Santorum’s trifecta: He smashed Romney, squashed Gingrich, and beat the predictions
The current Republican primary season is confounding pundits on almost a weekly basis; Santorum's three wins on Tuesday are the latest surprise.
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The current Republican primary season is confounding pundits on almost a weekly basis; Santorum's three wins on Tuesday are the latest surprise.
6 commentsDisproportionate coverage is the flip side of disproportionate support for Israel, and thus a critical element in its national security.
19 commentsRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney definitely erased memories of his South Carolina defeat, regained his status as the 'inevitable' Republican nominee with his significant majority in Florida.
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Weeks ago, between bites of burekas pastries and slices of cucumber and carrots, Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilnai and Avigdor Lieberman joked about the former's next career move. Now, it's actually happening.
2 commentsThe two will be meeting for the first time in 18 months; visit will mark the second time that Lieberman will visit the U.S. capital since becoming Israel's foreign minister.
15 commentsWhy did the White House install a secure phone in Dennis Ross’ office in the Washington Institute for Near East Policy?
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The UN needs to send a direct message to Bashar Assad: A regime which resorts to war crimes will have to answer for them.
62 commentsAfter all, when the war with Iran is over, and the only things left here are cockroaches and Migron, this government will still have the only thing it's ever really needed: Someone else to blame.
32 commentsAmerican Jews, in general, should go to see this film about wrongheaded comfort zones, in order to break out of one of their own: the mistaken sense of kinship with the Jewish state and the Jews who live there.
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While the Assad regime's massacre of Syrian civilians does not justify Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Israel's critics must acknowledge the rough neighborhood it lives in.
28 commentsSecular liberals are hated as the ruling elite, even though the right has been in power for the latter half of Israel’s history. Meanwhile, as opposed to religious-nationalists and the ultra-orthodox, we do not have any minority rights.
12 commentsAnti-Semitism must be condemned, exposed, and persecuted – but to keep warning that the next holocaust is around the corner is intellectually dishonest, morally problematic, and politically unwise.
16 commentsThe foreign minister showed an unusually diplomatic side during his visit to Washington this week.
1 commentsMost Jewish voters in Wednesday's Republican primary focused on the economy, but there were many outliers.
5 commentsAs Romney tries to convince Floridians that he hasn't 'sold his soul to the devil,' Gingrich is out to prove that as governor, Romney eliminated serving kosher food for the Jewish elderly.
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In the last of her series on overnight Shabbat stews, Vered Guttman offers a version of cholent based on porcini instead of meat, for a distinctly earthy flavor.
1 commentsIn her new blog, Vered Guttman praises the dishes associated with Tu Bishvat. She's going going to serve a walnut and dried cherry tabouleh salad at her seder, alongside a big bowl of nuts (to make her husband happy).
1 commentsAlthough the communities in Sana'a and Raida are dwindling, the slow-cooked Shabbat breads remain a staple of the Diaspora community. In her new blog, Vered Guttman shares some recipes for some quintessentially Yemenite Shabbat overnight dishes.
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Keeping this physical site of memory alive may serve as an important marketplace of ideas and emotion, one that can enable a bit of empathy to flourish amidst the stones.
0 commentsChildren worry, but they worry about themselves, wrapped in their own fears of abandonment or injury. Only when we’re able to worry about others, have we really grown up.
4 commentsWithout the broader-market pressures of an American-Idol type of show, contestants will have the opportunity to sing honestly and openly. From the opening chords, a dialogue leading to empathy might just result.
0 commentsIsrael, Syria, and the double standards of the Free World
28 commentsA vegetarian cholent so meaty, you won't even miss the bones
1 commentsThe UN must find a Goldstone for Syria
62 commentsSantorum’s trifecta: He smashed Romney, squashed Gingrich, and beat the predictions
6 commentsThe UN must find a Goldstone for Syria
62 commentsIsrael, Syria, and the double standards of the Free World
28 commentsIsrael's humanists should declare themselves a religious minority
12 commentsSantorum’s trifecta: He smashed Romney, squashed Gingrich, and beat the predictions
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