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Many times people ask, “Do you think it’s nature or nurture?” I always respond by telling them that my love for Israel is most likely a combination of both. Raised Orthodox in the Washington Heights section of New York, I can’t say that I grew up with a strong Zionistic passion. I attended Breuer’s Yeshiva, […]

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 In his “Mideast Visit With An Arab Slant” (March 30), Steve Lipman reports on the latest fallout from an ongoing controversy largely invented by Alan Dershowitz, and now perpetuated by Abraham Foxman and colleagues at the Anti-Defamation League, against Friends Seminary, a respected New York City independent secondary school. Lamentably, while Friends is known for […]

President Obama, responding to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that more nuclear talks amounts to a “freebie” for Iran, emphasized the stringent sanctions facing Iran. “We’re going to keep on seeing if we make progress,” Obama said late Sunday during a news conference in Cartagena, Colombia, where he is attending the Summit of the […]

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