Posted on: July 3rd, 2013

A Jerusalem chassidic rabbi banned uniformed IDF soldiers from his group’s study halls, synagogues and yeshivas.

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Posted on: July 3rd, 2013

Many Israeli intellectuals seem still caught up in an outdated debate about their identity caused both by their secularism and their left-wing ideology.

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Posted on: July 2nd, 2013

Terrorism has become a military tool of states, not just sub-national organizations.

Posted on: July 2nd, 2013

Over the years, Turkey's notoriously thin-skinned prime minister has earned a tidy sum from suing those he claims have defamed him.

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Posted on: June 30th, 2013

Hamas has found itself embroiled in a number of local and regional disputes that seem to have had a negative impact on its standing among Palestinians and Arabs.

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Posted on: June 30th, 2013

In subsequent email correspondence with Berkowitz, the producer of NBC readily admits that Berkwoitz did not advocate that victims turn to rabbis instead of the police.

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Posted on: June 28th, 2013

It is easy to go through the motions of our days, weeks, months and years and not ask ourselves, “What is it that God wants from me?”

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Posted on: June 28th, 2013

Opposition movements usually get public support and encouragement from the masses because they challenge a corrupt and oppressive regime. This public support is what brings the opposition movement to power, either by democratic means or by violence. At first, the public is content because it it sure that its preferred movement, which used to be […]

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Posted on: June 27th, 2013

Originally published at the Gatestone Institute. The next time U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Ramallah, will he actually violate U.S. law to make sure there are no Jews among his entourage, lest he upset his Palestinian hosts? “We will approve the meeting on condition there are no Jews.” This is what you are […]

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Posted on: June 27th, 2013

Israel’s cooperation with U.S. companies on information technology has been crucial to their success.

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Posted on: June 27th, 2013

Her latest book, The Cushion in the Road, is replete with an abundance of anti-Jewish rhetoric.

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Posted on: June 27th, 2013

The inauguration of an American president has, since 1937, always begun with an invocation by a clergyman

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Posted on: June 26th, 2013

And what if I'm self loathing and depressed, and constantly contemplating suicide? Should I then kill my neighbor?

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Posted on: June 25th, 2013

The clever plans of the ayatollahs, who, it is well known, have the capabilities and are divinely inspired to plot the fate of the world, are nevertheless going awry.

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Posted on: June 25th, 2013

The announcement of talks with the Taliban coincided with a rocket attack by the Taliban on the U.S. air base at Bagram, in which four of our servicemen were killed.

Posted on: June 24th, 2013

Although Palestinians have lived in Lebanon for more than six decades, they are still treated as foreigners when it comes to obtaining a work permit

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Posted on: June 23rd, 2013

Modern Orthodoxy has tried valiantly to deal with the issue through prenuptial, but the Haredi world has refused to make any concessions.

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Posted on: June 21st, 2013

The West is not acquainted with Shi'ite culture and is not aware of the deep motives that drive Iran.

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Posted on: June 21st, 2013

Every once in a while, you can glean from the Chutzpah an entire world view.

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Posted on: June 21st, 2013

In considering the rights of the unborn child versus the mother's, Jewish law sides with the viable life—mother, against the potential life—fetus.

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