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Even the most literal mind would be hard pressed not to see the unequivocal connection between my grandfather and the willows that he had planted.

Israel Allies Foundation names the top 50 Christian leaders to contribute to the Jewish state in 2021.

The Oslo paradigm has survived despite the fact that it has been a catastrophe for Israel on every level for 28 years because Israel’s permanent ruling class supports it.

What the Palestinians need is not a new model of “armed struggle” but a reconciliation with the existence of Israel while striving for a sustainable peace settlement that will ensure security, prosperity, and respect for mutual rights.

How often in life do we immediately assume the worst of a situation, without ever considering that many setbacks are – more often than not – setups for something better.

Branding Israel as racist, portrays her as a country that harms civilian populations, oppresses minorities, establishes restrictive immigration laws and religious statutes as part of their ideological raison d’etre. Thus, Israel’s wars, its military response to terror and laws passed by the Knesset are racist.

Today, the Left is leading a three-pronged assault on liberty:

Unlike Israel’s earlier peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the Abraham Accords involved Arab countries that do not border Israel, have never fought it on the battlefield, and are relatively unburdened by the Palestinian question. Accordingly, they were able to implement a “people to people” peace that eluded their predecessors.

Recent events, including the escape of six terrorists from Gilboa Prison and the death of Sgt. Barel Hadaria Shmueli, who was shot point blank by a Palestinian terrorist, represent a wake-up call for Israelis who have grown too accustomed to the pursuit of day-to-day quiet as a strategic choice. Whether Israelis recognize it or not, they are in a state of war with their enemies.

Yom Kippur, just like the Kotel, should unite all Jews and reflect our highest religious aspirations

Here I offer a different type of list: A smattering of “interesting” Jews to follow in 5782. Interesting in my book means profound, substantive, and making a real contribution to the long-term future of Israel and the Jewish People.

It seems there are individuals in Washington wielding enormous power without concerns about what Biden might think or do. If true, it has the makings of a nightmare situation.

Israel should make the lives of Palestinian terrorists in its jails miserable, despondent and hopeless.

Rather than criticize the Biden administration for the Kabul debacle, Europeans are reverting to their misplaced contempt for the United States.

The opening shot in the war to break America’s belief in its right to lead, its right to defeat its enemies and its right to be strong was fired in Durban, not New York.

Motives may explain, but they do not ever excuse.

Where Greg Epstein’s influence may well be felt, I fear, is on Jewish students’ perceptions of Israel, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.

The enduring image of 9/11 must not be people falling from buildings but of a nation lifting each other up.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad see the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan as vindicating their longstanding ideological claims that patience pays off and that “resistance” can defeat the American-led Western alliance and dismantle the State of Israel.

What the supposed quest for Palestinian statehood and social justice is really about.

Even with the excitement of arriving in California, there was a tinge of sadness. We were not going to be in Yerushalayim. We would have a good vacation, but it is just not Eretz Yisrael.

From the perspective of Iran's mullahs, Biden's desperate efforts to resurrect the nuclear deal manifested his weak leadership and therefore a delectable opportunity for Tehran to buy time, get more concessions, advance its nuclear program and become a nuclear state.

Coming off our hot summer, and before settling into the High Holiday season (hopefully without coronavirus lockdowns), take this quiz and calculate the 5782 political future you need to pray about. My answers are at the bottom of the article.

Falling off the ethical cliff....

For both the Israelis and the Gulf's Arab monarchies, Iran's Shia regional empire and drive to lead the Muslim world is still justifiably considered an existential threat

The vicious doctrine of "intersectionality," which links different categories of "victims" together and demonizes their purported "oppressors" such as white people, men or those who believe in biological differences between men and women, also targets Zionism and the Jews.

 US policy in Afghanistan was based on lies, ignorance, and irrational thinking. Many other aspects of American foreign policy, still doggedly pursued, look dangerously similar. For 30 years, US policy has amounted to the construction of a huge house of cards in all directions. Now that one card has fallen, the rest will inevitably follow.  

In-person or online? Indoors or outdoors? Once poised for a High Holidays renaissance this year, synagogues nationwide are facing renewed questions as COVID-19 cases surge.

Academic covert campaigns of hate.

Nothing compares to the long-and-besieged history of the Jews.