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Batya Medad blogs at Shiloh Musings.
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By Batya Medad
I decided that it's best to start the week off with our group prayers at one of the holiest sites in the HolyLand, Shiloh.
By Batya Medad
The head of the company didn't think it would be proper for us to be selling clothes when the great rabbi was being buried.
By Batya Medad
If I can trust my memory, Psagot was a brand new yishuv when we moved to Shiloh in 1981.
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I got the idea to invite Jewish women to pray together at Tel Shiloh on Rosh Chodesh.
By Batya Medad
Rav Kook's and Jabotinsky's followers are together in the Israeli Government, but they haven't taken the best from either philosophy.
By Batya Medad
Our people in Jewish Home and Likud kept campaigning that they had to be in the coalition to influence government. They're in now, and what influence do they have?
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Saving Jewish souls from cults and extreme assimilation is terribly stressful work.
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Shimon Peres personifies secular Labor's faulty reasoning.
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The war took place almost half a century ago. That must really sound like "ancient history" to many people.
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If the opposition gets into power and has nerve gas, they'd use it, too.
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This year they set up for an audience of three thousand
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Tzom Gedalia is one of the "minor" fast days, when we only fast during daylight.
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According to Jewish Law, an insane person can't sign an important contract.
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Since my mother's death, my jewelry has suffered.
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"Only the wealthy won't feel Binyamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid's latest budget cut."
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It doesn't matter how many apartments are built. Housing prices still go up in Jerusalem.
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Poets love to describe "spring" as the sweet smell of flowers and freshly cut grass in the spring, but this spring smells more like the sickly stink of a lot of broken bottles of cheap perfume in a closed space.
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"The last two episodes of the Tribal Update, this week's and next week's, are a celebration of our accomplishments over the past four years."
By Batya Medad
I honestly don't understand why Israel continues membership in the United Nations, an international organization that is doing all it can to undermine and destroy the State of Israel.
By Batya Medad
Faux peace, implemented by "treaties" is external and wears off, like the "democracy" of the "Arab Spring," which has been proven a deadly farce.
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"Only the Likud can do it." That is why I don't vote Likud.
By Batya Medad
The folks at Haaretz needed a poll showing that the public supports a peace agreement but they had a problem.
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Everyone in the streets and the windows said, "Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don't they fit him to perfection?
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There has been a perversion of Judaism in the name of the Torah which is very frightening.
By Batya Medad
On Friday, before the Jewish Sabbath began we had the news on, the international TV channels, and they showed Malala Yousafzai speaking at the United Nations. Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N. In a speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head […]
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It takes a strong military dictator to control the volatile Egyptian population.
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In typical Israeli inventiveness, "rock-proof windows" were developed.
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There is such a market for homes here in Shiloh that there are even a couple of multifamily projects.
By Batya Medad
Does Finance Minister Lapid know what he'd doing?
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A military appeals panel validated the Hebron Jewish community’s purchase of a three-story building.
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Her obituary definitely mentions a host of hobbies, interests and activities, but it leaves out something that was very crucial to her life, Judaism.
By Batya Medad
The Holocaust teaches us that normal cultural and "moral" values are ignored when the victims are Jews.
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Shiloh was the Capital of the Jewish State that had existed here three thousand years ago.
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The inevitable is starting to happen. There are serious cracks in the Hashemite Kingdom.
By Batya Medad
The State of Israel shouldn't beg anyone for peace.
By Batya Medad
Here in Shiloh, more and more young religious women serving in the IDF.
By Batya Medad
There weren't any security concerns. Terrorism was unheard of. It was truly a great time to be growing up.
By Batya Medad
Moshe rather naively expected all twelve of them to understand that this was the "mother of all" pilot trips.
By Batya Medad
There's nothing new in journalists trying to make news; they just can't make facts out of lies.
By Batya Medad
True peace is something that evolves when neither side aims to destroy the other one.
By Batya Medad
The proposed budget harms the poor more than the rich.
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Thousands of people want to buy homes in Judea and Samaria, but the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to finalize permits.
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In actuality, Lapid as Finance Minister, isn't doing all that well.
By Batya Medad
This 'peace' the politicians and media are touting only causes more death and destruction for Jews.
By Batya Medad
With regards to Iran, the United States is reverting to its pre-World War II isolationist mode.
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The highlight, of course, was the chance to pray and say Tehillim, Psalms to God, in the very spot experts believe the Mishkan had once stood.
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This is a Marie Antoinette government whose theme is, "Let them eat cake."
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Most of us are totally oblivious to the fact that in today's world there are security cameras everywhere.
