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The reaction to his statement has been illuminating as to the double standards that are often employed on matters relating to Israel.

Saudi Arabia's rejection of a term on the UN Security Council likely reflects its view of itself as helping to establish an alternate international order based on Sharia law.

This Sunday, my legislative proposal on medical marijuana will be brought to a vote in the Ministerial Legislative Committee.

I had heard singing from across the street several times at the end of Shabbos but hadn't realized the singing was a prelude to Havdalah.

There's an eerie silence and tears can be seen running down the faces of young parents and elderly grandparents and siblings of all ages.

The two leading candidates for mayor of New York are intelligent, motivated and tenacious, with outsized egos and ambition.

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The Obama administration is so pleased with the way the first round of talks with Iran have gone in Geneva, it may actually offer the Iranians access to billions of dollars of frozen assets if they promise to roll back part of their nuclear program and take incremental steps to do so.

This past April, with the U.S. voting “yea,” the United Nations General Assembly approved the first UN treaty regulating the international arms trade. The ostensible goal is to curb transfers of weapons that would violate embargoes or abet acts of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity. More recently, Secretary of State Kerry signed the treaty on behalf of the U.S.

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There are many specific and readily identifiable reasons for the failure of “Oslo,” a term that – though originally signifying the accords signed twenty years ago between Israel and the Palestinians – has become a commonplace shorthand for the Middle East peace process.

PA Deputy Minister of Education is on the magazine's advisory board.

There's no shortage of candidates for PA deputy president -- including Marwan Barghouti, jailed for five life sentences for his role in terror attacks.

How can it be called a failed school when it has only been open a year?

Each and every permutation of artificial “fertility” will wind up in court at some point.

There are thousands of unqualified soferim in both America and Israel who sell items that, far from being first-rate, are not even kosher.

In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time

The EU Commission's progress report deals with a polarized society and a government that takes repressive measures against citizens who assert their democratic rights.

In a separate but related matter, the Al-Madinah School is being investigated by the government over alleged financial irregularities.

Fatah about its military wing: "When they strike - they cause pain."

This past month several dozens of jihad organizations operating in Syria came to the conclusion that the disagreements among them harm their fighting cause and strengthen Asad.

In 1989, when Ethiopia and Israel agreed to restore the diplomatic relations that had been broken off by Ethiopia in 1973, thousands of Ethiopian Jews (aka Beta Israel) flooded to Addis Ababa. A year later, Dr. Hodes, an observant Jew from Long Island, N.Y., was hired by the JDC to be the medical director in Ethiopia and oversee their care. The original six-week contract was to morph into nearly twenty-three years...and Hodes is still counting.

A thousand years ago Rabbeynu Tam, the greatest rabbi of his day, forbade beating men up as a way of compelling a recalcitrant husbands to grant a Get.

This blithely written book presents Jerusalem as the home of all monotheistic faiths, disregarding the unique bond between Jews and their ancient capital.

The overwhelming majority of Jerusalem's Arabs are still afraid of the radicals.

Jewish identity has been an issue in the Jewish community at least since the beginning of the Common Era, and perhaps even before.

As I noted here last week, “the situation of survival is the central situation of power. Yet, as the ‘Middle East peace process’ makes Israel's survival more and more problematic, this enterprise now effectively deprives Israel of its power. Left to proceed, the process will eventually permit Israel's enemies to enjoy a triumph that still remains cleverly concealed, the conspicuous triumph experienced by certain still-living persons, when confronted by the powerless one who is dying.”

There may no longer be a unifying “center” to hold the GOP together.

Just to make the point clear, I did not cherry-pick these examples. These are the first 11 which constitute the first page.

To me, the biggest joke of it all was the gleeful announcement by Rabin that “We are no longer an am livadad yishkone, a nation that dwells alone!”