Politics

The Scroll, the Wall, the Commandments and the President

Founding Document

Trump and his family set aside the trappings of state to pray at the Western Wall.

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By coincidence, I was in Jerusalem during President Trump’s visit, where he was almost uniformly welcomed in a city celebrating 50 years since the hard-fought reuniting of Israel’s ancient capital in the Six-Day War of June 1967.

The presidential event that towered over all others during Trump roughly 30 hours In...

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