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Ironically, shortly before being assigned to his historic mission, he had requested a transfer to a combat unit to avenge his relatives in Europe.

The current “knife intifada” has, since September, resulted in the murder of 30 innocent Israelis as well as injury to another 352.

I remember names and I remember people but never the train shall meet.

Though I felt extreme empathy for the child, I attempted to explain to the parent that the responsibility would be too great and in addition it would greatly deprive from the experience of the other children in the class.

In American society we are all caught up with the idea that youth is very important. We are always trying to perceive ourselves as younger.

The designated escape route was for the children to cross into the Netherlands, from where they were to embark via ferry to England.

During her confirmation hearing, DiFiore acknowledged she has a pistol permit and carries a gun.

This is not to say the Palestinians are blameless or justified in the ongoing conflict – far from it – but we are the ones with the power and our government has managed to destroy any hope on either side for a solution.

While advocating Jewish liberty, however, Jefferson simultaneously held Judaism itself in low regard.

But it’s not just the siddur. All books in Israeli schools are to be revered…. and covered.

Seuss’s wartime cartoons denounced American discrimination against Jews and called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust.

A Jew grows and lives differently here in Israel. Anyone who really wants to be here will do fine.

While he wrote only one piece of music directly for liturgical use, Hashkeveinu, which premiered at the Park Avenue Synagogue on May 11, 1945, Bernstein often named his works after Jewish themes and personalities.

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Mrs. R. hurls the violin at the couch, screeching, “It’s horrible! I sound so horrible!” and again runs out of the room, sobbing.

There we often find children who lack proper derech eretz in their daily exchanges with people, as if they feel that they are entitled to act this way and to behave disrespectfully around their teachers or adults.

They were holy missions, meant to better the world.

William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was the only American president to also sit on the Supreme Court. The Republican was an effective administrator but a...

Asked about the atmosphere in Albany, one former lawmaker would only speak on the condition of anonymity.

When Dreyfus was finally cleared and Zola returned to France, Monet sank into a deep depression over the sordid and disgraceful affair.

Our own contemporary Chanukah battle has become one of saving Chanukah from American culture.

She needs to rescue her fleshless memories, lest they flicker out and die.

Kissinger was viewed by many as a self-hating Jew who turned on his father and his people by consistently acting in a manner inimical to Jewish interests.

What follows are several excerpts, translated into English, to give readers a flavor of the late president’s beautiful prose:

With the advent of the Internet, however, our generation has entered into a period of time of instant communication.

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I just don't want to hear any more about it.

The remarkable Unger, a true mathematical Renaissance man, was a visionary in the field of mathematics education who also wrote numerous texts, many of which became pedagogical standards used by university systems across Europe, particularly in Russia

One has only to look at the amount of discoveries in science and medicine, the arts and in education to appreciate the vital role that the Jews have played.