Trump’s America is bad, very bad, for the Jews

By Andrew Silow-Carroll, Times of Israel— Two of my favorite television shows are about what I think it’s fair to call the “New America.” In Master of None, on Netflix, Indian-American comedian Aziz Ansari plays a struggling actor in a very real and diverse New York. His best friend is the son of Chinese immigrants.…

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The Raoul Wallenberg Research Initiative RWI-70

A Note from Michael and Inna Rogatchi, The Rogatchi Foundation – www.rogatchi.org, www.rogatchifilms.org — We would like to address you now on a very important and timely (as ever) international initiative regarding Raoul Wallenberg. A prominent historian Susanne Berger has enough clarity and vision, and strength, too, to start this new chapter in the ongoing saga…

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Abu Mazen rebuffs Kerry’s appeal to cool Palestinian terror against Israelis

By DEBKAfile— US Secretary of State John Kerry came away empty-handed from his latest meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in Amman on Sunday, February 21,- which shouldn’t have surprised him as it was par for the course. DEBKAfile’s Middle Eastern sources report that Kerry was finally persuaded that Abbas would not…

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Our World: The Lie of Pro-Palestinian Activism

By Caroline Glick, Breaking Israel News— For them, the Palestinians whose rights they claim to champion are nothing more than means to another end. Last Thursday, yet again we learned that pro-Palestinian activists couldn’t care less about Palestinians. For them, the Palestinians whose rights they claim to champion are nothing more than means to another…

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Columnist Krauthammer: Obama’s remarks on Israel are ‘shameful’

By Erez Lin, Israel Hayom— U.S. President Obama is drawing moral equivalence between habitual Palestinian incitement to terrorism and “extremely infrequent” Israeli attacks, thus downplaying the severity of Palestinian actions, veteran Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said Friday. Krauthammer’s statement came in response to Obama’s remarks Friday that “it is important for both Prime Minister…

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Marco Rubio Hits Trump, Takes Strong Stand for Israel

By Tyler O’Niel, PJ Media-— Florida Senator Marco Rubio gave a powerful defense of Israel in Houston, Texas, on Thursday. He attacked President Obama and Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump for not supporting the Jewish state. If elected president, he promised “a foreign policy of moral clarity,” and that America would take sides (“we’re going…

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Watch-Trump: What Obama has done to Israel is a disgrace

By Times of Israel Staff, Times of Israel— Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump lambasted Barack Obama for his Middle East policies, telling Fox News that what the president has done to Israel is a “disgrace.” Talking to Sean Hannity on Thursday night, Trump said that it was a wonder that the Jewish state would still…

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Head of Conference of Presidents: Anti-Semitism in the US on the rise

By Attila Somfalvi, Ynetnews— Three-quarters of American Jewish students say they witnessed or experienced anti-Semitism on a campus, American-Jewish leader Malcolm Hoenlein told Ynet on Wednesday. “It’s not Europe yet, but (anti-Semitism) is definitely on the rise,” said Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which is…

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Scalia slams socialism as ‘death to Christian virtue’

By Dr. Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner— Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly on Saturday, often spoke of the intersection of faith and law, politics and economics. During those times, the justice was always certain to issue a disclaimer – he was “speaking as a Christian, and not a federal judge.” For those…

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Trump says he’d be ‘neutral’ with Israelis and Palestinians

By Eric Cortellessa, Times of Israel— Republican hopeful Donald Trump said Wednesday that if he were elected president, he would be “neutral” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After being asked by a voter at a Charleston, South Carolina, town hall event hosted by MSNBC about what steps he would take to broker an accommodation between the…

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