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The two elderly men sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office began reminiscing about their wartime experiences. They both had spent time in the same concentration camp, which…
Two stories. One holds out hope for the Palestinians and for peace. The other promises continued despair and war. The first involves an Israeli chip designer, Mellanox Technologies, which employs…
The threats and vulgarities bellowed by several visibly Orthodox Jews at members of the New York State Assembly in Albany after it narrowly passed a measure ending religious exemptions for…
During a visit by Agudas Yisrael members in the Upper Galilee in 1934, they called on the Rav of Teveria, Harav Yaakov Chai Zrihan, zt”l, the Sephardic Rav in Teveria…
It’s in vogue to catastrophize about the state of retirement savings in the United States. Pundits and academics alike often cite average 401(k) account balances from surveys as evidence that…
Even the most enthusiastic proponents of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan have been careful to keep expectations low for the Bahrain conference. The Palestinians won’t be there, most Arab…
President Donald Trump warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last July in an all-caps tweet that if Iran ever threatened the United States again, it would “suffer severe consequences the likes…
As of last week, New York is now the 13th state to authorize driver’s licenses for immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally. The Democrat-led state Senate voted 33-29 in favor…
Mohammed Morsi, the largely unknown and uncharismatic engineer and onetime professor at Cal State University who was jokingly referred to as the “spare tire” when his party rolled him out…
If, for reasons beyond his control an individual can’t perform a mitzvah properly, is there any point in doing it in part, even of one would not be yotzei? For…
The Supreme Court was able to find a small patch of common ground sufficient to resolve the Bladensburg Peace Cross case, but the various opinions in the decision announced on…
As President Donald Trump mulls a comprehensive response to what he says was an Iranian attack on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf last week, his smarter critics are not…
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has informed the American public that the Trump administration is running “concentration camps” on the Mexican border. More than generating fresh debate over the handling of illegal…
There has never been a more pointless election campaign than the one being held in Israel now. The voters heard the same politicians deliver the same spiels just a few…
Considering that a survey last year revealed that 31 percent of Americans, and 41 percent of millennials, believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and…
They were a group of young men who enlisted in the Turkish Army, which controlled Eretz Yisrael during World War I. One of the recruits, Dov Haus, was sent to…
The long-awaited summer season has finally arrived. Along with the welcome sunshine and warm weather comes a host of related safety issues, especially for children and young adults. At all…
In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt said that America should protect “four freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. As he runs for president,…
Power came back in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after an unexplained blackout on Sunday, but journalists were still able to make puns about these countries being in the dark, while…
President Donald Trump said the wrong thing again Wednesday, and of course some in the media — and practically all the Democratic presidential candidates — are spun up about it.…