The Palestinian Authority Deliberately Provoked Sunday’s Jerusalem Riots
Using a Jewish day of mourning to attack visitors to the Temple Mount.
August 16, 2019
A New York Town Fights to Keep Hasidic Jews Out
Naked prejudice in the Hudson Valley.
In 2017, a group of real-estate developers bought a plot of land in the town of Chester, in New York’s Hudson Valley, that had been designated for a new housing development. Since then, the town’s residents and officials have fought to stop the houses from being built, stating quite bluntly that they fear it will become a ḥasidic enclave—a concern based solely on the fact that some of the developers are themselves Ḥasidim. Sharon Otterman writes:
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A New York Town Fights to Keep Hasidic Jews Out
Naked prejudice in the Hudson Valley.
The Data on Happiness Give the Lie to Stories of Palestinian Misery
Happier than Egyptians or Tunisians.
Want to Buy an Arabic Edition of “Mein Kampf” or Read about the “Zionist Octopus”? Head to the Saudi Arabian Book Fair
A sign of the slow pace of reform.
A Virtuous Public Life Could Help Protect against Technology’s Erosion of Privacy
“How fair are your tents, O Jacob.”