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The controversy over President Obama’s several public assurances that Obamacare would permit people to keep their insurance plans is a disturbing reminder of some very troubling things about this president that have come to light during the course of his presidency.
Twenty-seven-year-old IDF Lieutenant (res.) Aharon Karov completed the New York City Marathon earlier this month, less than five years after an explosion in Gaza left him near death.
By Daniel Pipes
Dallas was a bastion of right-wing kooks with a vast legacy -- now, watch how this bastion gets blamed for the communist Oswald...
Response to Rabbi Wallerstein's Agudah convention speech.
By Ed Lasky
He refuses to fulfill his duties and his leadership is being described as incompetent.
When I was in Saudi Arabia last January, I was amazed by the people's basic desire for a stable life, and that tells me two things
By Soeren Kern
" All this new law does is create a raft of civil servants being paid to move mountains of papers round all day."
By David Bedein
And here was my first inquisitive wonder: How did CBS get that footage of Oswald so quickly?
PA official explained the rates on PA TV
As far as the PA is concerned, the only "heroes" are prisoners held in Israel. Palestinians who are being tortured and killed in Arab prisons are not worth a mention.
By J. E. Dyer
Nobody wants a wind turbine in his back yard.
By Jeremy Rosen
I know I am exceedingly privileged and fortunate to be able to live the life I live.
Netanyahu is a modern-day Chiang Kai-shek, seeking to be heard over the noises from his enemies and benefactors.
What is the cause of the Shi'ite-Sunni conflict?
The current modus operandus that restricts Jewish presence as a way of keeping “peace” actually undercuts the prospects for peaceful co-existence.
Most areas of the city have a mix of peoples living in them who have daily contact with one another and who share the space. It just makes sense to have good relations with neighbors.
A core element of international law is the basic rule of nullum crimen sine poena, or "no crime without a punishment."
The lords of the land attempted to prevent the residents of Nazareth Illit from voting for Gabso. But the people – heaven help us – disobeyed the lords of the land and nevertheless elected him.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
While the Temple Mount evokes such strong Muslim emotions, it is no longer clear that it does the same for most Jews.
In Blumenthal’s world, anyone who believes in the Jews’ right to a state even in a tiny slice of their ancient homeland is a fascist or a Nazi.
Hundreds of boats tried to run the British blockade on the dangerous, open seas.
By dvora
plans for a major coal-energy plant to be built in Ashkelon have basically been shelved.
Soon after taking office in 2009, President Obama spoke of reining in the U.S. role around the world and of making a concerted outreach to non-Western countries, particularly the Arab states and Iran, which he said had been unfairly dealt with in the past by the U.S.
Ray Kelly will soon be stepping down as New York’s police commissioner. While he gets near universal kudos for presiding over law enforcement in a city with crime at record lows, he also has his share of critics who fault him for the way he managed the NYPD's crime fighting effort, particularly its stop and frisk program.
When The Jewish Press endorsed Charles Hynes for reelection as Brooklyn district attorney in both the Democratic Party primary in September and the general election in November, we cited as one reason the general notion of hakarat hatov.
Rabbi Genack first met Clinton at a fundraiser in New Jersey in 1992. “At the time,” Rabbi Genack recalls, “there was a lot of discussion about President Bush’s lack of vision, so when I introduced Governor Clinton I said, quoting a pasuk from Mishlei, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Clinton liked the remarks and said, ‘You know what? I might use that in my acceptance speech at the convention.’ He did, and ever since Rabbi Genack and Clinton have been friends.
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #186, November 08, 2013
The immediate choice for the world today is not between diplomacy and preventive war. We have a third option: to maintain or even increase the sanctions.
By J. E. Dyer
Monday, November 11, Russia’s Slava-class missile cruiser Varyag pulled into Alexandria for the Russian navy’s first port visit in Egypt since 1992.
By Barry Rubin
"Israel has become an affluent and developed country that can afford to pay for its own defense."
By Daniel Pipes
Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.
The overhyped Arab Spring has been cancelled in Egypt.
The scary part is that the uninsured are not showing up.
By Selwyn Duke
Obama is a self-centered, arrogant, and quite probably megalomaniacal and narcissistic -- and possibly sociopathic -- jerk.
By Barry Rubin
Israel has not been given real security by the UN and Europe and most recently the United States.
By Soeren Kern
"I find it shocking they won't list everything they've found." — Lawrence Kaye, Art Lawyer, New York.
By Daniel Pipes
Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.
By Jeremy Rosen
if you call it “kabbalah” you are guaranteed a whole legion more of suckers.
The last time the Americans tried to extract concessions from the Palestinians, within a few weeks the Palestinians launched the Second Intifada against Israel; Abbas has already threatened as much.
In the Middle East, as in Europe of the late 30’s, the drums of war will keep on beating.
By Shai Afsai
There are some 3,000 members of the Igbo ethnic group practicing Judaism in Nigeria.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Bad things happen, and when they do, the leader must take the strain so that others can sleep easily in their beds.
By David Bedein
The possible conclusion of current Israel Palestinian Authority talks was reached over 8 years ago.
