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In recent months, amid the furor over immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has come under criticism and even calls for its abolition because of allegedly…
There are many different ways to define what sets Klal Yisrael apart from the nations of the world. The first impression would likely be that those are the people chosen…
Every year, for thousands of years, the Seder opens with a proclamation which, if taken seriously, must either depress us or tip us off to the fact that we are…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said of the Holocaust, “We can forgive, but we cannot forget.” The outraged reaction was immediate and justified. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declared that “What Amalek…
People throughout Israel and around the world were focused last Thursday on the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet, as the moon lander, a mere 13 miles above its destination on the far…
It was one of the momentous events in the history of our people, and it also happened on the first night of Pesach. One of the largest armies ever gathered…
After months of foreboding, capped by an Election Day fraught with the anxieties of low voter turnout and a long night of exit polls, the Torah community in Eretz Yisrael…
As reported in detail in this week’s Features section, after 37 years of davening, hoping, and waiting, the body of Zecharia Baumel, Hy”d, who was killed in 1982 in Lebanon,…
To be sure, President Donald Trump’s decision to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization is good for Israel. But it’s also good for the western world. The…
The latest demand from Democrats to investigate President Donald Trump has come from chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Richard Neal, who wants the Internal Revenue Service…
“I suspect that the wise men and women up in Albany who thought of this brilliant idea don’t get to the supermarket that much,” read a letter published in this…
“This month shall be for you the beginnings of the months, it shall be for you the first of the months of the year …” A king might test the…
The Canadian province of Quebec is poised for a breakthrough in militant secularism and xenophobia with Bill 21, which would ban certain public-sector employees from wearing yarmulkes, hijabs, and other…
Anti-Semites who don’t want to be identified as such often claim to be anti-Israel. Or pro-peace. Or pro-Palestinian. They don’t hate Jews, they argue, they hate injustice. Their hearts bleed…
The health-care market received a jolt from the Justice Department when it declared that it will seek a wholesale scrapping of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) following a…
Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a Trump administration initiative banning bump stocks, the semiautomatic rifle attachments that enable the weapons to fire in long, sustained bursts…
The relentless persecution endured by the Jews of yesteryear included decrees forcing them to hold public debates with their religious adversaries. This usually put the Jews in an impossible situation.…
The U.S. Senate offered a sampling of political theater at its best on Tuesday in the vote produced and directed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Democrats’ Green New…
This week’s visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister ,Binyamin Netanyahu is a stark reminder of how much things have changed in U.S.-Israel relations, thanks to President Donald Trump. During…
In her address to New Zealand’s Parliament shortly after the recent mosque attacks in that country that left 50 worshippers dead and another 50 injured, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern refused…