The issue is not was there a quid pro quo between President Trump and Mr. Zelensky, but rather who was the beneficiary of the request. The obvious answer: American taxpayers who were being asked to give a great deal of money to Ukraine, a country riddled with charges of corruption and meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election.
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The only way for Mr. Trump to avoid impeachment is for Republicans to regain control of the House and retain control of the Senate. If the Republicans regain the House, Ilhan Omar would no longer be on its Foreign Relations Committee.
read moreSimply call the Speaker’s office at 202-225-0100 and either tell a staffer or just leave a message informing her that you support bringing House Resolution 246 to a vote on the floor.
read moreTrivializing the Holocaust for political and propaganda purposes
read moreMonty Noam Penkower provides an in-depth analysis of the conditions surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel.
read moreThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland undertaken to oppose the Nazis’ final effort began April 19, 1943
read moreIsraeli young people learn their country’s history and the dangers of ceding land to Palestinian groups
read moreDoes the Finnish “artist” fight to withdraw his piece from the museum, presumably showing his concern for Muslim Palestinians, or does he fight to keep McJesus at the museum, showing his disdain for Christian Palestinians and his own distorted view of free speech?
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“Anonymous’s op-ed would serve as a basis for a Federal criminal investigation because he or she prima facie violated the oath of office statute,” says Mark Langfan, who also serves as chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel.
read moreAt YJS, the curriculum was based on the notion that the Modern-Orthodox Jewish community should strive to integrate Judaic and secular education and apply what is learned in the classroom to situations that arise in everyday life.
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“When people who don’t know or recognize me ask if I’m Jewish, I always tell them, yes, by adoption. My parents made sure my brother, sisters, and I learned early on that the entire Good Book was written by, about, and for Jews. Too many Christians don’t quite grasp that,” he says.
read moreIf anyone is to blame for the recent kerfuffle over the status of Jerusalem it is not President Donald Trump, but, rather, President Barack Obama, who, a year ago, acted at the UN in lame-duck revenge against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he hated.
read moreMark Helprin is comfortable with Judaism and Israel, doesn’t see Jews as self-loathing Woody Allen wannabees, and knows Donald Trump is not an anti-Semite.
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