יום רביעי, כ״ד חשוון תשפ״זWednesday, November 4, 2026
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By Rachel Levy
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost no time this year in publicly offering warm Chanukah greetings to the nation's Jewish community, even ahead of US Pres. Obama.
Shas takes a hit in the latest poll, and the coalition possibilities shift a bit with the changing numbers.
And that puts pressure on Aryeh Deri...
By Donny Fuchs
Zealousness has its place and time in Judaism; Thank G-d for heroic actions of the Maccabees!
Hundreds of schoolchildren killed or wounded in Taliban attack on Pakistani school.
By Batya Medad
Both Labor and Likud are expected to get more seats in the upcoming elections.
Israel and the strengthening of the Jewish people in faith and numbers has brought a growing light
Get a straight answer from Edward de Bono to the question: What is lateral thinking?
Abbas’ counting on vocal support doesn’t mean he knows how to count votes.
"Can you hear what the dead are whispering? Leave Galut, escape to Eretz Israel-Lech lecha!"
Jewish communities worldwide commemorate Yehudit during Chanukah by eating dairy foods in her honor
Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced that Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo are the first non-U.S. cities selected to participate in the $45 million expansion of its Innovation Teams program. The program aims to improve the capacity of City Halls to effectively design and implement new approaches that improve citizens’ lives by relying on data, open innovation, and […]
More than 1,000 high school seniors from 25 Jewish schools across France will light the Hanukkah menorah together on Thursday in Jerusalem. Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky who said that the French Jewish students' arrival in Israel is "a massive expression of solidarity that reflects the warm and unique connection between the French Jewish community […]
Cannabis is being touted as a cure for diseases from diabetes to Parkinson’s and epilepsy.
By JTA
Swastikas were found spray-painted on a Tufts University building for the third time in nearly two years. The latest swastikas were found Saturday morning on the back wall of the Lewis Hall dormitory on the Somerville, Mass., campus, Boston.com reported. In June, swastikas were found on the university’s Granoff Family Hillel Center. In April 2013, […]
The defense lawyer accuses the government of ignoring radical left-wing extremists.
By JTA
The ‘homely’ ancient rock, discovered in 1993, adds evidence of King David’s existence.
The IDF tries to arrest a suspect; rioters try to kill them, the IDF fires back and then the Arabs riot again.
By Moshe Herman
William (Bill) Kristol is co-founder and editor of The Weekly Standard and a veteran political analyst and commentator. He joins Yishai in-studio to discuss the confluence of Israeli-American values as well as the tensions. Also, Bradley Patty who served as a member of the Iraq Adviser Task Force working with US forces outside the wire in Iraq on tribal affairs and information operations. He joins Yishai in-studio to talk about his experiences in Iraq and his impressions of Israel.
Feiglin stars in a new music video...
Former AP correspondent exposes the shoddiness of modern journalism, especially about Israel.
How did the holiday and customs of Chanukah begin? Why do we say in the Bracha that God commanded us to light the candles, when He didn't? How do we celebrate a holiday that isn't mentioned in the Torah? Here's a quick 4 minute answer to all these questions and more (in Hebrew):
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
I wanted to proclaim that Israel is not occupying any land and has Biblical and strategic rights to Judea and Samaria and a unified Jerusalem.”
By Batya Medad
Israel's problem isn't Indyk, Obama, UN, NGOs or even the media; Our problem is much closer to home.
By Derek Saker
3 main messages emerged from this conference: Communications, Community, and Collaboration.
Yishai was whisked to a safe room by Knesset bodyguards after Deri's supporters tried to attack him.
“Leftists don’t care about Arabs, settlers are the true Jews. Leftists warned me I will be the first in the gas chambers."
I so desperately want to have a loving relationship with my stepsons.
Chanukah is the holiday of liberty, combining The Book (faith and dedication to God) and the sword
Yehuda knew if the moment isn't right or men are unwilling to listen a skilled leader bides his time
By dvora
In his short time with the shul, he has managed to activate a Hebrew school with now over 50 children and five teachers.
Australian police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe to free the hostages.
Recent headlines show escalation of the same attitudes and actions as existed during the Holocaust
By Steven Plaut
The Mid-East conflict is a unidirectional campaign of Arabs murdering Jews, not the inverse.
The Liberty Bell is a symbol of American Independence.
I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay, and when it's dry and ready, O dreidel I shall play.
The gunman, besides being a Muslim cleric, has a violent record.
Because you can’t have kids pouring huge jugs of oil into tiny glasses, unless you want to turn your house into an environmental disaster.
Try these with your kids; there’s something for every age group and once all the recipes are made, dinner will be ready!
The man was overjoyed to see his benefactor and gave them food and water besides shelter and safety.
By JTA
Sotloff, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, made aliyah in 2005.
By JTA
Jewish communities in Australia remained under lockdown as a hostage crisis continued at a café in Sydney. The Community Security Group, which handles security for the Jewish communities of Australia, raised the threat level to severe on Monday after an apparent Islamist gunman entered a café in downtown Sydney and took dozens of hostages, the […]
Every “little” rock-throwing attack is attempted murder.
Released for Publication: The female suicide bomber was going to dress up as a pregnant Jewish woman.
An impressive 2,800 year old farm house, which comprised twenty-three rooms, was uncovered in recent weeks during archaeological excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is carrying out in Rosh Ha-‘Ayin.
The latest Knesset poll has Labor down a bit, and Likud moving up again.
By Shalom Bear
The gas deal would supply Jordan for 15 years, at a cost of 15 billion dollars.
