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Senior Israeli security officials have proposed a series of measures that President Trump could implement if the hostages are not released by the time he assumes office on January 20, 2025

Patton not only showed utter contempt, even hatred, for Jewish survivors, he also expressed a kind of admiration for the Nazi prisoners of war under his watch and bitterly criticized attempts to bring Nazi leaders to justice for war crimes.

103 years ago in San Remo recognition was enshrined in international law and has not changed since.

Seth, you spent an hour of prime time savaging your fellow Jews, misrepresenting Jewish history, defaming Israel and Israelis, and slandering Judaism. What gives?

Rabbi Moses Maimonides is our fundamental source for relating to Islam and Christianity, and his views are clear and occasionally unexpected.

The protest organizers are doing irreparable harm to the state, its institutions and its economy, in a classic “cutting off your nose to spite your face” campaign.

In case you didn't notice, olive trees in Judea and Samaria are under attack. The alleged culprits are Jews living there. UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry called it "terrorism."

Recently I received a letter with an inquiry about the town of Mishnitz.

America must respect the will of the Israeli public, whom overwhelmingly re-elected a Bibi led Likud

They are deaf to protestations that there are whole areas of knowledge (even when they conform to the Torah’s perspective) that are only taught to our children when they are no longer children and ready to marry.

If some Israeli cops got a Jewish education & learned to love Jews, Israel would be a better place

Two new studies warn of radicalization among Arab Israelis and urge robust government action.

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.

Did President Obama have to lie in a UN speech?

The no exact change excuse is typical of people who break laws – they don’t blame themselves; in fact, they regard themselves as perfectly innocent.

While his voice was heard, and it is still heard, it was not heard loudly enough; and so, his vision still remains marginal to most discussions, whether between the religious and secular or amongst the religious themselves.

There is a whole other transcendental level of delight, enchantment, and reverence that applies to collectors of Judaica documents.

Is it not startling, then, that Western leaders extol democracy, yet pay such little homage to personal freedoms?

For Waters, normal is “rapid, neoliberal capitalism gone completely crazy.” (This from a man with an estimated wealth of $270 million, and homes in both the Hamptons and New York City.)

Every building project in Judea & Samaria, every road, house, Yeshiva, factory and mikva can only be built with… the signature of the Defense Minister! Well, Defense Minister Lieberman, will you sign?

The meaning of "God’s watch" here is not entirely clear.

Adina Hay-Nissan, recalled that she called up the British command that was stationed in the hotel and warned them, ''This is the Hebrew resistance uprising. We planted bombs in the hotel. Please vacate it immediately. See, we warned you.''

I have closde to 10,000 books, covering all kinds of things in Jewish studies.

If the recent pictures of destroyed outposts had been of Bedouin villages or illegal houses in the Galilee, the whole country would have been up in arms.

To preserve the terrorist Wafa’s memory and have her continue to serve as a model for other women to emulate, the Palestinian Authority has named places and events after her

Some evangelicals are impatient zealots who burn for the gospels, others burn as well, but they have the patience and discipline of a monk. Yet all of them burn for the day when they can bring the cross to Jews.

In an interview last Wednesday with Israel Amy Radio, Alscheich revealed that the various criminal investigations and prosecutions mounted against Netanyahu were designed not so much to pursue his alleged criminality but rather to pressure him into resigning from office.

As a guide to others and a foremost member of the Great Assembly, Ezra provided strong leadership and a moral conscience to a people that had lost its way.

Denial is not a strategy. Western countries that cherish women's rights must wake up to the fact that many migrants could challenge those values

Wishing everyone a joyous Purim!