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By Charles Jacobs ~ Dear Mr. Foxman; I write to you with the utmost respect for you and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). You work diligently to achieve your mission and… Read more »

By Rabbi Avi Shafran ~  The latest Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded last month to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of “quasicrystals.” In the 1980s, the Israeli… Read more »

By Dexter Van Zile ~ Ilan Pappé is the author of “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,”, a book that is regularly invoked by anti-Zionists to justify their enmity toward the… Read more »

By Howard Zern -  For a number of years, I, like many, perceived the United Nations as a body of states deliberating on and in some cases enforcing laws, rules… Read more »

By Rabbi Avi Shafran -  The first notice, shortly before Rosh Hashana, came from “Tehilla.” The subject box of the e-mail read: “Baruch Dayan HaEmet/URGENT, YOSEF PASSED AWAY!” and the… Read more »

By Elliot Jager – Last spring renowned thinker and writer Daniel Gordis wrote a piece about young rabbis and their changing feelings towards Israel that stirred up quite a bit… Read more »

By Shoshana Bryen -  The Government of Israel redeemed IDF Sgt. Gilad Shalit from five years of Hamas captivity the week of Simchat Torah, when Jews read “be strong and… Read more »

Like Jews the world over, this week pro-Israel opinion writers had their eyes fixed – and their pens poised – on the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Here… Read more »

By David Suissa -  You can say a lot about Israel, but not that it’s a normal country. Any way you look at it — its biblical roots and miraculous… Read more »