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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.
With the Syrian government refusing to allow UN inspectors into the country it is difficult to see how indisputable proof of use of chemical weapons can be found
If it is the sole solution to women's rights at the Kotel, an egalitarian section at the Kotel will ultimately make things harder for Orthodox feminists who are trying to assert their rights within a Halachic framework.
The policy of engagement of China was enlightened, far-sighted, and generous.It was also a mistake.
You know, you don't have to fight every injustice under the sun, but you do have to fight for a fighter who stands up to an injustice which is crouching like a lion in your own neighborhood, ready to pounce on you and eat you up. There is a Muslim lady doing just that, fighting […]
Blaming America and appealing to a presumed guilt will not solve the problem of Muslim radicals wishing to infiltrate, dominate, Islamize and kill Western citizens.
Islam's approach to God extends to all interpersonal relationships, which are based on honor.
By Daniel Pipes
Unfortunately, we who live in democracies learn best about Islamism when blood flows in the streets.
By Ben Voth
All Americans should take an interest in the accurate recognition of President Bush's good work.
I close my eyes and am transported back to Israel, where I spent the past six weeks.
By Eli Chomsky
Do Israelis believe it’s OK for political aspirants to say whatever they feel is necessary to gain power?
By Jeff Reznik
It’s always a blessing to visit Israel – even a greater one when your kids come along. Of course, once the family has been to Israel a number of times and all the best sites have been seen and the most important holy places and kevarim visited, what do you do with your family?
We don’t normally pay much attention to what is published in Tikkun magazine, let alone what its editor Michael Lerner disseminates through his e-mail list. But occasionally Lerner’s tirades shine a light on the positions of the far left that illustrate exactly where some of Israel’s critics stand in a way that makes clear how they have made common cause with those who seek the Jewish state’s destruction.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), which represents some 14,500 members, voted in early April “to cease all cultural and academic collaboration with Israel, including the exchange of scientists, students and academic personalities, as well as cooperation in research programmes [sic].”
Killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen Muslim, has been identified by the FBI as a “strong believer” in Islam, and an adept of jihadism. Tamerlan was unabashed in his Muslim piety and avowal of jihad—the latter bringing him to the attention of both Russian intelligence and the FBI. Indeed, Tamerlan Tsarnaev […]
By Meir Indor
Only recently, in his very last days, did Rabbi Ya’akov and his father Rabbi Ovadia Yosef become closer.
I also would like to strongly criticize those who express joy at the sight of horror in America.
By Meir Indor
As time went on, as would be expected of me, I lost more and more of my equipment—but not my gun or my tefillin.
By Ami Eden
Robinson witnessed the valuable contributions that Jews were making to the black community's struggle.
By Isaac Kohn
Last month United Torah Jewry MKs heckled a speech by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then walked out of the room. As the prime minister read out the names of the ministers in his new government, UTJ MK Yisrael Eichler shouted, “Jews don’t ban Jews” from the Knesset. (The reference was to demands by the Yesh Atid Party that haredi parties be excluded from Netanyahu’s new coalition.)
Now that several weeks have passed since President Obama’s visit to Israel, it is possible to get a better perspective on many of its aspects. Focus must not only be placed on what was said and done, but also on what was missing.
By Steven Plaut
April 16, 2013 Dear Mr. President, My heartfelt sympathies to you and the American people for the acts of protest carried out in Boston this week during the Boston Marathon. This really is a wake-up call for us all.
The infamous hadith about the Jew hiding behind a tree is not some apocrophyl canon held in esteem by an unimportant few, but runs parallel to anti-Jewish motifs throughout the Koran.
The very word "hero" was used by the Jordanian justice minister in joining the chorus calling for the release of a convicted terrorist.
By Daniel Pipes
On the happy day when Assad & Tehran fight the rebels & Ankara to mutual exhaustion, Western support then can go to non-Baathist and non-Islamist elements in Syria.
Choosing Life in Israel evinces what it means to be emotionally, spiritually, and viscerally drawn, as a Jew, to the siren song emitted by Israel.
With Israel's military is at its strongest, the country is capable of dealing with its highly chaotic and dangerous environment.
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