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And oh… what a story it is.

The current U.S. administration does not want to be forced to either criticize the Palestinian Authority, something it is loath to do.

Why should human voices hold such authority in a halachic system which answers to Hashem?

Israel is the creator of its destiny; the White House is not.

The protest organizers are doing irreparable harm to the state, its institutions and its economy, in a classic “cutting off your nose to spite your face” campaign.

“Behold, I accept upon myself the commandment of the Lord to love my neighbor as myself.”

Certainly he can never match his oldest brother's brilliance, and although sometimes he thinks that his second brother makes some good points, he is afraid of disappointing his parents; he is afraid of disappointing himself.

Halachic Prenuptial Agreements are yet another critical vehicle for social change. Signing a prenup not only protects the individual couple involved but also helps cement a larger cultural message – that get refusal is not welcome here, in this home, in this shul,

The protests have nothing to do with judicial reform and everything to do with undoing the results of the last election.

The president’s attack on Benjamin Netanyahu is all about revenge.

More than 3,000 years before the Mayflower left England for the New World, Jews fled from Egypt.

While the Israeli left has had no choice but to concede the government to a voter base shifting to the right, it is unprepared and unwilling to give up control of state institutions.

Those who fought back against the Nazis were able to obtain guns from criminal sources and from contacts in the Polish resistance Home Army.

Today’s version of slavery may be different, but the impact is the same. With our technological advancement, we currently live in the most physically comfortable time in human history. However, we also live with a kind of mental slavery imposed by none other than ourselves.

In religious terminology how do we balance between torah, peoplehood and land? Or, in Hebrew how do we balance between Torat Yisrael, Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.

They seem to believe that such tactics are patriotic acts of democracy – but only when engaged in by the Left.

The military's job is to win wars, everything else is a dangerous distraction.

Hezbollah or Hamas will likely identify the current crisis in Israel over the new government’s proposed reform of Israel’s judiciary as an opportunity to act against it. They might be surprised, however, by Israel’s response.

Silence=Assent

Of course Minister Bezalel Smotrich is correct. Of course there is no Arab “Palestinian” people and never was an Arab “Palestine.” It all is...

Wherever Jews lived, they did not publicly challenge the occupation of the land by the empires of the East and West. They did so in their homes, sanctuaries, books and prayers. Religious rituals were instituted to remember the destruction of the Temple and the subsequent exile.

Similar support is given in public schools, where a large segment of the student population may also be English language learners; the only difference is the language being spoken.

The Babylonians deliberately took the smartest teens as captives to train them for service in the king’s court, with assimilation as a prerequisite.

Israel should seek a full investigation of the charges that have been leveled against its national. But it also has a responsibility to him as an Israeli citizen and a senior IDF officer to ensure that his arrest warrant isn’t politically motivated.

Our origin story has everything to do with who we are and where we are going.

Attempting to enact major change without a broad consensus can only result in controversy, polarization and, in the end, continuing unrest.

Far more important than a political strategy, history reminds us it is the economy upon which great nations rise or fall

Not according to any accurate application of the term

Israel voted for a right-wing government, and they want right-wing policy. They don’t want to be overruled by the side that LOST.

he Biden administration would do well to realize that a nuclear Iran is not just an existential threat to Israel; a nuclear Iran is major threat to the region, Europe, America, the world.