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To comprehend the Middle East one must consider the convoluted, and often counterproductive role the super powers have played in the region.
Kerry will now have to find a way to calm King Abdullah and his constituents before Jordan slips into civil war.
The main obligation of a state toward its citizen is to provide them with security.
I know a little something about human rights violations – such as the violation of my daughter Alisa’s right to live.
Issuing a statement dredging up Wildstein’s life, Christie’s office raised as many questions as it answered.
There must be an Orthodox presence and an Orthodox refusal to attend Limmud NY.
How political movements gain footholds remains one of the great true-life mysteries.
It’s no secret that many in the academic community support boycotts as a means of pressuring and punishing Israel. So it’s understandable that proposed legislation to prohibit use of public funds to promote boycotts – authored by New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and now being considered by the Assembly – has created an uproar. An identical bill was passed last week by the State Senate.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference about what he saw as the dangers inherent in the failure of Israeli-Palestinian talks, Mr. Kerry said: “The risks are high for Israel. People are talking about boycott. That will intensify in the case of failure. Do they want a failure that then begs whatever may come in the form of a response from disappointed Palestinians and the Arab community?”
The brief informed the court that though “the Jewish faith does not prohibit the financing of contraception,” the legal position taken by the administration threatens to curtail religious observances by American Jews inasmuch as Jewish law does not distinguish between and among different forms of business ownership.
What was unique about the MLA’s and the ASA’s approach was the breathtakingly Orwellian notion that not only was Israel itself guilty of the many alleged transgressions assigned to it by its libelers, but a boycott against Israeli academics was warranted because the academic establishment itself is complicit in Zionism’s excesses and a core element of the bemoaned occupation, oppression, and denial of Palestinian self-determination.
To bring this conversation down into something deep and heartfelt, I thought to tell a story from my own experience.
By J. E. Dyer
The Obama administration wants to take over the short-term financial services industry.
The workers were clearly pole-axed. Their "benefits" had become a yoke around their necks.
By Raheel Raza
According to research, claims of wide-ranging persecutions of Muslims by Canadians and Americans are exaggerated.
By Daniel Pipes
BBC: Gaza militants launch missiles at Tel Aviv in 1st rocket attack on Israeli capital since 1991 Gulf War.
Being a teenage Israel advocate, I often encounter a troublesome phenomenon in the world of hasbara.
American Jews – especially those working on campus – don't accept that we have a battle on our hands.
By Ehud Tokatly and Yori Yanover
We must assume that the Israeli government will, indeed, pursue the dismantling of settlements at some point.
I regret my involvement with Oxfam during my time in college.
The Kerry approach appears to follow the pattern of other recent pacts of the Obama administration in the region.
The assumption that Israel must accept the Kerry Plan as a basis for negotiations is misleading.
She wrote about everything in a woman's world, from kids to husbands, and feelings including pain and grief. Writing her book, at least in my opinion, was an incredibly brave statement, one that exposed a truth that must be told.
He didn’t start the fire either, but Solomon’s parodies and adaptations have been igniting the Jewish spark in hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide.
In accessing their inner strength to complete a challenge as great and awesome as childbirth, women increase personal joy.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Much has been written about President Shimon Peres's promises to grant the Vatican official status in Jerusalem and control over its holy sites.
MK Akunis said “there is not one member of the coalition who opposes the fact that negotiations are taking place.”
Everyone who knows Rabbi Weiss can attest that he is a man of honesty and integrity.
For decades, it has been difficult to sort out the precise dividing lines between the varieties of Orthodoxy – Ultra, Haredi, Centrist, Modern, Liberal.
The parents, Shimon and Michal Gross have advised us how to proceed, and they didn't ask for revenge.
By Jason Maoz
What really makes one wonder about the affinity felt by certain Jews for Grant was the welcome mat he put out for some of the country’s most pernicious anti-Semites.
There is an ever-widening schism among Modern Orthodox Jews.
The NPI ranks countries in terms of their ability to influence global events. The ranking is based on a statistical comparative analysis of a country’s economy, military, diplomacy, technology, and population.
The Times reported that American influence “has ebbed” following Syrian President Assad’s defiance of American demands that he step down and al Qaeda’s significant military successes in Iraq.
Recently dubbed “the greatest living figure of chassidic music” by NPR, Shenker still composes several new pieces every year. He is currently recording an album of some of his Haggadah compositions, which he hopes will be out before Pesach.
The road back is paved with love, understanding, hugs, and honest communication.
During one of his first biopsies, he apologized to the technician for crying out in pain, making his job more difficult.
The Palestinians were unhappy with Kerry for being biased, now they are angry with Livni for daring to criticize Abbas.
By Meir Indor
By warning of a boycott, "Israel’s captains of industry" are actually encouraging one.
By Daniel Pipes
In general, the regions these days hosts unchanging, repetitious and dreary news.
In order to complete the task of eating the worm each time, Billy often coated the worms in ketchup.
I looks like European antisemitism is becoming more and more inventive.
