יום רביעי, כ״ד חשוון תשפ״זWednesday, November 4, 2026
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Because the Torah requires one to count “seven complete weeks” one should count at the beginning of the day, which in Jewish law begins on the preceding night.
To properly fulfill the mitzvah of tochachah, there are two absolute requirements. The first relates to attitude, the second to method.
Question: Is the name Basha a derivative or nickname of another name?
Is telling someone to transgress a rabbinic prohibition not considered bad advice?
A terrorist released in the Gilad Shalit deal was recaptured after he threw a firebomb. The Shalit terrorist, along with another terrorist, were captured by the IDF after they threw 4 firebombs at the Gush Etzion checkpoint.
The overwhelmed police made sure the Arab mob didn't snatch any of the Jewish children during the attack.
A corner in the Jerusalem Machane Yehuda Mall.
NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.
Even after the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation, Tzipi Livni won't give up on her obsession with negotiating with the Palestinian Authority - "the door is still open."
By JTA
The Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour will play this year in Israel, the first time that Israel has hosted an ATP tournament since 1996, according to the organization. The tournament, offering $1 million in prize money, will take place at the Israel Tennis Center in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat HaSharon Sept. 15-21 […]
The Boycott Movement, like the Palestinian Authority, is slowly but surely dissolving itself.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Israeli security cabinet unanimously decided today that Israel would not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas, the terrorist organization that calls for Israel's destruction. Considered a severe blow to peace talks, the ‘historic’ Hamas-Fatah unity pack was announced on Wednesday following a seven-year power struggle between the two factions. After Hamas’s victory […]
Day schools can have boys and girls participate in the same online class but they don't meet or interact in "real time."
By Bruce Bawer
Jews so hostile to their own people they’ve spun out into the orbit of rabid anti-Israeli and pro-Islamic radicalism.
Rav Pam said we must realize that God has no pleasure from such negative speech.
People expectantly go through their lives awaiting the event that will make them happy.
Ostrovsky was beaten and blindfolded during his captivity
In disbelief the doctors said it was not their doing but rather a true miracle that such a choleh could survive this illness.
The challenge of death is to keep the person who has died alive in spirit.
By dvora
I vowed that when I would grow up, I would speak Yiddish to my kinderlach and I would move to “a place called Crown Heights.”
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
The very act of learning in rabbinic Judaism is conceived as active debate, a kind of gladiatorial contest of the mind.
By JTA
Northeastern University has provisionally reinstated the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on campus. The SJP chapter will remain on probation through January 2015, according to a notification letter from Dr. Laura A. Wankel, the university’s vice president for student affairs. Students for Justice in Palestine was suspended from campus on March 7 for at […]
HAS and El Al are no longer flying the friendly skies together - and loyal customers are getting hurt the most.
Ellen Degeneres gave away SodaStream products to audience members as an eco-friendly Earth Day gift.
Turkey “will strongly support the reconciliation agreement and offer all humanitarian aid” for the Hamas-Fatah unity government that was announced Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Gaza’s de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became a fan of Hamas five years ago, at the same time relations with Israel […]
NIF support for BDS groups, writes Black, also included acting as a “go between for other donors….
Two worshippers in a synagogue on Passover saved a child from death in a burning car that exploded shortly after the rescue. The worshippers rushed to the burning vehicle after hearing the family’ scream for help, and they found the toddler strapped in a car seat. The worshippers, Moshe Kupperman and a second man, identified […]
Brandeis, which had to have known about her record of criticism of Islam, pulled the honor after pressure from a Muslim advocacy group and a number of faculty members and students.
Wherever I was invited around the world, I always met with people and let them know that I wanted to hear great stories.
At the press conference with the Israeli reporters, Abbas threatened to cancel the Oslo Accords, dismantle the Palestinian Authority, and force the Israeli government to pay the salaries of PA employees and the police.
R. Hadaya strongly argues in favor of establishing a festive day in commemoration of the establishment of the state of Israel.
A survivors’ daughter serving in the IDF brings pride and joy to a Holocaust survivor.
