“On the Map” Details the Road ...
In 1977, Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Team won the European Cup. Israel won a tournament that literally put the Jewish state on the map.
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To Undo the Effect of Obama’s ...
For those wracking their brains trying to find a constructive response to President Barack Obama’s December 23rd betrayal in the UN Security Council of Israel as well as the vast majority of pro-Israel Americans, journalist Ira Stoll has an idea: Encourage President-Elect Donald Trump and the incoming US Senate to pass a treaty, making it clear that neither America nor Israel recognize the validity of or will be bound in any way by UN Security Council Resolution 2334.
read moreAsk Donald Trump to Keep His P...
The Orthodox Union Advocacy has written a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump, asking him to keep his campaign commitment to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, in recognition of the Holy City as Israel’s chosen capital. The group has posted a petition for all supporters of that relocation to sign.
read moreExposing the Myth of “Linkage”...
For years, experts and would-be-experts on the problems in the Middle East have argued over the concept of “linkage,” the theory that if only the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs were solved, all other struggles in the Middle East would fade away. The truth is, “linkage” is a false myth.
read moreThe Politics of Hate Crimes
We are now in the third stage of this post-election trauma: the weeping and the violence have given way to hysteria.
read moreMavi Marmara: Another Media As...
In 2010, seven years after he was first elected prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an ardent supporter of the Palestinian Arabs, including the terrorist Hamas faction, engineered a crisis with Israel which was encouraged by the pro-Palestinian media throughout the Western world. Israel is still paying for it.
read moreIt Doesn’t Matter Who Do...
The reason the press ignores the deaths in Aleppo, Syria, is that no one in the media cares who does the dying, only who does the killing.
read moreDo Women’s Rights Matter to J ...
J Street’s controversial response to the sexual harassment of one of its staff members raises questions as to whether its attitude toward women’s rights is compromised by its political goals.
read moreJudaism Director Rabbi Jonah D...
Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, made the following statement in regard to presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s recently released campaign ad…
read moreChoosing Political Access over...
A number of years ago I pushed my colleague in Englewood, NJ, Rabbi Menachem Genack, who is national head of the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division…
read moreMichael Bernardi: Third Genera...
Fiddler on the Roof, the cherished musical is all about tradition and Jewish continuation
read moreSen. Cruz Exposes Obama Admini...
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, convened a hearing in which he exposed the Obama administration’s pattern of turning a blind eye to radical Islamic terrorism…
read moreAt HaZamir, Jewish Teens Sing,...
Vivian Lazar knows that HaZamir, the International Jewish High School Choir, which she directs, is more than just a musical organization through which some 400 young Jewish students came together last month to present a gala concert celebrating four-part traditional and contemporary Jewish music.
read moreWhy Is Ireland So Hostile to I...
Having experienced religious persecution themselves, the Irish identified with Jews. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case ..
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