New Jewish Construction Freeze Feared

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

It appears that when the dust settles after Obama's upcoming visit, Israel's housing market is very likely to take a big hit - in the form of a construction freeze.

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The UN Plan For ‘Palestine’: The Motive for Terror

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

For the Palestinians and for the Arab/Islamic world as a whole, the "Zionist Problem" is merely a surface manifestation of the "Jewish Problem."

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An Agunah Day Message To A Jewish Grandmother

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

You are the mother of a me’agen – a young man who has turned his wife into an agunah. Sometimes a person in your situation can get so caught up in defending her position or her son's position that she fails to realize there is no longer a battle.

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With The Difference-Makers at Davos

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

Many think the World Economic Forum is like a meeting of the United Nations, where politicians and other decision makers meet to speak. Not many know that the WEF, launched as a not-for-profit organization in 1971 by Klaus and Hilde Schwab, is something completely different: a place where people come to listen.

The UN’s Partisan Diplomacy

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

Whether it emanates from world leaders or media reports, there is a barrage of public opinion chastising Israel for policies that supposedly impede the path to peace in the Middle East.

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Quick Takes: News You May Have Missed

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

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Letters To The Editor

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

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The President’s Trip To Israel

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

It should not be forgotten that in the immediate run-up to President Obama’s May 19, 2011 speech at the State Department in which he delivered his “ ‘67 lines” scenario for Middle East peace, the informed buzz among Beltway pundits was that the president would break no new ground with his remarks. So much for informed buzz.

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Academic Freedom Is Not A One-Way Street

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

Now that the forum co-sponsored by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and the Brooklyn College political science department has come and gone, it is incumbent on Brooklyn College and Mayor Bloomberg to vindicate their claim that the event had to be allowed to take place in the interests of academic freedom.

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Ed Koch and New York’s Fighting Generation

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

Most obituaries on Ed Koch paid scant attention to his military service in World War II.

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Islam in the United States

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

Political correctness is what dictates conduct in the highest echelons of leadership in the United States.

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Where’s the Money?

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

Once Knesset Members have made cuts to their own salaries, it will be much easier to cut away at the fat that is choking the budget.

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Finding the Jewish Billy Graham, the Israeli Martin Luther King

Posted on: February 13th, 2013

Public relations is nearly the whole ball game and we Jews have lost the battle not just in modern times with Israel but throughout a long and tragic history

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The Jewish Cemetery in Saudi Arabia

Posted on: February 12th, 2013

A cemetery in an oil rich province of Saudi Arabia may be the last vestige of Jewish life there.

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Winning the Minority Vote

Posted on: February 12th, 2013

Instead of the Latino vote, the Republican Party would be wiser to concentrate on the Chinese and the Indian vote, two groups that are easier to sell on the Republican agenda.

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Is Turkey Leaving the West?

Posted on: February 12th, 2013

Erdoğan's Turkey is no longer a trustworthy partner for the West but more like a mole in its inner sanctum.

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Modern Orthodox, Feminist and Proud

Posted on: February 12th, 2013

I see no contradiction between being a feminist and being modern orthodox.

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Are Drone Strikes Analogous to the Civil War?

Posted on: February 11th, 2013

To advance our objectives in the War on Terror there was and will be nothing to justify the extra-judicial, standoff-distance execution of a US citizen.

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Innocents Abroad Build Foreign Armies

Posted on: February 11th, 2013

When will American politicians and military leaders eventually realize that training foreign soldiers does not allies make them?

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Myths and Realities of the ‘Shidduch Crisis’

Posted on: February 11th, 2013

Many singles are not facing a crisis of shidduchim but a crisis of identity, wrestling with existential questions most families simply do not have the time to consider.

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