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Trump's Marshall Plan
Condemnation of Trump's Gaza proposal (NBC)Now that the initial shock is over, perhaps we can take a closer look at what - on the surface - seems like a ridiculous idea.In what has to be the most...
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Empathy is Good. But Not Enough
Rav Asher Weiss - What does he really believe?Sometimes, outrage can be misplaced. At least on a wholesale level. The Charedi world is not as callous as one might think about what their non Charedi...
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Why Are They Silent?
There is a reason Lakewood is called the City of Torah. Deservedly so. Lakewood, New Jersey, is home to the largest and most prestigious yeshiva in the Western Hemisphere. The amount and depth of Torah...
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Hostages Now - Gaza Later
3 hostages - after captivity and before (VIN)One of the things I learned from experts about the nature of torture is that even in its most extreme form, people can often withstand it in order not to...
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Religious Schools as Government Funded Charter Schools
The Supreme Court (JTA)At the founding of this great nation, Thomas Jefferson insisted that freedom of religion be an integral part of its ethos. This principle was put into writing in the First...
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Expressing Justifiable Outrage the Wrong Way
Scarlett JohanssonI don’t know why Kanye West harbors such hatred toward Jewish people. I cannot imagine what must have happened to him to make such an antisemite.But there is no doubt that he has an...
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Are Centrists All That Different From the Right?
Rabbi David Bashevkin’s essay last year about the controversy over Torah U’Mada has reappeared this year. This got me thinking about whether it was worth revisiting the issue. Have there been any...
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An Objective View of Trump's End Game for Gaza
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was recently quoted saying the following to the people of Israel:"You are an extraordinary country. You rose from the ashes of a low moment in the history of humanity,...
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Progressivism is Not Judaism
I considered it. I don’t recall if I was specifically asked or if it was simply a matter of responding to a general call by the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) for Orthodox rabbis to join a new...
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Daas Torah and Chilul HaShem
Rav Dov Landau (Jerusalem Post)Israel is Evil – Free Palestine: From the River to the Sea! This is not my view. It is the view of Rav Dov Landau, one of only two people considered to be the Gadol...
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The New Jewish Caucus in Congress
There was a time I might have welcomed something like this. Jewish Insider reports that Jewish members of the House have, for the first time, decided to create a Jewish caucus. The purpose of this, I...
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Not a War on Yeshivas
Well, it finally happened. JTA reports the following:The New York State Education Department is cutting off public funding to two Brooklyn yeshivas and ordering parents to find alternative educational...
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Time to Take Off the Gloves!
Militants? Can anyone imagine calling Nazi Germany militants? And yet, this is how the mainstream media refers to Hamas terrorists. The reason is that they want to appear even-handed, meaning they see...
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Obliterating Hamas and then Iran
I don’t think it’s possible for anyone who is not a survivor of the Holocaust to truly understand what they went through at the hands of the Nazis. Those horrors cannot be described in any meaningful...
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The Extremism of Gateshead
Charedi protest against the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (JC)Extremism can be our worst enemy, even when it is in pursuit of a worthy goal. That is why I try to avoid extremist positions on...
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Meir Kahane - Revisited
Rabbi Meir Kahane (Arutz Sheva)I have never doubted his wisdom about the Arab mindset. Rabbi Meir Kahane was way ahead of his time. A true visionary (albeit a violent one) about an issue that few...
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When Ignoramuses Speak for Judaism
US ambassador to Israel, Mike HuckabeeI am generally averse to using sources that are known to be heavily biased, even when the bias aligns with my views. This is because their slant strongly...
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Hating Ignorance. Not Chasidim
Former Dean of Hofstra Law School, Aaaron TwerdskiMy friend, Dr. Izzy Krakowski, has mentioned to me on multiple occasions that his son, Moshe, appreciates the respectful way I respond to his articles....
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Living in the Land of the Free
Freedom. If I were to choose one word that describes the ethos of this great country of ours, it would be that word. It is, in fact, what makes this country so great. That is the one thing that does...
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Moral Clarity about Palestinians
Ariel, Shiri, and Kfir Bibas murdered in captivity by HamasThere must be something in the air. When a major component of Meir Kahane’s views about Palestinians becomes mainstream, that should shake...
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Will This Mean the End of Hamas?
Beware for what you wish. Well, I didn’t exactly wish for this. But I did kind of hope that Israel would have the resolve and wherewithal to do it. Because that would secure Israel’s border with Gaza....
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Revolutionary in Chief
Fidel Castro and Donald TrumpWhat do Fidel Castro and Donald Trump have in common? They are both revolutionaries. Except that with Trump, he is doing it without a military coup or anything illegal. He...
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Not the Wrong Message
Conservative rabbi, Amichia Lau-LavieI cannot imagine the deep level of disappointment that Rav Yisroel Meir Lau must feel about his nephew, Amichai Lau-Lavie, the openly gay Conservative rabbi who...
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It's been an unusually busy day for me today. Nothing bad. But a lot of time related obligations seem to have converged upon me all at once. On the rare occasion when this happens, I can squeeze out a...
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Why Do They Hate Us?
Kingsley WIlson - deputy press secretary at the Pentagon (JTA)Jews are a hated people. That is the rule. As much as I would like to live in denial of that rule, I have long ago realized that it is the...
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