Filling two vacuums at once – one of Orthodox women taking a more public role and a second of Modern Orthodox Jews demonstrating the merits of religious Jewish practice – Allison Josephs has transformed her sweet and engaging webisodes and blog into a larger force. Jew in the City is now a franchise.

Yossi Klein Halevi’s Like Dreamers (Harper) explores the lives of seven Israeli paratroopers in the Six-Day War who, his subtitle suggests, “Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation.” It offers a fascinating variation on the theme of Israel at a fateful crossroads, in search of itself, following the wondrously unifying moment at the Western Wall in June 1967 when Jewish national sovereignty in Jerusalem was restored for the first time in nineteen centuries.

Although she survived the attack, she was demonized on Egypt’s talk shows for the violence she endured.

With the conclusion of the Syrian fiasco, the Obama administration had to turn it’s attention to a more imminent threat.

Adebolajo said there was an ongoing “war between Muslims and the British people” and he was a “soldier of Allah.”

The Saudis are signaling that they will unleash a pre-emptive war in the Middle East.

The less you know about Islam, the better. Ignorance is strength.

The topics are “The Reagan Strategy,” and the “Iran Time Bomb.”

The fact that ObamaCare was sold with lies multiplies the political resonance tenfold.

Like his father, Lapid believed that the Hareidim, together with the Palestinians, are parasites.

Terrorists are not folks and Americans were not attacked but murdered in a despicable and cold-blooded act of terrorism.

Released prisoner: “[In prison] we’d chat, talk, eat, drink, joke and play throughout the day.”