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Rep. Randy Fine I got jumped by a Nazi in Florida. On video.Two weeks ago. In Ron DeSantis’ Florida, that’s no big deal. I’m a target; I am the only Republican Jew elected to the Florida Legislature, and you will find few people in the Legislature who have championed DeSantis more. I endorsed him before he was the Republican nominee for Governor. I was his Jewish Outreach Chair. I carried his bills to take on Disney, and end child mutilation in the name of fake gender “science.” Every piece of legislation you hear him talk about regarding Jewish issues is...

The Algemeiner, a Jewish publication I highly respect, published a column about Judaism that is not merely wrong; it actually advances a thesis that is the opposite of what Judaism teaches. That fact alone would not have prompted me to write a rebuttal. What prompts me is that the column was written by an Orthodox rabbi. It is sad enough that many non-Orthodox rabbis have been influenced more by their secular/Left educations than by the Torah. But when a rabbi identified as "centrist Orthodox" distorts one of the most important and normative ideas in Judaism, and is published in a...

Monday the Bethlehem Bible College, an Evangelical Christian college in Jesus’s hometown, opened its fourth biennial Christ at the Checkpoint conference. The conference, which is directed specifically toward US Evangelicals, will run through the week.

The president met with the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in the Oval Office. He gave a speech in Washington, DC, on his national strategy to combat terrorism. Bush nominated Mary Peters, a former Federal Highway administrator, to replace Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Our intrepid Secretary of Defense faced the surgeon's knife today, having successful arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff (left shoulder). Eric Ruff, the Pentagon press secretary, said Rumsfeld's cuff tear was caused by "an old athletic injury." Rumsfeld wrestled in college and is an avid squash player. ohioWfan and I exchanged days...

JERUSALEM -- With the soccer World Cup games about to begin next week, the question of which team you are going to support becomes crucial. For an American, it's simple: You support the American team, and if you're Hispanic, you get a bonus, because you can also enjoy Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Ecuador playing against the rest of the world -- not to mention favorite Brazil. However, for fans whose country didn't qualify, like Israel, it's not so easy. Of course, people who have immigrated from Argentina or the Ukraine, and there are many of those in Israel, the...

4 Iyar 5766 (IsraelNN.com) A Canadian federal court in Winnipeg yesterday rejected the petition of B'nai Brith and a Toronto teen to have the Canadian government recognize Jerusalem as being in Israel for the purposes of its passports. Canadian citizens born in the Israeli capital are currently issued passports listing either "Israel," without a city name, or "Jerusalem," without a country name. Shortly after the young man, Eliyahu Veffer, and B'nai Brith filed their petition, the state initiated a "recall" of Canadian passports that had been issued, in what officials called an "administrative error," listing Jerusalem as being in Israel....

Gaza - Images of Anguish Settler girls living in the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim play on a sign that reads 'Neve Dekalim,' moments before leaving her Jewish town (settlement) with their family for good.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt) An Israeli resident is comforted by an Israeli soldier after the evacuation of the synagogue in the Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim. The United States pressed Israel on the need for further peace moves after the withdrawal from Gaza but risked resistance from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who vowed to continue West Bank settlement activity.(AFP/Thomas Coex) Jewish women are comforted by...

Recent books have raved that the European Union is the way of the future. In contrast, a supposedly exhausted, broke and post-imperial United States chases the terrorist chimera, running up debts and deficits as it tilts at the autocratic windmills of the Arab World.

As a first time visitor to England many decades ago, the thing that impressed me most was how incredibly polite everybody was. By the time an Englishman approached within ten feet, he was already calling out, "Excuse me." Civility is not the first thing a visitor to England would be likely to note today. Indeed if there is one thing in which the English, particularly the educated classes, seem to excel today it is vituperation. All the old taboos against expressions of hatred have fallen. On the verbal level at least, the manners of soccer hooligans have been adopted by...

London — It may sometimes seem that British Jews display upper lips as stiff as their non-Jewish countrymen's, preferring to suffer quietly or downplay prejudice directed against them. But new official statistics have revealed that anti-Semitic incidents in Britain have reached new heights. According to the Community Security Trust, the body that monitors threats to British Jewry, a total of 532 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded last year, marking a 42 percent increase from 2003. The figures include a 323% rise in anti-Semitic threats, with an all-time high of 93 such incidents last year, compared with 22 in 2003. There was...