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Behind the Left’s war on Jewish schools.

Canary Mission tracks social media and videos, capturing BDS, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic expressions, triangulating them into individual profiles that expose and create permanent highly-visible records of the words and images BDS and SJP leaders actually use.

For over a decade, Israel has avoided deciding whether its interests are better served by maintaining the current “two Palestinian states” status quo, or by seeing Gaza rejoin the Palestinian Authority. The result is an untenable, chronic-crisis situation that empowers Mahmoud Abbas and is a lose-lose for Israel.

Tehran supports Palestinian terrorism on Israel, violating multiple sanctions laws

Contrast what Israel does with how the Palestinians treat terrorists who willfully target and kill Jewish children, women and other civilians. The Palestinian Authority pays their families rewards – in effect bounties -- for their willful acts of murder. Hamas promotes and lionizes terrorists who kill Jews. But you would not know any of that from reading the one-sided New York Times screed....All in all, it is a shockingly irresponsible report.

The law gives everyone just enough rights to hurt children, not help them.

Many worry about yeshivos being forced to teach so many hours of secular studies that Torah instruction will have to be curtailed.

First, in all European countries and other important regions in the world, the national Right is growing stronger, and therefore, we must devote our main political efforts to cultivating ties with right-wing parties. Second, the Left is becoming increasingly anti-Semitic.

The slogan most famously associated with Rav Hirsch is Torah im Derekh Eretz. What Rav Hirsch meant by these words is that the Torah is not inherently connected to any one particular culture or civilization.

A situation in which Habayit Hayehudi, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu Party, Yisrael Beytenu, and Shas are all hovering near the minimum electoral threshold would be a dangerous one. So dangerous that the right could lose power.

On July 6, 1989, Abed al-Hadi Ganaim grabbed the steering wheel of an Egged bus and drove it off the road, murdering 16 people....

Does one errant IDF bullet warrant moral equivalence with Hamas terror tunnels?

Palestinian leaders are not offering their people a better life, prosperity, security and stability. Instead, the leaders are urging Palestinians to continue hating Israel and the US. They are urging Arab countries not to make peace with Israel: they consider normalization with Israel an act of treason.

The massive development of cyberspace has given single-issue politics an unexpected boost. Today, almost anyone anywhere in the word could create his or her own echo-chamber around a pet subject

This year American Jews almost experienced a tragedy: It was rumored that Entenmann’s was going to lose its kosher certification.

In a 4700-word story about a Palestinian medic killed in Gaza border violence, there is no mention of the thousand Hamas rockets fired into Israel in 2018 and Israeli families sleeping in shelters. There is no mention of Hamas chieftains leading chants of "Death to Israel."

No New York Times editorial about Israel is complete without its knee–jerk indictment of the country, its leaders, and policies. Here too, it was inevitable that the editorial’s justification of BDS would turn into an attack on the Israeli government and policies

In contrast to popular misconceptions, cremation is neither environmental nor dignified. Burial in the earth reaffirms the eternal cycle of creation, birth and rebirth, passage and transition.  It reinforces our awareness of the eternity of the human soul and the unending mission of the Jewish people

We don’t seek to conquer the lands of others as did the colonialist Arab, British or European empires of old. We simply want to determine our own future, the future of the Jewish people, in our own land.

After a year of division, it’s time for Jews on both sides of the blue-red divide to be willing to take on their allies.

The "intersectionality" promoted on campuses and beyond by Hamas/SJP and their fellow travelers seeks, in pursuit of its anti-Israel agenda, to distract attention from the Islamist onslaught, its ongoing savaging of populations in Africa, Asia and America.

Last summer’s events in the Gaza Strip cast serious doubt on the feasibility of a complete Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, as the proximity of that area to Israel’s main population centers and economic/strategic assets ensures its transformation into the main combat zone should it undergo a militarization process similar to that experienced by Gaza and Lebanon. The question is whether the IDF has an effective response to the advent of parallel major threats on several fronts.

Today, 25 years later, the two universes of Gemara and secular law coincide seamlessly for me more than ever. As a rav and law professor, I sometimes teach the same concept TWICE during the same week – in Torts class and in Gemara shiur.

Apologies filled with rationalizations, explanations and deflections are not apologies. LeBron’s apology is the perfect example of how not to say you are sorry.

High schoolers in the dati-leumi school system remember us because the struggle for Soviet Jewry is a part of the curriculum. Otherwise, to most Israelis, I am just another beard in the street.

Over the past two years, we have repeatedly heard the slogan, “Make America Great Again.” What would it take for the Jewish people to be “great again”? What would it take for us to restore the glory of the kingdoms of King David and King Solomon?

As the commander of the operation, I recommended to ‎my superiors that Israel should make the most of ‎this success and expand the campaign by allowing ‎Southern Command forces to seize control of Gaza ‎City bring Hamas to its knees by either eliminating ‎terrorist or capturing them. My recommendation was ‎denied.

The Yaffed organization, claims to promote discussion by “rais[ing] awareness” in the community, but in reality aims to end it via coercive action. Yaffed sued New York State in federal court, demanding that the state’s Education Department force Jewish schools to change their curricula.

{Originally posted to the JNS website} Many have pointed to Israel’s security barrier in Judea and Samaria as being one of the primary contributors to...

If and when the Palestinian Authority (PA) collapses, Jordan will bear the greatest brunt of the resulting humanitarian crisis. Such a collapse will almost certainly lead to a mass exodus of Palestinians from Areas A and B.