Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Radical Palestinians Vastly Outnumber Moderates
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Khaled Abu ToamehWhen Abbas says that a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines would lead to a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, he is ignoring the fact that a large number of Palestinians think otherwise.
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Daniel GreenfieldSixty-four years is a long time for oil to burn, especially when the black oil next door seems so much more useful to the empires and republics across the sea.
Who Will Rule Syria? A Detailed Assessment
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → Rubin ReportsThe Obama Administration was using a barely disguised channel to pay for a revolutionary Islamist movement seeking to take over Syria.
Is Christianity’s Notion of Abortion Based on Mistranslated Text?
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → America's Rabbi / Shmuley BoteachWhat is lost in the discussion are the Biblical underpinnings of abortion and how this is not primarily a legal issue but a religious one.
How to Win the Demographic and Culture Wars
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Daniel GreenfieldCan American traditionalists quadruple their numbers in 40 years?
Does God Want A Center-Right Israeli Government?
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Dov ShurinI write this column with my bags packed. I’m lighting four candles in Israel and my fifth I will light Wednesday evening at about 9 p.m. in the lobby of the Avenue Plaza Hotel in Boro Park. I’ll have my guitar in hand, and everyone is invited.
According to Islam, Muslims Should Not Be at War With Jews
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Op-EdsSinem Tezyapar says, "Let us adopt a language of peace, a language of love. This is easy! And there is no other way."
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For Israel, What Next In The Matter Of Iran? (Third of Three Parts)
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Louis Rene BeresSometimes, in complex military calculations, truth is counter-intuitive. In essence, the persuasiveness of Israel's nuclear deterrent vis-à-vis Iran will require prospective enemy perceptions of retaliatory destructiveness at both the low and high ends of the nuclear yield spectrum. Ending nuclear ambiguity at the optimal time could best allow Israel to foster precisely such needed perceptions. This point is very important and possibly overriding.
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Moshe FeiglinThe main junction from which the different opinions on most issues in Israel diverge is the question of identity. Israel does not have clear borders because it does not have a clear identity. The dispute is not really over peace or security. The dispute is about identity. The more solid our Jewish identity, the stronger the connection between our land and us. The stronger the desire to retreat from our Jewish identity, the stronger our desire to retreat from the land. When we connect to our identity, we will connect to our land and we will merit clear borders and peace.
Does New Neighborhood Negate PA Contiguity?
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Keeping JerusalemInternational opinion has it that the new planned Israeli neighborhood between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim will prevent the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state. Unfortunately, though, that is not true.
Utilizing Halacha To Address Difficult Social And Medical Issues
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Op-EdsA writer of non-fiction for the general community has to know the topic well; a writer for the observant Jewish community has an additional requirement – to understand that Jewish law, halacha, informs our decisions and actions.
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Op-EdsThe Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was fond of the phrase “one step forward, two steps back.” In the current Middle East, we have taken many more than two steps backward – and we are repeating patterns that are more than five decades old.
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Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Op-EdsThe conventional wisdom about the Israeli government’s decision to allow new building projects in Jerusalem in the E1 area between the city and the Ma’ale Adumim suburb is that it was a blunder.
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The Breakneck Speed of Islamist Transformation in Egypt
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → Rubin ReportsWhat happens, then, if the regime doesn’t give in and the army doesn’t stop the demonstrations?
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InDepth → EditorialThe Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the death, at age 79, of Rabbi Mendel Weinbach, a founder of Yeshiva Ohr Someach, a leading educational institution in the ba’al teshuvah movement.
Public Pressure And The Ostreicher Case
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → EditorialEarly this week it appeared the end could well be in sight to the ordeal of Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox Jewish businessman from Brooklyn jailed in Bolivia without being charged for a year and a half on suspicion of money laundering.
Settlements, Obama, And The European Union
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → EditorialThe Hamas bluster about having bested Israel in Operation Pillar of Defense should not be dismissed as typical Arab hyperbole.
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Quick Takes: News You May Have Missed
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Aaron Klein.
When Barak Made Rabin Spin In His Grave
Posted on: December 12th, 2012
InDepth → Media MonitorEhud Barak may or may not be out of Israeli politics for good, but his recent resignation announcement reminded the Monitor of just how much the man had been willing to give up to Yasir Arafat at the tail end of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
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Modern Interpretations of Hatikvah and the Anthem’s Future
