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Israel is not an idea I support from a safe distance. It is part of my life and my family’s story.

When struck with a crisis, I turn to the writings of America's greatest crisis manager, Abraham Lincoln.

We need to cut the red tape that makes it overly costly and time-consuming to build new housing (or just to fix up your house) or to open a new business. We need to provide training for young people who wish to enter careers that are well-paying and that our community needs more of.

I was surprised that the most often cited reason to interact with non-Jews was civic, political, and legal issues affecting the community.

When a sovereign government fails to govern, neutralize hostile actors within its borders, and protect its neighbors from domestic threats, it forfeits its monopoly on defensive authority.

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Dan Bilzerian, who has 30 million Instagram followers, is on the ballot as a Republican in Florida’s 6th Congressional District. While he has little chance of winning, as an extremist, vulgar antisemite, his mere presence on the ballot combined with whatever percentage of the votes he will get, is jarring. 

Iran’s entire asymmetric military strategy relies on its ability to inflict intolerable economic pain on the West by disrupting global energy markets.

Israel has consistently maintained that the blockade exists to prevent the importation of weapons and military materiel into Hamas-controlled territory, a claim that is strongly supported by the historical evidence.

When it comes to the technologies, medical breakthroughs, surgical innovations, and companies that have most shaped modern life since the 1990s, two countries stand out above all others: the United States and Israel.

Say what you will about a demagogic politician dedicated to reviving Marxism – one of history’s bloodiest and costliest failures – as if the catastrophic events and slaughter brought on by it never happened. But on this issue, at least he wasn’t a hypocrite.

He was among the first rabbis to embrace the internet as a platform for Torah, publishing responsa as early as the 1990s. But these were not ordinary responsa. Every ruling stood behind an idea.

In attempting to justify his unprecedented absence, Mayor Mamdani said that he has made his “views on the Israeli government abundantly clear.” Yet the Israel Day Parade is not a political rally for the Knesset, nor is it a blanket endorsement of every specific policy enacted by the government in Jerusalem.

In the wake of the Jewish people’s collective wedding anniversary on Shavuos, I offer five dating mindsets that I’ve gleaned from those summers – for those of us still on the journey toward our chuppah, and those genuinely offering support along the way.

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The United States should absolutely use its leverage to advance peace. But that leverage should not be focused solely on Israel.

After winning a decisive military victory in Operation Epic Fury, the United States cannot afford to sign a flawed document just to secure a fleeting public relations win.

Ever since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the use of Holocaust inversion by enemies of Israel has gone from being used only by pariahs to becoming chic.

With most of its primary source of revenue cut off, the question remains: How did the PLO-P.A. continue financing terror payments?

It is incredibly easy to sit in a television studio thousands of miles away from the front lines of civilization and lecture a traumatized nation on the finer points of morality.

The question now is, at what point does the spread of the disease become so bad that the only solution is to flee.

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Imagine what another decade of inaction would have produced.

In fact, it is an agency whose very mandate is structurally designed to prevent the resolution of the Palestinian refugee crisis.

Does Gere really object to the idea of Jewish families living in areas where ancient Jewish history is everywhere to be found?

Torah speaks differently to different souls. Every Jew has a unique relationship with Torah, a unique derech in serving Hashem, and a unique contribution to make to the Jewish people.

The primary source underpinning the claims is the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, an organization with documented ties to Hamas and a history of laundering incendiary, unverified claims against Israel.

If our personal foundation isn’t all it can be at that time, regardless of how strong our spouse’s foundation is, our future together will be shaky; our weaker qualities will ultimately reveal themselves more clearly rather than improve.

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If a state government can ignore its own founding charter to achieve preferred electoral outcomes, then constitutional protections are reduced to mere suggestions.