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What if the economics department had officially endorsed Mitt Romney during last year's election?
By Tzvi Fishman
The Torah commands, 'Honor thy father and thy mother, in order that thy days be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.'
The U.S. State Department appears to be coordinating recruitment efforts with groups reportedly associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to israeli Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Amnon Sofri, the transfer of unconventional weapons to Hezbollah is a red line for Israel when it comes to Syria.
By Batya Medad
In Israel, many of us mistakenly think that world Jewry and international politicians have nothing else on their minds but what's happening in Israel. The opposite is the case.
The New York Times criticizes Israel for not undergoing the scrutiny of the UN Human Rights Council, while at the same time recognizes the extreme bias the Council shows against Israel.
Getting old is not so bad after all. An Israeli study says the reward for keeping a low cholesterol diet until age 80 or so is to let it all out and munch away at French fries and high-fat ice cream.
East Jerusalem has become code for: where Jews shouldn't be.
An interview with historian Gil troy on his new book, “Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism and Racism.”
By Barry Rubin
The internal drive to delegitimize America may aimed at overcoming natural American patriotism by those who would transform the country’s thinking.
If we in the Likud will understand the deep reason for our party’s decline we will continue to securely lead Israel with our national vision.
Syria has admitted that Israel attacked, but it claims the bombing was aimed at a “research center,” while virtually all other sources said the targets were anti-aircraft missiles for Hizbullah.
Israeli leaders be thinking about doctrinal continuity in all of the seemingly discrete Palestinian factions.
Jewish Outreach founder Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald and Birthright’s co-founder, self-declared atheist Michael Steinhardt have agreed “to wrestle out” their beliefs in a debate.
Finally, what if, say, Venezuela was developing nuclear weapons and every other day one of their officials promised to root out the ‘cancer’ that was the U.S.?
Lapid is a patriot who is both honest and who has a clear vision for the future. A vision that is inclusive of all!
By Tzvi Fishman
The Rabbis of the religious Zionist community serve in the army; why shouldn’t Haredi Rabbis also be brave examples for their students?
When it comes to the army, there are some thing you just don't post online.
By Barry Rubin
Kerry subscribes--as is so fashionable today in the Obama Administration and academia--to the abusive relationship approach to foreign policy.
According to the Midrash if the Hebrew slaves failed to produce their quota of bricks, Jewish children were plastered into the walls to fill the gaps.
By Batya Medad
The Israeli media are busy faux negotiating, publishing all sorts of possibilities.
By Daniel Pipes
Odd that CUFI is out there swinging and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is silent.
The story of three friends in the Holocaust reunited 67 years later.
By Adam Levick
Spare us your Holocaust pieties and consider honoring Jews who are still among the living.
MK-elect Dov Lipman is reportedly not very happy about having to relinquish his US citizenship.
This is the 'tznius chase,' a subset of the 'Frumkeit race,' also known as the move to the right.
Morsi, who all but expressly said Jews control the Western media, would find a comforting embrace in the anti-Semitism of some Westerners.
Lapid's election success is a reflection of the widespread view among Israelis that external threats do not mean that the country's house should not be put in better order.
By Tzvi Fishman
To all my blogger colleagues in America: if you want to complain about things in Israel, at least come live here, and play your part in the building.
By Batya Medad
There's the "hype" that politician "a" or "b" can make it all better. None of it's true.
There was little discussion during the campaign of 'the peace process, because everybody in Israel, with the exception of the European- and NIF-funded Left, knows that the “peace process” is dead.
Russia's strategic geopolitical interests provide an important incentive for Russia to gain a foothold in Cyprus.
When Ron Nachman set out to found the city of Ariel, he was not interested in just another community of tens to hundreds of families to the east of the Green Line.
Even though there will be an unprecedented number of religious Knesset members, Haredim are closer to being drafted than at any time in Israel’s history.
The UN conceived of Jerusalem of extending from just south of Ramallah to Bethlehem and from Motza east to almost where Maaleh Adumim is today.
When terrorists represent populations that enthusiastically support their attacks, responsibility for ensuing counter-terrorist harm must lie with the criminals.
A little insulting but shouldn't the Temple become a central element in the public discourse?
By Tzvi Fishman
The previous two redemptions began when the Jews were very deficient in mitzvah observance.
Like Liberman before, Lapid will likely be Netanyahu's major partner as under almost any coalition figuration Yesh Atid can bring down the coalition.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian and other foreign media invested heavily in promoting their desired political narrative of a Jewish state lurching dangerously towards the right.
By Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes: I predicted that 'Israel's troubles will really begin' should Obama win a second term. These have begun; Jerusalem, brace for a rough four years.
Someone asked me if Israelis were forced to vote or they had a choice...we so have a choice and we choose to vote.
Dani Dayan and Caroline Glick were met with hostility at the event (organised by Intelligence Squared) that was contacted at the lecture hall of the Royal Geographical Society.
By Hadar Sela
Today, Gamla is a nature reserve and alongside the ancient Jewish town visitors can also see Neolithic dolmens and the ruins of the Byzantine Christian village of Dir Krukh.
