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20 years after the Passover Seder Massacre - PA continues to glorify and reward the murderers

If Iran decides to enrich its current stock of uranium to a military grade, it could have enough for four nuclear devices within four months.

Zelenskyy has left us Israelis with a bad taste in our mouths. He’s a hero the world over, and we want to like him, too. But it’s difficult for Israelis to like him after the things he said

Pointless as it may be given their myopia, let’s remind the president and his diplomats of life as it is rather than as they would like it to be in Israel and the “disputed territories.”

It is important, though, to remember that the Torah is not a storybook. We are not privy to what happened later in the day when Aharon returned home without two of his sons, when his heart thawed and the shock wore off.

However sympathetic they feel towards the beleaguered Ukrainians, Americans are still reluctant to place their troops in combat roles absent a direct threat to this country. That reality gives succor to Russia and China, neither of whom have to worry about the twists and turns of public opinion.

and will reward it-handsomely

U.S. President Joe Biden is now accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin—the man he calls a “war criminal” and who has threatened nuclear war against the West—as the controller of Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.

The Ruzhiner was also known for his irrepressible optimism that was preserved and passed down to his progeny. I clearly saw that optimism in my mother and in my grandfather.

His profile as someone steeped in Torah knowledge was also what impelled everyone to seek his counsel and advice on all things large and small, personal and political, Torah-adjacent or further removed.

Rachayli comes from a family of medical professionals... Don’t listen to the doctors? But the gadol ha’dor had given his eitzah. And that was what they followed.

Israel’s new U.S. ambassador is the anti-David Friedman

It’s widely accepted by now that in his zeal to get Tehran Iran to sign a nuclear deal—any nuclear deal—the U.S. president has squandered America’s enormous leverage and caved to virtually every Iranian demand.

          -Harvard Partners With Organization Affiliated With Terrorist Organization in United States -

Having a domestic terrorist responsible for a series of bombings and murders during the 1970s and ’80s speak with the students on campus dishonors the memory of the lives taken.

You might ask, who is attacking Israel? Why? The real question is, why not? There are many individuals and institutions who are motivated to attack Israel and the war in Ukraine provides a perfect “let no crisis go to waste” opportunity.

"Make no mistake: For #Putin it's not about EU or NATO, it is about his mission to restore Russian empire. No more, no less. #Ukraine is just a stage, NATO is just one irritant. But the ultimate goal is Russian hegemony in Europe." — Jan Behrends, German historian.

The organization believes we can be “convinced over time” that Israel should not exist as a Jewish state.

It is the most potent form of deterrence against an enemy. Just ask the cloistered and unpredictable tyrant in North Korea

The Israeli high-tech, construction, and hotel sectors are all desperate for qualified personnel. If Israel works with, rather than against, Ukrainian immigrants, everyone can benefit.

According to the Russian archives, the Bielski Partisan fighters derailed German trains with manpower and equipment, blew up tracks, rail and highway bridges, plus German vehicles.

The Russian government has an interest in mounting a vast disinformation campaign against shale gas and nuclear power in the West, by massively financing the groups most likely "naturally" to oppose it: environmentalist organizations.

Even the “anti-Israel is the new pro-Israel” camp knows that Netanyahu didn’t drive a “wedge” between Republicans and Democrats.

Regardless of where one sits politically, it’s clear that the “bad bargain” looming in Vienna would be a victory for evil and a defeat for the rest of us.

The Ukraine conflict is a wake-up call for those who have grown addicted to illusions of a world of peace that absolves democracies of the need to deter their enemies through force.

Purim arrives and the likes of Haman still lives in the modern Iranian regime

One of my greatest joys was coming home from camp each day, devouring mashed potatoes with pieces of pickle in it and chocolate pudding that my Nana made and watching the Mets on TV with my Papa.

This week, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine dragged on, gas prices in America soared to their highest levels since 2008, increasing over 57 cents in just one month.

The West’s nuclear knife is sheathed, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is brandishing his own in a menacing manner. As with Iran and the Palestinians, such disdain for human life gives fanatics the upper hand.

Now that U.S. President Joe Biden has agreed to an even more dangerous nuclear deal, Israel must prepare to be scapegoated.