יום רביעי, כ״ד חשוון תשפ״זWednesday, November 4, 2026
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An issue of grave concern, Debbie shares, is the rising rate of abuse between older and younger children.
By Ben Cohen
The coalition the US has assembled to fight ISIS is based on an immediate coincidence of interest.
By Paul Gherkin
Would Obama stand for a housing policy that barred blacks from living in Washington, DC?
God will accept repentance, even if it is mostly for ulterior motives and likely not to last.
The OU criticized White House and State Dept. Spokespeople for suggesting Jews buying houses in Jerusalem is 'provocative.'
if her son remained non-responsive she would place honey on his lips on Rosh Hashanah so that he might realize it was the chag.
Often in life we become stuck – stuck in the morass of our habits and the rote of our comfort level.
There is one day of the year on which the Satan has no power: Yom Kippur.
During shmittah we refrain from agricultural activities and collection of loans, and on Yom Kippur we refrain from all physical pleasures.
Over 350 people celebrated the engagement of Fire Commissioner Andrew Friedman and his fiancé, Chanie Herskovic, at their Hancock Park home Sunday.
Why is it so important to report a hate crime or hate incident?
Practically to his last days the patriarchal founder was at his office almost daily and took an active interest in all matters connected with the business.
A Miraculous Visual Treat ‘They Lifted It Up To Show…’ (Chagiga 26b)
Question: I recently loaned money to a friend who has been able to repay only part of it. This was an interest-free loan. We exchanged a signed IOU, not a proper shtar with witnesses, since I have always trusted her integrity and only wanted a document that confirms what was loaned and what was repaid. Now that shemittah is approaching, what should I do? Should I forgive the loan? And if my friend is not able to repay it, may I deduct the unpaid money from my ma’aser requirement? Name Withheld
What right do I, sinner, have to approach Hashem and request forgiveness?
By Shalom Bear
A woman and three girls miraculously escaped an Arab lynch mob on Thursday afternoon while driving through the Jerusalem A-Tur neighborhood on the Mount of Olives.
Throughout the war, Akiva had several brief furloughs home, and each time exchanged whichever mishnayos volume he had finished for the next in the series.
Imagine a man who, after having a few too many drinks, gets into his car and begins driving. It takes a while before he is pulled over, but finally the police arrest him, and he stands trial for driving while intoxicated.
Mr. Fisher contacted Rabbi Dayan. "Am I allowed to use money of ma'aser kesafim to pay the shul for an aliyah that I bought?" he asked.
In addition to Yom Kippur, there is at least one other instance when a person may fast on Shabbat – the case of a ta’anit chalom, in which a person wishes to fast to prevent an ominous dream from becoming reality.
Others suggest that one cannot separate Shabbos from Yom Kippur by accepting Shabbos early.
The subtext in an Obama and Netanyahu press conference continues to be a disagreement over the role of Iran.
Soldiers at various hospitals complained that they experienced hostility from Arab hospital staff.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
"We have succeeded in raising an ideological generation that loves death like our enemies love life"
The call of the shofar is eternal. It is not musical. Its magnetic allurement cannot be explained.
Ba’al Shem Tov: “Hashem, too, is crying; as much as He is looking for us, we rarely look for Him.”
“How then, can anyone say that, the practice of Islam is protected by the U.S. Constitution?”
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
When we cry from the heart, someone listens; When we cry on Yom Kippur, God hears us.
Why doesn't Obama also label Jerusalem Arabs as “illegitimate settlers?”
One man’s poison is another’s antidote.
Israel's President Ruby Rivlin recites Slichot, the prayers for forgiveness that are said leading up to Yom Kippur. This slichot prayer session was held at the President's official residence. Speaking of presidential pardons, it would be good if this were the year that Jonathan Pollard was let free.
For more information, go to HamasOnCampus.org.
American university campuses have become fertile ground for seeds of evil.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Letter of protest charges SJP with “harassing and intimidating Jewish students.”
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by alternative peace activist Yehuda HaKohen to talk about the Judaizing of Jerusalem and how it's all a matter of narrative.
Biden's new national security adviser dissed Israel in the Democratic party platform and mocks Iran's danger.
Contrary to popular belief, the Talmud never explicitly limits the ban on footwear to leather shoes.
By Rachel Levy
PA leader Abbas demands UN force Israel back to 1949 Armistice Line by Nov. 2016.
Car fires are car fires,” said the Atlantic City fire chief. But the car was parked!
US admits its 'no-strike if any civilians might be hit' policy does not apply to its airstrikes against ISIS.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli police revealed on September 30 that they are now investigating the possibility that a fellow Arab worker may have cut the cable that held Arami as he was doing exterior work on a building.
There is not even a hint of recognition that Hamas deliberately fires rockets at civilian targets in Israel while storing arms and rocket launchers among its own civilians in Gaza.
No one with any sanity would dream of rationalizing or justifying the depredations perpetrated on the Arab world by ISIS.
Israel talks with building blocks. The Palestinian Authority throws them.