In the past, Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) participation in election voting has never topped more than around a third of their potential voters. Chareidim have avoided voting for two primary reasons. The first is to minimize their participation in the Zionist enterprise, the second is that many Chareidim are actually disillusioned with the Chareidi political leadership, and […]
If you are thinking of voting for Kadima and Shaul Mofaz, if you are thinking of voting for Likud and Bibi Netanyahu - take a look at this news report.
Brennan is 100 percent on board with the Obama policy that our enemies consist only of 'al-Qaeda and its extremist allies.'
So my advice is, don't try to outsmart anyone. You will just be shooting yourself in the foot. Vote for the party you want to see lead the country.
By Rafi Farber
Bibi wants the smallest Likud possible while still maintaining his PM seat.
By Barry Rubin
The US government will provide arms, money, and diplomatic support to a regime whose ruling forces openly evince hysterical antisemitism and call for genocide against Israel.
What is better, a popular Israel riddled with dead Jews or an unpopular Israel filled with living ones?
The Likud has achieved much over the last four years for settlements and the nation, and aside from his silly insistence on the two-state solution, Netanyahu has been a pretty good Prime Minister.
By Tzvi Fishman
“How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” King David asks. The answer is that we can’t.
President Obama, one could easily accuse the US of not knowing what is in their best interests. After all, they re-elected you, didn't they?
Sometimes I read something that is so on-target and illuminating that I want to say “stop what you are doing and read this now!” Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian journalist who was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2008 and was Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She has just announced that she is leaving […]
If Israel fails to show up for UPR, this may force the HRC to end the stranglehold of abusive regimes over the institution and implement long overdue reforms.
How many times can we be said to have turned right? And why are journalists surprised?
By Tzvi Fishman
By sitting in a Netanyahu-led government the Jewish Home would be an accomplice to the theft of the Land of Israel.
The thugs on the ground in Europe and the Obama Administration now simply want to impose the UN’s diktat on Israel.
Peace will hold so long as the Egyptians believe that we are strong enough and well trained enough to defeat them again.
Splitting votes among right-wing parties could lead to a left-wing government.
One can only hope that the same Facebook employee who "accidentally" removed the article will make the same mistake and close down accounts belonging to terrorist organizations and their leaders.
65 years ago this week, 35 student soldiers set out from Jerusalem to bring much needed supplies to the kibbutzim in the besieged Etzion Bloc south of the city.
As predicted here, Mori's anti-Israel rants will have no affect on U.S. policy of aiding Egypt's transition to an Islamist democracy-dictatorship.
Earlier this month, a man in uniform you probably never heard of signed a military order which conferred formal recognition upon Rehalim as the 32nd Jewish community in Samaria.
For Jews, the ancient tribal territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh – a.k.a. Judea and Samaria or the West Bank – form the very heartland of the homeland.
"The settlements erode hope ... of a peace agreement in the future."
Perhaps our President should focus less on construction of apartments and homes and do something instead about the bombs and rockets that are killings tens of thousands of innocent Arabs.
Now that the dust has settled in Gaza following Israel’s Pillar of Defense operation, it is easy yet again to feel sorry for the Palestinians. After all, as anyone already knows who clings desperately to The New York Times, the still-lingering images are so evidently palpable and painful. And the Arab suffering – the grievous suffering. Wasn't it disturbingly "one-sided" and “disproportionate”?
If Schumer buys Hagel's transformation so will a majority of senators.
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
President Obama spent his first term pushing from power longstanding Arab allies in Egypt and Tunisia, seeking to engage the now blood-soaked Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, pulling his punches against Iran’s nuclear program, and putting “daylight” between his administration and Israel.
I'd suggest it is Israel that is saving the West, if only they'd let us.
The media would rather spend its time lamenting Israel's fall to the far right by covering the rise of a party that says the twenty year old peace process has failed.
The Syrian civil war is drawing in the world's most dangerous elements to a land that hosts the world's largest stockpile of VX nerve agents, Sarin and mustard gas.
Trump even works in the Likud's election slogan, "A strong prime minister is a strong Israel."
The JewishPress.com was the first major English language Jewish/Israel news publication to have the story about the video.
When Jews are attacked in broad daylight in the world's holiest city, something is horrifically wrong in Israel.
The IDF conducts physical profiling of Israeli children to determine placement in the army.
The US and EU, who have been funding and training the Palestinian security forces in Judea and Samaria, need to bang on the table -- now -- and demand that Abbas rein in the Fatah militiamen.
By Barry Rubin
Netanyahu’s impending victory is due to the fact that the prime minister has done a reasonably good job, the economy is okay, terrorism is low, he’s kept out of trouble.
The IDF accidentally discovered a terror tunnel preventing a terror attack/kidnapping from Gaza.
Yesha Council Chairman Dani Dayan appears in a pro-Likud video clip.
The Jewish state is supposed to be a place where people are not humiliated for being Jews.
Since June 2005, the EU has given more than $48 million to over 90 NGOs based in Israel, who are regarded as critical of Israel.
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