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In the week that Jews celebrate Pesach, there is something particularly resonant about an Egyptian Pharaoh’s claim to have successfully carried out what these days would be called a genocide.
To choose freedom, you have to have the courage to take risks.
You can find backing for both the social justice/universalist idea of Judaism and a more traditional sectarian approach in the Haggadah. This year won’t be any different.
Claims that a phrase used to lament the Notre Dame Cathedral fire is racist or anti-Muslim shows what’s at stake in the defense of the best of Western civilization.
America is already divided, as is Israel, between those who favor appeasing enemies while reprimanding friends, and those who espouse the opposite view.
AOC wants to cut aid to the Jewish state to punish Israelis for re-electing Benjamin Netanyahu. But Israelis would be wise to phase it out anyway for their own reasons.
The willingness of major groups and denominations to try to undermine the choice of Israel’s voters calls into question their belief in and respect for democracy.
Just when it seemed that Jordan and the Palestinian Authority had created a united front against Saudi Arabia, they began to clash over who would actually lead the new Waqf administration.
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas’s stubbornness forces the Palestinians to get used to any new situation imposed upon them by the Trump administration and Israel.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spoken about Jews several times, with plain and heartfelt hostility. What most agitates him about Jews is their notorious practice of smearing critics as “anti-Semites” and their penetration of the establishment.
An anti-Semite victimhood claim is based on a myth about a post-9/11 backlash that never happened.
By seeking to override or ignore the will of Israeli democracy, they are accelerating the breakdown of the rapidly eroding bipartisan consensus in favor of the Jewish state.