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In 1924 Harry Fischel had occasion to visit the town of Eishishok in Lithuania.

In its turn, the Palestinian street sees in Hamas, the "liberators" of Gaza, the agents of final victory over Israel and votes them into power.

The Israeli election played out in the shadow of the Hamas victory and the creation of an armed Hamas-led fascist state and terrorist army positioned in the suburbs of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

The "if in doubt throw it out" attitude that used to be applied to food products is now being applied to Jewish children.

Of course, there are those who say this is a perfectly reasonable system. After all, you don't have to send your children to a religious school.

Over the past four years, other free nations have risen in the broader Middle East. Across that region, the political dialogue has been transformed - and politicians, scholars, students, and men and women from every walk of life are talking about freedom, equal rights, and accountable institutions of government.

Paradoxically, Baruch Mordechai's physique was at odds with his state of mind. He was of tall and powerful build.

With elections less than a month away, many in Israel are concerned and even frightened over the likelihood that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be elected prime minister in his own right.

To the best of my knowledge a census has yet to be taken, but common belief is that quality Jewish men are an endangered species, while the pick of women has never been better.

Parents may push for a different type of shidduch from the one preferred by their son or daughter.

Aaron Klein is Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, co-host of ABC Radio's national John Bachelor Show, and he appears throughout the week on other U.S. radio programs.

They can't quite take credit for inventing them, but Jews had a long, colorful, and mostly profitable involvement with the great retail emporiums - the large scale specialty and department stores that came, literally and figuratively, to dominate the landscape of 20th century America.

It is not uncommon for Observant Jews to want to be buried in Eretz Yisroel.

Conspiracism is probably best characterized as a form of mental illness.

America's Founding Fathers said "no taxation without representation." They never said "no taxation" period.

The only remaining justification for disengagement is supposed to be demographic: that by withdrawing from Gaza Israel postponed the day when Jews become a minority in their own country.

He had wanted to sit up and convey to Washington his firm belief that they would be triumphant despite their formidable straits.

Will Sharon continue the policy of ethnically cleansing the Land of Israel of Jews and transfer 95 percent of Judea and Samaria to our enemies - even before he begins negotiating Jerusalem, the immigration of foreign Arabs to the Land of Israel and Israel's security arrangements with anyone?

Rabbi Dr. Bernard Drachman (1861 - 1945)

A number of weeks ago I received an email from someone asking me to consider writing an article about yeshiva high school students and college education.

On the eve of the unilateral Gaza withdrawal, Ariel Sharon explained his action to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot:

If judged only by what is heard on his White House tapes, Richard Nixon, who resigned the presidency 31 years ago this week, appears to have been a man obsessed with Jews, stewing in negative feelings, never hesitating to use the crudest of slurs.

Christian social workers come to visit. They say: "Stand firm, this is your home, stand up for your rights".

You glance through your mail, and there it is - an invitation to a simcha. It could be a chasuna ora Bar Mitzvah.

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson affirms that it is illegal to blockade Israeli shipping in an international waterway, but diplomatic efforts fail to compel Egypt to reopen the waterway.

This was the rhetorical stance of the Peace Movement from 1977 to 1992, when Likud either dominated or was an equal partner in Israeli governments, and the position won more and more adherents from the ranks of Labor's constituency.

They are not the Jews of bagels and lox brunches with the Sunday New York Times.

In a macabre sort of way, this photo is an old friend. Having seen it so many times before, I am "comfortable" with the imagery.

They had to travel more than a thousand miles, mostly by foot, before they reached an airport in the Sudan. His parents finally migrated to Israel when he was three.

Chaim Mendel readily admitted that there had been many shidduchim proposed.