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While generally informative, polls can be distorted to further a political argument.

Because Arafat is a master of deceit - and I unfortunately contributed to that.

It was just a couple of months ago that John Kerry told the Council on Foreign Relations of his inclination, should he win the White House, to appoint Jimmy Carter, James Baker or Bill Clinton as a Middle East peace process envoy.

I just watched the news on TV. Another "suicide murderer" blew up a bus in Jerusalem.

There can be no justice without memory. In 1998, Chrysler entered into an ambitious merger agreement with Germany's Daimler-Benz. Since that time, its economic well-being has generally and persistently deteriorated. Most recently, Chrysler's woes of falling stock prices and shrinking cash reserves have been aggravated by widening product deficiencies and burgeoning vehicle recalls.

Magnificent RumsfeldYour Feb. 27 editorial on the Democratic presidential candidates was on target. I know that liberal Jews - those whose prime concerns in...

Harriet Beecher Stowe got her anti-slavery message across so well that when President Lincoln was introduced to her he greeted her with So this is the little woman who caused the big war!

Although upwards of as many as 500 neo-Nazi mercenaries, formed into a so-called Freedom Corps, were sent to Iraq in 1991, their military effect was negligible at best.

But the most jubilant people here in the Middle East are the vast majority of the Iraqi people themselves.

The Jew committed to moderate religious observance was the one most likely to have been impacted by the senator's candidacy.

When someone says, "That's stupid," the next words spoken are often, "Not as stupid as George Bush."

Imagine! Shimon Peres - perennial antagonist of the settlers, self-appointed apologist for Arafat, tireless defender of the Arabs - had suddenly sprouted feathers of a different color.

Were it not for the evident seriousness of its implications, the David Haivri case would represent little more than the reduction to absurdity of a democratic country's legal system. Known popularly as the "T-Shirt Trial," the current court proceedings in Israel are based on an incident in which the defendant was charged with possession and distribution of a "publication" intended to incite racism.

Ground Zero Sefer TehillimThank you to Shmuel Ben Eliezer and The Jewish Press for covering the return of the Sefer Tehillim from the Ground...

History's LessonsIt is beyond argument that an Arab 'Palestine' will be another terrorist state. The area is currently ruled by terrorists, dominated by terrorist...

Tom Friedman won over some previously skeptical readers in the months following the 9/11 attacks by advocating a tough line against Islamic extremists and, to the dismay of his fellow liberals, supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

After his death, his followers - most of whom were simple fishermen and artisans - lived on in Galilee and Jerusalem.

There is an apparent need on the part of human beings, and certainly Jews, for a hero.

Our society to a great extent does not look upon itself as fostering immorality. When it comes to lifestyles the very term is stripped from our lexicon.

Now that the primary season is seriously upon us, at least one claim is common to all of the candidates. No matter the differences between them, all of the political aspirants exhibit a fundamental populism. "I want to be the people's president" is their shared mantra. Indeed, for any of them to suggest otherwise would be far more than foolish; it would be downright blasphemous.

"You will never see your land of Israel, your precious Jerusalem, your Carmel, your Galilee. It will never happen. You will never leave Romania."

How tragic and painful it is that our prime minister chose these days of song and rejoicing upon the blossoming of Jewish Life in our homeland to reveal his cowardly plans of uprooting Jews from their homes and land in Gush Katif and the Shomron.

Why are Israelis so willing to trade so much for a single life when the Palestinians are willing to expend their own so needlessly?

The Times neglected to print that Yassin was held for murdering Alex Singer Ronen Weisman and Oren Kamil.

She also ignored the Israeli commitment to a Jewish state, a commitment which, she assumes, becomes irrelevant when the new engineered social order is put in place.

Through the centuries there has been a large Jewish presence in Gaza - in fact, it was the largest Jewish community in the country at the time of the Muslim invasion (7th century CE).

Dave Love of Sunburst Kosher Tours had a look of unmistakable disgust on his face as he handed the Monitor a copy of Heeb magazine. "Can you believe this garbage?" he asked, referring both to the publication's content and some of the sponsors listed on its masthead.

When the Jews living in the Gaza Strip are forcibly evicted from their homes, what should be done with the houses?

Sharpton Democrats (I)Imagine if a white supremacist were running for the Republican presidential nomination and the party's other candidates not only refused to denounce...

There is another side to trauma and to traumatic events that we experience and survive in life.