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‘When you fight a war, you don't attack it with soldiers alone. You require a navy, air force, marines, special ops with everything in between, each designated with specific tasks and talents necessary to win the war.’ – The Chofetz Chaim

In fighting the Islamist terror, India, like Israel, must not expect much from the international community.

The U.S. Constitution is not "waived" due to disease or natural disaster. We must beware of politicians and other officials who seek to exercise power through "mandates" without a single vote or the active exercise of informed consent.

Step into my library and you see countless reminders that miracles surround us, here, there, and everywhere. No matter where we look, our lives are touched by miracles. Our lives are miracles.

With more hackers targeting health care, technology helps safeguard patients and their records from ransomware and other money-making attacks.

Members of a four-person panel to speak at a conference sponsored by the American Historical Association essentially hold the same harsh viewpoint towards Israel.

Are economic relations and trade effective tools with which Western democracies could persuade totalitarian states to introduce reforms that could lead to democratization?

The campaign was created to shine light through darkness in response to the murder of Eli Kay, South African immigrant to Israel.

Financial reports released by the Palestinian Authority show that the the PA's income during the first 10 months of 2021, was the highest ever. Curiously, this fact was entirely absent from the report released by the World Bank in preparation for the meeting of the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee for Palestine – an international meeting during which the PA cries about its financial woes and begs the international community to donate more and more funds. According to the PA’s financial report, the PA net income for the first 10 months of 2021 totaled 11,391,800,000 shekels. This reflected a rise of 1.798 billion shekels in comparison to 2019 and over 3 billion shekels in comparison with 2020. Over the last decade, the PA net income has gradually doubled.

Lethal force is invoked to protect life, and not property. Everyone who can safely save lives, must do so.

“This Hanukkah will be very special,” says Hanan Singsit, “because we will celebrate it where the Maccabees prevailed. Their victory is now our victory, too.”

In addition to our passionate dedication to following the Torah as best we can, we must also be self-reflective enough to know that we are not immune from the destructive effects of confirmation bias, which serves to prejudice and distort how we see the world.

The reality in Gaza is complex due to the fact that Israel hasn’t truly disengaged from the coastal enclave.

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