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Hungarian Haredi Rabbi Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal experienced a 180 degree change in his view of Zionism hiding from the Nazis.
Once the children were grown, my aunt decided to give love and care to many lonely, elderly Jewish women in Williamsburg.
By Barry Rubin
A country of 85 million people and which is heavily armed is burning with anarchy and violence is threatening genocide against a neighbor. Might this be a matter of concern?
Under Clinton, the anti-war business was booming on the fringe, but the news media never deigned to show up and inflate rally counts the way they did once Bush was in office.
By J. E. Dyer
Based on the Associated Press's definition, whom exactly can a reporter call an Islamist?
A fatwa allows the jihadis to have sexual intercourse with women who fall captive during war.
As the #OpIsrael cyberattack against Israel began, Israeli hacker retaliated, and now the official #OpIsrael site www.opisrael.com is playing Hatikvah.
The Turkish delight that Netanyahu presented on a golden platter to Erdogan only fueled Turkey's sense of invincibility against the dhimmi Yahudi.
Through the process of the ten plagues, the Jews saw the Egyptians for what they were, just another group of petrified humans.
Under all relevant criteria of international law, Iran's ongoing stance toward Israel remains unequivocally genocidal.
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.
By Steve Maas
Dewey Stone worked behind the scenes for the establishment of the State of Israel.
On February 17, the Dutch Nederland 2 TV station broadcast an interview with Dutch Turkish youth conducted by volunteer youth worker Mehmet Sahin. In the broadcast the youngsters expressed their admiration for Hitler and his role in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.
The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the death of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, paradigmatic pulpit leader, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and adviser to President Nixon on the plight of Soviet Jews.
We were disappointed to hear from President Obama that he would not break with the precedent set by his predecessors, Presidents Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II, and release Jonathan Pollard. Though we think Mr. Pollard deserved to be punished for his serious crimes, we believe that twenty-eight years of imprisonment is enough.
Democracy does not have to allow jihad to be waged against it, even if this jihad uses means that appear to be legal.
The conflict between the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and its allies and the self-described Alawites is the rupture in "broken" Syria – and it is not new.
The left's deconstruction of social institutions is not a quest for equality, but for destruction.
By Barry Rubin
Even in the Dutch mass media there are shocking things written on a regular basis about Jews and Israel.
The fatwa purportedly allows the jihadis, who abandoned their wives to fight against Assad's regime, to marry girls for a few hours to satisfy their sexual needs.
All the wars involving Israel, throughout its history, have caused at least 30,000 fewer deaths than have been caused in Syria in the last couple of years alone.
By Daniel Pipes
Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.
March 31 is not a day that particularly stands out in Jewish memory at first glance, but it is actually a day of some significance.
Israel and Turkey are the two neighboring countries that will not allow a fanatic and totalitarian regime to reign in the region.
When all the ribbetting is silenced, we begin to hear an old, familiar tune: the melodious song of our own souls.
By J. E. Dyer
Now is a good time for the EU to take stock and recognize that the entire Cyprus problem, like the Greece problem, was created by the actions of government.
By Barry Rubin
Ignoring Abdullah's warnings, it seems the Obama administration has backed an Islamist candidate to lead the Syrian opposition.
The heat being generated from the Keystone controversy may well have had an influence upon Obama's gaffe in comparing U.S.-Canada relations to Israel-Palestinian relations.
By Daniel Pipes
This will likely be Obama's most important, most lasting and most constructive contribution to Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
Connections between the Jewish and American traditions of liberty.
The Palestinian Authority, which has often displayed a large degree of intolerance toward journalists who refuse to serve as a mouthpiece for its leaders, wants to work only with sympathetic reporters.
Israel, because of its more limited strike capabilities, cannot wait much longer before it loses the ability to act.
The civil servants at Israel's foreign ministry seem to believe it is their job to shape government policy rather than to be faithful to it.
No matter how deeply American Zionists yearned for peace their good intentions often went unreciprocated. There was plenty of matzah ball soup and brisket, to be sure. But the dining room was occupied by a makeshift tent, the Passover table was replaced by a pile of sheepskin rugs, and the Lindheim children were dressed in Arab garb.
