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Rabbi Dov Fischer

If a right-wing Court had been seizing extraordinary powers, the left would now be demanding the reforms it denounces.
U.S. jurisprudence believes that, evil as it may be to turn a murderer loose, it is a much greater evil to countenance the government’s abuse of its vast powers.
Those of us who have followed her political career in California were not surprised by the recent firestorm she created.
No one calls Jersey City “the West Bank.” Why not? Too much history there? Too many biblical memories of Moses and Aaron buying shoes at Journal Square?
When Israel’s enemies speak of “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” they don’t mean just the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria.
Time has run out on the Arab waiting game. Sovereignty won’t be simple—nothing of monumental historical consequence is. Only one more month to go.
If you live in Israel, it is difficult to fully describe or explain Trump Derangement Syndrome.
We all know about Robert Bowers, the neo-Nazi who murdered 11 Jews in Pittsburgh. Yet most of us outside Brooklyn and some other New York City boroughs never have heard of James Polite. Who is he?