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Yusuf al-Qaradawi knows how to express his ideas clearly and persuasively.

The boys who leave yeshiva to go to work are made to feel like they are second class and this makes it difficult for them to remain chareidi.

At some point I noticed an arresting picture on his wall and discovered that his maternal grandfather was Rav Dovid Lifshitz.

The Obama team included many outspoken advocates of U.S. action against the Bashir regime.

What, exactly, can we expect from 'Palestine'?

I was surprised to learn that the MK Miri Regev-led Knesset Interior Committee and I, a Knesset member, were not allowed to visit the Temple Mount.

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The unauthorized release last week of the text of a four-page order issued by a federal judge sitting on the special FISA national security court has unleashed a torrent of controversy over possible governmental overreaching.

We take it as a sure sign of the times that the recent stunning news that the Claims Conference had negotiated a four-year $1 billion infusion of funds from the German government to aid Holocaust survivors has been largely overshadowed by criticism that those leading the conference mishandled an internal investigation into the embezzlement of $57 million by some employees over a fifteen-year period.

Israel, which is more threatened by Iran's nuclear program than is the U.S., has less time to make its up mind on how and when to proceed to avert a threat to its existence.

Police arrived when a confrontation between a screaming protester and a Walker supporter threatened to erupt into physical conflict.

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In every society there is always an internal struggle between individual liberty and collective responsibility. It exists here in the United States, in the form of mandated jury service, for example, and it is at the forefront in Israel where the raging debate regarding mandatory conscription for military service touches on all aspects of societal existence, including religion, economics, and notions of equality.

How can that substance which purifies the contaminated also render impure the uncontaminated priest who prepared it?

Rambam would not support the subsidized yeshiva system currently in place in Israel.

Mandatory data retention laws are already in place in certain parts of the world, but Europe has pioneered the practice.

Do you want to arm the Syrian rebels so they can establish another Sharia state?

The Russians ginned up media opposition to the NATO missile defense deal, and then used threats of nuclear-armed missile attacks to delay its deployment.

Reb Dov, I am perplexed. How did you move so far away so rapidly?

You have a massive counterterrorist project costing $1 trillion but when it comes down to it the thing repeatedly fails.

Why would you expect the leaders of the Jewish Home to listen to rabbis who didn’t get them elected?

Yiddish is a strange language that was and is pronounced differently across the geographical and sectarian divide.

Upon my return from Israel, I praised the country and the people, but many of my Muslim friends were not interested in knowing these details.

An appeals court in northwestern Germany has decided a contentious divorce case based on Islamic Sharia law.

Secure Freedom Radio Originally published at Daniel Pipes

When rape is politically-motivated by antisemitism, the punishment for such a crime should be en par with terrorism.

The demonstrations against Erdoğan stem from a sense among his opposition that he has crossed the line in Turkey.

Things have never been so good in the Jewish state.

John Kerry’s effort to revive the Middle East peace process has posed an interesting challenge to the Palestinians.

With the newest Superman film, “Man of Steel,” set for release next week, it seems only fitting to look back at the two men who created the world’s most famous superhero.