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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.

De Niro and friends have run out of things to say.

The first ordination banquet of the Hebrew Union College of Reform Judaism did not go smoothly. A group of invited rabbis opened their menus, realized that the first course was to be little-neck clams, and immediately left. Fast forward 125 years, and once again the abandonment of Jewish values was too profound for some of those invited to bear.

How the media spin misconveys the GOP’s November House chances in the Golden State.