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They had one good week on MSNBC and CNN: They got to call all their enemies “Nazis” and “Gestapo,” and they got to compare lawful border enforcement to gassing children to death with Zyklon B.

Has President Trump at this time become so toxic that the Jewish community cannot bring itself to commend the president when he has over and over again stuck out his neck for us? It makes you wonder at times why he even bothers. All the good that he has done for Jews and Israel seems not to matter.

Although the decision was narrow, the Supreme Court should be applauded for upholding President Trump’s travel ban.

Now the rest of America knows what it’s like to be a terrorized and bullied college student where no conservatives need apply.

A recent book on Tikkun Olam Judaism is nothing short of a lethal indictment of the distortion of Judaism that has led to massive intermarriage and assimilation on the part of US Jewry.

To the credit of President Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and our UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, the United States now is withdrawing from the UNHRC cesspool and taking a hike, leaving them to torture and butcher each other…and, during recess and play time, to pass resolutions condemning Israel.

Many well-meaning people have asked: Are the aims of Women of the Wall (WoW) religious or political in nature? Does this group wish to simply pray after its own fashion or force change upon the rest of us? Recent events leave little room for doubt.

The Seedier Media are aflutter: “But Trump is meeting with a tyrant, a dictator. How can we countenance that?” Did it bother the same mainstream media when Obama cozied up to Hugo Chavez and danced the salsa with the Castro party?

The Inspector-General’s findings could not have been more clear: Comey was consistently insubordinate. That is precisely the word used in the report: insubordinate. No company, no business, no organization can function effectively with highly placed but subordinate people working at odds with their superiors, their management, their bosses.

Being an Orthodox Jew and an Orthodox rabbi, one must realize that there is frequent conflict between contemporary societal values and the values of the Torah. The Torah requires us to follow the example of Abraham, whose trajectory was one of counterculture relative to the surrounding society’s values.