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The Torah’s wording in describing the sin offering to be brought by a leader indicates that it is inevitable that leaders will make mistakes, and we are fortunate when we have leaders who take accountability for them.

The Democratic Party is on the ropes in a way unseen in decades. President Trump’s approval numbers are higher than they’ve ever been since he entered the political arena. Since he won a resounding victory last November, the Democrats have been grappling with an identity crisis that has left it fractured, directionless, and, according to a recent CNN poll, less popular than ever. With favorability ratings plummeting to a historic low of 29% – a figure not seen in CNN’s polling since 1992 – the Democrats are facing a reckoning. They need to decide if they are going to retreat to a populous middle or double down on the extreme socialist Left.

In making the broad claim that it is always a denial of academic freedom for governments to pressure universities with a cut-off of funding, left-wing critics ignore the lessons of history and the single standard of morality.

 (April 1, 2025 / Gatestone Institute) Many left-wing university faculty members (a redundancy if there ever was one) are rebelling against the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funding to universities that tolerate antisemitic actions against their Jewish students. They condemned the acting president of Columbia for accepting some of the administration’s conditions for restoring the $400 million that it threatened to cut, and she was forced to resign.

The president achieved the seemingly impossible goal of undoing the woke grip on schools that is destroying American society. And it was easier than anyone thought.

(March 25, 2025 / JNS) Progressive academics have been among the loudest voices calling for a new “resistance” to the second administration of President Donald Trump. But their angry rhetoric and vows to fight what they consider to be a threat to everything they hold dear was shown to be little more than hot air. The first time a leading bastion of the left like Columbia University was faced with a choice between fighting and surrendering to Trump, it folded like a cheap suit.

Last week, thousands of Gazans took to the streets in what may be the boldest display of dissent against Hamas since the October 7 attack that plunged the region into its latest war. In Beit Lahia and other parts of Gaza, chants of “Hamas out” echoed through funeral processions and protest gatherings, a visceral cry from a people battered by war because of the iron grip of a terrorist regime. If a pro-Palestinian cause existed in the West, this would have been a rallying point from Columbia to Washington, DC. The lack of such a reaction only continues to prove the obvious: There is no pro-Palestinian movement, only an anti-Israel one.

Reading Megillas Esther this year, I’ve come to realize that the most important line of the entire Megillah is at the very end. No, I’m not talking about the tax raise that many jokingly boo at. I’m referring to the last line of the entire Megillah – one of the few we say aloud.