יום רביעי, כ״ד חשוון תשפ״זWednesday, November 4, 2026
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The ISNA imam compared Sharia to Judaism and Jewish dietary laws (Kashrut - Kosher), and Christian laws.
Shimon Braun is a member of Ohev Shalom who reflects the attitude that the synagogue inspires.
With Journey of Faith in front of you during the shul’s leining, or at home on a long Shabbos afternoon, you’ll enjoy worthy insights and see the entire sefer anew.
These eleven nursing home residents and their accompanying staff from the Connecticut nursing home could represent any of us or our own loved ones...
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
Hillel’s Innovation ‘The Second Month Of Solomon’s Rule’ (Rosh Hashanah 2b)
Question: I have two questions regarding Pirkei Avot. First, is there a specific reason that the last chapter is read on the Sabbath before Shavuot, or is this just a quirk of the calendar? Second, in that last chapter we find a list of qualities that enable one to acquire Torah knowledge, including anavah, humility. I find this difficult to believe in light of the Gemara in Gittin that chastises one of the scholars for his anavah, saying that it ultimately caused the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash. Zvi Kirschner (Via E-Mail)
Sometimes, we even force people not to act this way but to let others benefit.
The IDF captured a terrorist just as he was about to throw a firebomb at a car near the southern entrance to Efrat.
The Torah is teaching us that even a mature adult faced with a difficult trial will be greatly influenced by what others are doing.
By Naama Klein
In fact, if the Mother of the Year Award featured a category for best worrier, I would be a major contender.
Roger Waters may be ramping up his anti-Semitic attempts to discourage other musicians to boycott Israel, but the music world is saying “We don’t need no thought control.”
Once again, peace with Israel is a major campaign issue in Egypt. Frontrunner al-Sisi says treaty is 'stable'; challenger is long-time opponent of treaty
The Minchas Chinuch first suggests that the obligation to be mafkir one’s produce may not be a time-sensitive mitzvah.
Radical Islamist groups in the US have asked the National September 11 Memorial Museum to censor derogatory references about al-Qaeda in order not to offend Muslims.
Silence and inaction by the UN and the EU add up to at least a degree of culpability.
By Sara Lehmann
It is not the role of schools or government to make people feel good about themselves. Self-esteem comes with productivity, not in the absence of it.
What does it mean, conceptually, to see Shabbat in different worlds?
Housing Minister Uri Ariel told the family of murder victim Shelly Dadon that Israel must not release murderers, NRG reported in Hebrew. “We must not release killers,” Ariel said during a condolence visit to the Dadon home in Afula. When you release murderers, every one of them does the simple math. Every release encourages the […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ambassador Ron Prosor said: "...One of those missiles could trigger the next terror attack. One of those shipments could carry a dirty bomb."
Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness has banned a Muslim charity that officials believe has funnelled more than C$15 million (US $13.7 million) to Hamas. Lawyers for the International Relief Fund for Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN-Canada) slammed the decision, which now makes it a criminal offence “to knowingly deal in the property or […]
Prime Minister Netanyahu says his proposal to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish country should include a provision establishing the Talmud as the basis of Israeli law. “I want to anchor provisions into this basic law to ensure that the State of Israel was created and exists on a foundation of the Torah and of […]
Yizhar Hess, director general of the Masorti (Conservative) movement in Israel, apparently believes that graffiti attacks against Arab targets are at least as serious as physical violence against Jews. Writing in the Hebrew-language Yedioth Aharonoth, Hess said that per capita there were more racist attacks in Israel than anti-Semitic attacks in France during the year […]
By JTA
A Dutch Muslim group is planning to commemorate “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Muslim group is planning to hold the ceremony on Sunday at a mosque in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, under the banner “Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust,” the Jewish television channel Joods Omroep reported […]
By Shalom Bear
Let Uri Geller tell you how long you have to run for cover from a missile attack. Who's the idiot behind this idea?
The EU parliament called for future EU funding to be conditioned on Palestinian compliance with reform recommendations.
By Shalom Bear
This Arab is angry that everyone in the media is picking on poor David HaNachlawi.
A Bedouin IDF soldier was arrested after posting comments on Facebook calling for "Death to Jews" and praising Hitler.
