יום חמישי, כ״ה חשוון תשפ״זThursday, November 5, 2026
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By Rhona Lewis
The traditional services that take place here transport visitors back in time, enabling them to smell and feel the authentic historical experience.
Several hundred Arabs hurled rocks, firebombs and fireworks at IDF soldiers near Ramallah on Friday.
By Yaffa Ganz
Who wants to read Old News when the Internet is already giving you tomorrow's happenings before they've even occurred?
Upon hearing that he did, the owner sent him the atarah – all shiny and new – to be returned to me. I was reunited with my father’s precious gift.
The innkeeper smiled and replied, “Why do you think we are dancing? We are dancing because G-d destroyed the Bais HaMikdash!”
Three Gaza terrorists were critically injured in a targeted Israeli air strike on a home in Jabalya.
Because the children suffering from this disorder generally have wonderful verbal skills, the disability can go unrecognized for many years.
If I’m going on for oven mitts, I don’t want to see sock puppets until at least page 40.
By Libi Astaire
Even though the Roman victory signaled the end of Jewish sovereignty, it did not mean the end of Torah Judaism.
Sacrifice is the backbone of our souls. It indicates self-regulation for a higher purpose.
By Ayala Shemen
King David prayed to give me my destined glory from his palace; his son to mold me into the mountain that everyone faces when they call to our Creator.
7:03pm Wrote too soon. Code Red for Be'er Sheva and surrounds, Ashkelon, Segev Shalom, Rahat, Lahat, Tidhar and all seven of the major recognized Bedouin towns in southern Israel. This should be an interesting Sabbath. 7:01pm Quiet so far ... Shabbat begins soon. Hoping for the best. 5:36pm Eshkol 4:58pm Ashkelon Coast 3:58pm Apartment building […]
Dr. Nachmi Paz, 71, director of Sapir College in Sderot, was wounded Friday in a rocket barrage launched by terrorists in Gaza.
By Donny Fuchs
Purpose of Milchemet Mitzvah: Destroy the enemies of Israel to protect Jews and the land of Israel.
Members of Machnot Olim youth movement along with Holocaust survivors, flying kites for the 72 year rememberence of the execution of Yanush Korjack and his students in Treblinka at Yad Vashem on August 7, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Residents of the south are infuriated with senior IDF and government officials for saying that it was safe to go back to their homes in the south of Israel.
By JTA
Rabbi Yaacov Arar, who served as the chief rabbi of Athens for over four decades, has died.
In a unique operation, IEC transfered 10 generators to hospitals in Gaza.
By JTA
President Raphael Correa of Ecuador canceled a planned visit to Israel later this because of the conflict in Gaza. “Obviously, after these events, we have canceled the visit,” Correa said , referring to Israel’s operation in Gaza. The cancellation came two days after Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced that Ecuador would open an embassy in […]
Updated instructions now that Gaza rocket fire has begun again.
As Hamas rains down rockets on Israel, they added they will continue to negotiate.
Hamas fires rockets into Israel three hours before the ceasefire was scheduled to end.
Hamas is like the boy who murdered his parents and then cries because he is an orphan.
Arab sources reported on Thursday, that former Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha was executed by Hamas for spying on them, for Egypt.
Hamas has offered to trade body parts it collected or captured, to get their terrorists released from jail.
By Joseph Cox
But we can conduct an offensive. If we believe in our ideas, we can attack.
It’s because in Gaza, Hamas and the UNRWA are the same thing.
Five Hamas terrorists were killed Thursday night when an explosive device they were building blew up in northern Gaza, Arab sources reported. Hamas prepared for the end of the ceasefire and ended up doing the dirty work for the IDF.
Perhaps the city of Bradford can declare itself a “George Galloway-free zone.”
Supporting Israel, like supporting Harry Potter, is the only path to lasting peace.
Hamas is playing its usual game. Best bet is no ceasefire and a couple of mortar attacks on the Gaza Belt.
By JTA
Love game. Israel is left with holding the racquet out of bounds..
One of the manifestations of the immature person is a sense of entitlement.
"Do I have to repay the loan?" he asked. "Does Yosef have to reimburse me? What if doesn't have that sum, does he owe me in the future?"
The Rambam says that in order to honor Shabbos, one must wash his hands, face, and feet with warm water on Friday.
By Vered Weiss
The timing of the move, giving the raging conflict between Israel an Gazans, led to speculation by Pro-Palestinian news agencies that Soros, either through pressure of conviction, was divesting from SodaStream for political reasons.
Question: The Gemara in Berachot states that the sages authored our prayers. Does that mean we didn’t pray beforehand? Menachem (Via E-Mail)
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
Pondering A Kapandria “It Should Not Be Used As A Shortcut” (Megillah 29a)
The 10 Commandments: So few words; so much meaning.
Shemot 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea. Israeli soldiers sing as they embrace each other at a staging area in Southern Israel […]
By JTA
How about a picture of Donald Duck choking anti-Semitism?
The chair in the photo below was donated in memory of terror victims US-born Dr. Applebaum and his daughter Naava. It (along with others) was stolen from the Kotel by Arabs, who took them to the Temple Mount.
The news that the Chief Rabbinate withdrew kosher supervisors from Turkish plants in the face of Israel’s war in Gaza is part of what some kashrus organizations call “working in a more dangerous world.” They recall the murder of two kosher supervisors in Mumbai in December 2008, and extremists have recently threatened more terror in […]
After they saw what happened in Gush Katif in 2005, they understood Judea and Samaria could well be next.
