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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.

It’s true that many Ukrainian nationalists initially welcomed the German invaders as liberators during World War Two. But Ukraine suffered more than Russia from Nazism, with more of its population being killed during the war than any other country.

Due to the unprecedented dimension of what had occurred, historian Yehuda Bauer added another dimension. He said there is a distinction between having received news about the extermination of the Jews of Europe, and accepting the reports as accurate

One option to increase Moscow's isolation further, for example, would be to expand the membership of Western institutions such as the European Union and the Nato alliance to countries like Ukraine, a move that would guarantee their removal from Moscow's sphere of influence.

Paskudnyak: Learn the phrase, historians will be referencing it for generations to come.

When the sirens begin — “and they are barely audible,” he noted — people head down into utility rooms under the ground floors of apartment buildings because there are no bomb shelters.

On many occasions, war is necessary and can actually prevent even greater catastrophe.

While many of the laws of yichud are quite complex and detailed – and beyond the scope of this brief essay – the basic concept is intuitive, and has indeed been independently adopted by those unversed in Torah law, and unconnected to Judaism.

With this in mind, any hatred of peaceful and tolerant modern-day Germans or Ukrainians is misplaced.

Biden's gross miscalculation came only a few weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Modern western democracies have forgotten what human society has known since ancient times – if you want peace, you must prepare for war.

To turn our back on Russia and the Ukraine because of their blood-stained past would be to forget the rich Jewish history that the region boasts.

Israel must depend on no foreign power, use savvy to navigate between world powers, and be both willing and able to use force when necessary to protect its sovereignty.

Let me be clear. Sometimes we must not simply forgive and forget what a nation has done to the Jewish people.

Slowly we started realizing that this is real war – that there are ground invasions, that there are bombings, and that it’s getting more tense and scarier – so my husband started working really hard on just helping people leave, Esther said.

Improvident as it may have been to express it publicly at the time, President Joe Biden was right on the money when he pointed out with characteristic frankness that the U.S. and its allies would “have a fight about what to do and not do” depending on the seriousness of a Russian attack on Ukraine.

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Most Americans see themselves as protectors of the weak against bully nations. This is the first time in our lifetime that America has abandoned that role.

I’m concerned about Ukraine because of the people of Ukraine and because of the principles that are at risk, in terms of international law and trying to change boundaries of international law by force, Kerry said in the interview.

Let’s heed the lessons of the pandemic and apply them to the threat of war.

In this social media era, Ukraine's inexperienced president Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows emotions set the tone. He has succeeded in both drawing sympathy for his country while making clear Ukrainians will fight.

Minors are prohibited from purchasing cigarettes, alcohol, or even getting a tattoo before a certain age; they, or even their parents, should not be allowed to make irreversible life-altering decisions about their bodies while they are of minority age.

While the elimination of its leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi by U.S. special forces dealt ISIS a setback, it has managed to reorganize and recover from its 2017 defeat.

Allowing Iran to march merrily forward with its nuclear bomb and ballistic missile programs and its hegemonic regional ambitions is an even worse threat to world security than the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and certainly to Israel’s security.

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin says sanctions on Moscow "are likely to create difficulties for Putin that he can't overcome."