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Why would our tradition fill our fun-filled summers with such restricting limitations?

Blunt and forthright, he declared that “Due to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!”

This was an outright failure of Jewish Home and its chairman, Minister of Religious Services Naftali Bennett.

The name of the diplomatic game over the past few weeks seems to have been "Bear Down on Israel." The pressure has come in many forms:

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It’s certainly been a while, hasn’t it? And yet it seems like the conversation was never really interrupted, as I’ve enjoyed, in the three and a half months since this column last appeared, many an interesting exchange, via e-mail and phone, with some very intelligent readers.

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The alleged breakthrough orchestrated by Secretary of State Kerry last week between Israel and the Palestinians was the culmination of a series of desperate attempts to project the appearance of progress toward a resumption of real negotiations when, given the current circumstances, none are likely to occur.

President Obama is playing a cynical and dangerous game with his comments in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The problem is not that Mr. Obama may feel that by acquitting Mr. Zimmerman the jury was saying race played no role. That is his prerogative. But it is a problem when the president, in introducing a national dialogue on race relations at this time, indelibly links Trayvon Martin’s death with race and thereby inserts himself in the middle of a concerted effort by some, who will simply not accept the jury’s verdict, to have Mr. Zimmerman indicted on federal anti-hate laws.

Writing about Israeli politics can sometimes be a depressing endeavor, but P. David Hornik has been doing it consistently for over a decade for such media outlets as FrontPage Magazine, Pajamas Media, American Spectator, and The Jewish Press.

Eighty years ago, in January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Barely a month later Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated president of the United States. For the next twelve years, until their deaths eighteen days apart in April 1945, they personified the horrors of dictatorship and the blessings of democracy.

This latest decision tells us nothing about Israel or the West Bank. But it tells us what we need to know about the EU.

Does anyone notice that the Palestinians keep demanding more preconditions, Israeli concessions but never come to the table?

Why aren't you boycotting Chinese entities operating in occupied Tibet?

By now it’s known that I have strongly supported Samantha’s nomination.

There is also widespread belief that Patterson's "meddling" in Egypt's affairs is not limited to General Sisi and the Egyptian media.

Is this the face of Christianity, as Christian Century would like to see it displayed? For my part, I repudiate it without hesitation.

The PA will keep doing stalling tactics and come up with new preconditions that it hopes Israel will not meet.

I don’t expect thinking Muslims to object to a reasoned critique of Islam.

In 1992 the Dallas Cowboys won Super Bowl XXVII. Among the members of the team was a young Jewish man named Alan Veingrad. Alan, now Shlomo, became frum several years later and found a much more significant calling: as an in-demand speaker he captivates Jewish and non-Jewish audiences around the world with lessons from his football days and from his teshuva journey.

In a time when service to one’s community seems to be a forgotten ideal, it is our pleasure to continue sharing with you the stories of those men and women who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.

The future is bleak.

The State Department and the White House fear Islamic terror more than anything else.

This story brought home to me that to do one’s task rightly, to bear witness honestly, and to face the consequences without flinching should be the hallmarks of my field.

While the Egyptian coup was taking place, the Knesset passed a law that testifies to the fact that Israel does not really have a democratic culture, either.

The Anglicans are urging their faithful to “educate the church about the impact of illegal settlements” on the West Bank.

The words over the yeshiva's main doors used to be in English.

Kerry’s working with actors who have acted in this movie before, and the script is built around the same elements. But the theater is new.

Dermer is seen by the left as the worst of all possible creatures: a “right-wing neocon with close ties to the Bush family.”

What were you thinking on Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the year? The day when we mourn the destruction of our two Temples; our expulsion from Spain, England and France; the Crusades, the Holocaust; our two thousand years of wandering the earth?