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On August 9, 2001, Malka Chana (Malki) Roth stopped by the Sbarro restaurant on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem. A suicide terrorist wearing an explosive belt with nails, nuts and bolts entered and detonated his bomb. Fifteen Israelis were killed, including Malki; 107 were injured.

Achdus, unity, is a term that warms the heart. It is an ideal we all aspire to achieve but often find so elusive.

We don’t know what their thinking is on the choice between evils: the evil of intervening or the evil of failing to after defining a red line.

Surviving the strikes will permit Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.

It is the lack of American action that will cause the situation to right itself in Egypt, Syria, North Africa and other centers of unrest in the Arab-Muslim world.

If tears could melt stone, the Kotel wouldn’t be standing.

The Obama Administration believes that it can reconcile with Islamist states.

Why have those who govern Syria followed such a pattern for more than six decades under almost a dozen different regimes?

After the last freeze, there was a building boom. And the talks never took place. Let’s do it again.

I’m skeptical that we have any intention of taking action against Syria – even punitive action, with no view to an outcome or end-state.

I sat there speechless. I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing.

In Judaism sex is regarded as something wonderful, positive, and a gift of God.

Don’t Touch Nixon, He Saved my Life My sentiments too on our late President Nixon. Although my last name does not meet the culture, I...

Many Igbo, even while practicing Christianity, nonetheless consider themselves Jewish.

General al-Sisi and is not about to give in to American pressure regarding the Muslim Brotherhood.

At a time when Israel was facing defeat, only one friend rose up to send help.

The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.

If you want to move de line, you have to let go of hurt and anger.

Can you recall any time you hurt someone, perhaps a friend, neighbor, family member, fellow congregant or business associate?

Why aren't crime and corruption considered heresya kind of denial of the Torah and its precepts?

His singular foreign policy accomplishment, trumpeted ad nauseam, was the execution of Osama bin Laden.

Liberty always – always – has to be deliberately established and hedged about with protections.

Palestinian leaders have legitimized Israel to the point where it has become a "crime" for any Palestinian to be seen talking to, much less negotiating with any Israeli.

Despite the fact that over the past decade Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community has been one of New York City’s fastest growing populations, not even one Orthodox Jew has appeared during that time on the ballot for the New York State Supreme Court bench in Brooklyn.

Unfolding events in Egypt continue to confirm just how ill-advised was President Obama’s fateful decision two years ago to embrace the Egyptian version of the Arab Spring.

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Shakespeare had it right. The evil that men do indeed lives after them. Case in point: Nahum Goldmann, who served in a variety of Jewish and Zionist organizational leadership posts from the 1920s through the 1970s.

For two thousand years, Jews exiled from their homeland and lacking political sovereignty were easy targets for elitist rulers on the right and the pseudo-egalitarian mob on the left. When Emancipation came and Jews exited the ghettos, Jewish self-made pitfalls were no less horrific, as many embraced the trendy “isms” of secular society only to spiritually assimilate and disappear from history. Yet despite the persecutions, on the one hand, and the enticements of some host countries’ cultures, on the other, the Jewish nation lives.

Lost: Obama's Middle East policy, 2013-2016.