Simchas Torah is the happiest day of the year. If so, why do we lein about one of the saddest events in Jewish history — the passing of Moshe Rabbeinu?…
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The Unknowns of 9/11
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Seeing is Believing
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Forever an Ally? Israel and the Democratic Party
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Are U.S. Diplomats Being Targeted by a New, Invisible Weapon?
In 2016, about 25 members of the American diplomatic corps and their families in Havana, Cuba, came down with a similar set of disturbing and unexplained symptoms. Most of them…
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