Meretz wants to make sure that Eli Yishai will not be in the next Knesset.
Moshe Kahlon courts Michael Oren but rejects Rami Levi. Shas and Jewish Home divorces not yet final.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday before leaving for Monday’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome, "In recent years we have rebuffed recurrent attempts to dictate conditions to us that would have harmed Israel's security and which are incompatible with genuine peace. “This time as we will we will not accept […]
It's always a pleasure to watch Caroline Glick take on those that attack Israel or try to explain why attacking Israel is OK. H/T ElderofZiyon
Abbas' sidekick Erekat says Palestinian Authority will win the High Noon showdown and go the UN for statehood.
Gad Elbaz wrote on Facebook, “A Miracle, a miracle a miracle of Hanukkah.”
Islamist terrorists have taken 13 hostage in a chocolates cafe in Sydney, Australia.
It appears that former Shas MK Eli Yishai is taking that next big step.
None of the attacks on Jewish & property should come as a surprise in light of the Temple Mount.
By Batya Medad
No surprise! Israel is now being blamed for Ziad Abu Ein's death.
How does the new U.S. tax amnesty affect American citizens living in Israel and abroad?
In a Hamas parade in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on December 12, terrorists from Hamas's Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade burn (in effigy) a Hareidi man, a model of the Jewish Temple, and coffins with Israeli flags on them. Now that that's clear...
Livni's unrepeatable gutter language shocked even the Left-wing panel members. “Is she on drugs?” asks Likud Minister Yisrael Katz.
The Cabinet Sunday morning approved the nomination of Gadi Eizenkott as IDF Chief of Staff, "Gadi Eizenkot is the right man in the right place at the right time. Gadi has been a soldier and a commander. He is a veteran commander and he can lead the IDF in the face of the major challenges […]
The addition of the secular Dayan is another sign pointing to national religious Uri Ariel's joining Haredi Eli Yishai.
Netanyahu is not likeable, but leading the country is not a popularity contest.
By JoeSettler
The party chiefs are acting drunk and childish - making stupid mistakes and inadvertently showing their true selves - just like on Purim.
Not all Arabs are murderers.
The “two-state solution” is the road to war.
Thomas Friedman quoted a Batman movie to prove his point, but all Tom proved was that he didn't understand the movie.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
An initiative of the Israeli embassy in Senegal recently led to the inauguration of a drip-irrigated vegetable farm in the city of Fatick earlier in December.
If fire indeed was invented in Israel, will the Boycott Israel movement stop lighting matches?
Deri is getting rid of Yishai, and Uri Ariel is making noise about dividing the Jewish Home Party.
By JTA
Anti-Semites always are around to remind Jews to be scared.
Lieberman is destroying himself politically before the voters do it for him.
Arab media reports that Hamas test fired three rockets towards the sea from Gaza, on Saturday.
AQAP claims it hit an airbase in Yemen where American advisers are located.
You children will build the country and you will help restore Israel to her former glory.
This is a recurring theme in this week’s parsha, in which there are many mistakes made based on perception.
"A person should sell even the beams of his own house in order to buy shoes."
Bais Toras Menachem is proud to welcome its new staff member, Yaakov Mark, who will be the Administrator as well as Ort College and GED class coordinator.
By Sandy Eller
“We had been in our first-period class for less than three minutes, and the website was already in-motion,” Rabbi Young told The Jewish Press.
An interview, in Hebrew, with Moshe Claud Kamon, who was attacked in Gush Etzion, near the El Hadr junction by a terrorist who threw a chemical in his face.
The driver hit one of the concrete barriers instead of the soldiers he was apparently aiming for.
A terrorist threw chemicals into a car in Gush Etzion. The family was evacuated to the hospital...
By JTA
A Golden Globes award will help women still chained by obstinate husbands.
Instead of accepting on-the-spot professional medical help, Arabs hauled him away.
If the guards are replacing the current crew, who actually are rioters, then the Temple Mount will be safer for Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Scholastic has called the omission of Israel from the map “inadvertent”.
Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, stands by and honors the coffin of senior Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein, as he is buried with full Palestinian Authority honors. Participants at the funeral were yelling, "Death to the Jews". In 1979, Ziad Abu Ein murdered 2 Jewish teenagers, and injured 32 more people, including 2 Americans, when […]
Palestinian Authority gunmen fired shots at the home and car of PA legislator Azzam Salhab in Hebron, journalist Khaled Abu Toameh reported on Twitter. No was injured . Israeli security forces have arrested Salhab several times, and he was one of more than 50 Arabs who were rounded up after last June’s kidnapping of three […]
The hackers wanted to punish the billionaire who loves Israel and hates a nuclear Iran that wants to destroy it.
Gerald Schroeder is a scientist with over thirty years of experience in research and teaching. He earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees all at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with his doctorate thesis being under the supervision of physics professor Robley D. Evans. This was followed by five years on the staff of the […]
He was killed in the same region where 3 days ago, three reporters from the Orient network were killed.
No one was injured in the attack.
More than a dozen bullets were fired from two Kalashnikov rifles. No one was injured.
UCalifornia union passes empty BDS resolution, but triggers "no politics in classroom" policy - win for Israel!
The only coalition combination that seem reasonable from this poll is...
By Fern Sidman
Because she is keenly aware that anti-Semitism may start with the Jews but never ends with the Jews, she makes the logical connection between the opprobrium for both America and Israel so commonplace on the political left.
October 30, 2026 
