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Soon after taking office in 2009, President Obama spoke of reining in the U.S. role around the world and of making a concerted outreach to non-Western countries, particularly the Arab states and Iran, which he said had been unfairly dealt with in the past by the U.S.

Ray Kelly will soon be stepping down as New York’s police commissioner. While he gets near universal kudos for presiding over law enforcement in a city with crime at record lows, he also has his share of critics who fault him for the way he managed the NYPD's crime fighting effort, particularly its stop and frisk program.

When The Jewish Press endorsed Charles Hynes for reelection as Brooklyn district attorney in both the Democratic Party primary in September and the general election in November, we cited as one reason the general notion of hakarat hatov.

Rabbi Genack first met Clinton at a fundraiser in New Jersey in 1992. “At the time,” Rabbi Genack recalls, “there was a lot of discussion about President Bush’s lack of vision, so when I introduced Governor Clinton I said, quoting a pasuk from Mishlei, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Clinton liked the remarks and said, ‘You know what? I might use that in my acceptance speech at the convention.’ He did, and ever since Rabbi Genack and Clinton have been friends.

Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #186, November 08, 2013

The immediate choice for the world today is not between diplomacy and preventive war. We have a third option: to maintain or even increase the sanctions.

Monday, November 11, Russia’s Slava-class missile cruiser Varyag pulled into Alexandria for the Russian navy’s first port visit in Egypt since 1992.

Gematria is more than random wordplay.

"Israel has become an affluent and developed country that can afford to pay for its own defense."

What to do? I have an idea.

Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.

The overhyped Arab Spring has been cancelled in Egypt.

The scary part is that the uninsured are not showing up.

Obama is a self-centered, arrogant, and quite probably megalomaniacal and narcissistic -- and possibly sociopathic -- jerk.

Israel has not been given real security by the UN and Europe and most recently the United States.

"I find it shocking they won't list everything they've found." — Lawrence Kaye, Art Lawyer, New York.

Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.

if you call it “kabbalah” you are guaranteed a whole legion more of suckers.

The last time the Americans tried to extract concessions from the Palestinians, within a few weeks the Palestinians launched the Second Intifada against Israel; Abbas has already threatened as much.

In the Middle East, as in Europe of the late 30’s, the drums of war will keep on beating.

There are some 3,000 members of the Igbo ethnic group practicing Judaism in Nigeria.

Bad things happen, and when they do, the leader must take the strain so that others can sleep easily in their beds.

The possible conclusion of current Israel Palestinian Authority talks was reached over 8 years ago.

In law, one man's terrorist can never be another man's freedom fighter.

Gilo, Har Homa and Ramat Shlomo – among the Jerusalem neighborhoods liberated from Jordanian control during the Six-Day War – are scheduled to gain hundreds of apartments.

Under a sliding scale, carefully articulated in the Law of the Prisoner, the more heinous the act of terrorism, the longer the prison sentence, the higher the salary.

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The lack of an effective and proactive public relations campaign by the Israeli government has long been lamented. Somehow, advertisements showcasing Israel’s gorgeous beaches and the Tel Aviv nightlife just don’t cut it when the international media regularly bash Israel for its “apartheid” treatment of the Palestinians. But even a superficial Israeli hasbara effort wouldn’t get snickered at if it had consistent and corresponding government policy to sustain its claims.