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Op-Ed: When a Nobel Peace Prize winner urged moving Gaza’s Arabs to Jordan

This month marks one year since President Trump presented his idea during a White House press conference that Gaza’s population be relocated to “a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” in another country. ...

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Op-Ed by Rafael Medoff: Oslo Abandons The Oslo Accords

The Norwegian capital of Oslo, where the accords between Israel and the Palestinian Arab leadership were negotiated thirty-three years ago, this week became their burial site....

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Op-Ed: Opening Rafah While Hamas Is Armed Repeats a Deadly Mistake

“Gaza Crossing to Egypt Reopens in Step Forward for Fragile Cease-Fire,” celebrated The New York Times on Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. And it feels like we are seeing the same thing occur yet again....

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Op-Ed: The missing cry not heard around the world – Free, free Iran

By Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin • There is a kind of unspoken pact in which leftists and Muslims living in Western countries do not criticize fellow Muslims even if they are massacring other Muslims....

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Op-ed by Rafael Medoff: The Holocaust, Without Jews

You wouldn’t think Vladimir Putin, the BBC, and the National Education Association have much in common. But in recent weeks, they have demonstrated that they share a peculiar understanding of the Holocaust—one which omits the Jews....

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Op-ed: No Postwar Role for Bangladesh in Gaza

By Moshe Phillips: Bangladeshi officials wants to deploy to Gaza, as part of the planned “International Stabilization Force” in the Gaza Strip. This is very disturbing, as Bangladesh is completely unfit to be involved in any way wi...

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Op-Ed: Jews Outside Israel – Protect Yourselves

October 7, 2023, will be remembered as the day that changed Israel forever. From the first news report and right up to this very moment, world Jewry “stepped up to the plate” and shared a tremendous burden with fellow Yidden in Ere...

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Op-Ed: I Ate In a Kosher Restaurant, But Is It a ‘Jewish’ Establishment?

A reader writes, It began with the change to non-Jewish music. Soon, the benchers and washing station were tucked away, hidden in hard-to-see places. Ask the waiter if the bread is Hamotzi or Mezonos and you are met with a blank stare ...

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Op-Ed: Washington should hold off on selling F-35s to Turkey

History shows how quickly allies can turn into adversaries • By Moshe Phillips...

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Op-ed by Rafael Medoff: Art in the Service of Antisemitism

by Rafael Medoff • It’s not against the law to paint an antisemitic mural. But that doesn’t mean that a museum is required to display it—especially when that museum is funded by taxpayers....

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Chanukah: Rav Yitzchok Hutner on the significance of the Maccabees’ victory over the Greeks

From "Hidden Lights: Chanukah and the Jewish/Greek Conflict" (David Dov Publications, 2005, pp. 41-3) by Rabbi Pinchas Stolper (1931–2022) based on a lecture by Rav Yitzchok Hutner (1906–1980) in 1978. Presented by Rabbi Yitschak ...

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Op-Ed: The UN War on Israel’s High Ground

By Moshe Phillips • American Jewish leaders must come to understand that to critics of Israel, there is no difference between “settlements” in Judea and Samaria and “settlements” on the Golan....

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Op-Ed By Rafael Medoff: Do “Dirty Jews” Cause Antisemitism?

The current alliance between Jewish anti-Zionists and non-Jewish antisemites has its precedents, as we are reminded by the statements made at a Jewish-Christian interfaith conference in London, one hundred years ago last week. Then and...

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Op-Ed: No F-35 fighter jets for Saudi Arabia

Op-Ed by By Moshe Phillips: This is not a routine arms sale. Granting Riyadh access to the F-35 means placing America’s most advanced stealth and sensor technology into the hands of a regime that has no democratic checks and balances...

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Op-Ed By Rafael Medoff: The Pope’s Kayak—A Lesson for the Jews

It took 100 years, but the Vatican has finally agreed to surrender a kayak and other cultural artifacts that it stole from indigenous Canadian tribes for use in Pope Pius XI’s “Vatican Missionary Exposition” in 1925....

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Op-Ed: No, Satmar Did Not Vote For Zohran Mamdani

When reporting that Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa, a Jewish News site took aim at the Satmar community, claiming that it helped—and legitimized Jewish support—get Mamdani into Gra...

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Op-Ed: J.D. Vance’s Israel Comment Puts Him in Strange Company

Dr. Rafael Medoff: Vice President J.D. Vance’s response to an antisemitic college student this week raises troubling questions....

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Op-Ed: The War In Israel, Draft and Achdus 

Klal Yisrael is experiencing a period of enormous difficulty as Israel is surrounded by active threats and Jews everywhere face growing antisemitism. We are fearful of what the immediate future holds...

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