If a man sins and follows his inclinations, he will find comfort in this world – but when he dies, he will go to a place that is all thorns.
Nothing is more effective to diminish envy than gratitude.
The IDF readies what it does not want unless there is no alternative – a deep ground invasion of Gaza. Hamas also is ready.
The first prayer of Moshe was Vayechal, where Moshe's petition was that no matter how bad bnei Yisrael were, the Egyptians were worse.
By JTA
If “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Diaspora Jews are in big trouble.
"We're leining now, and shouldn't be talking," Mr. Silver gently quieted his son. "At the Shabbos table we can discuss it at length."
The security cabinet authorised Thursday the emergency call-up of 10,000 IDF reservists. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Israel would continue to pursue Hamas leaders anywhere and at any time, and added that the current campaign would “take time.” Ya’alon called on the Israeli public to display patience and strength while the army deals with the […]
The Jewish community in Belfast, Northern Ireland is bracing for violent backlash as the city prepares for an appearance by radical British MP George Galloway on Saturday night. Last month, Palestinian supporters smashed windows twice at the Belfast Hebrew Congregation following a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the city. Now, representatives for Galloway say the 1,000-seat Ulster […]
If we regard pain and suffering as mere coincidence, we will feel no motivation to examine our lives
Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a licensed tour guide and head of Haliba mvt for Jewish rights, has 'sparked unrest' by praying.
PA Arabs stoned an Egged bus near Halhoul, north of Hebron Wednesday. The attack took place near the site where the bodies of Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Sha'ar and Naftali Fraenkel were discovered on June 30. No injuries or property damage were reported.
Non-stop rockets on south; Yadlin: Hamas rocket stockpiles dwindling.
We take US “aid” for psychological reasons-if we have an allowance, that means we have a father.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Culture is not nature. There are causes in nature, but only in culture are there meanings.
Rabbinic law is pivotal but it's important to understand which laws are rabbinic and which biblical.
Three more terrorists killed in IAF air strike on Sheikh Radwan section of Gaza City Thursday.
We give slave gifts? If he wants to stay, we pierce his ear?!
IAF fighter pilots eliminate 20 terror targets in Gaza since midnight, killing six in the region.
By JoeSettler
Hamas's online Jihadi supporters and groupies are desperately trying to differentiate between their support for Hamas and supporting ISIS.
Pro-Hamas activists hung a 200 foot PA flag from the Brooklyn Bridge.
A suspected car bomb caused police to evacuate the campus.
There was a failed secret US mission earlier this summer to rescue American hostages in Syria.
The Islamic State is getting a lot of bad publicity lately, which actually proves how successful they are.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai interviews Rick Santorum, former US Senator and Presidential hopeful on Iran, media, the Bible, and the US Israel relationship.
Hamas finally tells the truth.
Islamic terror coming soon to your favorite neighborhood street theater.
A CPE class at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn was tailor made for Orthodox participants.
By J. E. Dyer
ZIM Piraeus isn’t Israeli-owned or flagged, incidentally, it is Greek operated.
By Joseph Cox
A bit of (non-Jewish) history can help us understand this week’s Torah portion: In the early 1500s, the Catholic church was being fundamentally challenged by movements which claimed it had monopolized religious power and used to enrich the church and its officials. The most radical of these movements were a particular sect of Anabaptists. Anabaptists […]
By Gil Solomon
Foolish me, thinking the goals were the destruction of Hamas thereby giving peace a real chance.
Netanyahu, Ya’alon and Gantz’s comments: War until there is total quiet and everyone can sleep at night.
We all got degrees. We got married. We had families. We worked. We and were Koveih Itim
By Shalom Bear
The ZIM ship was quickly and efficiently unloaded - despite the best efforts by the Jihadi supporters to block it.
11:06pm Sapir, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Sderot, Gaza border, Ashkelon, Ashkelon, Ashkelon 10:17pm Kerem Shalom 9:04pm Ashkelon Coast 8:49pm Eshkol 8:12pm Eshkol 7:47pm Eshkol 7:44pm A Hamas spokesperson has warned airlines to not fly into Ben-Gurion starting 6am tomorrow (Thursday), according to a YNet report. It's actually things like that that makes Israel hit Hamas even harder. 7:35pm Kerem […]
The free-spirted lifestyle didn’t hold your interest; the needs of your people did.
