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Before the Tragedy – Sassoon Children Remember Their Brethren in Eretz Yisrael in Song

Only two weeks before their lives were taken in a devastating fire in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, the Sassoon children, ranging in...

Bridging the Gap in International PR: An Interview with Arik Puder

This is an especially challenging time for Israeli-American relations. Personal tensions between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu seem to have reached an...

Pesach in Jerusalem 1920: Tragedy and Challenge – A Historical Retrospective

It was a brief fleeting moment of euphoria, when the British government made an historic offer with the November 2, 1917 Balfour Declaration...

Winston Churchill’s War Against Islamists

In 1897, twenty-three-year-old Winston Churchill waged war against the Islamists of that day on the North-West Frontier of India. Churchill used his mother’s...

Dewey Defeats Truman — This Time in Israel

Israelis went to bed on March 17 thinking that the two main political parties in that day’s election were tied and that their...

‘New Israel Fund’ Received More Than $1 Million from US State Department

The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization – known as SHATIL – have received more than $1...

Feeling Blue, in The Biblical Sense: Return of Tekhelet Dye Revives Lost Mitzvah

One wouldn’t expect to find hundreds of snails in a landlocked town like Kfar Adumim, situated in the desert east of Jerusalem. Yet...

Annual State of the Judiciary Address – Remarks Delivered by NYS Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman – Part 3

NON-LAWYER ADVOCATES IN OUR FIGHT TO CLOSE THE JUSTICE GAP IN NEW YORK STATE, non-lawyers have been an increasingly powerful force. Two years...

Decision 2015: Israelis’ Choices When They Head to the Polls

The leaders of the eight political parties running in the March 17 Israeli Knesset election participated in their first televised debate on Feb....

Toys for the Super-Rich at Dubai International Boat Show

Private submarines are about to go commercial. ART MARINE, a leading leisure yachting company announced at the Dubai International Boat Show that they...

Israeli-Greek-Cypriot Alliance Challenges Turkey in the Med

Economic issues in Athens and partnerships to extract natural gas keep far-left Greek gov't away from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli-Greek relations have...

Deal or No Deal? Iran Nuclear Talks Deadline Hovers Over AIPAC Conference

As 16,000 people gathered for the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference from March 1-3, much attention was transfixed three...

Outpouring of Support for Israel at CPAC 2015

United States conservatives gathering at their annual conference Saturday, February 28, elected Republican Senator Rand Paul as their top pick for president, for the...

Annual State of the Judiciary Address – Remarks Delivered by NYS Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman – Part 2

(Continued from last week)   Brownsville Community Center As important as it is, grand jury reform is not enough.  At the end of...

Annual State of the Judiciary Address – Remarks Delivered by NYS Chief Justice Jonathan Lippman – Part 1

ACCESS TO JUSTICE IS THE DEFINING PRINCIPLE OF OUR COURT SYSTEM. It manifests itself in so many diverse ways in over four million...

Just Who Has to Adjust in the Name of Tolerance?

Brookings Institution Center for Middle East Policy Fellow Shadi Hamid recently criticized the West as "illiberal" for refusing to accept the fact that...

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