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Tzvi Fishman was awarded the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for Creativity and Jewish Culture for his novel "Tevye in the Promised Land." A wide selection of his books are available at Amazon. His recent movie "Stories of Rebbe Nachman" The DVD of the movie is available online.
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By Tzvi Fishman
It is painful to say that, yes, the “grasshopper syndrome” of the Spies of the Wilderness is still with us today
By Tzvi Fishman
Jews who live in the Diaspora sometimes ask, “Is it a mitzvah to make Aliyah in a time of danger?” GOOD QUESTION
By Tzvi Fishman
The bonfires of Lag B’Omer symbolize the secrets of Torah which Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai revealed.
By Tzvi Fishman
Certainly, if Moshe were alive today he would choose to live in Israel. If King David were alive today he too would choice to live in Israel. Think about it
By Tzvi Fishman
Trump is considering entering Israeli politics and declaring his candidacy to become Prime Minister of the Jewish State. Mazel tov!
By Tzvi Fishman
However, even with all of Bibi’s glaring failures and horrific mistakes, I cannot agree with their conclusion that Netanyahu must be replaced.
By Tzvi Fishman
So why do millions of Jews still live in foreign, Gentile lands and not in Israel now that we are free to return there in answer to our daily prayers for the past 2000 years?
By Tzvi Fishman
While many questions and uncertainties surround the Trump initiative, one thing is for sure – it is the final nail in the coffin for American Orthodox Jewry.
By Tzvi Fishman
“We are the ultra of the ultra-Orthodox,” he replied. “We can’t let just anyone be buried in our section on the mountain.” “My parents are baale t’shuva,” I answered. “Our Sages teach that not even the greatest tsaddikim reach the level of a baal t’shuva.” “My mother hasn’t spoken a word of lashon hara in the past ten years,” I told him. “Can you say that?”
By Tzvi Fishman
Certainly, in the course of the conference there must have been mention of the Hamas attack on Israel and the renewed Jew hatred which has spread worldwide including on college campuses in America and in Orthodox conclaves?
By Tzvi Fishman
The annual yahrtzeit gathering honoring Rabbi Meir Kahane's memory (may Hashem avenge his murder) will be held on November 19 in Jerusalem.
By Tzvi Fishman
As long as someone lives outside of Eretz Yisrael, he fails to observe the Torah commandment of living in Israel which our Sages say is equal in weight to all of the other Torah commandments together!
By Tzvi Fishman
All you have to do is repeat the very first verse stated to Avraham 100 times each day until you make Aliyah: “Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father’s house to the Land that I will show you….”
By Tzvi Fishman
An inspiring story of teshuva and tough decisions that were, in retrospect, obvious
By Tzvi Fishman
I received an email from a sophomore at New York University, my alma mater. He writes: “Last year at NYU there was a lot of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred on campus which motivated me to investigate for the first time in my life what it means to be a Jew. One thing led to another […]
By Tzvi Fishman
Today, when the cancer of disunity and fraternal hatred threatens the foundation of our Nation, it is beneficial to recall Rabbi Kook’s teaching on Ahavah.
By Tzvi Fishman
Cherna Moskowitz remained faithful to her husband’s mission, his lifelong helper, during their marriage and long afterwards, a true woman of valor and builder of Am Yisrael, Eretz Yisrael, and the Torah
By Tzvi Fishman
I believe that a national public commission must be established immediately to analyze the workings of the official Aliyah agencies, to see how their enormous budgets are being used, and to promote the necessary changes to bring home the threatened Jews of the West
By Tzvi Fishman
Not enough Rabbis have found the courage to admit that due to post-October 7th Antisemitism, it is time to get out of America.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our being a persecuted minority among the gentile nations was to teach us to appreciate the importance of our own holy, Jewish Land.
By Tzvi Fishman
The majority of Jews throughout Europe are still in a daydream of denial.
By Tzvi Fishman
Woe for Diaspora Jews Here's my updated lamentation for this Tisha B'Av: Woe for Diaspora leaders who don't urge their congregations to make aliyah! Woe for Jewish Diaspora organizations who build new Jewish communities in gentile countries. Woe for Diaspora Jews who have fallen into the sin of the spies. Woe for Diaspora Jews who […]
By Tzvi Fishman
“If you really want to keep it? GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND! That’s the basis of Torah. Only in the Holy Land will you be able to understand what the Torah is all about, and only there can all of the Torah be kept.”
By Tzvi Fishman
Now that we can come home, why linger on in gentiles countries which are becoming more hostile every day?
