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Facts are important, but numbers are not the full story. If five villages were attacked or 20 were attacked it would still be an issue. The big picture is that these charges against the Jewish residents of J&S have no basis in reality, Freedman was not quoting an eye witness, and these false accusations can and have resulted in real harm to individual Jews and to the State.

One man surveyed in Gaza said: “In the end, people will accept reality. They want to live in a country that protects and supports them.”

Fashionable antisemitism has caused leftist myths about Israeli “oppressors” to dismiss justified anger and grief about the fate of the Bibas kids.

No matter what our individual views may be, whether or not we are religious, Jews are indigenous to the Holy Land.

A society is only as stable and moral as its commitment to protecting its most vulnerable members. Therefore, the laws in Mishpatim repeatedly return to the treatment of slaves.

Restraint and rethinking are necessary in the discourse about the hostage situation. Skeptics of deals with Hamas are not “war criminals.”

Trump’s real message to Hamas was that, as far as he was concerned, they were going deeper and deeper into the hole they have been digging for themselves which will soon lead to their demise.

While some consider the proposed measures for Gaza as a non-starter, there are few other ideas on the table—certainly not for Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority lacks credibility.

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For America’s Jews – and Israel’s, and Americans generally for that matter – Trump’s return is the best news since Joe Biden entered the White House in 2020. And that’s reason to give thanks to the Almighty. May Trump and his team be good shlichim for all of us.

Without putting too fine a point on it, then, Donald Trump seems to believe that controversial policy proposals are really offers of solutions that ideally will trigger a deliberative process which will inform debate and hopefully lead to a meeting of the minds – albeit with a changed playing field and center of gravity.

For 76 years, Israel has lived in a state of perpetual emergency, surviving against all odds every single day. And we must ask, once and for all: Why? Why do we accept this reality?

Unlike the State Department’s worldview, President Trump does not consider Israel to be part of the problem, but a major part of the solution.

As Trump’s new Hollywood ambassador, Gibson has chance to revise ‘Passion’ film’s anti-Jewish narratives, following Oberammergau’s example.

Though Bibi opted not to take advantage of the U.S. president's ultimatum to Hamas, the rallying cry against him from the usual suspects continues.

Over and over, Khan has shown a decided lack of professionalism and respect for proper procedure

How A Holocaust Happens

It made sense at the time. And while the situation is very complicated right now, it still does.

A hallmark of Rabbi Lamm’s scholarship was his synthesis of halacha and aggadah. For Rabbi Lamm, these were not separate spheres but complementary dimensions of a unified Torah.

Upending stale thinking about the Arab-Israeli conflict is a good thing.

Israel began the Iron Swords War on October 7, 2023, on a “Yom Kippur War” dynamic; Israel ended the war on January 17, 2025, on a “Six-Day War” dynamic

The latest celebrity petition about the post-Oct. 7 war is yet another example of how the “as a Jew” crowd expresses their identity by supporting those who seek Jewish genocide.

The families of dead terrorists will say they are in need since their breadwinners are no longer alive. Of course, these terrorists are no longer alive because they either blew themselves up or were killed while attempting to commit murder.

Our beloved Bibi and President Trump were both unified as one entity sharing one common goal: the destruction of evil.

Identity in the Middle East is still shaped by social and economic relationships rather than by modern political boundaries.

Upon learning of Hamas’ machinations in suspending the release of the hostages, Trump declared a complete cancellation of the ceasefire if all remaining hostages are not released by Saturday at 12 noon.

Indeed, the various past delays in turning over hostages could well be explained by Hamas’ fear of showing the world evidence of their barbarism.

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The Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7, 2023 could have been released a long time ago had the Biden administration exerted pressure on Qatar to use its good relations with the Islamist group to force it to do so.

What made their task easier was the fact that except, perhaps, for the Russian collusion adventure, there were some arguable issues with some of the facts of the various cases even if they were of minor significance.