יום רביעי, כ״ד חשוון תשפ״זWednesday, November 4, 2026
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By J. E. Dyer
It’s likely that some of the rebel factions, including US clients, have indeed made pacts with ISIS
Imam Tafsirli of the Harlem Islamic center: "You cannot be a Muslim without believing in Jesus"
By JTA
This happened in Britain in 2014, not in Germany in 1939.
By Ted Belman
My blog, Israpundit, was hacked, and I had to move to a new domain...
There's much confusion about the definition of Daas Torah; simply put it means the wisdom of Torah.
By Batya Medad
We'll never be able to negotiate a true, lasting peace with the Arabs.Their aim is our destruction.
Now I live in a country where every shop in the food court is kosher! I can have anything I want!
The Met's upcoming opera trivializes the murder of Jews, pretends Jews have no connection to Israel, and portrays terrorists as victims.
Never, never, never take packages from someone without knowing what is inside.
By JTA
Anti-radical Islam begins to trump anti-Semitism.
Gadi Yarkoni, the last person injured during Operation Protective Edge, was released today from Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva.
Yaalon revealed that most of the "8200" signers do not do reserve duty, and the few that do, haven't done any in years.
11:41am Talk about really bad timing. Sirens heard in Shomron communities were an (unannounced) siren test in the community of Maaleh Shomron. The siren was heard in Karnei Shomron, Ginot Shomron, Yakir, Nofim and Emmanuel. It was *only* a test. 11:39 am OK. Now this is just strange. Rocket Siren heard in Karnei Shomron (in the Shomron) […]
12:04pm IDF says there was no rocket launch at Israel from Gaza. Gazan sources say a rocket misfired and landed inside Gaza. No explosions or rocket landings were heard inside Israel. Conclusion: It's more likely that no rocket was launched and it was a false alarm. We will update this article, if we learn something new. […]
By Rachel Levy
Egypt-based Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk says Gaza landlords are refusing to rent to Hamas terrorists.
Police have arrested 4 Arabs from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawia.
Since March, there have been repeated acts of anti-Semitic vandalism against Philly's Jewish sites and institutions.
By Moshe Herman
Musicians Frank London and David Licht of the Grammy award-winning band The Klezmatics perform live in-studio. Can you play a klezmer beat on the back of a garbage can? Find out from these Jewish musicians whose 'rebbes' are jazz greats from yesteryear.
Yehuda Poltzak is an artist from the Hareidi town of Beitar. He creates Judaica artifacts that decorate the homes and sukkahs of rabbis and community leaders. His creations require months of work.
It's a few years old, but just as relevant today, if not more so. (Did you catch the "Hitler Youth Week" reminder?)
By Shalom Bear
The Islamic hate mail we received in response to today's cartoon had us on the floor laughing our heads off. But that might be a bad choice of words.
By Edwin Black
If simple fuel choice were implemented, the power of petroleum and those who sell it would cease.
Value of IS: It enables people to see the place to which all other Islamist fascism is headed.
Pashkevil: "Come out today and battle the Zionist Amalek and all the traitors in Nahal Haredi..."
Just to make the score even, police also arrested a Jew
Israelis in the Golan Heights are caught between a rock and a hard place.
“I will kill all of you,” said the drunken gunman, annoyed at the nerve of a truck blocking traffic.
In the areas where over 1,000 rockets and missiles fell, Israeli farmers will plant 100,000 new fruit trees!
By Batya Medad
Jordan: Only M.E. country with no historical basis and ruled by occupiers placed by European powers.
Why is an IRA a worthwhile account for retirement? And how can you use it to the best advantage?
By David Bedein
• UNRWA is controlled by or allows itself to be used by Hamas.
By Rachel Levy
World leaders are condemning the beheading of a British aid worker by the global Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror organization.
High-ranking members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been asked to leave Qatar and set up a new headquarters elsewhere.
An Israeli man had the shock of his life, when Arab carjackers jumped into his car and drove off - with the man's 4 year old child inside the car.
By JoeSettler
Like the fighter pilot's letter, I wonder if certain units are simply too sensitive to allow certain leftwingers to serve in, and to entrust in their hands the security of our country and our lives.
By Rachel Levy
The U.S. State Department has attacked its ally, Israel, for returning fire in combat with Hamas near UNWRA facilities.
Abdel Rahman Zuabi (Zoabi), the first Israeli-Arab to be appointed as a Supreme Court Justice, died on Sunday at age 82.
United Arab Emirates delivered mobile homes to Gaza, for Gazan residents whose home were destroyed in Hamas's war against Israel. An internal Arab poll indicated that at least 70% of Gazans want to permanently leave the Gaza Strip. The more moral act would have been to help these Gazan residents relocate to another country, outside the Middle […]
By Rachel Levy
A conservative columnist known for his anti-Israel views has again struck out against the Jews in Turkey.
There is only one thing more tragic than experiencing a terror attack, and that is allowing those who attacked you to do it again!
20,000 fans heard Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett sing together at Park HaYarkon in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.
ISIS (Daash) has released a new video, claiming to have beheaded British citizen David Haines, and promises more murders on the way.
By JoeSettler
Smuggling Gazans into Europe is cheaper than fighting with Gaza, and then rebuilding all the destruction.
