Posted on: January 16th, 2013

The Syrian civil war is drawing in the world's most dangerous elements to a land that hosts the world's largest stockpile of VX nerve agents, Sarin and mustard gas.

Posted on: January 15th, 2013

It is vital for religious Jews of all ages to be involved in public service in some form or another.

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Posted on: January 15th, 2013

The US and EU, who have been funding and training the Palestinian security forces in Judea and Samaria, need to bang on the table -- now -- and demand that Abbas rein in the Fatah militiamen.

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Posted on: January 15th, 2013

Netanyahu’s impending victory is due to the fact that the prime minister has done a reasonably good job, the economy is okay, terrorism is low, he’s kept out of trouble.

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Posted on: January 15th, 2013

How can anyone calling himself a Rabbi have the chutzpah to ever justify the death of innocents?

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Posted on: January 14th, 2013

Since June 2005, the EU has given more than $48 million to over 90 NGOs based in Israel, who are regarded as critical of Israel.

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Posted on: January 14th, 2013

A nuclear weapons reduction plan advocated by Hagel evinces a less than serious understanding of both the nature of US deterrence needs, and the geopolitical balance between the United States and Russia.

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Posted on: January 14th, 2013

Liberals would than blame Israel than examine the faulty assumptions that comprise their worldview.

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Posted on: January 14th, 2013

How, out of everyone involved, did Netanyahu end up with the "hardliner" branding?

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Posted on: January 13th, 2013

While the American Democratic Party may not have an official anthem, the British Labour Party does.

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Posted on: January 13th, 2013

An Israel that has a strong character and is confident of itself and the justice of its cause, might stop behaving like a dishrag.

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Posted on: January 13th, 2013

"It's no secret that Aryeh Deri is deep inside the left."

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Posted on: January 13th, 2013

The issue is simply this one: When you say something or do something or spend something whose side are you on?

Posted on: January 13th, 2013

Why inadequate husbands can still be great dads

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Posted on: January 12th, 2013

It now remains to be seen whether the Salafi Jihadists will resort to violence to prevent or foil the parliamentary election.

Posted on: January 10th, 2013

Why the closing of a small seminary serving less than 200 girls should be the concern of the entire Orthodox population.

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Posted on: January 10th, 2013

The recent conviction of an unlicensed therapist in one of our communities has led to serious soul searching on the part of some and confusion for many others. The most strident argument of his supporters is that he was convicted without proof; that the accuser made up the story to get back at her community and directed her anger at this amateur counselor.

Posted on: January 10th, 2013

Moshko, the Holocaust-survivor-turned-legendary-builder-of-Gush-Etzion, once asked why Rabbi Moshe Levinger was shoving his way into Hevron and Kiryat Arba. “Here we work in consensus with the authorities. Let him come here!” Rabbi Levinger responded: “Tell Moshko he owes his consensus to the fact that we are here. Without us, Gush Etzion would become a matter of […]

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Posted on: January 9th, 2013

Sometimes, pragmatism handily trumps belief. Back in the earliest days of Arab terrorism against Israel – going back to May 1948 and even earlier – many disparate groups were able to cooperate in a presumptively common war against the Jewish state.

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Posted on: January 9th, 2013

Like one of those telenovelas that are so popular on Latin American television stations, the slow yet inexorable deterioration of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, has been soaked in drama and cloying sentimentality.

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