In law, one man's terrorist can never be another man's freedom fighter.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Gilo, Har Homa and Ramat Shlomo – among the Jerusalem neighborhoods liberated from Jordanian control during the Six-Day War – are scheduled to gain hundreds of apartments.
By Edwin Black
Under a sliding scale, carefully articulated in the Law of the Prisoner, the more heinous the act of terrorism, the longer the prison sentence, the higher the salary.
By Sara Lehmann
The lack of an effective and proactive public relations campaign by the Israeli government has long been lamented. Somehow, advertisements showcasing Israel’s gorgeous beaches and the Tel Aviv nightlife just don’t cut it when the international media regularly bash Israel for its “apartheid” treatment of the Palestinians. But even a superficial Israeli hasbara effort wouldn’t get snickered at if it had consistent and corresponding government policy to sustain its claims.
A plan by the State Department to transfer to Iraq 2,700 ancient artifacts and thousands of records that belonged to the Iraqi Jewish community but were seized by Saddam Hussein in 1984 has ignited an international firestorm.
In an unusual ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan removed the trial judge from the celebrated stop and frisk case and stayed implementation of the restrictions she imposed on the NYPD in its use of the crime-fighting tool.
If a teacher thinks his task is merely “to teach” – that it is no great thing to teach, that “anybody can do that” -- he must immediately be set straight.
I love being in Jerusalem. The first time I visited the Holy City and the Western Wall I was filled with overwhelming joy. God is everywhere, but I feel his presence especially strongly in Jerusalem.
By Ed Lion
Seventy-five years ago on November 10 the Nazis unleashed a wave of terror, destruction and death known as Kristallnacht upon Germany’s Jews, a fearsome presage of the Holocaust. On that day, the childhood of my then-12-year-old father, Kurt Lion, of blessed memory, was abruptly and savagely ended.
By Ali Salim
Is anyone looking at who, exactly, is criticizing the Western world's actions that defend it against terrorism? Do they really believe that terrorism can be successfully fought without violence?
By Daniel Pipes
Unlike nearby Israel, which is also surrounded, Cyprus lacks either a military option or protective fences.
Since I made aliyah with my family only about ten weeks ago, I don’t yet have the lexicon to describe what happened this morning.
By Barry Rubin
Since the Israeli argument is so cogent and backed by facts and observable realities, it would be dangerously persuasive to those who actually get to hear it.
A typical cow produces 70-80 pounds of milk daily while the Israeli cow makes 100 pounds!
By Chabad.org
We are brought into this confusing, fascinating, infuriating world for such a short amount of time, and it’s our mission to accomplish what we can for the several decades we are allotted.
The Oslo Accord state of mind, and the new Middle East vision, have been trounced by the Arab Tsunami.
"It appears that the suffering of the Jews has not transformed their view on how others should be treated." — David Ward, British MP.
A weak and divided Fatah could further boost Hamas's popularity among Palestinians.
By J. E. Dyer
Iran could produce enough high-enriched uranium (HEU) for a first nuclear warhead in as little as two weeks.
By Daniel Pipes
Should the crackdown succeed in isolating, weakening, and destroying the Islamists, then others will replicate it elsewhere.
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.
Within Israel's decisional boundaries, diplomatic processes that are premised on assumptions of reason and rationality may soon need to be reconsidered.
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.
By SOVEREIGNTY
Israel Prize Laureate Geula Cohen calls for accelerated and frequent action in the Knesset and outside of it until the “historical crack” is found, through which the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria can be advanced.
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 Jason Maoz
George W. Bush has been getting some positive media coverage lately, with recent polls showing him at least as popular as his successor, Barack Obama, and a big new book about the Bush presidency by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker (Days of Fire, Doubleday) portraying Bush as a much more hands-on chief executive than his detractors ever imagined.
The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the passing of Paul (Moshe) Reichmann, who emerged in the 1980s as the era’s foremost patron of yeshivas and Orthodox organizations in Israel, Canada and the United States.
We urge every eligible voter to go to the polls on November 5. Elected officials tend to pay attention to those who take the time to vote.
When Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in September to make the case for U.S. intervention in Syria, he offered a historical analogy.
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.
None of this is a criticism of Reform Jews who are my brothers in every way.
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.
By David Bedein
UNRWA’s screening practices for beneficiaries and broader financial practices put them in potential violation of two U.S. laws.
By J. E. Dyer
We are in uncharted territory today. The answers for the GOP going forward may not be found in the events of the past.
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #185, October 28, 2013
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's gestures toward President Bashar Assad will only bring him closer to Iran, Hizbollah and radical Palestinian groups that oppose any peace with Israel.
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.
Lately, the pro-Western coalition has begun to crumble, and two key countries - Saudi Arabia and Egypt - are searching for a new political crutch.
The reaction to his statement has been illuminating as to the double standards that are often employed on matters relating to Israel.
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.
This Sunday, my legislative proposal on medical marijuana will be brought to a vote in the Ministerial Legislative Committee.
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.
November 13, 2026 
