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Sharia, corruption, and Jew-hatred come to the House.

One cannot help but note the difference between how American society and its leaders responded to the Pittsburgh massacre, and how Palestinian society and its leaders responded to the Har Nof massacre.

Illegal immigrants who sneak into America are a far cry from Avraham Avinu or Yosef HaTzaddik who did not pose a threat to anyone. Most immigrants of course, also do not pose a threat, but it must be admitted that at least some of them are drug peddlers, kidnappers, and gang members who traumatize, terrorize, and torture innocent Americans.

Anti-Semitism is tribal. Those who hate Jews tend to be losers who are convinced of their own natural superiority and blame the Jews for their failure to achieve it.

Democrats claim that a ‘blue wave’ will bring the House, and perhaps the Senate, under their control. The term “blue wave” comes from the same mindset that proclaimed the “blue wall” in the Rust Belt would make a Republican victory in the 2016 presidential election impossible. The blue wall was not impregnable,; similarly, the blue wave will not even be a ripple.

When a tragedy that should lead Jews to unite instead leads Jews to turn against other Jews, that is worse than a tragedy; it is a disaster.

Is it anti-Semitism to criticize an individual Jew for actions and behaviors that have nothing to do with his Judaism?

A real truce between Israel and the Gaza Strip will be achieved only after the jihadi terrorists are removed from power, and not rewarded for violence and threats.

It is deeply painful that Ben & Jerry’s heads Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield – who are Jewish – are promoting, financially supporting and taking a smiling picture with Jew-haters such as Linda Sarsour, who promote massacres (the intifada) and boycotts against Ben & Jerry’s fellow Jews.

Liberal American Jews are free to disagree with President Trump. Yet, if they still consider themselves Jews, they owe Trump a measure of respect for his support for the Jewish state of Israel and cracking down on its enemies.

Do the American people want to undo what our president has achieved?

In my 60 years on this planet and the many elections that I have observed, I have never seen such acrimony, hate, distortion, vilification of the other side, and bald-faced lying for political gain as in this season--And that includes the 2016 election, bad as it was.

The logic behind the Felder amendment goes something like this: Students studying Talmud for many hours a day learn to think critically by means of a rabbinic version of the Socratic method and therefore don’t need to spend much time studying math, science, history, and other secular subjects.

The Times admits that the Left has routinely ignored anti-Semitism in the city thanks to its inability to formulate a narrative blaming the Right

Aside from the practical wisdom of this strategy, imagine the Kiddush Hashem if tens of thousands of Jews wrote in a common protest candidate name (e.g., "Mr. Morality") on their ballots.

While Trump has sworn to protect Americans, beefing-up America’s defense posture and pursuing an “America First” agenda; Rabin helped establish a Palestinian beachhead on the Israeli body politic, a terrorist mini-state in our midst, that has led to thousands of deaths.

It can be more difficult for some than others, based upon how the brain processes stress, as well as previous exposures to traumatic incidents. Here are some suggestions on how to help.

Darwin assumed there were no limits to biological variation and that, given enough time, a fish could eventually evolve into a human being.

We do not need to question whether radioactive decay or the speed of light remained constant throughout history. We do not need to extrapolate from an idea broached by the Rambam that was rejected by others.

The shocking tragedy on Shabbos indicates that perhaps the passionate arguments on all sides have gone as far as they ought to – and beyond. It is time to “know our place,” to simmer down, and to recognize that our political disputants are not evil and that any hint of violence is totally out of bounds since insane monsters out there will take such talk as an excuse to carry out nefarious deeds.

If an armed guard might have made a difference at the Tree of Life Synagogue, imagine how much difference an armed congregation would make.

To blame Trump for a terrorist attack on a synagogue is not only inaccurate, it’s partisan hackery at its finest

Because every single day, all around us, anti-Semitism is alive, festering, growing, becoming more deadly, more horrific and more violent. And there are people – too many people – who feed that hatred.

Before the establishment of Israel, the destiny of millions of Jews was decided by the whims of Christian Europe and the Muslim world. What has changed dramatically is that today there is a powerful Jewish state.

the Khan al-Ahmar situation represents a classical example of 'complementarity' inasmuch as it addresses violations by the residents of the village, of building, planning and zoning requirements. The issue was duly referred to and dealt with by Israel’s courts.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones but as we know, Arabs engage in a great deal of stone throwing

While she gets to walk the hallways of an Israeli institution in comfort, Jewish students in the United States are intimidated because of the activities that Lara Alqasem was part of and led.

Today, Jordan receives from Israel far more than what the accord stipulates.

Jordan has now renewed its request on this matter as part of a growing rivalry with Turkey over exerting an influence on the Old City and the Temple Mount.

In a letter many years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe argued that G-d Himself may have placed dinosaur fossils in the ground.