By Tzvi Fishman
! Israel is at war! The lives of Jews around the world are threatened! And as long as Israel is forced to continue its battle against the enemies who rise up against it, the situation of world Jewry will worsen – that, my friends, is for sure.
By Tzvi Fishman
How can we work alongside Hashem to promote a new wave of mass immigration to Israel?
By Tzvi Fishman
Dedicated to the Jewish People and the State of Israel. May his life be an inspiration and his memory be for a blessing
By Tzvi Fishman
Mass Aliyah is the answer, but to bring about such a revolution they claim that the Government of Israel must meet the challenge by making Aliyah a Number One national priority.
By Tzvi Fishman
What’s the solution to assimilation and to the tsunami of anti-Semitism around the world?
By Tzvi Fishman
The State of Israel must urgently develop a practical contingency plan for the absorption of European Jewry into Israel
By Tzvi Fishman
To get this jumbo jet of Aliyah off the ground, we need a Jewish leader with courage. A national leader who isn’t afraid to dream, a Jew filled with a deep faith in Hashem
By Tzvi Fishman
A true Jewish leader does whatever needs to be done without worrying what the goyim will think.
By Tzvi Fishman
Now, the time has come for all of His children to return home to Zion. October 7 was not just any ordinary day. It was a Divinely-Orchestrated wake-up call in Israel and for Jews all over the world.
By Tzvi Fishman
Brothers and sisters living in strange foreign lands, listen closely: The good life is OVER.
By Tzvi Fishman
Today the cry of the Jewish leadership throughout the Diaspora has been twisted into the very opposite: “Let my people stay!”
By Tzvi Fishman
How does the State of Israel fit into Judaism? The answer is often misunderstood due to the fact that for nearly 2000 years we were scattered over the world, without a National Homeland of our own and without a State of our own.
By Tzvi Fishman
Their goal is to continue learning in peace at Columbia University in New York. No mention of Aliyah in their long letter.
By Tzvi Fishman
Their goal is to continue learning in peace at Columbia University in New York. No mention of Aliyah in their long letter.
By Tzvi Fishman
In the name of many veteran olim from the West who are now Aliyah activists, we wish you great success in the critical challenge before you.
By Tzvi Fishman
Today, the State of Israel is at a crucial crossroads.
By Tzvi Fishman
Due to the urgency and seriousness of the situation, and to the likelihood that world Jewry will face greater outbursts of hatred as Israel continues to fight its very just war, we have to think “out-of-the-box.” Old formulas won’t help.
By Tzvi Fishman
Professor Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard University has written, “We are an improbable and fragile entity…the result of a staggeringly improbable series of events.… It fills us with amazement that human beings exist at all.”
By Tzvi Fishman
One cannot rightly call a community a “light to the nations” when more than half of it is assimilating. It isn’t a light even unto itself.
By Tzvi Fishman
There was a picture of Herzl on his wall along with pictures of his father and the Vilna Gaon and Baal HaTanya.
By Tzvi Fishman
We have managed to survive here due to Divine Providence alone.
By Tzvi Fishman
I left the station with the feeling that he had played a game of pinball in my brain.
By Tzvi Fishman
We also prepare the guys physically and spiritually for the army along with teaching them the tools needed to deal with the often frustrating bureaucracy in Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
When I entered the Knesset, I was put under a magnifying glass because of who I am – both from secular and charedi society. Instead of evaluating my professional achievements, each side questioned my suitability and tested me.
By Tzvi Fishman
In one case, a father threatened to take violent revenge on the local authorities, and the next day, his child, who had supposedly died, was returned.
By Tzvi Fishman
One of the last Jewish artifacts to be spirited out of the Jewish Quarter before its fall in the 1948 War of Independence was a wrapped bag containing the remnants of Rav Nachman’s chair.
By Tzvi Fishman
How long must Jews be second class citizens in our own Jewish homeland?
By Tzvi Fishman
You do not need 100 percent to achieve herd immunity, and I don’t think we should chase after it.
By Tzvi Fishman
The sole purpose of all the afflictions which smite us in our exile is to arouse us to return to our Holy Land….
By Tzvi Fishman
Before Bibi gets through with Bennett and Sa'ar, they are going to be hanging on to one another like punch-drunk boxers in the center of the ring.
By Tzvi Fishman
Amongst secular Jews, our rightful attachment to the full borders of Eretz Yisrael is a political bargaining chip, not an iron-clad covenant from Sinai.
By Tzvi Fishman
Heaven forbid to judge the Children of Israel in a less than positive fashion, but, to our sorrow, this is the situation.
