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The two leading candidates for mayor of New York are intelligent, motivated and tenacious, with outsized egos and ambition.
The Obama administration is so pleased with the way the first round of talks with Iran have gone in Geneva, it may actually offer the Iranians access to billions of dollars of frozen assets if they promise to roll back part of their nuclear program and take incremental steps to do so.
This past April, with the U.S. voting “yea,” the United Nations General Assembly approved the first UN treaty regulating the international arms trade. The ostensible goal is to curb transfers of weapons that would violate embargoes or abet acts of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity. More recently, Secretary of State Kerry signed the treaty on behalf of the U.S.
There are many specific and readily identifiable reasons for the failure of “Oslo,” a term that – though originally signifying the accords signed twenty years ago between Israel and the Palestinians – has become a commonplace shorthand for the Middle East peace process.
PA Deputy Minister of Education is on the magazine's advisory board.
There's no shortage of candidates for PA deputy president -- including Marwan Barghouti, jailed for five life sentences for his role in terror attacks.
How can it be called a failed school when it has only been open a year?
By J. E. Dyer
Each and every permutation of artificial “fertility” will wind up in court at some point.
There are thousands of unqualified soferim in both America and Israel who sell items that, far from being first-rate, are not even kosher.
By Daniel Pipes
In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time
By Robert Ellis
The EU Commission's progress report deals with a polarized society and a government that takes repressive measures against citizens who assert their democratic rights.
By Soeren Kern
In a separate but related matter, the Al-Madinah School is being investigated by the government over alleged financial irregularities.
Fatah about its military wing: "When they strike - they cause pain."
This past month several dozens of jihad organizations operating in Syria came to the conclusion that the disagreements among them harm their fighting cause and strengthen Asad.
By Rhona Lewis
In 1989, when Ethiopia and Israel agreed to restore the diplomatic relations that had been broken off by Ethiopia in 1973, thousands of Ethiopian Jews (aka Beta Israel) flooded to Addis Ababa. A year later, Dr. Hodes, an observant Jew from Long Island, N.Y., was hired by the JDC to be the medical director in Ethiopia and oversee their care. The original six-week contract was to morph into nearly twenty-three years...and Hodes is still counting.
By Jeremy Rosen
A thousand years ago Rabbeynu Tam, the greatest rabbi of his day, forbade beating men up as a way of compelling a recalcitrant husbands to grant a Get.
By David Bedein
This blithely written book presents Jerusalem as the home of all monotheistic faiths, disregarding the unique bond between Jews and their ancient capital.
The overwhelming majority of Jerusalem's Arabs are still afraid of the radicals.
By Bernard Beck
Jewish identity has been an issue in the Jewish community at least since the beginning of the Common Era, and perhaps even before.
As I noted here last week, “the situation of survival is the central situation of power. Yet, as the ‘Middle East peace process’ makes Israel's survival more and more problematic, this enterprise now effectively deprives Israel of its power. Left to proceed, the process will eventually permit Israel's enemies to enjoy a triumph that still remains cleverly concealed, the conspicuous triumph experienced by certain still-living persons, when confronted by the powerless one who is dying.”
By J. E. Dyer
There may no longer be a unifying “center” to hold the GOP together.
By Barry Rubin
Just to make the point clear, I did not cherry-pick these examples. These are the first 11 which constitute the first page.
By Dov Shurin
To me, the biggest joke of it all was the gleeful announcement by Rabin that “We are no longer an am livadad yishkone, a nation that dwells alone!”
Galloway refuses to recognise my national and civic identity. He denies my cultural existence.
An Interview with Professor Sarah Bunin Benor.
I recently heard someone say that it would be hard for a frum Jew to be a good comedian, because most good jokes are putting others down.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
What exactly does MK Hanegbi mean when he says "no division of Jerusalem?"
Netanyahu’s speech was far from the denunciation of the peace process that some of his detractors are depicting.
Step by step, all Israeli governments since 1967 have ceded the Temple Mount.
Lauren’s Law, named for a young girl desperate for a heart transplant whose plight four years ago dramatized the shortage of available organs, is designed to increase that availability. The law went into effect on October 3. A new line on driver’s license applications asks applicants whether they want to be added to New York State’s organ donation registry. Applicants can choose to check either a “No” box or a “Skip this Question” box.
