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During war, as during peace, language and terminology create attitudinal truth.

ANY construction of homes in existing Israeli suburbs has been condemned by the Biden State Department. By contrast, The Biden WH has never made the slightest remark concerning the massive illegal Palestinian construction intended to create "facts on the ground" or "land grabs" in both the West Bank and Israel's Negev desert

Compare Obama's to the burning of Torah scrolls in Judea several weeks ago to his denunciation of a US pastor who burned a Koran in 2011.

I started reading and learning and collecting, and now I have over, I’d say, about 10,000 items – all kept very neatly in one room in my house. And to this day, all these years later, it’s still a thrill for me.

Concepts are not the same as words. Anybody can look up a word in a dictionary and translate it the way you like. We assume a concept means the same thing in every language. But cultures don't communicate -- they clash.

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The honor and dignity, if there can be any, goes to the Israeli athletes and to Israel itself; the shame and disgust goes to the Olympic committee. For 60 seconds, the athletes and audience and around the world, 60 seconds of silence could have been a show of triumph over terror, of honor in brotherhood and peace - instead, they will remain, 40 years late and beyond, an endless mark of shame.

Let me count the ways that USA Today euphemized terrorists and their terrorist missions and organizations in a single story:

NY Times moral misdirection.

Among the bitterest aspects of the ancient tragedies commemorated during our recent national period of mourning was the crushing disappointment felt by the Jewish people when we were betrayed by our erstwhile allies: "I called for my friends [those who had professed love for me] but they deceived me" (Eicha 1:19).

The gradual trickle of self-hatred into the Jewish soul is evidencing itself in the American Jewish public.

The Japanese do not feel the need to apologize to Muslims for the negative way in which they relate to Islam.

A whopping 58% of Jews married between the years 2000 and 2013 have non-Jewish spouses. That's up from 17% in 1970.

The outcry around the world against Nazi book burning included a moving letter from Helen Keller.

Rabbi Kahane spoke of transfer, because it was what the Torah spoke of.

Now that we have returned home from our Sukkahs, let's remember those who have to homes to go to. Charity "may start at home" but let's extend it others without one.

NIF's main goal is undermining the IDF with $ for leftist NGOs charging IDF soldiers with war crimes

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

The depleted stockpile potentially places Israel in a vulnerable position should a conflict arise unexpectedly.

A committed Religious Zionist, he was a sought-after adviser on Zionist affairs around the world.

Hizbullah ties its attacks on Israel with the Gaza war

The Jordan Valley is Israel’s only defensible eastern border and Israeli sovereignty there is vital for the demilitarization of a future Palestinian state.

The U.N.’s anti-Israel history is both long and undeniable. And journalists shouldn’t pretend otherwise.

We are told that “a soldier must have a commander, and it isn’t a rabbi.” The defense minister of Israel accuses us – this writer and other Hesder rabbis – of “destabilizing the foundations of Israeli democracy, inciting toward insubordination, damaging the spirit of the Israel Defense Forces,” adding, “there is no room for such things in a civilized state.”

A condolence letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Ariel Sharon started the effort to move the latter to serve God.

These day-school children will be filled with their own traditions and with the knowledge that they are parts of a community that invests them and their commitment to that tradition with immense importance.

Better to be a refugee in the Jewish State, than a prince in the Midbar HaAmim (Desert of the Nations).

“We feel that this is a critical moment in the history of property restitution,” Julius Berman, chairman of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, told The Jewish Press last week, after returning from a weeklong trip to Europe.

A post-Pesach review of top Israeli red wines from Bat Shlomo, Binnun, Castel, Drimia, Galil, Gros, Flam, Hayotzer, La Foret Blanche, Lueria, Matar, Psagot, Ramot Naftaly, Shiloh, Teperberg, Tura, Tzora and Tzuba.

To be sure, American policy had long opposed the growth of Israeli settlements, but at the same time U.S. policymakers acknowledged that in any negotiated agreement there would be land swaps between Israel and the Palestinians to accommodate the large numbers of Israelis living in the settlements.