u.s. looks to test ground-launched cruise missile in august
The official said the United States was also looking to test an intermediate-range ballistic missile in November, adding that both would be conventional and not nuclear. . ..…
the dem jexodus defense: we can't be anti-semitic because jews vote
According to AJC poll, 71 percent of Orthodox Jews approve of the performance, while only 27 percent disapprove .. ... new survey found that overwhelming percentage of Orthodox Jews support President Donald Trump.. ..…
america’s long history of hysteria about women’s veils
Here’s something for Pirro to consider: Orthodox Jewish women often feel that only their husbands should see their hair. ... Orthodox Judaism is a small but vital American religious tradition with a long history on the North American continent. . ..…
the dawn of big government and the administrative state
What made the Progressives a significant historical force was not that they held conventional views for their times. ..…
jews under siege
The description brings to mind scenes from a street celebration in the Belgian town of Aalst earlier this month, during which a float featured anti-Semitic caricatures of Orthodox Jews and a rat atop moneybags. . ..…
new york times op-eds wrong on israeli circumcisions
The New York Times Op-Ed department has erred on Israeli circumcisions, ing that Jewish milah ceremony falls under the control of Israel's Orthodox Rabbinate.. ... Despite the fact that the majority of Israeli Jews are not Orthodox, the ultra- Orthodox hold the keys to Israel's..…
the women's action forum never claimed to represent all women in
So what really is orthodox in Islam, in Pakistan, is, I think, not debated and discussed enough. ..…
how canada's jews compare to our neighbours to the south
Having a Jewish spouse is “almost universal” among Orthodox, modern Orthodox and Conservative Jews. ... The survey’s other findings include: . • About six in 10 Jews in Canada affiliate with one of the three mainstream denominations, the largest being Conservative, followed by..…
new ukraine church endures inter-orthodox feud, but offers
His commitment was applauded by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, attending alongside other officials, hopes were now pinned on Epiphanius to reconcile Ukraine's hitherto divided Orthodox communities, together accounting for about 70 percent of its some 44 million inhabitants.. ..…
nuclear powers need to disarm before it’s too late
A number of countries — China in particular — were stunned by the conventional firepower unleashed by the U.S. in its 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... In part, it is the conventional power of countries like the U.S. that fuels the drive by smaller nations to acquire nuclear weapons. . ..…
trump v. omar: the psychology of fear, prejudice and ignorance in
Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) (a case about declaring Jehovah Witnesses as un-American because they would not cite the Pledge of Allegiance): “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics,..…
the case for canadian-jewish exceptionalism
The most important finding of the 2018 Survey of Canadian Jews is that, whatever the validity of conventional wisdom on Jewish assimilation in the Diaspora, it does not appear to apply well to us. ... Now we know that Canadian Jewry seems to be doing an unusually good job of keeping younger cohorts..…
paul adams
Eastern Orthodox, Frederica Mathewes-Green, considers the in recent... ..…
federal judge bars unvaccinated children from returning to new york
The plaintiffs argue that the order is too broad they note that Rockland County measles outbreak is confined to Orthodox Jewish communities and that the order should not apply to schools like Green Meadow, ed. ..…
q&a: activist george haroonian discusses iranian revolution’s impact
We will be Orthodox, Conservative and Reform as well as non-observant and ethnically Jewish. ..…
when sex trumps god
Eastern Orthodox, Frederica Mathewes-Green, considers the in essay. Not the persecution faced by hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide, except the particular kind of hatred encountered by Christians in United States.. ..…
climate change, transgenderism and the fight over truth
The transgender view is that gender is an “artificial construct”—yet at the same time, transgenders encourage people to express their “authentic gender identity” (especially if it is different from their actual, scientific gender identity) through stereotypical or even cartoonish behavior..…
paul manafort and the crime of not provoking russia
The restoration of normality must combine the new Russophobia (which has nothing to do immediately with anticommunism—since the Russian state is thoroughly capitalist and Putin’s party is both pro-market and pro-Orthodox religion—but draws on Cold War specifically anti-Russian tropes) with a..…
bhutan: namgay zam talks about the importance of women in media
Firstly, gender roles in the media are always biased and stereotypical - sports stories are covered by male reporters, resource person voices are dominantly male.. ..…
political powerlessness is expensive -
Maybe the Democratic Party’s new math is why no one is making too much of the African-American kids beating up Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. ..…
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