There have been no recognized examples of anticipatory self-defense as a specifically preventative anti-genocide measure under international law.
The struggle for Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount symbolizes humanity’s struggle in the transition from enslavement to liberty.
Pesach, the Hebrew name for Passover, appears first in the context of the ten plagues, in which God passed over the homes of the Israelites while the rest of Egypt suffered.
By David Mandel
Over the years, our community has become greatly enriched by the proliferation of a diversity of gemachs. Yet there is one gemach that, to the best of my knowledge, is not found in any community but that now more than ever would benefit us the most.
By Jason Maoz
The late Michael Kelly was a brilliant writer and editor (The New York Times, Washington Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic) who coincidentally happened to be an American patriot and a strong supporter of Israel – a combination not commonly found in the circles in which he traveled.
The motto “In God We Trust” is emblazoned on our currency and in courtrooms across America. And yet it seems we’re trusting less and less in God these days. With each passing year, secularists and sophisticated intellectuals manage to kick Him out just a little more from the public square.
President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem was remarkable in many ways. Not only did he proclaim U.S. support for Israel and describe Jewish history in glowing – and for an American president, unprecedented – terms, he also seemed to take great pains to address, point by point, the criticism of his 2009 Cairo speech that soured many Jews on his presidency.
The Jewish Press recently spoke with Rabbi Goldstein – author of the bulk of The Legacy: Teachings for Life from the Great Lithuanian Rabbis (Maggid Books). Rabbi Goldstein will be visiting Los Angeles and San Diego from April 11-16.
Last year, not long before Passover was to begin and my thoughts were already on the coming Seders and great drama we would be observing, I happened to be just outside a building when I observed the following small scene unfold before me.
By Barry Rubin
Obama must learn now about the dangers of Islamism or his administration will continue to be a net minus for Israel.
By J. E. Dyer
Nukes aren’t something you wave around like a drunk brandishing a knife.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.
By Barry Rubin
Obama has not abandoned the pro-Islamist policy that has created a far more dangerous security situation for Israel.
Like the rest of the Arab and Islamic countries, Palestinians have been told that the U.S. is the "Great Satan" and the number one enemy of all Arabs and Muslims.
Netanyahu did the right thing in the right manner and with the right words.
How did America’s leading Posek fall into halachic obscurity?
President Obama, perhaps inadvertently, made the case for U.S.-Israel relations grounded in the most fundamental shared values.
Israel inspires in Obama what has fired up almost every US president – a simplistic Christian belief of “turn the other cheek” that reflects total ignorance of the Middle East.
By Barry Rubin
Perhaps these seeming word games and niceties are beyond the interest or comprehension of many people, but everyone involved directly on this issue knows exactly what is happening.
The Wall Street Journal last month featured a front-page article titled “After These Jewish Prayer Services, Things Come ‘To Life’ at Open Bar,” with the sub-heading, “To Woo Worshippers, Synagogues Compete with Food and Booze.”
As I write these words, a Jewish toddler injured in a Palestinian terror attack is lying in a hospital bed struggling for her life.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
One doesn't have to be a Temple Mount loyalist to realize that something not good for the Jews is happening in the world's holiest spot – under Israeli sovereignty.
Do you really think that retreat from the very foundations of our lives will bring us quiet?
Every year Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instructs the UN General Assembly that Israel is a defiling historical error, a hideous mistake bound to be rectified. Sometimes he goes cheerfully beyond such a narrowly predictive denunciation and proceeds to offer an alleged rationale for Israel's "disappearance."
By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
A popular aphorism had it that “wie es sich Christelt, so Juedelt es sich” – as things go for Christians, so they go for Jews. In 2013, however, the conditions for some 200 million Christians can be read from the pages of Jewish history.
By Jeff Leb
The challenge of day school affordability is not just an economic but an existential one; it is about the continuity and vitality of the next generation of Jews. While enrollments are at an all-time high, so are tuition bills.
