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Kerry will now have to find a way to calm King Abdullah and his constituents before Jordan slips into civil war.
By Batya Medad
When I went to my first Shabbaton in the fall-early winter of 1963 I knew nothing of Torah Judaism.
How can God be both outside of space and time, and in our physical world?
By Paula Stern
It's a strange feeling to known that a missile is flying towards your country and there is nothing you can do about it.
Syrian rebels seized part of a major government prison near Aleppo after it staged a car bomb attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The official media of the Assad regime said it repelled the attack by “armed terrorists” and that a “large number of their members [were] dead and wounded,” but other […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs from the village of Al Aroob rioted and blocked the only road connecting Gush Etzion with Kiryat Arba-Hevron Thursday night and then attacked IDF soldiers with firebombs and rocks before they were dispersed with tear gas and rubber bullets. None of the soldiers were injured, an IDF spokeswoman told The Jewish Press, […]
Israel cannot dare say a bad word about Secretary of State Kerry, but the State Dept. can curse the EU.
Academic boycotts of Israel are Anti-Semitic; American taxpayers must not be forced to be complicit.
Terrorists form Gaza attacked Israel with one and possibly two missiles on Thursday despite pledges by Hamas that it would halt rocket firing. Either Hamas is not capable of controlling rival terrorist gangs, which has been the situation off and on for more two years, or it has returned to its old tactic of pledging […]
Question: Is it permitted on the Sabbath or holidays to take a shuttle to synagogue? The neighborhood shuttle runs from 9-5 daily, is driven by a gentile, has a designated stop schedule, and is free of charge.
An Israel Knesset Member got a whack on his tongue for angering the Diaspora.
By David Morris
Advisers close to the Prime Minister noted that this demand has already been accepted by the Palestinians.
One of the signs a diamond is real is that it has a flaw. While it may be a very minor imperfection and almost unnoticeable, all genuine diamonds have flaws.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is considering sending people to physically prevent Hungary's ultra-nationalist Jobbik party from holding a rally at a former synagogue on next Friday. Jobbik, which holds 43 of 386 seats in the country's parliament, is planning the rally in a building in the city of Esztergom which had once […]
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
The Face Of Holiness ‘Inscribed on the Tzitz HaZahav’ (Sukkah 5a)
"I've got to run," Yossi said to his friends. He turned to Nachman, who lived a few doors away from him. "Someone asked me to watch his backpack, with a laptop inside," he said. "Can you please take it home? I'll pick it up in the evening."
When the Rambam wished to give an example of how a non-kohen could light the menorah, why did he have to say that a kohen took the menorah outside of the Kodesh?
Haredim could turn hate into love by serving in the army and showing non-religious soldiers the Light of Torah,
The Gemara mentions that the grape clusters refer to Moshe and Aharon, the paradigm of what a Jew can be.
Question: The Talmud (Berachot 33b) notes that it is improper to implore G-d: “Just as You have shown mercy upon a bird’s nest [with the mitzvah of shiluach ha’kan], so, too, may you have mercy and compassion on us.” Why is this prayer improper?
When we are on the move in life, exiled from place to place, we turn to God, our Partner, for the protection of His cloud. When we are given the luxury of settling down, God turns to us, His partner, for the protection of our walls.
By Naama Klein
The exact details of that nocturnal levayah have long since faded from my memory. However, one poignant story shook me to the core of my being – and remains with me still.
Mohammed Dahlan, the former Fatah party strongman in Gaza, denied on Thursday that he recently met with Shlomo Molcho, one of Israel’s two negotiators with the Palestinian Authority and a confidant to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Maariv newspaper reported that the two men met in Dubai to establish a closer relationship with Dahlan, who […]
The main obligation of a state toward its citizen is to provide them with security.
Even the judiciary has its limits, based on the principles set forth at Sinai by the Almighty.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
In Judaism, monarchy had little or no religious function.
Hearing that someone has been divorced nowadays doesn't have the same connotations it used to.
