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We are still in galus. Another year has gone by, a difficult year in many ways, but Mashiach has not yet arrived, the Beis HaMikdash has not yet been rebuilt and we are still languishing in exile.
The downfall of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt is a severe blow to Hamas
The United States mandates 26 vaccine doses against 14 diseases for infants under age 2, and no fewer than 50 injections against 16 illnesses by the time they are 18.
Egyptians cannot make believe that they can have both Sharia and freedom.
By Barry Rubin
Originally published at Rubin Reports. Note: I beg you to read this article and I've never said that before. I think in the wake of the Egyptian coup, everything has come clearly together on U.S. Middle East policy. This is the most important article I've written in 2.5 years, since predicting the first Egyptian revolution in […]
Originally published at the Gatestone Institute. The consequences in the long-term are disastrous: they embolden the radicals and help raise new generations of Arabs and Muslims on hatred and anti-Western sentiments. Last week, Hussam Khader, a prominent Fatah activist, woke up to the sounds of gunfire outside his home in the Balata refugee camp in […]
By Barry Rubin
In this test, find which entry does not belong on this list.
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.
By Barry Rubin
Fundamental transformation is not for the faint of heart.
The crowds in the streets of Egypt will increase during the month of Ramadan, which begins on July 9, and religious sensitivities will be heightened as well.
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.
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm has retired after sixty years at Yeshiva University. In 1976 Dr. Lamm, after years as a student and then faculty member, was appointed president of YU and rosh yeshiva of YU’s rabbinical school, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS).
Dominating the public policy discussion in New York these past few weeks have been two pieces of New York City Council legislation relating to the New York City Police Department. One creates the position of inspector general within the NYPD to monitor the department’s activities; the other grants individuals who claim to have been victims of racial profiling the right to bring a lawsuit seeking a court judgment prohibiting similar actions by the NYPD (seeking monetary damages is not provided for).
With almost all of world Jewry located in liberal democracies today, it is easy to forget that a mere 25 years ago, 1.5 million Jews lived under a totalitarian Soviet regime that suppressed Judaism. In the Soviet Union, even procuring a siddur or Jewish calendar could be a clandestine affair filled with fear.
By Barry Rubin
"We have to prove to the world that we are capable of democracy..."
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 J. E. Dyer
It could not have happened at all if Britain weren’t already pretty far gone.
By Meir Indor
Terrorism has become a military tool of states, not just sub-national organizations.
In the absence of a functioning Palestinian parliament, Abbas has taken it upon himself to issue his own laws.
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.
By Barry Rubin
No Jew need ever starve, because they always make a good living as a critic of Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Al Gore has sold out his admittedly obscure channel to al-Jazeera and taken a position on its board.
By Barry Rubin
"He who tells the truth is driven from nine villages" -- Turkish proverb.
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.
Peter Beinart and Jeffrey Goldberg maintain far-left sentiments on Israel, while others invest their lives in bringing people like Cory Booker closer to the Jewish community.
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.
By Steven Plaut
It began as just another exercise in political academic wackiness at Hebrew University. A graduate student there claimed that the absence of any history of rapes of Arab women by Israeli soldiers proves that Jews are racists and oppressors, people who do not even regard Arab women as sexually desirable. The student at the Mount Scopus campus and her “research” were then awarded a university honor for these impressive “discoveries.”
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
The legal authorities in Israel have all the legal tools necessary to completely reject the petitions against the residents of Amona.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
What could be more natural for a column dealing with Jerusalem than to pay special interest to the Temple Mount, the site of the Beit HaMikdash and the very center of the world? Especially given the distinct impression that throughout Israel, interest in this holiest spot has been swelling notably?
By Barry Rubin
A mob of up to 3000 regular people, the neighbors, marched on the house where the Shia were gathered.
The prophet Jeremiah lived in the dark, tumultuous period that led to the destruction of the first Temple in 586 BCE. He lived a painful journey from hopeful youth who dreamed of the reunification of the kingdoms to rejected prophet who tried desperately to eradicate the corruption and social injustice rampant in society.
Mr. Lhota promptly followed up his attack on Mr. Silver with an extravagant fundraising e-mail.
It seems a day doesn’t go by without at least one new revelation about the scope of the federal government’s monitoring of the communications of American citizens (and of perhaps many other people around the world).
