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Many forget that Netanyahu's score on his actions during the Disengagement was a floor hugging 14%.

The problem nowadays is that an insane interpretation of international affairs seems to be a quality defining who 'the best people are.'

The glorious day of the inglorious man is here. And someone else is paying. Any someone else who isn't him.

Grieving requires a new language.

For the last two years, Lipa Schmeltzer has traded his microphones for textbooks and the concert stage for the classroom.

My own experiences within the shidduch system has caused me to question it considerably.

"I won't go to her yoga training, she runs a program in Israel."

Liberman came to his police interrogation directly from the National Hall in Jerusalem, where Likud-Beiteinu launched their the Knesset elections campaign.

Terrorism and radicalism cannot be defeated by the force of arms, no matter how technologically sophisticated or overwhelming it may be.

It is amazing to see how the same people can be deceived time and again.

Mr. President, some foreign policies need to be carefully thought through a second time.

My father, businessman and philanthropist Irving Bunim, z”l, was one of the foremost leaders of American Orthodoxy during its formative years. When he passed away in December 1980, Reb Moshe Feinstein declared, “This is not an aveilus d’yachid [a private loss]; this has the halacha of aveilus d’rabim [a public loss] because [he] represented the rabim of Klal Yisrael [the Jewish pubic].”

“His father, a sanitation worker who had never finished high school, moved his family to Jewish neighborhoods , so that his children might be...

In 1893, Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Vidrowitz was looking for an advantage in his struggle for leadership of the immigrant Orthodox community on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Two other outstanding rabbinical sages also aspired to have the final say among downtown’s religious Jews.

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, standing on a stage recently in Baltimore, shone with grace. It wasn’t what she wore, it was how she wore it. Her inner grace and sheer presence made her simply stunning. The red velvet curtains that were her backdrop outlined the strength of character on her face and the dignity in her every motion.

This month some of Israel’s strongest friends in Europe – Britain, France and Germany – summoned their ambassadors to protest the Jewish state’s construction decisions.

In 1964 the eminent sociologist Marshall Sklare declared Orthodoxy to be irrelevant. His view was that Conservative Judaism was the wave of the future in America.

I’m wrapping up my trip to the U.S., a visit that for the first time in many years happened to coincide with Christmas.

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As we noted last week, President Obama’s apparent inclination to appoint former Republican senator Chuck Hagel as his new secretary of defense has been disturbing from the start, given Mr. Hagel’s record of opposing sanctions against Iran, his criticism of U.S. partiality toward Israel, and his reference to what he called “the Jewish lobby” in Washington, which, he suggested, unduly urges the U.S. government to act on behalf of Israel’s interests.

Two weeks ago we suggested that Hamas officials had seized on Israel’s decision not to invade Gaza in the course of Operation Pillar of Defense as somehow demonstrating that Hamas was quite capable of taking on the Israeli military, and that the world, particularly the Palestinian street, should take notice.

"Palestine," shouted Mashaal to his audience, was Arabic, Islamic, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River; his audience chanted its support.

Using the term "Halacha" for policies which are not in fact Halacha, delegitimizes those who differ and causes ill-will towards Jewish law.

City officials in Englewood are hampering the development of a synagogue, but were nowhere to be found in opposing Kaddafi and the Libyan Embassy in Englewood.

The Star and Crescent flying at the World Trade Center did not prevent it from being targeted.

Have Feiglin and Hotoveli never heard about the Likud's expulsions of Jews and destruction of Jewish homes?

The idea that Obama is now backing Israel is what American Jewish voters who supported him desperately need to believe.

Two years after the beginning of the upheaval in the Arab world, the picture does not arouse too much optimism.

Crowd culture expects everyone to follow the leader, to join the meme, to move with the flow, but that is something that crazy people cannot do.