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Rabbi Dov Fischer, Esq., is rav of Young Israel of Orange County, California and is Vice President and Senior Rabbinic Fellow at Coalition for Jewish Values. He is a senior contributing editor at The American Spectator, was Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review, and clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His writings have appeared in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and in several Israel-based publications.
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Accordingly, the Hamas Massacre has taken “Two-State” off the table, even if Biden and Harvard students don’t know yet, and Israel can and must continue populating Judea and Samaria to one million in the immediate months ahead
Multiple Choice Quiz-See how you do
It is false morality to cry for the children of Gaza killed inadvertently while Israel targets Hamas-ISIS murderers and, as collateral damage, unavoidably kills Hamas’s human shields. A war must be won
Dear Ms. Owens, I have never met you but have appreciated you from your emergence in the public eye, as during that early Congressional hearing and your early debates on Fox with Cornell West. You became a superstar as your career was boosted by the likes of David Horowitz’s Freedom Center, Dennis Prager’s “Prager U.,” […]
Those “innocents” elected and reelected Hamas. They knew Hamas was building tunnels under their homes and storing rockets and drones in their residential apartment buildings, outside their schools and inside and under their hospitals
"Never Again" means: Forget proportionality. Never again will the attackers live long to celebrate their attacks. Never again will Jews recoil in fear and terror.
Grow up. Instead of being Woke, the real world invites you to awake.
Maariv’s polling numbers do not usually mean all that much. But when they find that voters prefer Benny Gantz at 48 percent to Binyanim (“Bibi”) Netayanhu’s 28 percent, and that National Union now polls at 40 Knesset seats versus 18 for Likud, serious-minded right-wing and religious Israelis and their supporters cannot turn a blind eye […]
What exactly is the motivating thought animating Hamas on Israel’s south, Hezbollah on Israel’s north, and the Evil Palestine Authority of lifelong terrorist Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) on Israel’s east?
It is like the street demonstrations in Israel. One side gets a zillion people in the streets 38 weeks in a row, while the other side holds only two large rallies during that same time. Does that mean one side is stronger by 19 times (i.e., 38-2)? Or does it reflect that one side has enormous leftist-zillionaire funding from America that the other side does not? And that one side uses such street tactics while the other side, uh, votes instead?
The “Rabbi” is G-dless, essentially a circus clown in a yarmulka. She — of course a woman “rabbi” — is so G-dless that she teaches a class session proclaiming to the young pre-BM kids: “God is random.”
et now, in an America whose culture and morality have decayed and rotted even further in so many once-unimaginable ways, we behold the paradox that the Court that Trump and Mitch McConnell helped solidify today stands as the bulwark protecting what is left of our national core
Where to begin this discussion? Hard to say. It is easier to know where to end it.
What is truly eternal?
If these changes are made, the sky will not fall.
Three horrible disasters forever ruined everything with the American left:
Learn how to read the news.
Your kids won’t be imbued with decent values from our era’s public schools. They won’t be taught to respect authority or to love their country and flag. They will learn about condoms and LGBTQIA+, but there are no guarantees that they will learn about history, math, science, and English literary excellence. They won’t start the […]
And that leaves me with a proposal to break the deadlock, an idea that seems so obvious and sensible to me that I am sure no one will think of it,
You People was so repulsive that, upon reflection, it deserves to be included as a defining time-capsule document laying out everything that is Jewishly wrong and Judaically defective among assimilated knee-jerk left-wing heterodox Jews.
Thanks to the heroes who brought their fight to the United States Supreme Court, resulting in the great 303 Creative victory, a small kosher bakery now has a chance to keep being heimish
Of course Minister Bezalel Smotrich is correct. Of course there is no Arab “Palestinian” people and never was an Arab “Palestine.” It all is a fraud. It’s just a fact. Repeat the truth: There never was an Arab political entity of “Palestine” and never a “Palestinian Arab nation.” The dizzying repetition of that Big Lie for so […]
We all know the background issues, so let’s just get to some "reasonable" (that word is meant for the Supreme Court) ideas
If a right-wing Court had been seizing extraordinary powers, the left would now be demanding the reforms it denounces.
