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Farley Weiss

Farley Weiss is the co-author, with Leonard Grunstein, of Because It’s Just and Right: The Untold Backstory of the U.S. Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, and a past president of the National Council of Young Israel.

Good relations with the U.S. are important, but they need not come at the cost of Israel’s compromising its vital interests and the safety of its citizens.
Israel should follow France’s example and allow anyone with a negative COVID-19 test enter the country.
Jewish Democrats must join with their Republican counterparts to push for the anti-Semitic Congresswoman to be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The policy of appeasement is not only immoral, but encourages and emboldens perpetrators of evil to achieve their goals.
Time is of the essence, as the problem is only getting worse.
Ironically, the basketball legend famous for a controversial commercial in which he said, “I am not a role model” is becoming just that.
Even Democrats are having a hard time understanding Biden’s efforts to return to the JCPOA.
In Judaism, we are taught to “choose life.” Sometimes, doing so entails risk. But the math in this case shows that the risk of the vaccine is far less than that of the virus.
What would Einstein say about Washington’s resumption of failed policies without even the expectation that they yield different results?
Just as Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross and Aaron David Miller have not changed their failed thinking, Colin Kahl maintains his previous false views of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the wider Middle East.
We should always keep our eye on the big picture and remember the lesson from Chapter 5 of “Pirkei Avot”: Those who are slow to anger and quick to forgive are pious.
It is a huge relief that convicted spy Jonathan Pollard is finally free of his restrictive parole conditions and at liberty to move to Israel.