This past June we noted here that the “stunning news that the Claims Conference secured a four-year $1 billion infusion of funds from the German government to aid Holocaust survivors has been largely overshadowed by criticism that those leading the conference mishandled an internal investigation into the embezzlement of $57 million by some employees over a fifteen-year period.”
We were struck by the news that the plush Plaza Hotel is suing New York City over the Bloomberg administration’s placing a block-long bicycle rack across from its main entrance facing Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan.
By dvora
In recent years an important mitzvah has been largely forgotten by Klal Yisrael. Actually, it is not just a mitzvah that has been lost but an entire Torah value that impacts the very way we understand our world.
On certain public policy issues, Orthodox opinion stands in sharp contrast to the views of most American Jews.
Not only does it not infringe on the religious liberties of mohelim, it actually protects the religious liberties of parent.
Even youngsters in Israel, years away from voting age, are knowledgeable about politics and don’t hesitate to discuss their opinions.
My husband tried to raise the children Jewish. Now grown up, his children eschew all Jewish traditions and values.
By David Bedein
Despite its humanitarian mandate, UNRWA’s very existence is political.
One can expect an intensification of the steadily rising Jewish share of the total population of the Land of Israel.
PA TV stressed that it considers as "heroes" 3 terrorists who are serving a total of 166 life sentences for planning suicide bombings.
By Soeren Kern
"The rules of the city and the country are mandatory for everyone, and Mollet del Vallès will be uncompromising toward any kind of radicalism or blackmail." — Josep Monràs, Mayor of Mollet del Vallès, Spain
By Barry Rubin
If you have never understood U.S. Middle East policy here it is: The (wrong) response to September 11.
In Israel, it’s easy to throw a recalcitrant husband in jail for refusing to grant a get. In the United States it’s much more challenging.
Netanyahu's Bar Ilan Speech was not an attempt to emulate Obama by spreading false hope of an agreement with the Iranians.
By Sandy Eller
He is a trial lawyer, a radio personality, a motivational speaker, an author of two newsletters and the founder of an organization dedicated to offering both Torah studies and professional networking opportunities to young Jewish men, but Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Bregman views himself as just "a nice guy with a good heart."
What the Republican and Tea parties have to recognize is that despite the validity to many of the arguments they make and the principles they support, they are missing the fundamental value that Americans prize over all else: ethics.
By Steven Plaut
American non-Orthodox Jews are intermarrying their way into post-Jewish oblivion, and they’re doing so as a direct result of having emptied their version of Judaism of all meaning.
Believing, naively, in a universal international obligation to preserve life, Jerusalem fails to understand that death is identified by its enemies as a zero-sum event.
Last week we witnessed the collapse of the preconception that has guided Israel’s strategy for dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat.
The pressure to live a lifestyle of the rich and famous can be overwhelming. This just serves, of course, to increase the risk of fraud and deceit.
By Sara Lehmann
With national and international crises making headlines, the New York City mayoral race has all but receded to the back pages. But with the first of three scheduled debates between the two remaining major party candidates less than a week away, voters will finally be able to concentrate on substantive issues and policy rather than the circus we were treated to over the summer.
The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the death this week of the towering Torah personality, Talmudic scholar and halachic decisor Rav Ovadia Yosef.
We note that the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will be holding a dinner next week marking 50 years of peerless service to the Jewish community. The dinner will honor recent chairmen of the Presidents Conference as well as its indefatigable vice chairman, Malcolm Hoenlein, who has served in that capacity for more than 25 years and has become the public face of the organization.
Last year, the New York City Commission on Human Rights decided to pursue a discrimination claim against a half dozen chassidic store owners in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section over their posting of signs that stated, “No Shorts, no barefoot, no sleeveless, no low-cut neckline allowed in this store.”
The exchange was brief and simple in its content, yet profound in its implications. One morning this past summer, I davened at a shul in Passaic, New Jersey. Passaic was our new home as of mid-July, following nearly a decade of school leadership in other communities. After tefillah, I opened a conversation with someone who had also just concluded his tenure as a principal out of state. He informed me he had left the field of education entirely and had moved to the tri-state area to go into business with a relative. In the course of our talk, he mentioned that another colleague, also young by comparative standards, was not returning to the school he had helped found out west.
