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Farley Weiss

Farley Weiss is the former president of The National Council of Young Israel which is one of the major Jewish organizations in America that represents over 110 Synagogues and around 100,000 Jews. Farley is an intellectual property attorney for the law firm of Weiss & Moy.

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Farley WeissSeptember 18, 2022
Discrimination against Jews on the Temple Mount must end
Judaism’s holiest site must be open to all faiths.
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Farley WeissSeptember 4, 2022
Israelis have to believe a politician’s word is good
Israeli politicians should not make decisions based on personal animus and refuse to serve under Netanyahu.
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Farley WeissAugust 15, 2022
How to integrate haredi men into Israeli society
The Israel Defense Forces must work with community leaders to accommodate religious practices.
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Farley WeissAugust 7, 2022
How not to negotiate an Iran deal
The Biden administration’s ineptitude may force Israel to take military action.
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Farley WeissJuly 31, 2022
Maccabiah matches and hunger games
The amazing event, which brings Jewish athletes from around the world to compete in Israel every four years, will be even better when organizers take fast days into account.
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Farley WeissJune 27, 2022
An anti-Semite should never be a US ambassador
The Biden administration should drop its nomination of Elizabeth Frawley Bagley for ambassador to Brazil.
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Farley WeissJune 19, 2022
To save the American Jewish community, we must build personal relationships
We are losing our fellow Jews every day to assimilation and intermarriage, but we can change this by reaching out to others in order to bring them back to Judaism.
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Farley WeissMay 29, 2022
Israel must end its policy of appeasement on the Temple Mount
Discrimination against Jewish prayer on Judaism’s holiest site is obscene.
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Farley WeissMay 9, 2022
The Biden administration’s Israel policy has only made things worse
The Palestinian Authority pays terrorists to slay, but the administration gives them money anyway.
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Farley WeissMay 2, 2022
The US must support freedom of religion on the Temple Mount
Even Muslims have admitted that the Mount is Judaism's holiest site.
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Farley WeissApril 11, 2022
An anti-Zionist congregation’s perverted notion of justice
The Tzedek Congregation needs to change its usage of the beautiful Hebrew word of Tzedek, which means justice, because what the congregation represents is the opposite of justice—as it supports the boycott and destruction of Israel.  
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Farley WeissMarch 28, 2022
The new Iran deal is a disaster, and everyone knows it
Providing massive sanctions relief to an evil regime that calls for the destruction of Israel and America is a terrible idea—and one that has already been tried.
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Farley WeissMarch 17, 2022
Orthodoxy and the State of Israel
Despite the miracles that were clearly the result of God and the great contribution of the Israeli government to Judaism, many Orthodox Jews speak negatively about the state and don’t celebrate its miraculous victory in 1948 or that in 1967.
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Farley WeissFebruary 22, 2022
Two rabbis who need to be called to task for inexcusable behavior
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi and Rabbi Yaron Reuven went beyond the pale in their attack on a pro-Israel event hosted by the Boca Raton Synagogue.
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Farley Weiss and Kenneth LassonFebruary 6, 2022
In memory of Esther Pollard
The behind-the-scenes story of her husband’s incarceration and release is not that well known.
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