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April 15, 2013
8:40 pm

Happy 65th Birthday Israel, but what is next?

Tomorrow is Yom Ha’atzmut, Israel’s day of independence. This is the day in 1948, when the Zionist dream was finally accomplished: a state where Jews would be free to......

March 6, 2013
5:35 pm

Moshe Feiglin: The Radical within Likud-Beitanu

For the past few weeks, I have seen articles that criticize Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to build a coalition that includes Shomrei Sfarad (Shas), the party that represents the Hareidi......

February 25, 2013
9:46 pm

Purim and the Megillah: The Structuring for Future Confrontations

Having heard the Megillah twice yesterday, the festive high of the holiday of Purim is rushing through my blood. So I have decided to write this article about something......

February 12, 2013
9:32 pm

Follow Up: Brooklyn College Teetering on the Point of No Return

This is the first time I have ever had to write a follow up article on a previously covered issue The situation is really something that I never really......

February 6, 2013
7:30 pm

Brooklyn College’s Brewing Controversy

Tomorrow, the point of no return will be crossed. This will be the point where an academic institution will be unable to claim that they are unbiased. That the......

January 25, 2013
6:20 pm

What Zionism means to me and why Abbas is wrong

You would think that a term created a little over one hundred years ago for a concept that is almost as old as time itself would not cause confusion......

January 16, 2013
8:15 pm

Joe Klein, Get Some Facts Straight

Joe Klein is a reporter for TIME magazine. This article is written as a response to his recent article, “Obama’s Next Foreign Policy Battle”, which can be found here......

January 4, 2013
3:44 am

A New Year’s Message

This past November, we saw an unprecedented number of rocket attacks coming from the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip into southern Israel, some reaching as far as Jerusalem. At the......

December 25, 2012
6:27 am

Appeasement: If it didn’t work then, why would it work now?

We all know that the term appeasement is a term in politics that was made infamous by the European Allies dealings with Hitler in order to prevent World War......

December 24, 2012
6:38 pm

Legitimacy of Israel’s claim on land won in defensive wars

Thomas L. Friedman, a reporter for the New York Times, said in a recent article entitled, Iron Empires, Iron Fists, Iron Domes that, “Israelis have responded to the collapse......