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Rabbi Sacks on Multiculturalism's Dangers 22 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
In the two decades that he served as the United Kingdom's Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks continued the tradition of his predecessor, the late Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, of positioning the office as a ...
Don't Ignore Syria's Agony 21 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Not for the first time, events elsewhere in the Middle East—the renewed bloodshed in Egypt and Israel's decision to release 104 Palestinian terrorists because of American pressure—have pushed the Syri...
Should Jews Support a Boycott of Putin's Russia? 14 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
One of the oft-repeated criticisms of the movement to boycott Israel is that it portrays the Middle East's only healthy democracy as the ultimate rogue state, ignoring at the same time those authorita...
Venezuela's Supreme Court Dismisses Electoral Fraud Charges 10 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
The war of nerves between Venezuela's ruling chavistas and its battered adversaries intensified this week, following the decision of the country's Supreme Court, the TSJ, to summarily dismiss oppositi...
Abandon the Syrian Civil War? Isolation is Never Splendid 7 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Among the handful of post-war leaders who could always be relied upon to support the United States unstintingly, the name of Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, stands out. Blair wasn't con...
Putin, Russia and Iran's Nukes 31 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
The victory of Hassan Rouhani in June's Iranian presidential election has once again thrust the word "moderate" into the center of the agonized debate over western policy towards Tehran's nuclear prog...
In Venezuela, Chavez Still Haunts Maduro 30 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Confirmation that Hugo Chavez's allies knew all along that the late Venezuelan president was suffering from terminal cancer, despite their protestations to the contrary, has come from an unexpected so...
The Plight of Ayatollah Bourojerdi 24 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
With the election of Hassan Rouhani as Iran's new president, the international debate about reaching out to the "moderates" inside the Iranian regime has been reignited. But before we get overly excit...
Kerry Must End the 'Israel-is-to-Blame' Game 23 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Which aspect of Secretary of State John Kerry's repetition of the Arab position last week, that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies at the root of Middle Eastern instability, is more remarkable? The...
Is the Islamist Era Over? 18 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
With the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt, one is almost forced to question whether the global Islamist movement has been dealt a mortal blow. The notion that the er...
