The war in the Middle East has become more than a conflict between Israel and Hamas. And it is more than a regional confrontation of Israel vs. Iran . . .
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11/9/23
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Hamas’s Saturday-morning assault on Israel was more than just a shocking demonstration of barbarism. The toll of Israeli dead and wounded — not to mention those kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip by these murderers — is sickening.
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10/12/23
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A trio of Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School earned recognition at the Yeshiva University National Model United Nations Stamford, Coon., March 13 to 15.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/8/22
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There are 5,000 Chabads across the world and the Five Towns has two – the Chabad of Hewlett and the Chabad of the Five Towns – and the many rabbis from those Chabads, including Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim and Rabbi Zalman Wolowik attended the 38th annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in Brooklyn Oct. 28 to 31.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/12/21
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In the tangled web that is the Middle East, peace breakthroughs are few and far between. They seem to happen once a generation. But when they do happen, they’re historic.
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8/28/20
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Something fascinating is happening in Hong Kong. The young students there who have been demonstrating for greater democracy and freedom have taken up waving American flags and singing our national anthem as they confront police.
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9/20/19
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When my children were little, we had a policy of calling a “timeout” when they were unruly. Once a timeout was called, they retreated to their rooms . . .
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7/19/19
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When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, millions of Americans who doubted his integrity wondered how they could ever trust his decisions in moments of crisis. Now such a moment is here.
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5/23/19
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There’s plenty of second-guessing on all sides as President Trump seeks to negotiate better trade deals for the U.S. But these negotiations are particularly tricky to get right . . .
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5/24/18
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In the fall of 1938, a defiant British member of Parliament named Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech denouncing the Munich Agreement recently negotiated by Europe’s leaders to appease Adolf Hitler . . .
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5/17/18
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