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Israelis celebrated the Pollards’ arrival. In contrast, American Jews bristled both at the news and the happiness with which Israelis greeted them.
What the United Kingdom has achieved provides an object lesson in strategy and diplomacy for every democratic nation, not least when it comes to dealing with the Middle East or threats from foreign aggressors.
With the vaccine bringing hope for a possible return to normalcy, synagogues and groups must use what they’ve learned during the crisis while recognizing that real communities aren’t virtual.
While the overall situation regarding anti-Semitism in the world continues to deteriorate, the past year has shown some bright spots in the war on this widespread hatred.
The presidential adviser/son-in-law was demonized as the Modern Orthodox face of white supremacism and all Trump failures, but his accomplishments should long be remembered.
As the year winds down and a third near-standstill takes place, more than 100 Israeli medical experts took a welcome ax to conventional coronavirus wisdom.
The Arab states have moved on. The Israeli left is powerless. And no one expects the Biden administration to help. So why are the Palestinians acting as if they don’t have to change?
If the Likud and its coalition partners do not win 61 seats in the upcoming elections, the left will continue to control the national agenda regardless of what the public thinks.
If something approximating justice was served in Germany and France, by the same token it was denied in Argentina and Pakistan.
The prime minister is again the issue as Israel heads for another election. But the unseemly aspects of his quest for political survival are obscuring his achievements.
The West’s predominant ideology of moral and cultural relativism has propelled the rise of paganism, as well as the veneration of the animal and natural world, at the expense of humanity.
Just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crushed the Blue and White alliance that challenged him less than a year ago, he has similarly demolished the country’s greater left-wing camp.