How Lebanon—and Hizballah—Conned and Humiliated Rex Tillerson
The U.S. needs a clear policy of supporting Israel’s red lines.
February 21, 2018
American Jewry and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Will the founders’ conception of religious liberty survive?
Today most Americans associate religious liberty either with the Constitution’s establishment clause (prohibiting the creation of an official religion or church) or with the notion of separation of church and state. At the time of the founding, however, American Jews saw the clause proscribing the use of any religious test for holding federal office as the truest guarantee of their freedom, and of their equality with their Gentile neighbors. Senator Mike Lee, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, and Jonathan Silver discuss this history, and what it means for the future of religious liberty and religious life in the United States. (Moderated by Adam White. Video, 77 minutes.)
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Why India’s Prime Minister Visited Ramallah
De-hyphenation.
The Case against Extending Israeli Sovereignty to Judea and Samaria
A misunderstanding of priorities.
American Jewry and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Will the founders’ conception of religious liberty survive?
Tracing the Steps of Ethiopian Jewry on Their Way to Israel
From the red terror to the barren mountains of Sudan.