By dvora
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas must choose between peace with Israel or Hamas.
Border Police in Yitzhar’s yeshiva have plenty of time on their hands to learn a bit of Torah.
Rabbi Fohrman explains how the Torah provides the building blocks of true love.
The Palestinian Authority has jailed more than 350 Arabs for "security" reasons in just 2014.
There is lobbying going on both for and against including J Street in the Conference of Presidents.
The State Department is said to want the court to intervene on Arab Bank's behalf for foreign policy reasons.
This is United Torah Judaism parliament member Yaakov Litzman speaking in the Knesset. But when I saw it, all I could think of was the Pesach song, "Echad, Mi Yodea" ("One, Who Knows One?").
Since Torah is the great equalizer, the great reconciler of divergent but valid opinions, this is also the place where common ground is reached.
The U.S. recognizes the "West Bank" as having "sovereignty" for passport purposes, but not Israel?
By Edwin Black
Some American Jews feel their community has been hijacked from within by groups waging war against Israel seemingly in the name of the Jewish people.
Hitler promised Husseini that "solving" the Jewish Question in the Arab lands was part of Nazi Germany's plan.
There is no song that tells the story of freedom like Shir HaShirim.
The last one out of the Peace Talks Cemetery is requested to please lock the gate and throw the key away.
Arabs throwing stones at bus #65 on its way to Pisgat Zev in Jerusalem, injured one of the passengers. The woman was transported to Hadassah Har Tzofim hospital. Several other passengers were treated for shock.
Jeb Bush told a crowd at a NY fundraiser that he is thinking for running for President, according to a report on Fox News. He said he would make his final decision this year.
Dozens of Arabs are going wild near the Flower Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. They're burning tires, blocking the main road around the Old City, and shooting fireworks at the local police station in the area. Tazpit News Agency is unaware of any police response at this point, other than Jews are not permitted into […]
Egypt receives an estimated $700 million of oil every month from Arab countries, according to a report in the Egyptian Independent. Egypt's Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail said that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have been supplying Egypt with the needed oil and financing since Morsi was deposed in July, to the tune […]
The Palestinian Authority has granted itself its death wish, unless Obama wants to make a death wish for Israel.
By JTA
William Rapfogel, the ousted leader of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty in New York, reportedly will plead guilty for his role in a scheme to steal more than $7 million from the social service agency. Rapfogel, who had served as CEO and president of the Met Council from 1992, was scheduled to enter a […]
Hatred of Israel is thicker than anybody’s blood.
By JTA
Closed-minded liberal sophomoics think that anyone against Ground One Mosque and for profiling possible terrorists is a racist.
By Roman Mokrinsky / Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine, with reports of casualties continuing to stream out of the provinces in dispute,
The US has decided to begin restoring its military aid to Egypt, apparently in response to the Egypt-Russia MiG-35 deal that is on the table.
By Shalom Bear
Attacks against former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar get as petty as which robe he is wearing, and when he is running his Lag B'Omer bonfire.
The IDF will take everyone's #WeAreHere stories and create an interactive, dynamic honor to the Shoah survivors.
By Batya Medad
Peace, true peace, isn't up to us. We've offered it on gilded platters forever. Nothing we do will bring peace to our Land.
By Eli Hertz
Jerusalem only seems important in the Islamic world when non-Muslims control or capture the city.
The picture above is of a Russian MiG-35. It is Russia's most advanced fighter jet. Reports say that Israel's neighbors to the south will be getting 24 of them. In case you see one flying overhead, now you'll know what it is.
By JTA
A Holocaust memorial and the grave of the brother of the late Lubavitcher rebbe were vandalized in Ukraine, amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the country.
Bashar Assad will be running for president of Syria again...
This massive Russian-Egyptian arms deal is a slap in the face for President Obama and his failed foreign policy.
It is no wonder that Marionville is ”the home of the white squirrels.” Black ones wouldn’t stand a chance, forget about Jewish ones.
