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Dec 18, 2018, 10:16 AM

We Have To Fight For Ourselves

“I know how comfortable it is to curl up with a nice, fat book full of big words and think you’re going to solve all the problems in the universe. But you’re not, you know. A bit of action...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 23, 2018, 1:13 AM

Jews against Trump – Why?

Trump appointed Ambassador Nikki Haley and stands with Israel. He appointed Orthodox-Jewish David Friedman Ambassador to Israel. He is slowly moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He cleaned out the State Department and for the first time, it expressed...

Sep 14, 2018, 5:24 PM

Central America throws a party as Israel ties warm up

From left: Guatemalan Ambassador Mario Adolfo Bucaro; Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin; Héctor Enrique Celarie, chargé d'affaires of El Salvador; Costa Rican Ambassador Esteban Penrod and Ambassador Mario Edgardo Castillo of Honduras toast the 197th anniversary of Central American independence during a Sept. 13 party at the Tel Aviv Sheraton. (Silvia Golan)

As Jews usher in the year 5779 and Central Americans mark the 197th anniversary of their independence from Spain, there’s plenty to celebrate about Israel’s relationship with the region. In late 2015, Panama signed a free-trade agreement with the Jewish state...

Judith Colp Rubin

Aug 21, 2018, 8:27 PM

How can someone as nice as you be right-wing?

US President Donald Trump signing a proclamation that the US government will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, December 6, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

These days, if you don’t swoon over Obama and foam at the mouth at the mention of Trump, you're clearly racist and evil

Jul 19, 2018, 7:14 AM

When Buzzwords Are All You Have

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is the newest superstar of the American left. Last month, during a Democratic Party primary election for a seat in the United Stated House of Representatives from New York, she toppled longtime incumbent Joe Crowley. Ocasio Cortez...

Leonard Grunstein

Jul 13, 2018, 6:57 AM

Gaza Is Not Occupied by Anyone Other than Gazans — The War of Words

Gaza is occupied by Gazans. Neither Egypt nor Israel, its territorial neighbors, occupy Gaza, as a matter of fact or law. Yet, the provocative terms “occupation” and “occupier” are casually used, by many in the news media and others, to...

Chananya Weissman

Jul 2, 2018, 2:34 PM

My visit to the US Embassy in Jerusalem

A couple of weeks ago I had occasion to visit the new US Embassy in Jerusalem, which was relocated to my neighborhood a few days earlier to be closer to me. Upon reaching the security guards outside the entrance...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 20, 2018, 3:57 AM

The little ugly Zionism

Once upon a time, there was a very ugly lady. It's not nice to say but she really looked not so hot. No one liked her in any way whatsoever. At least, that's how it seemed. One day, however, it...

Phillip Mark McGough

Jun 14, 2018, 6:00 PM

Praying For Failure: Trump and the Confounding of the Critics

Niall Ferguson observed back in the summer of 2016 that the worst nightmare for the liberal mindset wasn't a Trump Presidency- it was a successful Trump Presidency. Well, here we are. Confronted by a booming economy at home and...

Jun 5, 2018, 8:00 PM

Don’t America’s liberal rabbis have better things to do than snipe at Israel?

Why smearing Democrats as “Anti-Israel” wont sway voters The above headline appears in the February 4th issue of Forward, although I will not be reading the pearls of wisdom written by its author Aaron Davis a former Obama flunky now re-tooled...

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