"The battle we fight today is the same battle that you all will fight tomorrow." - Ambassador Prosor.
Lieberman proves he can be a diplomat even if it hurts.
“Today you [Israelis] are fighting divine soldiers, who love death for Allah like you love life” – Hamas Chief of Staff Muhammad Deif.
How is it that the journalists aren't able to get any images of Palestinians fighting the Israelis?
By Ben Cohen
A growing chorus of influential voices is arguing that Israel needs to finish the job in Gaza.
Rambam: Regarding a husband who refuses to give a Get: "He is beaten until he says, ‘I agree.’ ”
"If Israel's offering of land, economic improvements, and even autonomy will not help, what will?"
An Israeli soldier: "We feel an amazing embrace by the whole nation; we're all part of one family"
Rocket Road, Tunnel crunch, Kerry Cherry-pit, Weapons Cashew, Iron Dough, Terror-misu... Add your own...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
As the cease fire deadline approaches, Hamas is threatening to reignite the further destruction of Gaza...
By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn
" When asked about the Gaza War, 93% of American Jews said they sympathize with Israel;"
By Moshe Herman
Yishai speaks with journalist and Israel's Good Will Ambassador Earl Cox about distortions and anti-Israel bias in the global media. Then, Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel shares some thoughts on the significance of the 9th of Av.
Israel more or less won the battle against Hamas, but has a poor of history of fighting the enemy known as “peace talks.”
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Israel shows the world that a people does not have to be large in order to be great.
Rav Kook of blessed memory, who said that no matter where a Jew is born, he is born in Israel.
Why couldn’t the artillery barrage have been implemented before the soldiers went into that hell?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Arab mother: "Life is zero, life is worthless. That is why we have all the suicide bombers;"
By Naama Klein
The answers, though, were out there, waiting patiently and shimmering in the distance until the One with all the answers decided to enlighten us.
Jewish blood was cheap and could be shed with impunity.
The discovery of a Hamas “urban warfare” manual by IDF forces reveals Hamas’ callous use of Gazans
The Feigen family of Los Angeles bequeathed the tzitziot worn by the Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
Beginning with those Shabbat and holiday meals, the couple gradually expanded into other programming, including a dizzying array of lectures and activities for campus students.
Today is a month since I made aliyah! Was it only one month ago that I landed in Ben Gurion, clutching my teudat zehut, excited and apprehensive about what this new chapter would bring? It has been both the longest and quickest month of my life. The beginning saw a whirlwind of activity- setting up […]
We are delighted to announce the winners in the "Write Spirit" competition, a collaboration of The Orthodox Women's Chaplaincy Network and The Jewish Press.
“Hashem has blessed me with wonderful friends and family,” she mumbles.
I sit down next to the dear prophet Elijah And quietly smile at him. He glances at me with an expression of gratitude. It is time to take him out of his abyss.
Well, Mr. Haman, what did this Mordechai do to upset you?
“The Holy One, blessed be He, hates a person which says one thing with his mouth and another in his heart” (Talmud - Pesachim 113b)
Re-posted with permission from The Gatestone Institute How many times have you heard on television or read in the media that the Gaza Strip is "the most densely populated area in the world"? Repeating this statement, however, does not make it true. There are dense parts of Gaza, especially Gaza City, Beit Hanoun and Khan […]
8:17pm Initial analysis is that this was another false alarm. (Channel 2 TV) Awaiting further update... Alert went off in 10 communities in the Sdot Negev regions (that's one heck of a false alarm). There was a rocket alert earlier this afternoon, but the army said it was also a false alarm. 8:10pm A siren […]
By Irwin Cohen
"No kid is worth a million dollars to sign," Newhouser said, "but if one kid is, it's this kid."
A government afraid to complete a justified military campaign must step down from leadership.
Since nothing is static in warfare, the lesson is clear: Iron Dome must be continuously improved to stay ahead of developments in any rocket technology Hamas and Israel’s other enemies might get their hands on.
By Rachel Levy
Suicide bombers are again dressing like Orthodox Jews in preparation for carrying out mass casualty attacks in Israel.
By Sandy Eller
“My father added that after all the pogroms, after the Holocaust, a member of the family had finally returned to the shul, proving once again that the indomitable spirit of the Jewish people can never be vanquished.”
By Ron Kampeas
“On the Hill and with some people with whom I have spoken who are robust Israel supporters, people are concerned if not angry,” one of the staffers, a Democrat, told JTA
By Sara Lehmann
I understand how two governments can negotiate a ceasefire, but terrorists by definition are not playing by the same rules as you are.
As of Tuesday, all IDF forces operating in Gaza withdrew and redeployed to holding positions around Gaza.
By Rachel Levy
With cease fire talks barely in place, the Israel Electric Company already began repairing the power grid for Gaza residents.
A major pro-Israel rally will take place on Wednes.day, August 6 at Asser Levy Park in Brooklyn, NY from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
IDF soldiers fired in the air Wednesday to foil an infiltration of unidentified Arabs from northern Gaza.
Channel 2 report: IDF could re-conquer Gaza, but cost would be hundreds of IDF deaths, violence from Judea and Samaria, Israeli Arabs
Association for Civil Rights in Israel leads charge to accuse IDF of 'war crimes'; no call for Palestinian groups to investigate Hamas.
Terror group bent on creating 'Islamic Caliphate' sets sights on Lebanon, could push south towards Israeli border.
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