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My daughter lives in Ofra with her family. It's still a wonderful place to live but court rulings have strangled its chance to grow. Gd willing, a solution will be found to allow Ofra to thrive again.

While we lavish in the good times and praise G-d, we must suffer through the bad ones....and STILL praise G-d

It cannot be emphasized enough: This is the first time any U.S. President declared that the settlements were NOT an impediment to peace.

“We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances,” Schumer said. Schumer seems to have forgotten his previous statement.must be suffering memory loss

All mainstream Orthodox religious authorities and institutions have rejected the idea of female rabbis, except of course, Open Orthodoxy rabbis and the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance

In a time of greater instability and violence, Obama barely acted to provide sanctuary. But there were no protests in the streets of America to let in more refugees. Why the lack of protests?

The right wing has used harsh terms, but only the most fringe have argued for the government's overthrow or the upending of a lawfully elected administration. Sadly the same can't be said for liberals

Just a couple of months ago, the residents of Amona had been told that they'd still be on the hill, or very close by, and that the government would build them a real community with real houses

Can you imagine a Supreme Court judge making rulings based on his own political leanings?

Trump’s decision was made to prevent terrorists from coming into America. FDR prevented refugees from coming into America because they were Jewish and he thought the country didn’t need any more Jews

No one serious is saying the Palestinian Arabs don't need aid or shouldn't get it. The problem is that foreign aid to the Palestinian Arab gets turned by them into something lethal and hideous.

There is no equivalency between the Jews who were persecuted and threatened with certain death during the Holocaust and today's Arabs clamoring to leave their troubled countries. Period.

Orthodox Jews only make up about 10% of the 5.3 million American Jews and are the fastest growing denomination by far and overwhelmingly support the Republican Party.

In the author's view, one should never give up hope that a child will be convinced to return to his roots even after they marry out.

The well-stocked stores would seem to contradict the general perception of suffering and impoverished Palestinians.

A view on Trump from across the pond. Jewish Press blogger, Selena Myers, expounds on the changing of THE Guard in Washington.

Obama believed he knew what the Israelis and the Arabs needed better than the Israelis and the Arabs knew themselves

A musical offering in honor of America's newly inaugurated 45th President, Donald Trump

Perhaps the single greatest teacher of Rabbinical CBT was Rabbi Akiva. The Talmud (Berachot 60B) teaches that Rabbi Akiva was always in the habit of saying " Everything that God does is for the good."

I am a Jew. I was born a Jew and I will die a Jew. I was also born a woman. Never once in my life have I felt those to collide or contradict and I pity anyone who feels that they do.

Obama stuck it to the Jews one more time before he leaves office by appointing Ben "I massaged the truth to sell the Iran deal to the American public" Rhodes to the US Holocaust Memorial Council.

These Arabs complaining that Syrians who are desperate to save thousands of lives and are willing to ask anyone for help, including Israel, are "conspirators" with Israel and "traitors" to Syria.

This issue of ordaining women is not a Charedi versus Modern Orthodox battle. Only the fringe of liberal orthodoxy embraces it; The entire spectrum of Haredi to centrist-Modern rejects it.

I am an Arab, lucky enough to be one of the few Arabs who live far enough, both physically and intellectually, from Arab thugs to be able to speak my mind. So I will speak my mind.

Now in Europe, at this Paris meeting, over 70 countries sent representatives to try to find a way to facilitate the replacement of Israel with a new Arab country which they will call Palestine, sic.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, a different 'dream'

I am advocating a halachically acceptable and Torah mandated embrace of values and concerns in harmony with Torah views even if the beneficiaries of these movements and causes are primarily non-Jews.

Like the old Monty Python bit, the two-state solution is a 'dead parrot.' The Press 'shopkeepers' keep trying to sell us its stiff body insisting the peace process is just pining for the Oslo accords.

Many Women of the Wall members applauded the passage of UNSC resolution 2334 demanding Israel return to pre-67 borders. WoW has no problem with the Kotel in Arab hands, just no separate prayers!

Monsey has gone from a bucolic small town to a center of conflict where both sides having strong arguments.