have moved into Syria and the Sinai, Israel is perfecting its ability to neutralize these targets.
By Jeremy Rosen
The myth about the idyllic Jewish life if the ghettos of the East is dishonest, manipulative, and a betrayal of the memory of those who lived through it.
By Ben Cohen
Unfortunately, Israel, a stable democracy and Western ally, can be relied upon to be cooperative.
His dream was to reach out to every Jew, even the most secular.
Why would our tradition fill our fun-filled summers with such restricting limitations?
Blunt and forthright, he declared that “Due to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!”
This latest decision tells us nothing about Israel or the West Bank. But it tells us what we need to know about the EU.
By Guest Author
Why aren't you boycotting Chinese entities operating in occupied Tibet?
There is also widespread belief that Patterson's "meddling" in Egypt's affairs is not limited to General Sisi and the Egyptian media.
By Jeremy Rosen
I don’t expect thinking Muslims to object to a reasoned critique of Islam.
By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
The Anglicans are urging their faithful to “educate the church about the impact of illegal settlements” on the West Bank.
The words over the yeshiva's main doors used to be in English.
Kerry’s working with actors who have acted in this movie before, and the script is built around the same elements. But the theater is new.
Dermer is seen by the left as the worst of all possible creatures: a “right-wing neocon with close ties to the Bush family.”
By Meir Indor
Instead of giving new young couples some time in public housing until they’re ready to move forward, they want to give away the apartments to people who have been reaping the benefits for years.
By Soeren Kern
Politically correct Britons are forced to confront the previously taboo subject of endemic sexual abuse of children by predatory Muslim pedophile gangs.
By Jeremy Rosen
The super hero myth is dangerous because it is an excuse for inaction and fantasy.
By Ben Cohen
Mandela once wrote that Jews, in his experience, were far more sensitive about race because of their own history.
It is already illegal to conduct bias-based profiling, and there is no need for legislation that will make the job of police officers that much harder
By Isaac Kohn
The thug knew exactly what you are and he went after you anyway, Mr. Anteby.
By Alan Krinsky
Was the humble Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkulos the real hero of the destruction story?
Almost every person viewed Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av in a different light from the minor fasts.
By Boaz Haetzni
An appeal to keep the satirical show Latma running.
By Guest Author
Germany, I sadly found out, was obsessed with Jews.
By Jeremy Rosen
I find it very sad that an organization founded to help Jews retain their identity, should be so insensitive, so unaware Jewishly.
Each side wanted an absolute victory for itself, and total defeat for the other side.
How did we move so quickly from complacency to last-minute weapons deliveries and a possible no-fly zone?
You are a link in a long great chain of people bounded by a heritage that stretches back nearly six thousand years.
It appears not to have occurred to Condoleezza Rice that Palestinian statehood was incompatible with Israeli security.
A Jerusalem chassidic rabbi banned uniformed IDF soldiers from his group’s study halls, synagogues and yeshivas.
By Jeremy Rosen
Many Israeli intellectuals seem still caught up in an outdated debate about their identity caused both by their secularism and their left-wing ideology.
By Meir Indor
Terrorism has become a military tool of states, not just sub-national organizations.
By Robert Ellis
Over the years, Turkey's notoriously thin-skinned prime minister has earned a tidy sum from suing those he claims have defamed him.
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.
August 28, 2026 
