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Jerome Marcus

Jerome M. Marcus is a lawyer and a fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem.

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Purim 2021

Jerome M. MarcusMarch 1, 2021

How to fight the culture wars

These day-school children will be filled with their own traditions and with the knowledge that they are parts of a community that invests them and their commitment to that tradition with immense importance.

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Jerome M. MarcusNovember 4, 2020

Respecting belief in prayer and a way of life

Much ink has been spilled by Jews proclaiming their inability to understand the haredi response to COVID-19 restrictions imposed in America and Israel. That failure to understand is a failure on our part.

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Jerome M. MarcusAugust 20, 2020

Thank you, Obama and Biden, for bringing peace to the Middle East

Now we have peace busting out all over the place between Israel and the Arab countries.

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Jerome M. MarcusAugust 10, 2020

Mistaking the Jewish tradition in support of others

Most troubling of all is the concept that every person alive today is guilty of the sin of racial hatred.

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Jerome M. MarcusAugust 16, 2019

The optics don’t matter on Israel’s ban of Omar and Tlaib

Israel was right to refuse to let them visit “Palestine.” What it did was simply to deny entry to enemies—something every reasonable country does every day.

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Jerome M. MarcusJune 5, 2019

Democracies obey laws of armed conflict, while their enemies flout them

The intentional blending of civilians and combatants is the foundation stone of Islamist “military” strategy around the world—a settled part of their playbook.

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Jerome M. MarcusMay 6, 2019

The story behind Arab attacks that needs to be told

In Hamas’s view, death on either side of the fence is a win.

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Jerome M. MarcusApril 25, 2019

Only the Knesset should be able to unseat a prime minister. Even if his name is Netanyahu.

A law that immunizes a sitting prime minister from criminal prosecution does one thing and one thing only: It gives the people’s legislature in Israel the power to decide whether a head of state should be removed.

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Jerome M. MarcusMarch 26, 2019

Where’s the real threat coming from in 2019?

Iran is a far greater danger to Jews, the Jewish state and Western civilization than a gaggle of rednecks wearing bed sheets over their heads.

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Jerome M. MarcusMarch 11, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s lies about Israel and the Jews

The overwhelming majority of U.S. senators and representatives support a close relationship with Israel because they believe that such a relationship is in America’s interest.

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Jerome M. MarcusAugust 21, 2018

The dollars that fund spies from Iran

Iran has sent people into America to film Jewish facilities and document the security measures these centers deploy to protect the people praying, eating and socializing within them.

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Jerome M. MarcusJune 27, 2018

The end of every balloon

A total of 20 teams were created to address the flammable-weapons problem emanating from Hamas in Gaza. Each had a mentor, chosen from among experts in lasers, radar, optics, photography, fire-fighting and other fields.

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