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Iran Nuclear Deal: Does Obama want Israel to commit suicide?

In 1982, during one of many visits to Israel, I had the opportunity to speak with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who told me, “Israel needs friends.” He added that in the end, his nation could not trust any nation with…

Je suis Charlie: Kumbaya won’t save us from Islamist terror and hate

The warm feelings on display in Paris and elsewhere around the world Sunday in response to the horrors of the past week, unfortunately, will do next to nothing to change the tide against Islamist terrorism. That explains why world leaders…

UN marks Human Rights Day by promoting violation of human rights

Sixty-six years ago was the high water mark of global disapproval of xenophobia, and racial and religious discrimination. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then gave Eleanor Roosevelt a…

Gaza Strip conflict: Time to face the ugly truth — the UN encourages terrorism

As the terrorist organization Hamas breaks yet another ceasefire, it operates with the firm belief that it will be protected on the international stage. That’s because the modern United Nations has become an instrument of war, just seven decades after…

Drama surrounding Met’s Klinghoffer opera playing out on and off stage

The political conflict between Jews and Arabs is now being played out both on the opera stage and behind the curtain. Just last week, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, by all accounts the gold standard of the international opera world, canceled…

Easter 2014: Hope for the dead

What is the connection between freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and…

What search for “Adam’s genes” tells us about ourselves

This week, FoxNews.com’s Jeremy Kaplan reported, that “a pair of scientific studies using the latest genetic evidence are seeking to identify the very first man to walk the Earth, the so-called ‘Adam.'” The search for “Adam’s genes” tells a compelling…

Thanksgivukkah — why it’s so American, so Jewish and so important

What do you get when you cross Hanukkah with Thanksgiving? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, I know, but it is so much more. Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coincide this year for the first time since 1888, and will…

13 things you need to know for Passover 2013

1. When does Passover 2013 begin and how long does it last? Passover 2013 begins at sundown on Monday, March 25th. That is the date, this year, which corresponds to the 15th of Nissan, the day according to the Bible,…