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Joseph Frager

Dr. Joseph Frager is a lifelong activist and physician. He is chairman of Israel advocacy for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, chairman of the executive committee of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim and executive vice president of the Israel Heritage Foundation.

The current crisis places the burden on U.S. President Donald Trump to end a cycle previous presidents managed but never resolved.
Although he didn’t personally bring about the first Hanukkah party at the White House, the Jewish activist who helped transform Jesse Helms from anti-Semite to Israel-supporter undoubtedly had an effect.
The recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh makes a strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities more, not less, likely.
With 269,318 deaths in America and 1.43 deaths worldwide from COVID-19, it is again time to gain perspective, especially as 2020 comes to an end.
After the events of last week, it is again time to sing “Shirah,” and the Jewish people should not miss the opportunity.
The Orthodox may make up a mere 10 percent of the American-Jewish population, but for key states, the number is misleading.
If Trump accomplishes his goal of putting three conservative judges onto the Supreme Court, he will have fulfilled one of the major objectives of his presidency and will of his backers.
Whether the 2,000-year dream of reapplying Jewish sovereignty to Israel’s biblical and historic heartland is advanced will depend largely on the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Newly unsealed documents reveal just how little he did to help Jews during the Holocaust.