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We are not unmindful that generally appropriate governmental initiatives may have some inappropriate aspects in execution.

Al Qaeda, despite President Obama’s claims to the contrary, is newly resurgent and no doubt salivating at the prospect of a severely diminished U.S. military capacity.

Halpert doesn’t know why he was fired, and YU apparently won’t explain

In the last years of Weimar Germany, President Hindenburg began ruling Germany by emergency decree.

France will have to cut taxes and spending, and reform the job market and the welfare system, or face the consequences.

The “quenelle” has become a form of language, a mechanism by which hatred is not just spread but normalized.

I do not want Barack Obama to pardon Pollard.

Islamists have been successful in building the Islamophobia industry, diverts attention from activities they would prefer not be noticed.

Rabbi Schochet wrote the Johannesburg Beis Din: It is totally prohibited and unacceptable to hear someone like Boteach.

I was the first person, save for his family and attorney, to make contact with Jonathan Pollard after his arrest.

Take the most creative and modern-minded adherents, and make sure they have a place for their creative ambitions.

It's a sign of community weakness when certain issues take the forefront, so enemies can capitalize on the division.

Israel's popularity is at the highest since 1991, when Gallup first polled Americans on foreign countries.

The history of Zionism in Jassy, Romania, amidst persecution and antisemitism.

Imagine you take your family somewhere where there is no such thing as a day off.

Israel would find its major population areas within rocket launching range if Judea and Samaria are relinquished

J Street U groups should be showing "The J Street Challenge"

Those afraid to take responsibility and create an essential alternative to lead Israel will always find themselves lobbying.

Traditional Jewish texts clearly discuss men and women as categories – as distinct groups – even though individual men and women vary.

The idea of a personal God implies the notion that God is more than just the sum total of the physical universe.

I hollered over and over again, waving a clinched fist toward the heavens.

Speaking in his native German, Schulz used the opportunity to blast Israel.

Friedman has been writing the same column for decades in which he asks Israelis whether they will leave the "West Bank."

Amalek tries to convince us there is no hashgacha in this world – that Hashem is not involved and doesn’t care about us.

Is it not ironic that the renewal of a decades-old Jewish town is considered an "illegal settlement" on "occupied territory"?

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Last month, after the Israeli government published plans for new construction, the State Department promptly repeated its longstanding refrain that the settlements were “illegitimate” and that “It is never helpful to have steps taken that are not conducive to our efforts to move forward on peace.”

While the thrust of the proposed law is easily understandable, there is a problem as well. The current draft requires claimants to prove malicious intent on the part of the present holder of the property, which some legal authorities say would be extremely difficult.