By Tzvi Fishman
If you wanted to give the kids showers, you turned on the boiler and switched off the refrigerator. If you wanted to bake a cake, you turned off the heater.
By Tzvi Fishman
Today, even in Afghanistan and Pakistan, many people have Internet. We have a page on Facebook, and we receive many comments from Afghans who trace their lineage back to Yaakov Avinu.
By Tzvi Fishman
Everyone and his brother thinks he’s already the prime minister and that everyone else is completely incompetent.
By Tzvi Fishman
They succeeded in planting a car bomb that blew the legs off the mayor of Shechem, who had vowed to dance on Jewish graves and chase the settlers out of the land.
By Tzvi Fishman
The settlements weren’t handed over to us on a silver platter. Like the hilltop youth today, we had to sleep in the mud and the rain and be dragged down from the mountaintops.
By Tzvi Fishman
Soulika requested that she be given metal clips…which she dug into her flesh and tied to her garment so that her naked body wouldn’t be exposed to the public.
By Tzvi Fishman
We know, however, that the open graves off of Highway 443 opposite Modi'in are certainly not from the time of the Maccabees.
By Tzvi Fishman
I strongly disagree with the different conspiracy theories.
By Tzvi Fishman
All new appointments are up on the trading block – ‘this appointment for me, this appointment for you’ – like kids trading candy.
By Tzvi Fishman
I don't know why we recited Tachanun this morning. We should have recited Hallel!
By Tzvi Fishman
A woman who wore a kerchief to fully cover her head became a ‘Mizrachnikit,’ while a charedi wore a wig of the gentiles. What nonsense!”
By Tzvi Fishman
The rabbis noted that former Chief Rabbis Avraham Shapira and Ovadia Yosef both issued harsh rulings condemning joint discussions with Jewish religious movements that deny the Written and Oral Torah, emphasizing the danger and Chillul Hashem involved.
By Tzvi Fishman
I went to Rav Raphael Levine, the sone of Rav Aryeh Levine, to solicit his permission to study Kabbalah. He told me that a p'sak halacha was needed and sent me to Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
By Tzvi Fishman
Like many people who’ve heard him speak, I walked out of that room a different person than when I entered.
By Tzvi Fishman
Eli Beer: Of our more than 6,000 volunteers, only 200 or so contracted the disease since the beginning of March, and most of them caught it from family members, co-workers, or their children’s school, not while not responding to medical emergencies.
By Tzvi Fishman
The lead pilot Shion told The Jewish Press that he contacted the heads of each medical facility by telephone as he circled overhead to thank them and all their health professionals on behalf of the people of Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
For three decades, the Russian-speaking program at Machon Meir has made menschen out of thousands of Jews.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Kook called upon all lovers of Judaism to write articles in opposition to the preachers of secularism.
By Tzvi Fishman
The medical team at the hospital reported that his situation was dangerous. Then he began using our Kinor Lev method according to my telephone instructions.
By Tzvi Fishman
Since 1986, we’ve been working to uncover the ancient site of the City of David via archeological digs in conjunction with the Israel Antiquities Authority.
By Tzvi Fishman
One of the Gra's students moved to Tzfat where he dressed as a Sefardic Jew and learned Arabic.
By Tzvi Fishman
She was a role model for all of us in Hevron, both as a devoted mother and wife, and as a round-the-clock servant of the nation...
By Tzvi Fishman
Said Litzman, "Gamzu doesn't understand the significance of such a pilgramage [to Uman] just like I don't understand the importance of a basketball game."
By Tzvi Fishman
Asked how Ben Uliel reacted to the news, Baum said, “He has great faith. He is a follower of Breslov, and he looks for the good in everything.
By Tzvi Fishman
I’ve learned a great many things from him about serving Hashem, about teshuvah, about simcha, about emphasizing the good points, about always striving to ascend higher and higher.
By Tzvi Fishman
Thousands have been stranded in Belarus, prevented from continuing across the border, but those with money can pay a bribe of $2,200 to the authorities to be smuggled into Uman.
By Tzvi Fishman
Caution is called for, but not to the point of turning our backs on the positive.
By Tzvi Fishman
In addition, in a symbolic attempt to mirror Rav Adin’s monumental work, hundreds of us joined together to study the entire Tanach, Mishnah, Talmud, Rambam, Zohar, and Tanya in time for the shloshim.
By Tzvi Fishman
Once I met with members of the community, learned more about their history, traditions, and customs, I became convinced – as fanciful as it may sound – that they are in fact our lost brethren and that we needed to help them.
June 26, 2026 
