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Jun 3, 2018, 8:49 PM

What are your summer plans?

I'm looking for a house with a pool. A simple house, with room for our kids to stop in when they have a break, when they can take a week and hang out for long sunny pool days that...

Irina Tsukerman

Mar 27, 2018, 11:02 PM

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gaza Strip

Who was behind the Palestinian PM's assassination attempt - and why? There are currently two main theories, explaining the mysterious attempt to take the life of the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on March 13, by exploding two bombs, which...

Mar 26, 2018, 7:45 AM

The Taylor Force Act becomes law with budget passage

Supporters and detractors of Donald Trump (apart from Democrats) seem equally incensed that he elected to sign rather than veto a $1.3 trillion spending bill to keep the American government funded through September. He was making noise about vetoing the bill...

Irina Tsukerman

Feb 27, 2018, 1:52 PM

Operation Save Our Allies

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations (COP) annual mission to Israel was exciting, thought-provoking, and a little overwhelming as usual. While many of the discussions were off the record, there were general impressions and themes that...

Jan 25, 2018, 10:18 AM

Speak Softly and Carry Big Wallet

Maybe Bibi Netanyahu is corrupt. Maybe Donald Trump paid off a porn star for her silence. Maybe Abu Mazen thinks the Dutch brought the Jews to Palestine because they wanted to protect European colonialist interests. Maybe -- despite Bibi's, Donald's and Abbas'...

Dec 31, 2017, 2:13 AM

If you want a president as a ‘friend’ get a dog…

If you want a friend as president get a dog. I have been watching with interest as the left especially the Jewish left has been in meltdown mode since Trump won last year. A close friend of mine asked me...

Philip Lefkowitz

Dec 11, 2017, 11:46 PM

The Catholic Church and its contemporary attitude toward the Jewish people

The rather negative and ominous response by Pope Francis to President Trump’s announcement regarding the United States Embassy being moved to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, once again revives the question, what is the contemporary relationship of the Catholic Church to...

Dec 7, 2017, 11:30 PM

‘Days of Rage’ and Bad Reporting

On December 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump announced that he would be implementing the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The announcement that the president would be enacting a law passed by an...

Stephen M. Flatow

Dec 6, 2017, 3:28 PM

The Taylor Force Act has been gutted

Israeli and American officials participate in a goodbye ceremony for Taylor Force, the US citizen killed in a stabbing terror attack in Jaffa, as his body is sent back to be buried in the United States, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on Friday, March 11, 2016. (Flash90)

The adjusted bill is worse than no bill at all, because Congress won't see the need to revisit the issue of paying terrorists

Nov 16, 2017, 6:54 PM

Closure: Guest column – Sarah Paley

Closure by Sarah Paley Sunday, I sat in Ofer Military Court with Eli Borochov and his family. Eli, an American tourist visiting Hebron had been shot in 2015 along with another visitor to the holy Cave of the Patriarchs. While waiting...

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