Hamas would rather Gaza remain rubble, than give up their ability to attack Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Despite the vote's difficult timing for observant Jews, a number of pro-Israel groups also turned out to support CUNY students and faculty who opposed the resolution.
Paranoia over ISIS has made everyone forget the Al Qaeda threat.
Who says the cultural barriers are too great to make intermarriage work?
Kerry and the CIA love Majid Faras. That means trouble for Israel.
The man reportedly attacked the soldiers who told him to get off the range.
The left-wing's 8200 refusal letter brought reactions of anger and condemnation from active and reserve members of the intelligence unit.
By Yaffa Ganz
Today, fifty years and six million (!) people later, Israel is truly a different world.
By Ann Goldberg
There will always be items that don’t freeze well – salads and some rice- or potato-based dishes – so you need to leave time to prepare or cook them closer to Yom Tov and ensure there is enough room in the refrigerator to store them.
By Rhona Lewis
In Uzbekistan, in the early twentieth century, it was the women who wore the pants.
This is an important one in raising a mentsch (and maybe even in marrying off a mentsch! listening skills are on the top of the list when I do shidduch coaching).
Pressing close to the cage, the Ibn Ezra shouted the words, “Shema Yisrael…”
This Holy Day comes once a year With prayers and begging and pleading and tears,
While multitasking is not ideal, it is often necessary and unavoidable.
Maybe now that your kids are back in school, you should start cleaning for Pesach.
By Libi Astaire
The interpreter was expected to be a talmid chacham himself and be able to also offer explanations and clarifications to the students.
On the Gaza border, Soroka treated hundreds of wounded soldiers and moved its entire NICU to a shelter during OPE.
By Joseph Cox
This week's parsha offers a new covenant; a covenant that speaks to national life unlike any other
By Sandy Eller
"When Frank does something he does it well and you don't have to worry about dotting the i's or crossing the t's."
“On Sunday I was at the Kotel with the battalion and we said a prayer of thanks. In Gaza there were so many moments of death that I had to thank God that I'm alive. Only then did I realize how frightening it had been there.”
Neglect, indifference or criticism can break a person's neshama.
It’s fair to say that we all know or have someone in our family who is divorced.
All Jews are inherently righteous and that is why we all have a portion in the World to Come.
President Obama: "ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents"
By Donny Fuchs
he time of the Uman pilgrimage is upon us, and we dare not ignore the opportunity to highlight the danger.
Qatar's horror of legitimizing Israel's existence extends to even listing its name for TV sports purposes.
Trump made his offer after the President was turned away from multiple golf courses.
The Palestinian Authority is apparently no longer interested in taking Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague for war crimes.
Video cameras instead of rifles might make roads safer against rock-throwers.
By JTA
Search warrants unsealed in Quebec allege that the Haredi Lev Tahor sect trafficked in human cargo and committed other abuses. The documents also reveal that Interpol and Israel helped build the criminal case against the group before its 250 members fled to Guatemala in March with leader Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans. The list of charges in […]
After 2 weeks of captivity, the 45 Fijian UN soldier held captive by Syrian rebels were released on Thursday.
With lines around the block, after 3 months, Hamas "employees" have begun receiving partial salaries.
By Shalom Bear
A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said any US air strike, without the backing of the UN, would be "an act of aggression".
Vandals attacked two synagogues and a supermarket this week. One person has been arrested.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hamas is increasingly popular among Israeli Arabs.
By JTA
Free speech on on the Ohio U. campus is restricted to anti-Zionists.
Jerusalem once divided by barbed wire, now is divided by Arab rock-throwing terrorists.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Tamir Druz, who is an energy specialist and the director of Capra Energy Group, an independent energy consultancy based in Israel, and works with the Israeli government to help navigate tax and fiscal policy for the growing energy sector. Dr. Nadia Sheveleva is an environmental engineer and economist in the oil & gas industry and a project manager at Capra is also interviewed to talk about Israel's exploding energy sector.
Lebanon would be a partner, a pioneer and spearhead in the battle against ISIS...
If mourning is incompatible with Yom Tov, why is it not incompatible with Shabbat?
Since it is a Rabbinic prohibition we may follow the more lenient opinion.
How can the Torah expect me today, thousands of years after the mitzvahs were given, to view each mitzvah as if I’m fulfilling it for the first time?
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Torah isn't a theological treatise or a metaphysical system but a series of stories linked over time
By Naama Klein
In contrast to her Eicha-like lamentations of the previous hour or more, however, my youngest was now grinning from ear-to-ear.
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
An Astonishing Miracle ‘Why Bring the Infants to Hakhel?’ (Chagigah 3a)
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
e are in a time of serious crisis and must go beyond our present levels of chesed.
Healing requires that the victim be validated for being harmed and the guilty assume responsibility.
Residents in Israel's north heard 2 sets of rocket sirens this evening,
According to Ibn Ezra, the Torah was stressing through this covenant that hypocrisy was forbidden.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Jerusalem district firefighters and rescue volunteers, alongside U.S. Marines and families of 9/11 victims, marked the 13th anniversary 9/11 in a special ceremony held in the Jerusalem Hills.
By Dov Hikind
During the war, not once was Hashem’s name mentioned to the nation by Israel’s PM or gov't officials
October 30, 2026 
