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Signs of the impending trouble awaiting King Abdullah emerged in the past few days.

A thousand years ago, the great Rabbi Sa’adia Gaon taught that our Torah is reasonable and that the human intellect, by itself, can discover the great truths taught in Scripture. Given enough time and brilliance, the human mind can, unaided, arrive at the precepts and concepts revealed by God at Sinai.

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Instead of giving new young couples some time in public housing until they’re ready to move forward, they want to give away the apartments to people who have been reaping the benefits for years.

The central quality of leadership is not eloquence but moral courage, a preparedness to be hated in the pursuit what’s right.

There's no better explanation a student can receive as to why he lives in Israel, than a visit to Hebron. Unfortunately, the new Education Minister does not think so.

The military-civilian governors of Egypt are the same people who have always run the country. They have not done a great job.

The total failure of Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri to deliver on any of his promises bears serious ramifications for the party that relies on thousands of knitted yarmulke voters.

Western culture as a whole lost the habit of defining authority for social purposes, and training its children to both respect and administer it.

This law not so much about getting Haredim into the army in the near future, as it is about immediately permitting Haredim into the legal workforce, thus breaking the cycle of poverty.

Politically correct Britons are forced to confront the previously taboo subject of endemic sexual abuse of children by predatory Muslim pedophile gangs.

The super hero myth is dangerous because it is an excuse for inaction and fantasy.

The target of the car bomb attack was the Center for Islamist Cooperation, the operational center for many of Hezbollah's offshoot organizations.

These are unhappy times for religious and secular relations in Israel.

Mandela once wrote that Jews, in his experience, were far more sensitive about race because of their own history.

It is already illegal to conduct bias-based profiling, and there is no need for legislation that will make the job of police officers that much harder

The thug knew exactly what you are and he went after you anyway, Mr. Anteby.

Was the humble Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkulos the real hero of the destruction story?

You can no longer argue that solving the Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian conflict will fix the region.

The principle that we must defend ourselves by ourselves was the guiding light of all of Israel’s governments – from the Sinai Campaign until the First Gulf War.

Almost every person viewed Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av in a different light from the minor fasts.

An appeal to keep the satirical show Latma running.

Suddenly, as the still-alive Confederates reached the Union line, we charged forward to go into action.

"I had to grow a tough little hide as everybody was fair game to be razzed and needled."

How many times does PA chieftain Mahmoud Abbas have to repeat that the Israelis are planning to rebuild the Holy Temple atop the most volatile spot in the world before the world begins to accept it as true?

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In the beginning, President Obama really thought he could change the world. And he had specific plans to do so, both here and abroad.

It’s time for Secretary of State John Kerry to take stock of his obsessive and peripatetic efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. It is an obvious fool’s errand that demeans our diplomatic image around the world.

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We are still in galus. Another year has gone by, a difficult year in many ways, but Mashiach has not yet arrived, the Beis HaMikdash has not yet been rebuilt and we are still languishing in exile.