With $2 billion on hand the Islamic State is an extremely well-funded terrorist group that may pose a major international crisis for the U.S. and the world. Learn about their rise to power and the toll they’ve taken thus far.
The Palestinian Authority continues to remove its mask and show it is Hamas in sheep's clothing.
How do some of the other issues Obama discussed in his 2013 U.N. General Assembly speech look through today's lens?
“I think there’s no question that support for Israel will, I think, increase dramatically with the Republican leadership in the Senate,” Matthew Brooks, executive director of the RJC and the Jewish Policy Center think tank, told JNS.
In the recent Gaza war and its aftermath, we saw a totally illogical reaction from the world.
By Sean Savage
As expected, one of the biggest themes throughout the week long UN gathering was a focus on the threat posed by Islamic State to the international world order, with nearly every major world leader mentioning the U.S.-led international efforts underway to combat the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
By Ben Sales
“You want to know what this wine looked like, which wine King David drank, white or red.... We can see if it’s red or white, strong or weak.”
By JTA
For diehard Jewish fans of “The Simpsons,” a Mourner’s Kaddish will be in order at this weekend’s Yom Kippur services.
A recent Jerusalem municipal decision regarding a virgin, angered ultra-Orthodox representatives.
B'Tselem is once again able to use Israel's national service volunteers to attack Israel's efforts at self-defense and sovereignty.
The soft-glove approach to campus anti-Zionists is more like a pat on the back.
By Batya Medad
My good friend Ruthie Blum and I don't agree about the value of Bibi's speech; she's too optimistic.
Regardless of your opinion on the hareidi community, the food is delicious and super-duper kosher!
Netanyahu had a lot to say to Ban, but there is no indication if anyone listened.
He joined the ISIS after opening the Koran.
A Hareidi man performs the Kaparos ceremony for his son, in Beitar. The ritual, which some consider controversial, is performed before Yom Kippur, as part of the repentance process. A chicken is gently raised and waved over the head of a family member or yourself. The person performing the ritual says the following statement (or […]
BDS failed to #StoptheBoat at the Port of Long Beach. The ZIM Shanghai unloaded / reloaded and sailed on without a hitch.
'Jews Against Genocide' pervert the Ice Bucket Challenge into a "blood bucket" attack on the IDF.
An Israeli was lightly injured in a Arab drive-by attack near Ofra.
To defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai talks about Israel's newest submarine along and the history of the navy along with the rise of ISIS in the Middle East
Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted murderer of a Philly cop, was chosen as college commencement speaker.
Israeli transportation and tourism employees will carry out a work slowdown on Wednesday in solidarity with striking postal workers.
By Paul Gherkin
Is the global community clear in its response to these extremist groups?
Like our fabled character, Don Quixote, President Obama has constantly spawned his own reality.
By Shadi Paveh
Boroujerdi was informed that "the pressures and tortures will increase until he has been destroyed."
A 30-year-old man is listed in serious condition after setting himself afire at the Savion Junction in central Israel on Tuesday.
Fatah: Hamas stole relief aid for Gaza and distributed it amongst its followers in mosques.
By Rachel Levy
A Muslim football player was penalized in Kansas City for offering a quick prayerful gesture of thanks after scoring a touchdown for his team.
The Zim Shanghai moored a short while ago at the Port of Los Angeles.
By Batya Medad
Bibi speaks resolutely in forums like the UN but we don't see that strength on the ground here.
The blatantly hostile state department press corps belittled and mischaracterized Netanyahu's UN speech.
Children help clean up Ashkelon in an event organized by the Jewish National Fund, as part of Clean up the World Day, on Sept. 29, 2014.
Israel_Shield is angry, and lets loose in this post.
By JTA
Jews are becoming as safe in France as they are in Iraq, Yemen and Syria.
Children were rushed to bomb shelters in the Jerusalem neighborhood when Arabs began throwing explosives at the neighborhood and at Jewish toddlers playing near their nursery schools.
By Tibbi Singer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed for a much deserved lunch in Midtown Manhattan with Sheldon Adelson, at Fresco by Scotto, accompanied by 30 security guards. Bibi had the veal chop.
By Tibbi Singer
Rabbi David Kushner's Ford Explorer was torched next to the Rodef Sholom Synagogue in Atlantic City on the first day of Rosh Hashanah.
How can Netanyahu say that Iran, which hangs innocents, is like ISIS, which beheads them?
Yeah, I know what you're thinking but no, I haven't lost my mind and no, I am not kidding.
More than 500 Jews now live in the City of David and Silwan Valley.
ZIM may not call on the Port of Oakland again, certainly not until the ILWU 10 has a contract and guarantees to unload ZIM ships. Other shipping companies wary of the port's unreliability may also consider the same.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai talks about Abbas' hateful speech at the UN along with looking at the sad reality on hate in the Middle East. He moves on to talk about a woman killed on the way to an appointment at a fertility clinic and how she saved five lives and ends talking about French Jews and a Jewish community slated for destruction.
Dozens of Jewish graves and gravestones on the Mount of Olives were desecrated during Rosh HaShanna.
The following is the speech delivered by PM Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly on September 29, 2014:
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