Mango, a 19-year-old male Syrian brown bear, rests on a bed as zoo veterinarians and staff prepare him for surgery in the Ramat Gan Zoological Center's animal hospital near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday, May 7, 2014.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai presents audio recorded by Jerusalem U and fearing alternative peace activist Yehuda HaKohen, branding expert Ari Applebaum, and Yishai to talk about improving Israel's image on campus.
By Dov Gilor
An example of our own self-imposed weakness is the Israeli attitude towards the Holy Temple Mount.
By Irwin Cohen
I spoke twice during Pesach. The first topic was the Holocaust and Jewish ballplayers and the second was how I, a frum-from-birth Jew, ended up in major league baseball.
With his decision to unite with Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas has thrown away diplomacy and chose terrorism instead.
If we can learn to fear the surveillance of the Internet, we can learn to fear God's constant watching.
A house in Psagot was hit by a bullet on Wednesday evening.
Differences in the civil status of citizens exist in many Western countries; only Israel is labeled an apartheid state.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani must be addicted to WhatsApp, because he reportedly applied his official veto and overrode the decision to outlaw WhatsApp in Iran.
Painful stories of non-observant Jews mocking and attacking their religion and their religious brethren were all too commonplace.
A haredi man from Lakewood, N.J. has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, in order to force a man to give his wife a get (Jewish divorce document). The Lohud online news service reported that Fifty-one-year-old David Wax also implicated residents of Brooklyn and Monsey. Two of the men, Rabbi Mendel Epstein of Brooklyn […]
Let us resolve to connect ourselves powerfully to Eretz Yisrael and Jerusalem.
Radical columnist Gideon Levy summed up the week’s Yom HaZikaron/ Yom HaAtzma'ut events in the left-wing with a blistering attack on Israeli society, including a “suspicion… that Israeli parents don’t really love their children.” To “proove” his point, Levy criticises Israeli schools who encourage small children to light memorial candles to honor Holocaust victims and […]
By JTA
A Brooklyn construction worker has been indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Haredi real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor hired by Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he and two accomplices accidentally suffocated […]
The Hamas al-Aqsa TV channel called on Palestinian children to kill all Jews, wherever they are. According to Palestinian Media Watch, which posted a YouTube video of the cartoon with English-language subtitles, the children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers instructed children to shoot "all the Jews," and featured a young girl who dreams of shooting Jews. Child host (Rawan): "Tulin, why […]
At 91, most people would be happy to retire. As his career in public office draws to a close, however, is Shimon Peres preparing one last push to resuscitate the failed Oslo process?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The Arab world is simply not built to accept the existence of Israel in its midst.
Of particular interest to us is the friend-of- the-court brief submitted by the noted constitutional lawyer Nathan Lewin in support of allowing the opening prayers.
Since its founding in 2008, J Street has consistently argued that Israel’s failure to make ever greater concessions to the Palestinians is responsible for the failure of negotiations with the Palestinians.
J Street has no interest in working with rivals or allies, its purpose is the defeat of consensus.
There is a spiritual malady causing our people to turn against each other.
By Edwin Black
Hundreds of operatives from Hamas as well as Hizbullah, operating with millions of money-laundered dollars, have created a lawless domain that funnels money back to the Middle East, according to a 2010 report by the Crime and Narcotics Center of the Central Intelligence Agency.
“Last year we took the $10,000 from him,” Jay Sanderson, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, told JTA. “We’re not going to take it anymore.”
We must strive to be a state… that fights to the end against racism, against violence and against xenophobia.
According to halacha, or Jewish law, anyone with a Jewish mother is considered Jewish.
By dvora
First, we want to be sure that the company is answering a real need; that the company is solving a real big problem.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"We thought that an incident like this would bring here a march of MK’s, ministers and maybe even the president, but evidently an incident like this doesn't particularly bother the leaders of the state; it only bothers the citizens," said a resident.
By Ron Kampeas
President Obama in an April 25 press conference seemed ready to take a break. “There may come a point at which there just needs to be a pause and both sides need to look at the alternatives,” he said.
Students at the Or Menachem yeshiva in Tzfat told reporters that police only responded to a graffiti attack on the grave of the Talmudic Rabbi Halafta when they believed the media would be covering the response. The students who discovered the vandalism told the Hebrew-language Col.org website that police showed no interested in the swastika […]
Arresting Jewish activists on the Temple Mount cannot change the facts: More and more Jews are vying for the right to pray at Judaism's holiest site
Israel Police arrested an eight-month pregnant woman in Yitzhar before dawn Wednesday on suspicion of incitement.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about Yom Ha'atzmaut on the Mount of Olives and the outlaw of popular mobile app Whatsapp by the Iranian Government.
