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France was once a great nation.

“It’s a lousy column and a dishonest one,” Halberstam wrote. “So close it. Or you will end up just as shabby as Safire.”

Liberals define freedom as “doing as we please,” in tandem with liberty from the demands of a religious life.

David Paterson is the fourth African American and only the second legally blind governor in U.S. history. The son of former New York Secretary of State Basil Paterson, he spent 20 years in New York's state senate before being chosen as Eliot Spitzer's running mate for the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. He became governor on March 17, 2008 after Spitzer resigned.

Newsweek's article on child abuse in the Hasidic community forces us to confront the scourge of abuse

Fighting President Trump means fighting for the very existence of the world's order and democracy in America. What could possibly give those devoid of meaning more meaning than that?

U.S. policymakers can take steps to decrease the likelihood of another war and prepare Israel for provocations from terror groups—namely, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

These attacks strengthen Hamas’ position on the Palestinian street as the leader of the struggle against Israel, dragging the Palestinian Authority into a competition to increase its incitement and heap praise on the perpetrators of the attacks, while accusing Israel of executing the terrorists killed during the attacks.

“For many reasons, awareness of our communities’ history is not at the level it should be. We welcome any opportunity to educate and engage diplomats and foreign dignitaries on the story of the ignored and forgotten Jewish refugees,” said JIMENA board member Nathaniel Malka.

I don’t trust the UAE and what we know about the deal is bad enough. Perhaps many are celebrating the deal because they have cabin fever and are drooling about the prospects of another hedonistic resort.

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America is the land of systemic opportunity, not systemic racism. The only people to deny these facts are America's homegrown America-haters. They see America as a force of evil at home and abroad.

The coronavirus pandemic has created a new kind of culture shock. It has affected essential and highly personal elements of many people’s lives within their own environments. A culture shock of this magnitude has not occurred since WWII. When the pandemic ends, societies will be quite different from what they were in the pre-coronavirus era.

In a recent speech, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak suggested that Israel consider unilaterally disengaging from Judea and Samaria. "If it is impossible to reach an agreement with the Palestinians,” he said, “we should consider an interim arrangement, or even a unilateral disengagement.”

So let no one praise a nation that murdered a million Jewish babies and children for shedding crocodile tears over the plight of the poor little baby boy who, following a many thousand year old tradition, is circumcised 8 days after birth. Every good person should condemn Germany for what really lies at the heart of efforts to ban circumcision—old-fashioned anti-Semitism, a term coined by Germans for Germans and against Jews.

Netanyahu has appointed a known Christian missionary to a position of power and importance as deputy media advisor. Now the missionary will have unfettered access to millions of Israeli Jews with the imprimatur of the PM. Boggles the mind.

{Originally posted on author's site, Liberty Unyielding} Never let a crisis go to waste. That’s the mantra – and a new development in Britain demonstrates...

Ben Gurion would reject paying a probably massive price for self-indulgent symbolism.

There is now NO possible explanation for not evacuating at least non-essential personnel from the U.S. embassy and consulates in Iraq.

"This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is," Foxman responded in a line straight out of the film's public-relations playbook.

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.

Roosevelt’s attitude toward Jews, which “was complicated,” While he surrounded himself with Jewish advisors, he did little at all to help the Jews in peril

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American officials might not like strong Israeli leaders, but they do respect them.

Rabbi Avraham Isaac HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) was an extraordinary Torah giant. His genius was astounding – there was no field of Torah study he had not mastered. His recall was astonishing – great scholars related that no matter what Torah subject they discussed with him it would appear as if he had just recently learned the issue in depth.

The most illegitimate president of all time is also the maddest.

On September 25, King Hussein took the extraordinary step of meeting with Israel’s prime minister, despite the countries’ lack of formal diplomatic ties, to warn that Syria and Egypt would soon attack

No words can satisfactorily describe the joy and love which resonates in the heart of a father, as he looks upon his son.