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Each side wanted an absolute victory for itself, and total defeat for the other side.

How did we move so quickly from complacency to last-minute weapons deliveries and a possible no-fly zone?

You are a link in a long great chain of people bounded by a heritage that stretches back nearly six thousand years.

The Zionist momentum ended in the nineties.

It appears not to have occurred to Condoleezza Rice that Palestinian statehood was incompatible with Israeli security.

A Jerusalem chassidic rabbi banned uniformed IDF soldiers from his group’s study halls, synagogues and yeshivas.

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm has retired after sixty years at Yeshiva University. In 1976 Dr. Lamm, after years as a student and then faculty member, was appointed president of YU and rosh yeshiva of YU’s rabbinical school, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS).

Dominating the public policy discussion in New York these past few weeks have been two pieces of New York City Council legislation relating to the New York City Police Department. One creates the position of inspector general within the NYPD to monitor the department’s activities; the other grants individuals who claim to have been victims of racial profiling the right to bring a lawsuit seeking a court judgment prohibiting similar actions by the NYPD (seeking monetary damages is not provided for).

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With almost all of world Jewry located in liberal democracies today, it is easy to forget that a mere 25 years ago, 1.5 million Jews lived under a totalitarian Soviet regime that suppressed Judaism. In the Soviet Union, even procuring a siddur or Jewish calendar could be a clandestine affair filled with fear.

"We have to prove to the world that we are capable of democracy..."

Many Israeli intellectuals seem still caught up in an outdated debate about their identity caused both by their secularism and their left-wing ideology.

History and human nature say yes.

It could not have happened at all if Britain weren’t already pretty far gone.

Terrorism has become a military tool of states, not just sub-national organizations.

In the absence of a functioning Palestinian parliament, Abbas has taken it upon himself to issue his own laws.

Over the years, Turkey's notoriously thin-skinned prime minister has earned a tidy sum from suing those he claims have defamed him.

No Jew need ever starve, because they always make a good living as a critic of Israel.

"He who tells the truth is driven from nine villages" -- Turkish proverb.

Hamas has found itself embroiled in a number of local and regional disputes that seem to have had a negative impact on its standing among Palestinians and Arabs.

Peter Beinart and Jeffrey Goldberg maintain far-left sentiments on Israel, while others invest their lives in bringing people like Cory Booker closer to the Jewish community.

In subsequent email correspondence with Berkowitz, the producer of NBC readily admits that Berkwoitz did not advocate that victims turn to rabbis instead of the police.

It began as just another exercise in political academic wackiness at Hebrew University. A graduate student there claimed that the absence of any history of rapes of Arab women by Israeli soldiers proves that Jews are racists and oppressors, people who do not even regard Arab women as sexually desirable. The student at the Mount Scopus campus and her “research” were then awarded a university honor for these impressive “discoveries.”

It is easy to go through the motions of our days, weeks, months and years and not ask ourselves, “What is it that God wants from me?”

Opposition movements usually get public support and encouragement from the masses because they challenge a corrupt and oppressive regime. This public support is what...

Originally published at the Gatestone Institute. The next time U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Ramallah, will he actually violate U.S. law to make...

Israel’s cooperation with U.S. companies on information technology has been crucial to their success.

Her latest book, The Cushion in the Road, is replete with an abundance of anti-Jewish rhetoric.

The inauguration of an American president has, since 1937, always begun with an invocation by a clergyman