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What Will Your Rabbi Talk About This Week?
Tomorrow night is Rosh Hashana, one of the two High HoIy Days of Judaism, or “Days of Awe,” as they are called in Hebrew. The other High Holy Day, nine days later, is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Just as there are many Christians who only go to church on Christmas and Easter, there […]
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Real Life Losses, Abstract Gains
To understand why right-wing activists make a mistake in pushing deportation of so-called “Dreamers” we should consider the reasons for our consistent victories in defending gun rights.
For gun-owners, this is a personal issue—restrictive regulations are an interference, or an annoyance, with real-world impact. For those who choose not to own...
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Politicians and the Season of Repentance
Autumn is the season for repentance in the ancient Jewish calendar. Celebration of the New Year on Thursday and Friday of this week brings the chance to review the twelve months just passed, considering where we fell short and how to do better in the year ahead.
Prominent politicians need the lessons of the season: Hillary Clinton, for instance, in her...
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Rank-and-File More Moderate than Expected—In Both Parties
The Wall Street Journal conducted an August poll meant to illustrate the two parties as hopelessly divided but the actual results indicate that most people on both sides lean toward the cautious center.
Despite the strident activists who rally behind the slogan “Black Lives Matter” only 28 percent of self-identified Democrats describe themselves as...
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No Rational Explanation for “It”
After a miserable summer for movies, with the box-office down some 15 percent across the board, September brought a big surprise: a modestly budgeted fright-fest with no big names smashed all records for horror films and for September releases in general.
It, based on a 1986 Stephen King novel and a 90s TV miniseries, centers on an ageless cannibal clown who...
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Leftism Is Not Liberalism
What is the difference between a leftist and a liberal? Answering this question is vital to understanding the crisis facing America and the West today. Yet few seem able to do it. I offer the following as a guide. Here’s the first thing to know: The two have almost nothing in common. On the contrary, […]
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“Absolutely spectacular. This book is must-reading for anyone not yet fully convinced that God’s hand has been on America from the very beginning. The stories in it are genuinely staggering, fascinating, eye-opening, and deeply inspiring. Please do yourself a favor and read this book!”
—Eric Metaxas, New York Times bestselling author...
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Big Events Demand Big (Cooperative) Responses
At key turning points in history, dramatic events seem to come together to force cooperation between even the most reluctant partisans. In the face of devastation from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, for instance, even a brief government shutdown became unthinkable, so Republicans and Democrats worked together to provide disaster relief and raise the debt...
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Big Events Demand Big—and Cooperative—Responses
At key turning points in history, dramatic events seem to come together to force cooperation between even the most reluctant partisans. In the face of devastation from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, for instance, even a brief government shutdown became unthinkable, so Republicans and Democrats worked together to provide disaster relief and raise the debt...
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Big Events Demand a Big—and Cooperative—Response
At key turning points in history, dramatic events seem to come together to force cooperation between even the most reluctant partisans. In the face of devastation from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, for instance, even a brief government shutdown becomes unthinkable, so Republicans and Democrats must work together to provide disaster relief, to pass a...
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Evangelicals for Trump: A Matter of Self-Defense
The sharpest divisions in politics today aren’t based on race or economic status, but on religion. Last year’s exit polls showed 26 percent who described themselves as Evangelical Christians, and they preferred Donald Trump by a crushing margin of 80 to 16 percent.
Among the rest of the electorate—the 74 percent who said they were NOT evangelical...
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Evangelicals for Trump: A Matter of Self-Defense
The sharpest divisions in politics today aren’t based on race or economic status, but on religion. Last year’s exit polls showed 26 percent who described themselves as Evangelical Christians, and they preferred Donald Trump by a crushing margin of 80 to 16 percent.
Among the rest of the electorate—the 74 percent who said they were NOT evangelical...
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Evangelicals for Trump: A Matter of Self-Defense
The sharpest divisions in politics today aren’t based on race or economic status, but on religion. Last year’s exit polls showed 26 percent who described themselves as Evangelical Christians, and they preferred Donald Trump by a crushing margin of 80 to 16 percent.
Among the rest of the electorate—the 74 percent who said they were NOT evangelical...
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Conservatives in America – Like Marranos in Medieval Spain
For those unfamiliar with the term, Marranos was the name given to Jews in medieval Spain, especially in the fifteenth century during the Spanish Inquisition, who secretly maintained their Judaism while living as Catholics in public. There is, of course, no Spanish Inquisition in America today – no one is being tortured into confessing what […]
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AT KEY TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY, AMERICA CATCHES EVERY BREAK
The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: at moments of crisis, when odds against success seem overwhelming and...
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Newly Released in Paperback!
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AT KEY TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY, AMERICA CATCHES EVERY BREAK
The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: at moments of crisis, when odds against success seem overwhelming and...
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