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No one can unfurl a story better or make me laugh more than someone who has had the life experience to know that nothing bad lasts forever.

Ultimately, the government is faced with two choices: grant or deny the US permission to reopen the consulate serving Palestinians.

Two ingredients drove the outcome in the 2020 elections: 1) Private philanthropy injected into government election offices 2) A banana-republic style suspension of agreed-upon election rules. You didn't need much outright voter fraud when these two ingredients combined to poison the 2020 election.

These artifacts – and there are many – represent incredible potential resources for Jewish institutions for revenue for the future.

Although the U.S. administration has plenty of spare time to squabble with Israel over the opening of a Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem, it has neither the energy nor the will to confront Tehran

Israel’s behavior in wartime should be judged exactly as we do any other country at war, such as the US and its allies in WWII

Defense Minister Benny Gantz is unafraid to ruffle the Israeli left’s feathers or those of the United States.

An open letter to Minister Meirav Michaeli in response to her comments on freeing the Western Wall.

On his first yahrzeit, his many admirers must recommit to the truths he taught and advance the moral society he sought.

What actually binds these groups together is an ultimately incomprehensible animus against Judaism and the Jewish people.

Israel’s Declaration of Independence states that Israel, “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions.”

The Biden administration’s betrayal of Israel on Iran has devastated the basic conceptual framework at the heart of the Israeli security establishment's strategic thinking.

 Much like the Oslo illusion, which posited that territorial concessions to the PLO would bring about peace with the Palestinians, the hope that economic easing in the Gaza Strip will moderate Hamas terrorism is a mistaken attempt to apply a Western logic of conflict management to a Palestinian enemy whose definition of the end of the conflict with Israel is not in the West’s political-cultural lexicon.

The fear of the Trojan Horse was echoed by Roosevelt, the Congress, the intelligence community, and a number of members of his administration

An environmentalist group pulled out of a DC rally because of the presence of liberal Jewish groups. The real problem, though, is the failure of rally organizers to condemn this as anti-Semitism.

So you people just have holidays all week every week? Don’t you people ever work three days in a row? And, no, I never heard of ‘Tabernacles.’ I thought that’s the Mormons.”

The Biden administration’s plan would divide the united capital of Jerusalem and push any chance for peace with the Palestinians farther away, as well as break diplomatic norms, violate U.S. law and damage America’s special relationship with Israel.

Afghanistan has been lost, mainly because we abandoned our values. If the US can so easily abandon theirs, it does not portend well for Israel.

If Israel formally refused to give its consent to the decision to open the consulate and the Biden administration went ahead with its implementation, nonetheless, it would put the United States in a position of flagrant violation of the relevant international convention dealing with consular relations between states.

Certainly, one could debate the halachic consequences of these scientific fact, but never their undergirded truth.

The road to authoritarianism.

If anyone was still wondering whether sexual assault trumps Palestinian statehood or the other way around, this week provided a pretty clear answer.

Are they terrorists or 'combatants'?

Despite being a branch of the Israeli Defense Ministry/Israel Defense Forces, the Civil Administration is more concerned with facilitating the creation of the "State of Palestine" than it is with ensuring the rights of the Jewish people in its ancestral homeland.

Observers suggest it is high time the PA leadership really adhered to its recognition to the Jewish State

Despite all the statistics, the problem of anti-Semitism extends beyond what can be quantified.

As if history hasn’t proved that some of the greatest anti-Semites of all were in fact Jews. Jews who hated their identity so much that they had to transfer their self-hatred unto other Jews.

Tzipi Livni’s candidacy smacks of desperation that overlooks the fine crop of dynamic candidates already standing for the Jewish Agency’s top post, especially the women. Moreover, the JAFI chairmanship should not go to a failed politician who is the antithesis of “consensus,” and who will abuse the post as a bully pulpit to rebuild her political career.

"I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all. " Eric Hoffer

A short-sighted idea to obtain a short-term goal