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By Daniel Pipes ~ With trumpets and drum rolls, the White House in early August released a policy paper on methods to prevent terrorism, said to have been two years… Read more »

By Joel Alperson ~ “Fear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” No, it’s not a typo. The Shema, which starts “Hear O Israel,” is the… Read more »

Events in Israel over the past week have a “back to the future” vibe. Terrorism from over the Egyptian border, renewed rocket attacks from Gaza, threats of violence from the… Read more »

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus ~  If a Jew – and a senior-ranking U.S. Senator at that – is targeted with violence and nobody bothers to report it, does it still… Read more »

By Rick Richman – In a major constitutional case over whether Congress can require the State Department to put “Israel” as the country of birth on the passport of an… Read more »

By Rabbi Avi Shafran – Sybil Sage, a Jewish writer and artist living in New York, asked her son if he minded her plans to have her and his father… Read more »

[Editor's note: The discussion of the Defense budget is critical for U.S. interests as well as Israeli interests, given the U.S. is Israel's chief supplier of arms and technology.] Raising… Read more »

By Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel – For a year, Obama prohibited any new US sanctions to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons – a looming existential threat to both Israel… Read more »

At least a portion of my hometown of Omaha, Neb., may well be under water in the coming days. Pumps are in place at various locations, including at a nuclear… Read more »