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Taking a Jewish Page From the Book of Mormon on Interfaith Marriage

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

Judaism and Mormonism are minority religions in America that both worry about interfaith marriage. One is winning the fight while the other is losing.Read More


Air-Raid Sirens on Israel Memorial Day Evoke Clarion Call for Jewish People

By Edward Jacobs

Israel stands still when air raid sirens blare on Yom HaZikaron, the country’s memorial day. Like the shofar, the sound has significance for Jewish people worldwide.Read More


Why Pamela Geller's Hate Speech Should Be Barred — But BDS Allowed

By Mitchell Plitnick

Is it hypocritical to oppose Pamela Geller while supporting boycott Israel proponents’ rights to be heard? Opposing Israeli policy is not the same thing as bigoted hate speech.Read More


Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Icon, Was Wiser Than Friend Ronald Reagan

By J.J. Goldberg

Say what you will about Margaret Thatcher. The architect of painful economic restructuring, Britain’s Iron Lady was smarter and more tenacious than her friend Ronald Reagan.Read More


No Need To Say We're Sorry

By Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkin thinks Israel’s recent apology to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara incident was a mistake. He believes an apology is owed to those soldiers who boarded the flotilla and to the Israeli people.Read More


Remembering How Polish Jews Lived, Not Just How They Died

By Tad Taube

A new museum in Warsaw preserves the 1,000-year history of Polish Jewry. One of its funders argues it’s important to remember a world before the Holocaust.Read More


Is Israel Losing Young Democrats?

By Leonard Fein

Fewer young and Democratic voters support for Israel, polls say. Leonard Fein argues that it’s time to acknowledge the real source of the problem.Read More


Miliband vs. Miliband Feud Ends as One British Jewish Brother Comes to New York

By J.J. Goldberg

Britain’s biggest Jewish family feud ended when David Miliband quit politics. Could his move to New York clear the way for his brother, Ed Miliband, to become the next prime minister?Read More


Where's the Justice for American Settler Killed by Palestinian Stone-Throwers?

By Michael Palmer

Asher Palmer was an American killed with his baby son when Palestinian rock-throwers hit their car in the West Bank. Why doesn’t our Department of Justice seem to care?Read More


Forget Empathy, Path to Mideast Peace Lies in Hardboiled Realism

By Natasha Gill

Israelis and Palestinians shouldn’t try to feel one another’s pain. Peace will come only when leaders on both sides forget friendship and think honestly about their longterm best interests.Read More






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