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While it is so that Donald Trump has not yet succeeded with major legislation, the golden key to his presidency is the executive one: executive actions and initiatives that lie within the exclusive jurisdiction of the President. It is here that the Trump presidency is a smashing success, in defiance of its innumerable detractors.

Millions of Israelis traverse King George Street every year. None of these people thinks of changing the street’s name or takes offense to it.

When public figures speak about issues “becoming a distraction”, it usually means that they are engaging in damage control. This is no exception.

I just watched the President’s entire 14-minute impromptu news conference. Not the reportage about the conference, but the entire 14 minutes unedited, uninterrupted. I found myself agreeing with his every word.

The venerable ADL is being dragged off course by a new executive director with no experience addressing anti-Semitism and a long pedigree as a left-wing activist. Mr. Mandel’s criticism was accurate and constructive.

It is easy to recognize the hate of 50 years ago; it takes discernment to recognize the hate of today. President Trump should have named all of the hate groups involved, or none. He was right the first time.

The Chief Rabbinate provides expatriate Israelis with an irreplaceable gift. It is a priceless heirloom bestowed upon their children rather than themselves: the gift of a bona-fide Jewish identity.

Would Trump be a true conservative, or was he really a liberal and a conservative hybrid at once, a man bereft of grounded ideology? Now, six months into Trump’s first term, he is the real thing.

Some in the media, and Palestinian leadership in particular, have now used fake news to justify the commission of new and horrific acts of terror.

Letter to the Editor: Rabbi Steinlauf’s claim that the “ultra-Orthodox” have sole control over Jewish “personal-status” matters in Israel is pejorative and groundless; Israel uses the same common standards that Jews around the globe have observed for centuries.