Posted on: December 28th, 2005

"What the FBI apparently didn't realize was that Rifkin was a refugee from the Russians, not an agent of the Russians," says Jack Yampolsky, a retired Philadelphia accountant whose parents, Louis and Betty, were leaders of the Bergson group's local chapter.

Posted on: December 28th, 2005

I was interested in Jewish identity in whatever form it took.

Posted on: December 28th, 2005

We are at war. There is a balance to be struck between protecting the security of the country and the personal privacy of individuals.

Posted on: December 28th, 2005

What was Rotberg's crime? First, he did not demonize Israel. Second, he did not choose a "neutral" position, somewhere between Hamas's and that of the settlers ejected from Gaza.

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Posted on: December 21st, 2005

As such Lieberman is an icon not just of American Jewish achievement but as a "martyr" of what many bitter Democratic partisans still claim was a "stolen election."

Posted on: December 21st, 2005

Archeologists in Poland have just discovered an amazing document, uncovered from beneath rubble left over in what was once the Warsaw Ghetto:

Posted on: December 21st, 2005

Calls for Israel's destruction are nothing new in the Middle East, but Bolton refused to ignore the repeated calls in recent weeks by the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, something which he says has "drawn almost no attention" at the UN.

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Posted on: December 21st, 2005

In Islamic countries over the centuries, Jews choose to live humiliated as an underclass of dhimmi, often persecuted - but they willingly accepted their predicament rather than submit to conversion.

Posted on: December 1st, 2005

He acknowledged that the training of Iraqi security forces "is an enormous task, and it always hasn't gone smoothly."

Posted on: May 18th, 2005

One of us is a Christian pastor, the other is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi. Yet for all these differences, something recently united us. And it was not that we're both bald or that we both have beards!

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Posted on: May 18th, 2005

As outgoing Israeli Chief of Staff General Moshe Ya'alon has predicted, "Immediately after the disengagement we can expect a burst of terrorism...all the signs point to it."

Posted on: May 18th, 2005

Different minhagim have already been established and I leave it to each community to follow the lead and guidance of its teachers.

Posted on: May 18th, 2005

They've moved so far around the political circle they've met on the other side, spouting identical positions on such issues as Iraq, the broader War on Terror, and, most particularly, the Jewish state of Israel.

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Posted on: May 18th, 2005

These weeks between Pesach and Shavuot provide an unusual window of opportunity for children to learn about their grandparents' and great grandparents' heritage.

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Posted on: May 11th, 2005

"You don't have to love Bush in order to see what he's done for Israel."

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Posted on: May 11th, 2005

Britain's AUT supported Katz's discredited massacre story and parroted Pappe's complaints on its website in the run-up to the boycott vote.

Posted on: May 11th, 2005

Somehow Jews have always been enraptured by the words "liberal" and "Democrat."

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Posted on: May 11th, 2005

I am a child of survivors. I stand as near to the gates of Auschwitz and Belsen as anyone who was not actually there, and that is still a million miles away

Posted on: May 11th, 2005

Not much had been heard from Powell since President Bush unceremoniously dropped him from his second-term Cabinet without so much as telling him in advance that Condoleezza Rice would be taking over at State.

Posted on: May 4th, 2005

Seeing an opportunity to increase Russia's influence in the Middle East, Putin now wants feelings of animosity extinguished and past threats to be forgotten.