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The JewishPress.com has sent Hana Levi Julian to the Ukrainian border with a United Hatzalah mission, to report on the refugees, the Jewish aid efforts and the situation in Ukraine. This is the first report in a series of diary entries of was Hana is witnessing. 

There is a person who has nobody else to look up to and he’s being broken, and G-d puts his heart in order, taking off everything superfluous from his heart and breaking his heart a little bit.

This week, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine dragged on, gas prices in America soared to their highest levels since 2008, increasing over 57 cents in just one month.

The West’s nuclear knife is sheathed, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is brandishing his own in a menacing manner. As with Iran and the Palestinians, such disdain for human life gives fanatics the upper hand.

It is even more absurd when one considers the countries Russia allegedly fears will invade them. Which one of their Western-border countries – Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine – is likely to invade Russia?

Erdogan needs to be handled cautiously and, yes, respectfully. He also needs to be cut down to size.

As far as Hamas is concerned, the weaker the US the greater are their chances of fulfilling their goal of replacing Israel with an Islamic state.

“The Russian invasion of Ukraine should remind us that there are nations you simply cannot trust,” said former senator Joseph Lieberman.

Now that U.S. President Joe Biden has agreed to an even more dangerous nuclear deal, Israel must prepare to be scapegoated.

Part of the reason for the rush to re-enter a pact that will guarantee that Tehran gets a nuclear weapon is to put Iranian oil on the market. That’s a disaster for everyone.

The result of so much US risk-aversion could well lead to further attacks against other countries by Russia, China and Iran.

Significantly, in Roosevelt’s message and the one sent by Winston Churchill, each supportive, there is no mention of rescue. 

I knew what my heart told me. We were staring at the face of evil, with a decision by a regime without conscience to inflict pain, misery and death on millions of people.

It may make it just a little bit harder for Putin to incur the wrath of the entire world by murdering the holder of the Nobel Peace Prize.

One thoughtful colleague suggested that if the rabbi was unable to say anything positive, he should, respectfully urge the family to find another to speak in his stead.

Biden doesn’t want the invasion to go to waste, he wants to use it.

Chosen People Ministries “warmly welcomes” refugees, already plans to baptize at least 15 new arrivals before Passover while assisting them with their physical needs.

Legal proceedings are being carried out with scant regard for the law. In some cases, the law is blatantly disregarded; in others, factual evidence is ignored; in yet others, infractions are invented to fabricate charges. All cases have been approved by the courts. 

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Israel recently incurred Putin’s wrath when, as it had to, it condemned the invasion of Ukraine in the UN General Assembly and sent significant humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Unfortunately, for their own inappropriate reasons, requests are sometimes arbitrarily denied by these government agencies.

A suit filed in compliance with the details of the Diaspora Agunot Law is treated expeditiously with a good chance of ending in a get.

Remember the Holocaust? Now 44 million seem marked for destruction, and the powerful people in the world who could actually do something are sitting and watching

Were Ukraine to fall, it would mark the second time that this Administration has catastrophically miscalculated a battlefield

For 20 years, the Putin wolf played grandmother in disguise. That disguise enabled him to get away with invading Georgia, dominating Belarus, massacring Syrians, propelling the mullahs of Tehran, annexing Crimea, taking joyrides in various parts of Africa, poisoning people in Europe, and trying to disrupt elections in several countries through cyber-attacks.

Muslim leaders should state unequivocally that killing a non-Muslim is as much a crime as killing a Muslim.

In the case of Putin's invasion, one nation has violated its neighbor's sovereignty – comparisons to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict don't hold up. The Palestinians are not the Ukrainians In the case of Putin's invasion, one nation has violated its neighbor's sovereignty – comparisons to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict don't hold up

The latest New York Times hagiography of an anti-Israel activist has dropped. Yet another story taking aim at Israel. Yet more distortions meant to misinform.

Where Putin demands that NATO pull back, it should push forward. Some may see this as provocative, but it is in fact a sign of strength which will do more to deter Putin than appeasing him.

Self-reliance is the key to security. Israelis must understand that they should avoid being put in a position where, like the Ukrainians, they must rely on fickle international sympathy.