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Israel is at war on multiple fronts. Only, it doesn’t seem to know. Israel has been at war for over 100 years. Only, it seems to want to forget.

The notion that a declining power like Russia, which has domestic problems, a shrinking economy, a shrinking demographic base, is somehow a bigger threat than China is laughable.

The US president is neighing about Israeli democracy and stiffing Netanyahu to counter Israel’s insistence on acting against Iran.

A partial nuclear agreement, even a broad one, will buy the world only a few weeks, or maybe months.

The current US anti-Netanyahu approach will do nothing except empower Iran and its proxies, Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and incentivize them to carry out more terror attacks – not only against Israelis, but against Americans as well.

A tale of two policies: The religious rights denied to Jews by Yale in 1998 have now been granted to Muslims in 2023.

And oh… what a story it is.

The current U.S. administration does not want to be forced to either criticize the Palestinian Authority, something it is loath to do.

Why should human voices hold such authority in a halachic system which answers to Hashem?

Israel is the creator of its destiny; the White House is not.

The protest organizers are doing irreparable harm to the state, its institutions and its economy, in a classic “cutting off your nose to spite your face” campaign.

“Behold, I accept upon myself the commandment of the Lord to love my neighbor as myself.”

1. The Passover Exodus, in general, and the Mosaic legacy, in particular, inspired the US Founding Fathers' rebellion against the monarchy, which evolved into...

Certainly he can never match his oldest brother's brilliance, and although sometimes he thinks that his second brother makes some good points, he is afraid of disappointing his parents; he is afraid of disappointing himself.

Halachic Prenuptial Agreements are yet another critical vehicle for social change. Signing a prenup not only protects the individual couple involved but also helps cement a larger cultural message – that get refusal is not welcome here, in this home, in this shul,

To be sure, it is not at all clear how deep the Saudi/Iran agreement will cut. The two countries have long been rivals for leadership in the Gulf region and have been indirectly at each other’s throats for years in several devastating proxy wars.

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Did the Manhattan DA here succumb to the progressive mantra as he did in his emasculating of workaday law enforcement in Manhattan?

The protests have nothing to do with judicial reform and everything to do with undoing the results of the last election.

On Pesach, we celebrate the gift of political freedom. And we recognize that more than just a natural right, it is a Divine gift, and one that we would be lost without.

The president’s attack on Benjamin Netanyahu is all about revenge.

More than 3,000 years before the Mayflower left England for the New World, Jews fled from Egypt.

While the Israeli left has had no choice but to concede the government to a voter base shifting to the right, it is unprepared and unwilling to give up control of state institutions.

Those who fought back against the Nazis were able to obtain guns from criminal sources and from contacts in the Polish resistance Home Army.

Today’s version of slavery may be different, but the impact is the same. With our technological advancement, we currently live in the most physically comfortable time in human history. However, we also live with a kind of mental slavery imposed by none other than ourselves.

This is what national suicide looks like.

In religious terminology how do we balance between torah, peoplehood and land? Or, in Hebrew how do we balance between Torat Yisrael, Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.

They seem to believe that such tactics are patriotic acts of democracy – but only when engaged in by the Left.

Conservatives have no issue with change or innovation – when warranted or harmless.

A village for Muslim terrorists vs. a village for Israeli Jews.