This is essentially a review of an introduction to a book. Not a few readers are no doubt wondering just how much one can say about an introduction, especially an introduction to a machzor of nearly 1,300 pages. The answer: a lot.
We have a custom of reciting Shir HaShirim (the Song of Songs) on the Shabbat during Pesach. Many reasons have been offered to explain why.
President Obama will finally follow up his June 4, 2009 visit to Cairo with one to Israel. Though he was just a stone’s throw from Israel at the time, he chose not to go the Jewish state and it is not too hard to figure out why.
The Obama administration, from Mr. Obama on down, has made every effort to assure that the agenda for the president’s Israel trip and discussions with Prime Minister Netanyahu would center around burnishing the U.S.-Israel relationship and the issues of Iran and Syria.
“Therefore we are obligated to give thanks…to the One Who performed all these miracles for our forefathers and for us. He took us out from slavery to freedom…and from servitude to redemption.” – Haggadah shel Pesach
In the free market, money made you king. But under socialism, money just buys you access and leverage.
By Barry Rubin
Why help put into power and then favor people who hate you, lie about you, and want to destroy you? What is the pay-off?
By Daniel Pipes
To understand Obama's visit to Israel, the next four years, and European Union diplomacy, keep this strange and contorted logic in mind
By David Wilder
We cannot and must not allow responsibility for our security to be in the hands of anyone else but ourselves. Not at any time.
By Daniel Pipes
Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.
By J. E. Dyer
At least Russia and China are probably as mystified as we are about where Obama is going with his missile defense policy.
If the world does not wake up in time to see the danger, Syria will be only the first domino to fall.
By Barry Rubin
The problem of this government is more likely to be one of personalities, marginal issues that get blown up in importance, and jockeying for financial benefits for different constituencies.
The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.
By Daniel Pipes
Both Hamas and Fatah are playing the game of pretending to end violence.
By Barry Rubin
In August 2010, Obama ordered a secret report on unrest in the Arab world.
The greatest tragedy made manifest in Steubenville is the attitude of teenage men toward girls.
The defamation of the Jewish people must be called out and stopped at all times, not only when it is convenient and politically correct to do so.
Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdoğan can be seen as the anti-Atatürk, the leader who seeks to undo substantial parts of his predecessor's legacy, especially Atatürk's rejection of Shari'a, or Islamic law.
As Obama visits the region, he would do well to take the following facts into consideration.
Hamas wants Palestinians civilians, especially babies, to be killed precisely so that they can display the kind of photographs that were shown around the world.
By Barry Rubin
Despite the current policy's serious problems and visibly dangerous outcomes there is no major debate it.
By Daniel Pipes
Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."
It is unthinkable that Israelis should look at Jonathan through American eyes.
Ambassador Rice touted the notion of a spontaneous mob action for several days after the event despite the evidence to the contrary. On what basis did Ms. Rice promote the false storyline?
By Ben Cohen
Before Chavez came to power there were 30,000 Jews in Venezuela. The community has now dwindled to fewer than 9,000.
In cases where the Nazi regime judged that protest could spark attention from the broader German public, the decision was made for tactical reasons to appease rather than quell with brute force.
As a teenager growing up in Russia in the late 1800s, Trumpeldor was attracted to Zionism as well as the pacifism and communalism of the philosopher Leo Tolstoy.
On January 16, 2003, the private Project Daniel Group first advised then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons.
By Dov Shurin
For days and weeks before Pesach, we meticulously clean our homes, making sure that not a crumb of bread might, God forbid, be found when we begin the festival of matzahs.
By Daniel Pipes
As ever, Muslims raise startling new issues and Islam drives the social and legal agenda in the West.
When I visited the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem a couple of years ago, it was a brutal reminder of what happens when politicians make decisions that don’t involve their brains.
By Steven Plaut
The Israeli left, along with most of the world's pseudo-intellectual classes, has suddenly discovered Abraham Lincoln, thanks to Steven Spielberg’s much-praised movie.
November 13, 2026 
