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Right GesturesThe Israeli government has decided to once again make 'good will' gestures by pulling the army back and releasing many terrorists. This has...

For the first time in its history, the Orthodox Union held its annual convention in Israel.

Prologue: Oct. 2004. I am sitting at my desk holding a new book in my hands. It has just come from the printer.

Even now - after Arafat, after thousands of Israeli men, women and children have been systematically dismembered, burned and mutilated by the most barbaric terrorist movement in recent memory - much of the world remains willfully impervious to geopolitical truth.

While the group never endorses Democratic candidates, this year it declined to endorse President Bush either, because "... over the last four years, the Bush administration has compiled a deliberately anti-environmental, anti-conservation record that will result in lasting damage to public health and to America's natural heritage."

Over the course of his 19 years in the United States Senate, John Kerry has a 100 percent pro-Israel voting record.

The primary characteristic of John F. Kerry is that he wears his dignity on his sleeve as well as his vanity, his patrician bearing and his perceived nobility.

I remember my daughter going to get gas masks for my grandchildren in the recent war because we were afraid Saddam Hussein would do it again.

Obviously, none of the individuals involved were honored by the pope because of their anti-Semitism, rather despite it.

The sage Hillel asked three questions. "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"

He spoke with such passion that even without being able to make out the words, one

By contrast, U.S. evangelicals, many of whom proudly refer to themselves as Christian Zionists, are clearly on the upswing.

The New York Times trumpeted a two-column lead story by James Glanz, William Broad and David Sanger, 'Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq,' in Monday's edition, a story one week before the election about events that happened at least 18 months ago - one blaming the Bush administration for letting almost 400 tons of powerful explosives disappear under its nose.

The explosion that wrecked our lives on that fateful day destroyed much of my memory of that bloody episode.

The exit polls got the election results wrong in a very large sample of thousands of voters.

The Monitor's sort-of-annual listing of recommended websites and blogs is a little different this time. Previous listings were an amalgam of readers' favorites and the Monitor's own choices; this one is purely the Monitor's concoction.

Best Of Times, Worst Of TimesThis November, American Jews have an extra reason for thanksgiving as we happily participate in numerous celebratory events to...

Every four years, it seems, we Americans must display infinite forbearance in the face of irrepressible foolishness. Transforming all serious meaning into manipulation and marketing, our presidential election process has now been reduced to an endless barrage of numbing cliches and empty witticisms.

Misguided EndorsementYour endorsement of George W. Bush for a second term is misguided.Have you forgotten that from the beginning of 2001, the administration has...

The point is, if you believe only a fool would vote for the Republicans, then how can you trust such a majority to safeguard minority rights?

How did we come to embrace rejectionist labels and sound-bite government?

The argument for releasing Barghouti is that he is a moderate who favors a peaceful solution.

This pragmatic attitude stands in stark contrast with contemporaneous views in both Europe and the Islamic world.

This eternal power of life has kept us going through many generations of trials and tribulations, both in our homeland and in exile.

Every time Israel loosens its grip, there follows a deadly act of terror.