But the most painful part of an otherwise illuminating and extraordinary Forum was Iranian President Rouhani's speech.
"Our view on Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and non-negotiable."
Sometimes being left alone anywhere on the spectrum is isolating. Sometimes it’s incredibly painful.
By Jeremy Rosen
The religious world needs to fight back constructively.
No danger of the Jews becoming a minority in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and the pre-1967 Israel.
Thousands of women and girls who have heard Rachel Factor's story have been inspired.
Having made aliyah from Canada last August, I’m one of the newest Israelis, but this week, I’m also one of the proudest.
Peace cannot be defined as the goal of a state.
No matter how wrong Israel’s leaders may think their American counterparts are, little good comes from public spats.
Boycotts were instituted immediately after the 1948 establishment of Israel in hopes of starving it.
Meryl Streep condemned Disney for associating with extremists while doing the very same thing.
The first month of 2014 has brought an intense high and a profound low.
The degree of connectivity we have with each other is unparalleled.
The furor over the New York Post’s outrageous coverage of the murder of Menachem Stark, including its repeated and irrelevant references to Mr. Stark’s being a chassidic Jew, focused the community’s attention on that particular story. But similar things regularly slip under the radar.
On January 5 it was reported that Secretary of State Kerry had said, “Could [Iran] contribute from the sidelines? Are there ways for them, conceivably to weigh in?…. It may be that there are ways that could happen. But that has to be determined by the [UN] secretary-general. It has to be determined by Iranian intentions themselves. We are happy to have Iran be helpful.”
Schanzer, who holds a doctorate from King’s College London, is currently vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and has testified before Congress on Middle East affairs on several occasions.
This past autumn the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project released the findings of its survey of American Jews. “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” immediately won the attention of a good number of American Jews and became the focus of considerable media coverage.
It would make sense that an article about anticipation was itself anticipated!
Pirkei Avot teaches: 'who is wise? One who learns from all people.'
By Barry Rubin
The interviewer responds, "There was also Balfour."
When a person plays hard to get, the dynamic of the foundation that they are creating is that of acquisition.
The post WW II era ushered in many new forms of idolatry, but none compares to the Idolatry of Peace.
Obama is placing all the pressure on 16 Senators from his own party rather than squarely on the Iranians.
By Janet Levy
Muslims & political influence in New Jersey.
By David Wilder
Seventeen years ago today, the ‘Hebron Accords were implemented.
Despite what some rabbis would tell you, there is no halachic law against women serving in the army.
By Jeremy Rosen
There is a dichotomy between personal, private prayer and public communal prayer.
By Daniel Pipes
Oman will grant Iran a strategic location on a mountain overlooking the whole gulf region.
I’d like to share my own recent account of what I think it means to be an "open source idealist."
By Daniel Mael
J Street and Open Hillel claim they want openness and honesty in the discussion about Israel, but that's only for those who agree with them.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeieris is browbeating Israel in public.
President Obama’s core argument on a Middle East peace process is still founded on incorrect assumptions.
Any blueprint from the secretary of state to incorporate what Rabin defined as areas vital for Israel’s defense.
Much of what we know about 19th century Orthodoxy is false, including the provenance of the term Orthodox.
The bigger the Haredi community grows, the greater its ability to dominate our lives is getting, and the more they seem to be pulling the rest of us into what many view as an overly restrictive direction. Will it ever end? Will the Haredi pendulum ever stop swinging to the right?
Tu B'shvat highlights the rejuvination and blooming of trees and the Jewish people.
In 1943, just before Yom Kippur, some 400 rabbis marched to the White House.
Unrefined spiritual taste buds cannot truly enjoy food, because they constantly desire to consume more.
By Dov Shurin
This past Shabbos, as we read the weekly Torah portion of Bishalach, my son suddenly said to me, “Dad, I have a feeling Sharon is going to pass away today, because we just read his name in Az Yashir [the Song of the Sea] where it says ‘arik charbi.’ ”
It is the mark of Ariel Sharon that in death the glowing tributes to his military prowess were not the manufactured puffery that usually infuses these exercises. To be sure, there were the usual critics along the way making relatively minor points. But he really was the fearless, innovative, consummate military leader and defender of Israel everyone is talking about.
On January 1 The New York Times headlined a lengthy news story on the Palestinian refusal to consider recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in the following fashion: “Sticking Point in Peace Talks: Recognition of a Jewish State.”
Humility is perhaps the least understood quality a person may possess. Often it is perceived as a form of meekness, a reticence that stems from a lack of self-confidence or an unwillingness to stand up and assert oneself. But that is far from what true humility is.
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In Selvino they discovered a paradise they could not have imagined.
By Jeremy Rosen
We must call a halt to throwing so much money away on pure self-indulgence.
By Meir Indor
The message from the recent episode near Eish Kodesh is clear: violence pays.
By Gil Solomon
Abbas will have his endless war, whether Israel likes it or not.
The communities of Gush Katif were miraculous.
November 13, 2026 
