Tag: United States
Impeaching the President: Identifying Deeper Jurisprudential Foundations for Lawful Removal
"Reluctantly, I have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to U.S. national security."
General (USA/ret.) Barry R. McCaffrey, March 18, 2018
"The safety of the People Shall be the highest law."
Cicero, The Laws
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Deadline looms as U.S. and Europe face off over Iran nuclear deal
U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly signed the Iran sanctions waiver on Jan. 12—a decision that must be made every 120 days under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—but promised that it would be the...
Despite reward for fugitive Palestinian terrorist, U.S. and Jordan remain slow to act
The Trump administration has offered a $5 million reward for the capture of a Palestinian terrorist in Jordan, but apparently has not asked the Jordanian government to hand her over. Relatives of the terrorist’s...
Rolling Back Iranian Expansionism Means Contending With A Rising Russia
NSA McMaster is turning towards rolling back Iranian expansionism, now that ISIS appears to be nearly finished. What exactly the strategy will entail is not yet clear, but at the very least it should...
Atlanta Emerges as the Jewish-Foodie Capital of the South
When Liz Mennen, a Manhattan transplant, arrived in Atlanta at age 22, she searched everywhere for a staple of her youth: the knish. But the dough-encrusted, potato-filled Jewish pastry was nowhere to be found,...
Sacrificing my childhood
Every Rosh Hashanah when I was a child, my friend’s father would ask us a question at the meal following davening: What kind of Jewish God asks a man to sacrifice his son?
He was...
American Jews should care about and support the independence of Kurdistan
Why should American Jews care about and support the independence of Kurdistan?
Because Iraqi Kurdistan is one of the very rare areas of the Middle East where Jews and Judaism are viewed positively.
Because on the...
Kim Jong Un: ‘Deranged’ Trump will ‘pay dearly’ for threat
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump “deranged” and said he will “pay dearly” for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on...
John Kerry was right about terrorism in 2004, and Donald Trump and his Generals...
Last week I explained how the foreign-policy establishment, both Democratic and Republican, has used Donald Trump to whitewash a bipartisan catalog of catastrophic failures abroad dating back to Sept. 11, 2001. Whichever party’s recent-vintage foreign policy...
US remains concerned over freeze of Kotel egalitarian area plan
The United States remains concerned by an Israeli government decision to freeze a plan to build an egalitarian prayer area at the Western Wall, as is evident in the International Religious Freedom Report for...