Truer words have never been spoken.
By Jeff Dunetz
While the Obama administration has moaned about Palestinians taking “unhelpful” steps, their “scolding” has not approached the criticism that has been leveled at the Jewish State.
We must return to the values of Jewish morality, and the ability to distinguish between friend and foe.
When President Obama was newly elected, he made a trip to the Middle East to address the Arab nations. He spoke about Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish nation citing the Holocaust as the reason. He was roundly criticized for that by many – especially in the religious community. Because as we all know […]
The winner of the 2014 Israel Independence Day Bible Quiz was Eitan Amos of Toronto, Canada/Karnei Shomron. Congratulations.
Iranian Fars news agency reports a massive explosion in Qazvin city in Iran. The explosion supposedly happened in a "storage facility".
By Batya Medad
The Evening Prayer includes dancing and singing plus a long shofar blowing to remind us the siren is modeled on the shofar.
By Hana Levi Julian and Avi Tuchmayer
Jerusalem District and Border Police blocked a protest march by Jews on Tuesday to the Temple Mount.
By dvora
PM Netanyahu's message to the world on Israel's Independence Day.
By Shalom Bear
Egypt is to receive 4.5 BCM (billion cubic meters) each year for 15 years, valued at 1.1 to 1.3 billion dollars a year.
Four suspects were arrested in connection to the murder of 20 year old Shelly Dadon of Afula.
By JTA
A full-page advertisement reproducing Israel’s Declaration of Independence appeared in The New York Times and USA Today.
Rabbi Riskin participating in a special musical prayer service in Efrat for Yom HaAtzma'ut - Israel's Independence Day.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai presents a special one-hour heart wrenching and inspiring in-depth look into the Holocaust survival experience of Kate Bernath. This is the second part of the interview.
The purpose of the video is to inspire Jews around the world while reminding them of the significance and miracle of the Jewish State.
By Anat Berko
Prisoners who smuggled sperm out of jail knew it was the only stage of the process they could monitor.
The IDF sings HaTikvah, the Jewish national anthem, at the kotel in the Jewish holy city of Jerusalem.
The two days complete each other–the happiness rising from the grief.
“His final act demonstrated his values of friendship and commitment,” Col. Braun says of Tzachi. “He was always first, even this time.”
By Batya Medad
The Prime Minister, like too many others, lives in the shadow of a brother whose life was cut short.
Please, Ribbono shel Olam, no more children or soldiers be called to join the holy minyan in Heaven.
Young, and young-at-heart Israelis flood streets of downtown Jerusalem to celebrate return of Jewish sovereignty to Land of Israel.
Proponents of the new Basic Law proposal view it not as a threat to democracy but as essential to Israeli democracy.
A group of self-hating, anti-Zionist Israelis has used Yom HaAtzma'ut to launch a smartphone application to memorialise the Palestinian “narrative” of Israel’s War of Independence, and to promote the memory of the Arab towns destroyed as a result of the Arab decision to attack the nascent Jewish state in May, 1948. The Zochrot organization was […]
Community officials say Yom HaAtzma'ut celebration will be 'non-political', but Bay Area remains hub of pro-Palestinian activity
Netanyahu admitted the decision to release Arab murderers was 'too tough to bear', but failed to acknowledge that the moved failed
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
A special monument is located at the end of the trail that connects Israel’s Yad Vashem, the official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and Mount Herzl, the national cemetery for Israeli leaders and fallen soldiers.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Central Bureau of Statistics released its traditional Yom Ha’atzmaut statistics report on the citizens of Israel.
The students of Orot Etzion Elementary School in Efrat performing a Yom HaZikaron ceremony in memory of those killed in the wars and terror attacks against Israel.
The TV station sent out a cameraman to get a video of Haredim during the siren. They got a video, but not the one they wanted.
On Sunday night, Haredi Rabbis and Jews from Bnei Brak took part in a Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony for fallen soldiers.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai presents a one-hour heart wrenching and inspiring in-depth look into the Holocaust survival experience of Kate Bernath
Abbas – an ally of Saddam Hussein, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela - provides Hamas with a vital tailwind.
October 30, 2026 
