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When Jews lived in ghettos and were barred from interaction with general society, they could more easily maintain their unique identity. When surrounding societies permitted interaction, assimilation grew.

One of the seminal lessons of Chanukah is that might does not necessarily, or even usually, make right.

Israel's capital will not be bought with countless defenses, fences, and the thwarting of attacks. Security is the means. Life in Zion is the goal.

One of the most frustrating challenges in the ongoing fight against anti-Semitism is that the hate comes from so many different directions.

Without the rioting, Rittenhouse would have remained anonymous. Instead, he became a symbol of vigilante justice.

Western donors might wish to consider the 'Judenrein' type of Palestinian anti-Semitism and incitement against Israel and Jews the next time they open their wallets to the PA.

The Israeli PM’s social-media team blocked a bereaved parent—on the day of Eliyahu Kay’s killing, no less.

The discourse about Israel in Dubai and Ramallah couldn't be more different: cooperation versus confrontation, celebration versus demonization

It will take a long time to repair the damage that the machinations used to ensconce the current coalition have wrought.

There isn’t supposed to be justice in America today for those who resist leftists.

"Guys, listen, most of you want to emigrate. Follow this plan: we need 40 volunteers. All the Brooklyn guys who book a flight to Turkey will fly over Spain. One of you will activate the GPS and when the plane approaches Spain you will begin to scream and feign an illness..."

President Andrzej Duda likening the demonstrators’ actions in Kalisz to “treason,” and several members of parliament expressed an almost physical disgust. It’s clear that these far-right nationalists do not speak for the majority of Polish citizens.

In short, there is nothing specifically Western about slavery; but everything specifically Western about abolitionism.

Biden wants his campaign promise on the matter to be fulfilled at all costs, to the point that he could potentially make such a move unilaterally and illegally, against Israel's will.

I was determined to reclaim my lost hour, to wrestle with time and beat it into submission

What the Biden administration has unleashed on the nation at-large will have enormous consequences for every facet of our society: housing, healthcare, education, services, public safety, quality of life, employment, economics, the justice system, and – of course – voting rolls.

Words can be weapons that diminish and destroy, or they can be tools and instruments that create, encourage and uplift

The Sheikh Jarrah residents' intransigence may lead to their homelessness, just as their fellow Palestinians' obstinance has guaranteed their statelessness.

In light of encouraging developments in Israel and disturbing developments in the United States, we will not resume the protest vigils in Jerusalem. We will focus our activity opposite the White House and again raise the demand for Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.

Nothing short of a deep commitment to traditional Jewish ritual practice will lead to a revitalization of Jewish life in America and create a basis for recovery in Diaspora-Israel relations.

Many leaders are terrified that speaking the truth about Israel will cause them to lose their access to the political and intellectual circles they prize so highly, and in which they pretend to themselves they are accepted as equals just like anyone else.

Obsequious groveling to please progressives comes with a huge cost. Continue to empower them, let them set your agenda and fashion your policies, and you will lose more elections.

Judaism's Conservative Movement is no more - it turned hard left and became Reform

Russia receives Mahmoud Abbas’ greatest foe, Mohammed Dahlan. Is this the end of the unwavering Abbas-Russia relationship?

If a U.S. Armed Forces dies on active duty, the surviving family members receive a "death gratuity" of $100,000; an illegal alien separated from a child while unlawfully entering the US would get more than 4X that

Making aliyah means taking a wrecking ball to the person you thought you were and rebuilding from the ground up.

The whole lollipop-licking plenum looked as puerile last week as it’s been sounding, with childish verbiage and decibel levels not even fit for a playground.

Israelis have held their tongues for decades, hoping that when the big, Iranian existential threat is upon them that the Americans will come through.

The recent Republican victories were not so much a vindication of Republican policies as a rejection of the extremism of Democratic leaders and their tolerance for radical hard-left policies.

A boy who by all counts was good and warm and loving and talented, and whose passing left unremitting grief. And yet, Shmuel and Aviva are positive and joyful; the pain is ever-present but they are determined to live with simcha.