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Voters and religious leaders to pres. Trump: no more delay, keep your promise to...

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New petition growing by the moment; Prominent faith leaders to travel to Washington, DC tomorrow to echo their congregants demand in-person Washington, D.C., May 22 – In response to reports that President Trump may not...

All lives matter in Israel-Palestine conflict

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Blaming Israel for everything is a convenient and lazy way out of accepting responsibility. It is admirable for Marthie Momberg (“The plight of Palestine”, City Press, May 14, 2017) to conduct studies about how the...

Film Review: ‘Fog in August’ Appearing at The Washington Jewish Film Festival

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The horrors of the Holocaust have been portrayed many times in film, most notably Schindler’s List and The Pianist. One such horror, however, has never been a focus of film study: the euthanasia program...

The age of lies: how politicians hide behind statistics

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he small slabs of crude election soundbites, with extra ornamentation in the form of half-true and meaningless headline statistics, clunk across the airwaves, and we grimace. The dead prose reaches us umpteen times a...

Poll: Trump’s popularity sinks among Israeli Jews

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A poll in Israel about US President Donald Trump suggested his popularity among Jews there has declined since he first took office. In the poll of 500 Jewish-Israeli adults conducted this week for The Jerusalem Post,...

Mr. Trump, stand with Israel: The Western Wall is Jewish

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On the eve of President Trump’s first overseas trip, an unfortunate dispute has emerged over the question, “whose wall is it?” But who is the rightful owner of the Western Wall in the Old...

Trump tells Middle East to ‘drive out’ Islamist extremists

President Donald Trump urged Arab and Islamic leaders on Sunday to unite and do their share to defeat Islamist extremists, making an impassioned plea to "drive out" terrorists while toning down his own harsh...

Limmud FSU: Students ‘must learn early to combat anti-Semitism’

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Jewish students need to be educated on how to deal with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel situations long before they get to university. This is the view of Martin Yafe, a leading educator in New York’s...

The blinking game

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If I blink to the left, my little missive will be a Mother’s Day tribute. If I blink to the right, my missive will be a tribute to my years in summer camping. Left, right,...

After two millennia, christians begin to appreciate the jewish love of law

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Ever since the apostle Paul referred to “the law”—meaning the prescriptions of the Torah—as a “curse,” Christians have been perplexed, to say the least, by Judaism’s enthusiasm for legality. Meir Soloveichik believes this has...