Don't you feel just a tad jealous of Egypt right now?
And why would the U.S. align itself on these issues with Turkey and Qatar, longtime advocates of Hamas’s interests?
By Zeev Ben-Yechiel / Tazpit News Agency
Update: Calls for Renewed Ground Offensive as Rain of Rockets on Israel Continues
Several years ago the city concluded that the metzitzah b’peh procedure created unacceptable risks for newborns in terms of the transmission of neo-natal herpes through contact with a mohel carrying the herpes virus.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Following Rockets, Israel Renewing Safety Precautions for Civilians
More than 1,550 individuals have immigrated to Israel from Ukraine in the first five months of 2014 alone, more than double the 693 who arrived in the corresponding period last year.
Signs that Islamic State (ISIS - Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) terrorists have arrived in Egypt have appeared in the Sinai Peninsula.
With generous support from the Egyptian Jewish community, the exiled family built a new life for itself in the Mafruza and Gabbari refugee camps near Alexandria.
By Ben Sales
Shlomy Zachary, an Israeli human rights lawyer, noted that Israeli cooperation with previous UN investigations has helped mitigate criticism of Israel - for example, in a 2010 UN investigation of the so-called flotilla incident.
By Ed Lion
The world wars caused unimaginable anguish for the Jews but God also scripted a great glory for our people.
So imagine, you're working in the field harvesting cucumbers (or whatever is in season right now) and suddenly the siren goes off - Hamas is shooting rockets at you.
By Rachel Levy
An international media outlet has caught Britain's Consul-General to Jerusalem, Alastair McPhail in a photo wearing the PA logo scarf.
Longshoremen pulled a fast on anti-Israel picketers and are unloading the Zim ship that was blocked from unloading last week.
Deif may, or may not, have escaped the bombing raid. His wife, at least one of them, was killed. Is Haniyeh next?
One by one, slowly but surely, the State Dept.is waking up.
By Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper
We were quite disappointed with many of the points the secretary-general offered in response.
Islamic State allegedly beheaded one American journalist, has threatened another with the same fate.
But the real culprit is William Schabas, who by comparison makes Richard Goldstone look like a saint
PRESS [F5] to refresh this page: 1:38am IDF Homefront Command directs Haifa and Carmel regions to also open public bomb shelters. Nahariya (Northern Israel) opened their public shelters as well, as per their mayor's request, not the IDF.. 1:29am Ashkelon, Ashkelon Coast, Yad Mordechai, Zikim... (multiples all) 12:47am Reports that IDF has been targeting over […]
“Seeing the Bible come to life is quite remarkable” – Rick Santorum
"The Jewish board of deputies, who are complicit, will feel the wrath of the People of SA with the age old biblical teaching of an eye for an eye."
The United States holds Hamas accountable for all rocket attacks on Israel, U.S. State Dept. spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters at the daily oppress briefing Tuesday. Asked if the rockets that broke the cease-fire were launched from Gaza, she said, “It came from Gaza, and Hamas has responsibility for Gaza.” Harf also that there has […]
The body of a 21-year-old Ohio native serving as a lone soldier in the IDF was found on Tuesday, two days after he was reported missing, military spokesmen announced. Corporal David Menachem Gordon of the Givati Brigade was found with his personal Tabor rifle beside him. He had last been at the Tzrifin army base […]
The U.S. State Department has declared the Mujahedeen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) a foreign terror group.
Discussion on recent changes to Social Security benefits and how it will effect you.
Hezbollah has lowered the minimum age to join the terrorist organization from 18 to 16.
Israel officials say a report that Gaza terrorists fired a Grad missile at the Eshkol Regional Council district was a 'false alarm.'
By Alex VanNess
Judging by history, every time Hamas rebuilds their infrastructure, they are stronger than before.
3 rockets landed near Be'er Sheva.
