European nuclear power states, United Kingdom and France, have reduced their conventional forces. However, India and Pakistan have been enhancing their conventional as well as nuclear arsenals. ..…

NEW YORK — Modern Orthodox New York City will no longer accept religious exemptions to vaccination from its students.. ... Congregation Beth Aaron, Orthodox Teaneck, New Jersey, has adopted the same policy.. ..…

The first is the conventional wisdom on the subject, which says it is the global economy. ... This, I would say, is the conventional wisdom that would explain the populist phenomenon. . ..…

Women are attacked for choosing their spouses, for failing to meet intermittent dowry demands, and for venturing out wearing clothes and sporting hairstyles tabooed by orthodox priests of morality. ..…

An Ultra-Orthodox Israeli man, accompanied by his children, prepares to cast his ballot at a polling station in Bnei Brak, near the city of Tel Aviv, on March 17, 2015. ... In addition, there is some blurring of the lines between Haredi and the national-religious—observant Orthodox Jews..…

That arrangement was vetoed by the ultra-Orthodox parties in the government, parties that hold an almost king-maker role in Israeli politics. ... But even if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Reform and Conservative movements, the ultra-Orthodox parties in Israel’s governing..…

By sheer force of numbers, though, the current slate of women unambiguously challenges a good deal of the conventional wisdom about their being less ambitious. ... When it comes to expected female behavior in the conventional domains of niceness, or treating staffers well, women may suffer..…

In international relations, challenging longstanding beliefs often frightens those who embrace conventional wisdom. This embrace makes such beliefs conventional, but it does not always make them wise. . ..…

Secondly, Kelly makes much of the “richness” and “variety” of British orthodox Trotskyism, noting that some orthodox Trotskyists in Britain “work inside the Labour Party, others do not; some are focused on the trade unions, others focus on broader social movements; some are..…

Achieving this task required more than conventional forms of authoritarian reaction reliant on the existing state—the police, army, etc. ... There is a widely held view that under Marine Le Pen, who succeeded her father as leader of the Front National in 2011, the party has broken from its former..…

While private school organizations applauded the decision, advocacy group that has been at the forefront of the fight to increase education at ultra-Orthodox yeshivas called the decision tragedy for all children... ... Removing the oversight signals to ultra-Orthodox yeshivas that..…

The refrain has been the lie that there is no money for schools, health care, housing or pensions, while unlimited sums have been squandered to pay for more yachts, private islands and Manhattan penthouses for the modern-day aristocrats, along with new and more deadly conventional and nuclear..…

Now is the time to stop fighting 'them and to start fighting to regain belief in 'us To fight for our home, place where secular, religious and ultra-Orthodox, Jews and Arabs, left and right can find their place as equal partners. ..…

Donald Trump’s sycophantic fawning over Israel—undoubtedly under the influence of his Orthodox Jewish son-in-law—has opened the floodgates: the US embassy moved to Jerusalem, Trump signed off on Israel’s theft of Syria’s Golan Heights, and of most value for Israel, the US under Trump is..…

the two groups are equally likely to have degree, the dismantlers represent the stereotypical, non-college-educated white voter that gave Trump the in 2016, while the rebuilders anointed generation of younger, more diverse leaders that reshaped House in 2018. ..…

Now the stage is wide open for the ultra-orthodox parties, Shas, and United Torah Judaism, with seven seats to help define the new Israel.. ..…