By JTA
A Dallas-area rabbi who uses his home as a synagogue is being sued by a neighbor who says it has lowered his property values. Rabbi Yaakov Rich told the local Fox affiliate Fox4 in a video posted Wednesday that his 3,700-square-foot home is a synagogue with about 25 members. A website identifies his synagogue as […]
Jews are better off with ignorant anti-Semites rather than with those who have a normal IQ.
The Anne Frank House Museum has announced that toys Anne Frank gave away before she and her family went into hiding were recovered, and her tin of marbles is going on display this week, at the Kunsthal art gallery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Fox News reported. On July 6, 1942, about two years after the […]
By JTA
Several Jewish organizations in Hungary as a form of protest will not accept government grants for memorial events marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust. The groups are protesting what they consider the state’s whitewashing of Hungary’s role in the Holocaust. The organizations turning down the grants from the Civil Fund include the Frankel Leo […]
By JTA
Gital Dodelson, the “chained” woman featured on the front page of the New York Post last fall, says she has received a get, or religious writ of divorce, from her husband. The announcement appeared Wednesday afternoon on a Facebook page dedicated to helping Dodelson obtain a get and was confirmed by a publicist who has […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai in joined by Boutique Katom's Gedalia Blum to talk about his organization and how they are breaking the boycott of Judea and Samaria through commerce.
I know a little something about human rights violations – such as the violation of my daughter Alisa’s right to live.
Issuing a statement dredging up Wildstein’s life, Christie’s office raised as many questions as it answered.
There must be an Orthodox presence and an Orthodox refusal to attend Limmud NY.
Had a Muslim woman been stopped for reading Islamic materials, it would be front page news everywhere.
How political movements gain footholds remains one of the great true-life mysteries.
The giant Dutch ABP pension fund has rejected dis-investing from Israeli firms as was done earlier the past several days by funds in Denmark and Norway. The bank announced that it issued a statement that it is holding on to its investments in three Israel companies because of the publicity over the other funds’ boycott […]
By JTA
Doctors at the Hadassah Medical Center launched a strike on Tuesday after talks between the Jerusalem hospital and the government over the institution’s $367 million deficit broke off. The doctors are offering only urgent treatment on a Sabbath and holiday schedule. Teaching also has been halted. The strike also is protesting that hospital staff members […]
The Al Jazeera network aired a 25-minute program weed that was a bald-faced commercial for boycotting Israel under the guise of a supposed news program that featured two pro-Arab interviewees and, just to make an uneven program seem half-legitimate, Danny Dayan of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria. Throughout the entire […]
Thee eastern Jerusalem Arabs were sentenced to prison terms of four to seven years Wednesday for organizing Hamas activities and spreading its ideology. The Jerusalem court verdict declared that Hamas is trying “to take control of Jerusalem” through social activities, which is exactly the model Hezbollah used to take over southern Lebanon. The court denied […]
The IDF’s Israeli Medical Corps and the U.S. Air Force signed a Memo of Understanding Wednesday that “lays the foundation for a deep and ongoing cooperation in areas of aviation medicine, mental health, academics and research," the Israeli military announced. The memo was signed at the conclusion of the Surgeon General of the United States Air […]
There were very few Jewish farmers in Europe during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indeed, in many parts of Europe Jews were forbidden to own land. Despite this there were some Jews who always felt they should return to the agrarian way of life their forefathers had pursued in ancient times, and that America was an ideal place to establish Jewish agricultural colonies.
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Halpern, rosh yeshiva of Ohr Joseph in Novardok, France, visited Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles.
It is worth looking at the full list but there is one entry that stands out as genuinely bizarre.
Reform leaders too often make themselves look silly by bending the Bible for their own convenience.
It’s no secret that many in the academic community support boycotts as a means of pressuring and punishing Israel. So it’s understandable that proposed legislation to prohibit use of public funds to promote boycotts – authored by New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and now being considered by the Assembly – has created an uproar. An identical bill was passed last week by the State Senate.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference about what he saw as the dangers inherent in the failure of Israeli-Palestinian talks, Mr. Kerry said: “The risks are high for Israel. People are talking about boycott. That will intensify in the case of failure. Do they want a failure that then begs whatever may come in the form of a response from disappointed Palestinians and the Arab community?”
