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By Jake Novak Last week, 5 Towns Jewish Times Editor-in-Chief Larry Gordon asked a simple but important question paraphrased here: Why did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make A deal with...

Last week was his last day on the job. It was only a few weeks ago that he told me he has had enough and that he simply cannot...

Let’s talk about Therese Patricia Okoumou, 44, of Staten Island. She was born and educated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but records show she has lived in New...

By Jake Novak Monday is the day President Donald Trump is promising to announce his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. But we don’t have to wait...

By Shira Jacobson Imagine a society in which people’s livelihood is determined by brokers. In this society, if a person is seeking a job, he must do so by means...

By Yochanan Gordon If there is anything history has taught us, it’s that all great accomplishments require a big dream. It’s the dream, or perhaps the willpower within mankind, that...

When President Donald Trump announced the United States was exiting the Iran nuclear deal last month, the focus on internal Iranian politics was intense. It was as if the...

It is important that the organized Jewish community in this country has fair and equitable relationships with elected officials on both sides of the aisle in Congress. But at...

  Dr. Joe Frager, a great friend of Israel and the Jewish people, really does not need to be defended, not by us here nor by anyone else for that...

By Stephen M. Flatow We don't yet know the details of the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan presidential adviser Jared Kushner is preparing. But we do know how Kushner perceives the Palestinian Arabs....