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Over the past few months the Jewish community in the New York metropolitan area has suffered great trauma and intense tragedy.

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has released its population data for 2012, the year that just ended. As usual, the trends are favorable. The total Israeli population rose to just under eight million, while the Jewish population for the first time rose to just over six million.

“In that case, what makes you better than the terrorists?” I often hear this question. It usually comes up after someone suggests that Israel ruthlessly defeat its enemies instead of maintaining its current wishy-washy approach of hiding behind security walls, wearing the enemy down, and offering land in an effort to advance peace.

The EU has yet to appreciate the reality that the conflict continues because of the refusal of the Palestinians to accept the right of the State of Israel to exist.

U.S. influence is markedly less than we – or our enemies – think it is, or ever thought it was.

What Obama means by 'saving' the Middle Class is turning them into welfare clients.

Freed of the military's oversight only in mid-2011, Erdoğan could win enough dictatorial power for him (or a successor) to achieve his dream and fully implement the Shari'a.

Israel is redefining its concept of military victory in a Middle East dominated by terrorist organizations turned quasi-state actors. Once, decisive, unmistakable victories, accompanied by...

This is nothing new: Netanyahu, following his election in 1996, divided Hebron and signed the Wye Accords.

The leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood top the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of top ten anti-Semites of the year.

Hundreds of interest-free banks and credit unions, including Islamic banks, were largely unharmed by the current global crisis.

When my late father, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, was in office, neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush agreed with his ideology.

YUConnects fills the void by aiding individuals and communities in expanding their horizons and creating new opportunities.

Many forget that Netanyahu's score on his actions during the Disengagement was a floor hugging 14%.

Grieving requires a new language.

"I won't go to her yoga training, she runs a program in Israel."

Terrorism and radicalism cannot be defeated by the force of arms, no matter how technologically sophisticated or overwhelming it may be.

My father, businessman and philanthropist Irving Bunim, z”l, was one of the foremost leaders of American Orthodoxy during its formative years. When he passed away in December 1980, Reb Moshe Feinstein declared, “This is not an aveilus d’yachid [a private loss]; this has the halacha of aveilus d’rabim [a public loss] because [he] represented the rabim of Klal Yisrael [the Jewish pubic].”

“His father, a sanitation worker who had never finished high school, moved his family to Jewish neighborhoods , so that his children might be...

In 1893, Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Vidrowitz was looking for an advantage in his struggle for leadership of the immigrant Orthodox community on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Two other outstanding rabbinical sages also aspired to have the final say among downtown’s religious Jews.

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, standing on a stage recently in Baltimore, shone with grace. It wasn’t what she wore, it was how she wore it. Her inner grace and sheer presence made her simply stunning. The red velvet curtains that were her backdrop outlined the strength of character on her face and the dignity in her every motion.

This month some of Israel’s strongest friends in Europe – Britain, France and Germany – summoned their ambassadors to protest the Jewish state’s construction decisions.

"Palestine," shouted Mashaal to his audience, was Arabic, Islamic, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River; his audience chanted its support.

Using the term "Halacha" for policies which are not in fact Halacha, delegitimizes those who differ and causes ill-will towards Jewish law.

Have Feiglin and Hotoveli never heard about the Likud's expulsions of Jews and destruction of Jewish homes?

Jerusalem's besiegers are a captive audience. It's time for Israel to speak.

It is entirely possible for two parties to hate each other, but to agree they hate you more.

The Israeli Left is incentivizing the Palestinians to refuse negotiations and potentially use violence against Israel.

The national census for England and Wales has come out, and, as usual, this once-a-decade event has had all of its most significant points overlooked.

Christians and Jews would be enjoying freedom, peace and safety in a truly Muslim State.