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.
By David Wilder
A few months ago we decided to add another musical event to our annual agenda in Hebron.
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 Barry Rubin
Tom Friedman doesn’t understand the Middle East, though he has persuaded a big audience otherwise.
By Nadia Matar
The gradual annexation of Area ‘C’ territories by the Palestinian Authority.
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.
By Barry Rubin
The ideas that this is some far left thing is a slander by Islamists.
By Sandy Eller
Growing up in the 1970's, I remember hearing the whispered words from friends and neighbors in shul. “She has a brother,” the words would be said with a knowing look. “He doesn't live with the family, he is in a...,” another furtive glance to make sure no one was listening. “A home.”
The West is not acquainted with Shi'ite culture and is not aware of the deep motives that drive Iran.
By Barry Rubin
American policymakers are likely to be carried away and to see rebel victory as the equivalent of a good and heroic victory for freedom.
Many of the talented and motivated individuals who leave the Haredi world could choose Modern Orthodoxy, but they don't.
By Dov Shurin
In recent years, the way people greet each other in Israel has changed. For as long as I can remember the greeting was always, “mah shlomcha,” which is equivalent to “How are you?” The Israeli answer was generally, “B’seder, Baruch Hashem,” equivalent to “I’m OK, thank God.”
The outcry around the world against Nazi book burning included a moving letter from Helen Keller.
By Ira Heller
My father took Yeshiva University debating into the national spotlight when he competed in the individual National Collegiate Debate finals.
My parents arrived as Austrian Jewish refugees in Switzerland almost exactly sixty years ago.
By Dov Gilor
Israel is a country that understands security concerns. Many civil rights have been sacrificed in the name of security and Israelis are used to being checked every time they enter a shopping center, a large store or any public building. Americans recently learned that they, too, are subject to many checks on their most private activities.
Without a vision, strategy is impossible. Tactics become farcical.
No one can envy President Obama’s current dilemma over Syria. His decision to begin arming the Syrian rebels challenging Bashar Assad’s regime drew charges that the rebel forces are driven by jihad movements, particularly al Qaeda. Further, many rebel spokesmen have regularly denounced Israel and suggested that once in power they will end Mr. Assad’s policy of not rocking the boat with Israel. How, then, critics ask, could the president align the U.S. with the rebels?
In a gushing report on the election of Hassan Rohani as Iran’s new president, The New York Times began with this: “In a striking repudiation of the ultraconservatives who wield power in Iran, voters…overwhelmingly elected a mild-mannered cleric who advocates greater personal freedoms and a more conciliatory approach to the world.”
Last month in this space we noted that the New York State Assembly was considering legislation that would prohibit domestic insurers from including on their financial statements investments in companies that engage in investment activities in Iran. These financial statements are relied upon by the state to determine whether the company is solvent and able to pay claims. That bill has since passed the Assembly, but the New York State Senate is balking at passing it as well.
There is no other candidate running for mayor who supports our community’s values as Salgado does.
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then children’s eyes are the window to the Almighty Himself.
By Ben Sales
Adding Turkey to the list of volatile states would mean even more uncertainty for Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Is there no one who remembers this recent history?
By Harold Rhode
Making Rouhani the president was a brilliant strategic move for Khamene'i.
Noone, least of all me, wants to see any Arab child suffer, God forbid.
By Guest Author
The Sanctuary was built with an ezrat nashim, a separate area for women.
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 Barry Rubin
The weapons will be given to people whose politics encompass hatred for Jews, Christians, the West generally, and Women.
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 Barry Rubin
Yusuf al-Qaradawi knows how to express his ideas clearly and persuasively.
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.
The Obama team included many outspoken advocates of U.S. action against the Bashir regime.
What, exactly, can we expect from 'Palestine'?
I was surprised to learn that the MK Miri Regev-led Knesset Interior Committee and I, a Knesset member, were not allowed to visit the Temple Mount.
The unauthorized release last week of the text of a four-page order issued by a federal judge sitting on the special FISA national security court has unleashed a torrent of controversy over possible governmental overreaching.
We take it as a sure sign of the times that the recent stunning news that the Claims Conference had negotiated 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.
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.
November 13, 2026 