Hmm. So a Rabbi and Temple of “Conservative Judaism” Now Will Not Recite the Prayer for Israel
A Tribute in 5 Parts to 8 Days and 1 Great Victorian Novelist
Donald John Trump is a Philosemite.
So, it no longer is about Arabs demanding “only” Gaza and the so-called “West Bank” ... now the Negev is part of the ever-expanding fiction of “Palestine,”
Judaism's Conservative Movement is no more - it turned hard left and became Reform
So you people just have holidays all week every week? Don’t you people ever work three days in a row? And, no, I never heard of ‘Tabernacles.’ I thought that’s the Mormons.”
Those of us who have followed her political career in California were not surprised by the recent firestorm she created.
Judea and Samaria—Yehuda and Shomron—should be called by their real names and not by the ersatz woke term that seeks to divest 800,000 Jews now living there of their heritage and of their land
American Jewish college students, who find themselves under the worst anti-Jewish siege on campuses within recall, cannot rely on ADL to serve as their honest broker in documenting campus anti-Semitism.
We pay a severe price in our country’s heritage, in our children’s futures, in our own lives and safety when we elect The Cool instead of The Great or at least The Competent.
When Israel’s enemies speak of “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” they don't mean just the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria.
Anyone sensible, regardless of personal politics, knows that, if January 6 honestly had been contemplated as an insurrection against the Constitutional government of the United States, lots of bullets would have been fired and, at least, Pelosi or Bernie Sanders or Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib or Ocasio now would be dead. There is no doubt.
The disappearance, possibly forever, of Democrat Jews who stand firmly for Israel
There is a price to pay. Some of my rabbinic colleagues are scared of me; they maintain their distance. Some speak horribly behind my back.
No serious rav – even a Modern Orthodox rav – would ever sign a “Rabbis’ Letter” if co-signed by women rabbis.
True prejudice is not what the Left portrays today.
Let’s be clear: People who are born to Jewish mothers or who convert according to halacha are Jews – period. It doesn’t matter whether they’re Orthodox, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Reform, Marxist, or Neturei Karta.
Farrakhan just hates Jews, but sadly, US college students end four undergraduate years without knowing any real history.
It is not about anger. It has nothing to do with racism or justice. Let there be a devastating hurricane, and the same animals will vandalize, ransack, burn, and steal.
If you live in Israel, it is difficult to fully describe or explain Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I found that as I was getting into Daf Yomi learning, I just could not retain everything. It wasn’t for lack of trying. Each day I reviewed everything I had learned previously. But there came a point at which I was making myself crazy.
Meanwhile, America, which has treated us so well and has consistently stood uniquely with Israel, has merited glorious achievements. G-d’s hand guides history; we need only look carefully to see the remarkable but unmistakable.
I’m writing this article primarily for Modern Orthodox parents of teens and pre-teens – because I love the world of Torah Umadda and that world no longer exists in America.
Members of RCA’s internal committee care more about appeasing the predominant left media than they are with expressing long-overdue gratitude to a friend in the White House.
A PR firm was hired to change attitudes rooted in three millennia of halachic Judaism, calling traditional Orthodoxy misogynistic for denying women the same opportunities as men.
As a law student interviewing for a position at a firm after a decade of serving as a shul rav. I met for lunch with the firm’s lead named partner – a completely secular Jew – and he began by challenging my Orthodoxy. He thought halacha, as opposed to secular law, was a game.
Today, 25 years later, the two universes of Gemara and secular law coincide seamlessly for me more than ever. As a rav and law professor, I sometimes teach the same concept TWICE during the same week – in Torts class and in Gemara shiur.
There is a commonsense understanding — nothing to do with religion — that a mature grownup should not speak in certain settings. There is not a more inconsiderate, unfeeling, and narcissistic form of conduct than sitting in shul and talking idly while others are trying to connect with their davening and hearts.
A society regulates marriage for reasons pertaining to health and social order. Until the rise of political correctness, couples first had to be tested for STDs. Bigamy is illegal for a wide range of obvious reasons. Thus, it is thoroughly reasonable for Israel to adopt and enforce its own marriage laws
June 26, 2026 