By JTA
Jordan’s foreign minister summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest what it called Israel’s “violations” on the Temple Mount. The Jordanian government told Ambassador Daniel Nevo that recent clashes between Muslim worshippers and Israeli soldiers on the Temple Mount a violation of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. The Temple Mount was closed to visitors […]
The chisel was found along with a gold bell that may have been on the clothes of the High Priest.
The IDF has announced it will begin to offer Israeli Christians the chance to enlist in Israel’s army.
The United States has announced it possesses evidence the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against its own civilians.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At least ten rockets were fired by Gaza terrorists at Israeli civilian targets over the holiday.
Chabad.org interviews Nikolayev 's chief rabbi on the firebomb attack in the Ukraine. Here is an excerpt...
The US Supreme Court has agreed to examine the question as to whether or not an American citizen born in Jerusalem can have "Israel" listed on his (or her) passport as their country of birth.
No, not Mahna Mahna. Mimouna. Mimouna is a Moroccan celebration of Chametz that takes place right after Pesach ends (which it did tonight). It's become very popular in Israel, especially among political leaders, as participating in a Mimouna makes you more part of the "Amcha" (the every-day folk). It's estimated (according to Wikipedia, at least) […]
Carole Zabar, longtime supporter of BDS promoters, is now in a pickle - Zabar's is a BDS target.
The Justice Department allows the FBI to use demographic mapping, but the NYPD no longer can.
Check out the IDF's most innovative weapons (at least the ones they can tell us about.)
By Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov
At Brandeis, much of what counts as Western civilization got cold feet and won’t stand with Hirsi Ali.
But the lesson from this meditation is that hidden behind the anti-semitic act is the greatest light.
As support of their messianic dream, Halevi and Antepli approve dishonoring Hirsi Ali as a 'renegade.'
By Shalom Bear
PA president Abbas, who is about 9 years late for democratic elections, has threatened to dismantle the PA and annul the Oslo Accords. Sounds good to us...
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and his family's visit to the Temple Mount was cut short when violent rioting once again broke out on the holy site.
Anti-semitic attacks have escalated with the firebombing of a synagogue in the Ukraine. Watch the video of the attack...
A surprised group of hikers stumbled across human bones in a Gush Etzion cave. But what they actually found was even more astounding.
When will the State of Israel decide the Palestinian Arabs are a hostile enemy and treat them as such?
Like Hamas, Hezbollah also builds tunnels. Those tunnels pose a serious danger to IDF border patrols.
Many Pakistanis consider bin Laden a "hero of Islam."
Visa has ads in an Egyptian magazine in which a story describes Jews as vampires. And worse.
By JTA
Two major obstacles have kept Israel from joining the program: Allegations by U.S. officials that Israel has discriminated against Arab- and Muslim-Americans seeking entry, and a proliferation of young Israelis traveling to the United States as tourists and then working illegally.
By JTA
A Lebanese man who was arrested in Thailand on suspicion of belonging to Hezbollah admitted to targeting Israelis, Thai media reported.
On Friday afternoon, Syrian fighter jets hit opposition/rebel targets and villages on the Syrian side of the Ramat HaGolan (Golan Heights), in the Quneitra region. Large pillars of smoke are seen rising from struck areas. Quneitra is the site of an official crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan. IAF jets were sent out […]
By Shalom Bear
As Rabbi Stav said, "You’re free to think what you want. But do you want me to recognize Chelsea Clinton’s child as a Jew?"
Chimpanzees and Orangutans eat Matza, unleavened bread traditionally eaten during the Passover holiday, at the Ramat Gan Safari on Thursday, April 17, 2014. I hope they can digest it. On Passover no leavened bread (Chametz) is allowed in Jewish possession, and that includes food we feed our animals.
Following intelligence reports of further expected Arab rioting and violence on the Temple Mount today, the police have placed restrictions on Muslim entry to the Jewish holy site, according to a report on Arutz-7. Entry will be limited to Muslims over the age of 50, and women, also they must be Israeli citizens or residency […]
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