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As the pile-up of lawsuits proves, many believe that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by declaring a national emergency at the U.S-Mexico border. The facts and the law show…
After the sin of the egel, Moshe Rabbeinu pleaded with Hashem on behalf of Bnei Yisrael. “I implore! The people have sinned a great sin… And now, if You would…
Vietnam is more than a convenient neutral site for the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, which is slated for later this…
Israel has finally decided to carry out an economic sanction against Palestinian Authority-supported terrorism, by deducting the amounts the PA pays out to the families of terrorists imprisoned in Israel…
When a greatly respected Rosh Yeshivah and his wife were forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight last week in what they stress was a completely baseless and unsubstantiated accusation,…
Israel doesn’t need enemies abroad seeking to undermine its legitimacy. It has plenty at home, in the media and academe, who stop at nothing in their efforts to besmirch the…
Back in 1947, a public relations firm called Whitaker and Baxter, hired by the American Medical Association, created a term to disparage President Harry Truman’s proposal for a national health-care…
The Jewish-French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut never dreamed that he would find himself so attacked and affronted — in Paris, the capital of his own homeland. Among the leading academicians in…
Building off previous, similar experiments, scientist and writer David Fryburg, M.D., conducted a test to see how various types of images would affect people’s moods, reported Good News Network on…
There is a well-known story about the time Harav Shamshon Rafael Hirsch, zt”l, at an advanced age, traveled to Switzerland and remarked, “When I come before Hashem, He will say…
Many of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and would-be contenders have taken thoughtful and admirable positions on various issues over the years, eschewing blind partisanship and ideological dogmatism. Now they’re…
Opponents of Amazon’s plan to create an expansive corporate campus in Queens were celebrating last Thursday, after the giant multinational e-commerce company announced it was backing out of the deal.…
This is what compromise looks like in the era of President Donald Trump vs. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Success is an orphan, while failure continues to have many mothers and…
From Parashas Shemos, when we learn about the birth of Moshe Rabbeinu, through Parashas Zos Habrachah at the very end of sefer Devarim, Moshe Rabbeinu’s name is mentioned numerous times…
Anyone listening to President Donald Trump and to Democratic presidential hopefuls hears an almost Dickensian tale of two very different Americas. The president takes “the best of times” view and…
In the winter of 1973, 46 years ago, the three of us were assistant U.S. attorneys in Baltimore starting a federal grand jury investigation of a corrupt Democratic county chief…
Politics is known as the art of compromise. But not all art deserves to be hung on a museum wall. Republicans and Democrats finally reached a compromise on the border…
Many of us pale-skinned Americans are puzzled by our darker-skinned fellow citizens’ strong negative reaction to the practice of “blackface” — Caucasians putting on black makeup to portray African-Americans. The…
The news was tragic. A Jewish girl was found murdered in the Ein Yael Forest in Yerushalayim. Ori Ansbacher, Hy”d, just 19 years old, met her death near her place…
It’s one thing for a back-bencher such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to roll out a pie-in-the sky Green New Deal with no explanation of its cost, feasibility or consequences;…