By David Bedein
I had accidentally happened upon the Jewish ghetto, where Jews were banned from most occupations and their dwellings restricted.
Iran might well conclude that the sanctions could disappear in the course of endless rounds of diplomacy.
By Barry Rubin
Iran is a rational actor in terms of its own objectives.
Young Jews desperately need to experience both the serious and lighter sides of Judaism.
Crimes were committed, but not a holocaust, against both Jews and non-Jews, and even this must still be verified by historians...
"The sniper of Palestine was here... He left a signature of [real] men."
Israel has not really convinced the world that Iran is a danger.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
Avraham Ben-Tzvi believes the Eitam hill, Efrat’s only remaining land reserve, must be developed urgently, or the town will lose it for good.
Today’s model of outreach is fatally flawed seeing as it necessarily forces a choice on non-affiliated Jews to choose between the Jewish and mainstream worlds.
Egypt has finally decided to tackle the security threat from the Sinai Peninsula.
By Anat Berko
Jihad, a holy war against the infidel, is the personal duty of every Muslim, and if he does not wage it, he will die as a religious hypocrite.
By Barry Rubin
Not much progress—which is really moving backwards—will be made on the Israeli-Palestinian front.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
While Lyon is backed by the haredi parties, Barkat has been endorsed by leading religious-Zionist rabbis.
In the most truly critical issues of mega-survival, we humans may now be living far more absurdly than ever before.
By Doni Cohen
Yishai Fleisher interviews Knesset insider Jeremy Man Saltan. They discuss the terrible murders of two Israeli soldiers over the Succot holiday, the Peace Process, and the current situation taking place on the Temple Mount.
By Ben Cohen
In this drama, J Street, much like other left-wing groups, is an enthusiastic cheerleader, nothing more.
Iran’s real boss, Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was wise to back Rouhani’s play.
By Tevi Troy
The crowd, though nearly all frum, is nonetheless quite a diverse mix of the entire range of frumkeit, including haredi, chassidic, Modern, and barely.
The presence of a strong Israel gives credence to the Torah’s message that God is not finished with the people of the Covenant.
By Jason Maoz
Readers who’ve stuck with the Monitor over the years will forgive this rerun of sorts, but as we approach the fortieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War – and with the stench of presidential indecisiveness hanging so heavily over Washington these days – it seemed only appropriate to revisit Richard Nixon’s role in enabling Israel to recover from the staggering setbacks it suffered in the first week of fighting.
Most analysts seem to be in agreement that Iran has mounted its current charm offensive aimed at President Obama and the West generally because the broad effects of sanctions have been taking hold and causing economic misery across Iran, fanning growing unrest.
As indicated in our front-page news story, the first major Jewish population survey in ten years has turned up troubling statistics. While there has hardly been time to fully digest and debate the just-released report by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, and though some serious definitional and methodological issues will have to be clarified – the Pew Center applied a very broad definition of Jewishness for the purposes of the survey – the results are sobering.
Dean Meminger sat in owner Irv Bader’s office at Camp Seneca Lake and talked of his girlfriend, her battle with lupus and their plans to marry.
During the Yom Kippur War and its immediate aftermath, Rav Amital would travel from base to base, visiting his students. His frequent visits brought him into close contact with senior IDF commanders, and soon after the war he was asked by the upper command echelons of the IDF to be the rabbinic liaison between the army and the hesder yeshivot. The military even allowed him unfettered entry, in uniform, into IDF camps.
By David Bedein
Netanyahu should formulate an interim solution to the "West Bank."
By J. E. Dyer
As happy as I am to see the EPA and other agencies off the job, I’m concerned about morale among the hard-working law enforcement and essential-services folks.
By Daniel Pipes
In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.
Because of the "5% hurdle," Germany's new coalition will tilt be to the left, while voters clearly wanted Germany to turn to the right.
Jihad will spread outwards to the region, then threaten global security -- possibly with biological and chemical weapons.
By Guest Author
The art show represents its theme, the identity of joy in Judaism.
By Barry Rubin
She wrote two articles, one calling the Syrian rebels radicals, another saying they're moderates.
Those who use either chemical, or even conventional weapons to slaughter innocent people must be held accountable.
If Hamas believes Egypt wants to topple their regime, they would never dare initiate war against the Egyptian army, but firing rockets at Israel is cheap and easy.
November 13, 2026 
