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We want to hire couples who are going to reach out to singles to become their spiritual leaders and introduce them to someone of the opposite gender because there’s a lot of casual relationships but not nearly enough serious dating going on. This generation – even if they had rebbeim in yeshiva or seminary – they’re not connected anymore. There isn’t really anyone looking out for them at this point.

A president who today used the language of FDR or JFK would be derided. If he were a candidate, the media elites would bury his chances of winning the election. He would be a laughing stock to the aimless young people whose uninformed opinions on public affairs seem to matter more than they should.

Knowledge is primary, while the physical manifestation of a thought might not need to happen the thought to be meaningful.

Instead of integration, "parallel societies are forming that continuously distance themselves from each other."

If the Obama/Kerry peace deal does go through, what would the risks be?

It’s rather a sign of how badly Israel is losing on campus.

Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.

White racists invented the idea that accomplished black Americans are not Africans but "Moors."

Although Kempler's art is “dark,” the spirit of her humanity is ever- present.

The Palestinian refugee issue has been dramatically misrepresented, distorting circumstances and numbers, in order to de-legitimize the Jewish state.

The CIA intervened to get rid of Iran's unpredictable prime minister Mossadegh, in 1953.

Specific strategic lessons from the Bar Kokhba rebellion.

As time went on, he lagged behind in the usual milestones of walking and talking.

If you lack emunah, how can you develop it merely because you’re commanded to believe?

Now the blip is beginning to look more like a wave.

When the Temple was in existence, Jews were religiously obligated to eat roast meat at least once a year.

This is a political version of replacement theology.

Why Orthodox women tend to favor black over colorful clothing.

President Obama’s departure for his Hawaiian vacation the other day reminded us of the chaotic scene at the end of the Vietnam War when desperate American military and civilian personnel were extricated from Saigon by hovering helicopters while surging North Vietnamese troops, pressing forward with their encirclement of Saigon, were mere yards away.

This past week, the news of Jacob Ostreicher’s still unexplained surprise exit from Bolivia and the extraordinary extent of the National Security Administration’s program of spying as revealed by Edward Snowden took center stage. And there are important lessons to be learned from both developments in terms of how we should view criminal justice issues.

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An educator must not be satisfied until that soul he refuses to handle, love, nourish and develop is registered in another school, one more caring and embracing.

Let me make it plain. There will be mass murder, even genocide in Syria.

"U.S. Weighing Closer Ties With Hardline Islamists in Syria"

The widespread support for "Hitler" [Jamal Abu al Rub] reflects the state of dissatisfaction with Abbas and his top aides.

I began to hear rumors that North Korea was using poison gas to kill selected political prisoners.

Penn managed to sneak Ostreicher across a hostile border and into a safe and currently undisclosed location in the United States.

"In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions." — Ali Gomaa, Egypt's former Grand Mufti.

A large number of pro-Obama and radical or even anti-Israel cadre are Jews.