The brief informed the court that though “the Jewish faith does not prohibit the financing of contraception,” the legal position taken by the administration threatens to curtail religious observances by American Jews inasmuch as Jewish law does not distinguish between and among different forms of business ownership.
Boycotting a boycotter could boomerang, despite all of the good intentions off those behind the idea.
Does Israel really need the US to care for our security?
Journalist Richard Martin, a contributing editor to Wired magazine and the author of "Superfuel."
New York City mayors have been outspoken defenders of Israel since its establishment – and of the Zionist cause even before that.
JERUSALEM – Actress Scarlett Johansson announced last week that she was ending her relationship with Oxfam following criticism from the humanitarian group over her work as a spokeswoman for SodaStream, a producer of home soda-making machines, which operates a factory in the West Bank.
What was unique about the MLA’s and the ASA’s approach was the breathtakingly Orwellian notion that not only was Israel itself guilty of the many alleged transgressions assigned to it by its libelers, but a boycott against Israeli academics was warranted because the academic establishment itself is complicit in Zionism’s excesses and a core element of the bemoaned occupation, oppression, and denial of Palestinian self-determination.
By Ron Kampeas
“As we have since the beginning of the process, we continue to support Secretary Kerry’s diplomatic efforts to achieve a secure and lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittman said in a statement to JTA.
The increasing number of Jerusalem Arab terror plots is scarier than the “peace talks.”
To bring this conversation down into something deep and heartfelt, I thought to tell a story from my own experience.
By Tzvee Zahavy
Our club, Northwest Racket and Swim in St. Louis Park, had a wonderful yoga program.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has sent an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizing him for his threat that Israel faces boycotts if the American-backed peace talks with the Palestinian Authority do not succeed. ADL’s director Abraham H. Foxman also sharply rapped Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his “unwillingness to accept […]
By Batya Medad
This is not the first time Rabbi Riskin has been featured in a video presentation which has raised eyebrows and caused controvers.
Palestinian Authority Arabs in a village near Shechem in northern Samaria lightly wounded an Israeli soldier with rock throwing and firebombs early Wednesday after the IDF entered area to arrests four suspected terrorists, according o Arab media. An IDF spokeswoman told The Jewish Press that only one terrorist was arrested and that there were no […]
Three residents of the Gilad Farms outpost in Samaria were indicted Wednesday on charges of setting Arab vehicles on fire and spraying then with two Stars of David. Police have been sharply criticized for not putting their hands on price tag vandals. Some leaders in the nationalist movement have been claiming that most or all […]
A military tribune has court martialed two Air Force combat pilots who were caught storing sensitive information, including operational maps, on their smartphones. The two pilots were sentenced to five days in the brig, and another 12 pilots were disciplined for similar offenses. Other pilots explained they store the information so that it could be […]
By JTA
Croatian authorities are investigating a 90-year-old man suspected of committing war crimes as an SS soldier and guard at the Auschwitz death camp. Germany’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Investigation of Crimes during the Period of National Socialism last month alerted Croatian authorities to the presence in Croatia of Jacob Dencinger, the Croatian news outlet Jutarnji […]
The closer Kerry gets to his self-imposed deadline, the more Israel tries to put facts on the ground.
According to the forum’s data, 84 Christian soldiers have enlisted since June 2013 alone.
850,000 Jewish refugees were created when the Arabs attacked Israel in 1948, and expelled Jews from their homes in Arab countries.
By Shalom Bear
Average Israelis warned, terror would escalate on Road 443 following the Supreme Court's decision. Now Israeli ministers are forbidden to drive on 443. What's wrong with this picture?
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about rain in Israel, Kerry's comments towards Israel, a special musical number, and Sodastream in the Israeli business world.
By J. E. Dyer
The Obama administration wants to take over the short-term financial services industry.
"I experienced first-hand many of the disastrous results of Yeshivish social-engineering."