By Batya Medad
In the center of Jerusalem, on Jaffa Road, the train is frequently as crowded as the NYC subway at rush hour.
By Batya Medad
It's important to realize the cost of something and that includes the State of Israel.
By Batya Medad
Ben-Gurion would do anything to make sure that Menachem Begin's Herut Party would stay out of power.
By Batya Medad
The aim of people like Jimmy Carter, who claims to love the Bible is to deny us our God given rights, written clearly in the Bible, to our Land.
By Batya Medad
Even the United Nations seems occupied with problems in the Middle East much greater than anything going on in Israel.
By Batya Medad
Considering all of the Holocaust history which is part of Israeli culture, are we immune from another massive slaughter of Jews?
By Batya Medad
At present, ordinary Arabs fear the terrorists more than they fear Israel.
By Batya Medad
'Doublelife: One Family, Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope' is well written and compelling, but wrongly suggests that intermarriage is a workable option.
By Batya Medad
As many new homes as we build, there's still a housing shortage in Shiloh. Jewish families of all ages, from all over the world want to live here.
By Batya Medad
Over the years we collected quite a few different Hagaddot. There are all sorts of illustrations, the IDF, immigrants and more.
By Batya Medad
Now on the Eve of Passover we should be remembering that our salvation will come only from God, not the President of the United States.
By Batya Medad
Drastic changes must be done gradually and with the cooperation of the affected sector of society.
By Batya Medad
Benjamin Netanyahu made his bed when he put pragmatic secular politics over Jewish values.
By Batya Medad
Tel Aviv's Mayor had said that it was impossible to postpone the half marathon because of Obama's visit.
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Recently, archaeologists have been back to Tel Shiloh looking for ancient treasures which will show what life had been like in Biblical times when Jewish pilgrims came to Shiloh to pray.
By Batya Medad
Everything Dov Indig, killed in action during the Yom Kippur War, said about the secular kibbutz movement has happened.
By Batya Medad
We keep hearing these fantasies which claim that there's a safe and just way to divide up Judea and Samaria between Jews and Arabs, which is preposterous.
By Batya Medad
It's not that the various coalition partners don't trust Bibi, but that he doesn't really trust them.
By Batya Medad
I can't imagine a tougher challenge for Lapid. It's so much easier to complain from the outside.
By Batya Medad
I must admit that I really don't care which parties are in Bibi's government coalition anymore.
By Batya Medad
Bennett's pact with Yair Lapid, is not good for the country and is leading to fraternal hatred.
By Batya Medad
Like it or not, coalition or not, Netanyahu may continue as Prime Minister for quite a while.
By Batya Medad
One thing that Netanyahu does understand is that a Prime Minister should have as broad a coalition as possible to represent all sectors in Israeli society.
By Batya Medad
People should know that if they try to destroy a person and that person's career that they will be destroyed instead.
By Batya Medad
Now, the NRP is getting nervous. They should have looked more carefully before signing the Ketuba, marriage contract with Bennett.
By Batya Medad
One thing I have no doubt about. These recent Knesset Elections here in Israel have been the elections from Hell for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Nothing has gone as planned. His pact with Avigdor Lieberman-Yisrael Beiteinu ended up costing him a comfy plurality. And instead of the usual one surprise strong showing of newcomers, there were two,Yair Lapid-Yesh […]
By Batya Medad
Bennett shouldn't have trying to play chicken against a pro.
By Batya Medad
The Jewish Month of Adar is known as a time of change, reversals, bad to good, winter to spring.
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Inflexible 'principles' are for the opposition only, not the coalition.
By Batya Medad
I was especially disturbed in the troubling times leading to the Disengagement expulsions when so-called Torah observant rabbis said that a Knesset vote could over-ride the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
By Batya Medad
If the Ketubah would be taken seriously, as an enforceable legal document then there would be fewer agunot, "chained" women awaiting Jewish divorce from their husbands.
By Batya Medad
The timing of Obama's announcement, that he is davka now accepting the long-standing invitation to visit Israel is worse than rude.
By Batya Medad
Israel needs to become more confident in the justice of its cause.
By Batya Medad
Jews and Christians here are to the right of the Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu.
By Batya Medad
Israeli citizens, we must do what's best for us and not pay and not pay attention to the U.S.A. That's the only way we'll get respect and be left alone.
By Batya Medad
In Israel, many of us mistakenly think that world Jewry and international politicians have nothing else on their minds but what's happening in Israel. The opposite is the case.
By Batya Medad
The Israeli media are busy faux negotiating, publishing all sorts of possibilities.
By Batya Medad
There's the "hype" that politician "a" or "b" can make it all better. None of it's true.
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