Israel Police report IDF soldier David Menachem Gordon, 21, is missing; he is 5'6" tall with brown eyes, black, short cropped hair.
By David Herman
His father asked him to read Psalms from the Book of Tehilim every day.
By Rachel Levy
Turkey's President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scoring major PR at home via Gaza, thru Israel.
Tuesday - Arab rioters are desecrating the Temple Mount once again with violence. One policeman was lightly injured by Arab stone throwers on the Temple Mount. He received medical treatment on site. Rocks were also thrown near Shaar Shechem (Damascus Gate), damaging windows on a passing bus. No injuries reported, and no arrests reported either. […]
By JTA
Al Qaeda wants the US to free terrorists in return for freeing Warren Weinstein.
Israel waited 12 hours to deny an agreement. Abbas talked with Mashaal while Shin Bet busted coup plot.
Protesters were removed and arrested after staging an anti-Israel sit-in at Sen. Feinstein's office.
People who made up stories about great miracles in the war lack the faith to see the everyday hidden miracles.
I do not understand why Bibi or anyone else (Obama) would ever contemplate accepting any terms by an organization that states loud and clear their goal of Israel's destruction.
Hamas is frustrated. Their missiles turned out to be useless, their tunnels were destroyed, they lost hundreds of terrorists, and the IDF effectively routed them both in war and now at the diplomatic table. So to vent some of those frustrations (and to keep the populace angry), they've been running angry anti-Israel protests. At this […]
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 24 hour extension of the ceasefire.
Jonathan Sacerdoti called Sainsbury's customer service, and discussed the removal of Kosher products from one of their stores, following threats of violence.
Israel will once again have turned victory into defeat if the rumored truce goes into effect at midnight
The reason train service between Ashkelon and Sderot continues to be shut down, is due to a 1 kilometer stretch of exposed train tracks which leaves the trains open to attack by anti-tank missiles fired from Gaza. In May, JewishPress.com discussed a video released from Gaza that showed the Ashkelon-Sderot train being tracked by camera, and […]
Israel Channel 2 reports the cease-fire with Gaza has been extended although no one knows for how long.
3 tunnel opening where found inside a Kibbutz near the Gaza border...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent a floral basket to North Korean Tyrant-Dictator Kim Jong Un celebrating the "liberation" of North Korea.
By Kosher Today
Vegetable are healthy and kosher, Bugs are not.
Hamas set up cells in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem and planned terrorist attacks on Temple Mount.
(Reposted with permission from author's website) Moderate truth-teller Daniel Pipes (Dream) has further moderated his stance on Islam by actually entertaining the idea of "Moderate Islamism", with Andrew C. McCarthy- whom I've debated about this- giving it some credence. We've gone from Naming the Enemy -Nazism, Communism- to Renaming the Enemy - "Islamic Totalitarianism", "Radical Islam", "Islamism", […]
The good news that Zoabi and two of her Knesset pals left the country. The bad news is that they are coming back.
The media dumped on the "Lehava" people as extremist - racist and should mind their own business.
Dana Bar-on talks about her life along the Gaza border as rockets fall from above, and terrorists pop up from underground.
Maimonides: "Your 1 mitzva may tip the scales and bring redemption to the entire world and creation"
By JTA
At least six Haredi protesters were arrested and a police officer was wounded in demonstrations in at least three Israeli cities Sunday following the arrest of a yeshiva student for ignoring a draft notice. Hundreds of protesters blocked busy intersections in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Modiin Illit and Beit Shemesh. The yeshiva student has been arrested […]
5 boys got lost after leaving their Catskills camp for a hike....
By Batya Medad
What is the point of having our own state when it cooperates with those who are against us?
It was the "first family event I missed due to aliyah."
IDF Southern Command believes that the rockets and mortars will begin again tonight, hours before the ceasefire is set to end.
The Israeli Air Force has decided to name its new fighter training jet the "Lavi". The jet is being manufactured by Aermacchi of Italy. Israel is buying 30 of these plane. In exchange, Italy is buying Israeli military systems including satellites and control systems. Until now Israel has been using aging US Skyhawk jets for […]