Canada’s Employment minister Jason Kenney has countered the BDS ‘Boycott SodaStream” campaign by buying one of the company’s soda-making machines and crediting Oxfam for the idea. Oxfam has dumped Scarlett Johansson as an ambassador because she signed up to promote SodaStream whose 20 factories around the world include one in the industrial area of Maaleh […]
The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the government to cease all funding of yeshivas whose students do not enlist in the IDF. The decision struck in one blow further sealed the fate of Haredi leaders fighting the “equal burden” policy pursued by Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid and also gave him a needed […]
By JTA
Agudath Israel of America has asked the Pentagon to restore kosher field meals and charged that the Defense Logistics Agency had solicited a bid in April for kosher and halal “meals ready to eat,” but had recast the solicitation last month to include only halal, which adhere to Muslim religious precepts. “As things stand now, […]
A UNESCO bioethics unit harshly condemned the ASA's boycott of Israeli academics.
Obama, like Nixon, wants to have his media cake and eat it, too.
Three Air France union officials “joyfully” performed the Quenelle reverse Nazi salute at a rally last November but not reported until this week by the French Liberation newspaper. Air France management issued a statement condemning the salute, according to the European Jewish Press, which reported they were “extremely shocked” and promise ”to take appropriate actions,” […]
A rabbi and his daughter at the Chabad Lubavitch day care center in Salt Lake City, Utah saved two Torah scrolls from possible destruction Monday after he smelled smoke in the building. Twenty children, including five infants, were evacuated, according to the local Tribune newspaper. A faulty furnace was cited as the source of the […]
U.S. government employees are forbidden from traveling anywhere on personal business in Judea and Samaria except for Bethlehem and Jericho, according to the government’s latest travel advisory. In language softer than previous warnings that scared the dickens out of anyone even thinking of visiting Israel, the advisory pointed out, “Over three million foreign citizens, including […]
This is not a post that I wanted to write, though I knew it was coming.
The workers were clearly pole-axed. Their "benefits" had become a yoke around their necks.
By JTA
Two brothers poisoned after inhaling pesticides that killed their two younger sisters in their Jerusalem home are now out of intensive care. Michael Gross, 7, and Yitzhak, 5, were well enough to join a music therapy session, the Hebrew-language Israeli newspaper Yediot Acharonot reported Tuesday, and featured a photo of the two boys playing a […]
Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett started threatened Monday to pull his party out of the government coalition if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accepts an American “framework” that is inconsistent with the party’s principles. He also made it clear at the annual Jerusalem Conference that he will back the Prime Minister if there is no […]
By Raheel Raza
According to research, claims of wide-ranging persecutions of Muslims by Canadians and Americans are exaggerated.
By Daniel Pipes
BBC: Gaza militants launch missiles at Tel Aviv in 1st rocket attack on Israeli capital since 1991 Gulf War.
By JTA
An Ontario judge ruled Monday that children from a fringe Haredi sect whose members fled Quebec while the community was being investigated by social services should be returned to the province. The court upheld a Quebec order to place 13 children from the Lev Tahor sect into temporary foster care, The Canadian Press reported, but […]
By DovBear
Hundreds of thousands of Jews participate in Daf Yomi at some point.
Kerry doesn't follow news from Israel very closely, he's too busy drawing up plans for Israel's return to Auschwitz borders.
If one could trade stock in left-wing groups linking SodaStream’s stock drop to BDS, then Mondoweiss is a short sale.
According to the IDF Spokesperson's Office, Major Tal Nachman, 21, from Nes Tziona, was killed Monday night by friendly fire near the border with northern Gaza. His family was notified. He will be buried today, 3 PM, at the military section of the local cemetery in Nes Tziona. The officer was commanding an intelligence reconnaissance […]
A group of "progressive" Jews attacked Mayor de Blasio because he told AIPAC his door was open to them.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Zeev Schwartz, Chairman and CEO of Toah Mitzion to talk about his organization, its worldwide outreach, and how it benefits a return to the Land of Israel.
Being a teenage Israel advocate, I often encounter a troublesome phenomenon in the world of hasbara.
October 30, 2026 
