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The Torah tells us that we are to follow the majority of judges in settling disputes. There is a special analysis of the wording in the text, that teaches that there must be a greater majority in capital cases.

The more serious violations…

Restoring Somaliland: Legal Foundations, Strategic Imperatives, and the Case for Re-Recognition

The campaign for Somaliland’s re-recognition is grounded in legal precedent, historical context, and evolving strategic realities. Unlike…

In a Middle East addicted to volatility, the Barzanis built something unfashionable: a sharp alignment with the West that actually delivers.

For decades, the Barzani-led leadership in Iraqi Kurdistan chose state-building over revolutionary…

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a relationship that inspired some of the most celebrated Arabic love poetry of the twentieth century and…

Are efforts to combat antisemitism useful? Do they help reduce antisemitism? Or are they just a waste of time and resources?

Those questions have moved to the center of Jewish communal discourse. On March 1, the 92d Street Y in New York will…

In the past 10 years, the Stamford Orthodox Jewish community has experienced geometric growth.  Several new kosher restaurants have opened, Torah learning has expanded, and youth activities at both Orthodox synagogues are bursting at the…

It was snarky.

The commenter was completely assured that there is no left-wing in Israel or the Jewish diaspora, and that any nuance to views on Israel is a lie.  Tell that to The New Israel Fund. He compared Israel to South Africa. It was…

וְנוֹעַדְתִּי לְךָ שָׁם וְדִבַּרְתִּי אִתְּךָ מֵעַל הַכַּפֹּרֶת מִבֵּין שְׁנֵי הַכְּרֻבִים אֲשֶׁר עַל־אֲרוֹן הָעֵדֻת אֵת…

This week, Arbel Yehud spoke publicly about her experience in Hamas captivity. She described relentless sexual abuse—from the very beginning of her captivity until the very end. Hundreds of days of sexual torture.

It is unstomachable. It is…