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If the Israeli public wants to survive, it must prepare—mentally and physically—for war with the Iranian octopus.

A call to reconsider investing in Israel because of judicial reform isn’t the same as BDS. Yet that distinction is meaningless since it still validates anti-Zionist lies.

Both by the law of G-d and man

The 15-year-old “had a special love for the land.”

A comprehensive picture of Iranian belligerence and its tectonic threat to Mideast and global stability.

Surveying how much has changed.

It’s deeply disturbing, but profoundly necessary, to reflect on the specific circumstances of the attack because of what they can teach us.

This Jewish holiday is an appropriate time for good people of all faiths to contemplate the rise of religious hatred here and around the world and then to pledge ourselves to confronting it wherever and whenever we find it.

Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach was a davening challenge I never experienced before, one I didn't think I would be able to overcome.

In the eyes of Shtayyeh and many Palestinians, all Jews living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are "colonizers" and "settlers." These Palestinians see no difference between a Jew living in a Jewish community in the West Bank and a Jew living in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. For them, all Jews are foreigners who have no connection whatsoever to Israel and Jewish holy sites and no right ever to live there. Period.

Going forward, however, Bragg would have to persuade a jury that what Trump had in mind was concealment of a particular crime or crimes.

Israel as a Jewish state was justified at the time of independence…, and its preservation continues to be justified today.

If we really want to rule, we should draw inspiration from the eternal sources of our nation and learn from the wisdom of the generations not to repeat mistakes, even if the cost is temporary retreat. The correction will come. Patience.

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Few take the President seriously on this score, however, especially since the Iranians were forced into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015 under threat of military intervention.

The decision by judicial reform opponents to invite, indeed to plead for, U.S. intervention in this complex and fateful internal contest damages Israeli sovereignty and self-government.

Nathan Lewin, Esq. is a household name synonymous with legal scholarship for more than 55 years. Consistently listed among the “Best Lawyers in America”,...

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...