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Charging a fee for absence from shul likely strikes many of us as unusual. A desire to avoid financial loss (about $260, when adjusted for inflation) feels like the wrong reason to pray.

The Palestinian list of demands for refraining from condemning a Saudi-Israeli peace accord can be seen as tantamount to blackmail. The Palestinian leadership is telling the Saudis and Americans that if they want to avoid Palestinian condemnation, they must pay the price -- with money and territory.

Every shul should do what they can to bring in children.

Shana Tova

Remember: Until the seventh century there were not even any Muslims in the world, let alone Palestinians.

I authentically played the role of the 'Chutzie' and gently asked him if he did not feel any sympathy for international critics who pointed to the Supreme Court’s partiality and liberal activism?

Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis.

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Perhaps most importantly, it should not be lost on Israel’s Arab neighbors that Abbas has plainly acted against their direct interests, whatever the reason.

Arafat: “You will see the Jews fleeing from Palestine like mice fleeing from a sinking ship”

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I started the journaling project with the anticipation that it would bring focus and accountability to the month of Elul. I didn't anticipate, however, that my definition of teshuva would change.

I always found it quite incredible that the first mitzvah that we are called upon to do as Jews at the beginning of the year is to listen. To pay attention to exactly what it is that Jewish destiny is about.

We rather think that most people really don’t care whether or not Hunter Biden violated the handgun application law – except, of course, if he got favorable treatment.

The second reason is most liberals have chosen to believe that the Democratic Party is still the party of John F. Kennedy. They are fooling themselves

Congress Must Block Funding, Biden Should Reconsider His Decision to Join

Western colonialists are somehow more evil than others.

The “Rabbi” is G-dless, essentially a circus clown in a yarmulka. She — of course a woman “rabbi” — is so G-dless that she teaches a class session proclaiming to the young pre-BM kids: “God is random.”

This is what a satanic act looks like: bright, metallic, swinging with ease across the sky.

A short memory may be helpful as a coping mechanism, but it is deadly in matters of foreign policy.

On 9/11, we learned that we have more in common than we do that separates us. One generation later, the president of the United States speaks about his fellow citizens as threats to democracy and declares that those who don't deal with him are existential problems for the republic.

Oslo is the root cause of today’s terrible epidemic of terrorist and crime shootings.

“Terrorism is a form of theater,”

UNESCO is supposed to be a body that preserves the cultural history of the world. Yet it is failing in its mission

The Palestinian Peace Process was meant to increase terrorism

Philosophy is a veritable ally of Jewish thought but should never be deployed to replace it

The Israeli left, the European Union and the Biden administration have a shared interest in repressing the Nazi roots of Palestinian nationalism.

They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. None spoke a word to him for they saw how very great was his suffering. (Job 2:13)

It is an article of faith with us: in the deepest levels of the self there is a core of purity, of goodness. Beneath the cynicism lies an uncorrupted idealism; beneath the layer of envy, gems of generosity; beneath the crude will for power, the noble desire to serve.