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The welfare of the child requires that every allegation be investigated.

I favor eliminating the exemption of yeshiva students from military service and, without quibbling about details, I endorse the initiatives designed to end that disgraceful exemption.

Don’t think that secular Israelis are not just as divided as anyone else.

A society where anarcho-tyranny exists is a society without fundamental justice.

Anyone with a grain of theological education knows that the original Scripture of the Early Church was exclusively the Scripture of the Jews.

Jabari minces no words: "You hold up the Bible and say that God gave you this land. I hold up the Koran and say that Allah gave us this land."

Alcohol consumption fell by a third from 2003 to 2008.

Unfortunately for the president's strategy, the savage enemy treats his professed "humility" as groveling -- an invitation to double down on aggression.

In the 2011 Census, Christianity was still the largest religious group in England and Wales with 33.2 million people (59% of the population).

Time is precious.

Ask the Catholic Church how it feels about that.

Forty-six years ago, in the first week of June, Israel stunned the world when it wasn’t looking. Four years later, Israel stunned me when I wasn’t looking.

American news headlines over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of conservative groups. But Israel is experiencing its own form of political targeting by the state. The attorney general is leading an initiative to have a small group of radical juveniles who engage in mischief declared a terrorist organization.

During his visit to China last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled that the city of Shanghai was “one of the few places that opened its gates” to Jews fleeing Hitler. Officials of the Chinese Communist government, standing nearby, beamed with pleasure at the expectation that people all over the world would read how their regime rescued Jews.

There are good reasons for Republicans to be hopeful about the 2014 midterm election.

Far from presenting "new and diverse perspectives," this $1 million project offers the usual academic obfuscation mixed with Islamist triumphalism.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was educated within an anti-Jewish political framework.

Does Kerry think it would be better for Israel to approach negotiations from a position of precarious poverty?

Let’s bring back the country’s Jewish soul and return the sanctity of Shabbat to the public sphere.

Good people cannot accept the evil and sick deeds that are done by some in our community.

An alliance between Turkey and Israel will make the current Syrian regime tremble in their boots.

Islam expert Andrew Bostom charges that Daniel Pipes' claims about the differences between Islam and Islamism contradict Pipes' past writings on the political nature of Islam.

If you’re lucky enough to avoid losing your children, you’re still not home free.

France 2 and Enderlin must have their press accreditation revoked and be thrown out of Israel.

Slaughter is a routine, widespread practice among many Moslem families.

parently an affront to J Street's worldview, the focus of which appears to be the creation of a Palestinian State, whether or not that will bring peace.

It comes down to his being famous.

The Talmud (Berachot 26b) says, "tefillot avot tiknum" – “prayer was established by the avot.” The Talmud then uses the following verse (Bereshit 19:27) to prove how Avraham established prayer: "Vayaskem Avraham baboker el hamakom asher amad sham et pnei Hashem" – "And Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before God."

Nearly 13 years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak journeyed to Camp David to end the conflict with the Palestinians. With the approval of President Clinton, he offered Yasir Arafat an independent Palestinian state in almost all of the West Bank, Gaza and in part of Jerusalem. Arafat said no.

The news that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative groups has brought renewed spotlight on a 2010 lawsuit filed by the pro-Israel group Z Street, which alleges it was also singled out by the IRS when applying for tax-exempt status.