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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
Obviously, we have a good distance to go before we reach full redemption, but, for example, last week I davened Mincha on Har HaBayit with a minyan. Once upon a time, that was an impossible dream.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Samson will teach a special 32-session course designed for bar mitzvah boys that will provide an overview on the 613 mitzvot, with a concentration on the daily mitzvot such as prayer and those related to Shabbat. A parallel course for bat mitzvah girls will also be offered.
By Tzvi Fishman
According to the Rambam, it is forbidden to leave the Land of Israel, even temporarily, except for three reasons: to study Torah, to find a wife, and to do business.
By Tzvi Fishman
The American system is unique in that it is federal and bicameral and is predicated on a real separation of powers. Israel is more like the European system, with which the early Zionists were more familiar.
By Tzvi Fishman
I believe Kushner more than I believe Bibi.
By Tzvi Fishman
Arabs often throw stones and Molotov cocktails at our vehicles traveling from Homesh to Shavei Shomron.
By Tzvi Fishman
Protestors demanded that we break down the fence surrounding Kfar Maimon.... Yesha leaders and rabbis called for patience. All through the night and the following morning, the tension increased.
By Tzvi Fishman
It isn't something readily comprehensible when your own Jewish army and Jewish government throw you out of your home in the Jewish homeland.
By Tzvi Fishman
Shaare Zedek is working on a new 50-bed Corona Department so that we won’t have to requisition beds in our Internal Medicine Department come wintertime.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Elisha Bruck, who works with a group called Kedushat Tzion told me that since Medinat Yisrael is a highly-charged subject for charedim, Kedushat Tzion employs the word “immigration” in its literature and conversations, not “aliyah,” which has a Zionist connotation.
By Tzvi Fishman
While Rav Kook's love for the Jewish people knew no bounds, one should not think that he was some sort of liberal, reform rabbi who believed that everyone was free to do his own thing, G-d forbid.
By Tzvi Fishman
At the last demonstration, I strolled through the crowd and recognized agitators who staged protests against Israeli soldiers in Hevron and Samaria.
By Tzvi Fishman
Every Jew who speaks Hebrew and who is willing to take any job to survive is promised that he won’t go without bread.
By Tzvi Fishman
A main reason for this was that all through the initial wave, the public was bombarded with catastrophic scenarios in which tens of thousands would die.
By Tzvi Fishman
Jean Jacques Rousseau asserted that culture transforms man into an egotistical and lust-filled creature, places him in constant competition with others, and causes him to be a jealous liar.
By Tzvi Fishman
When Rav Kook became the chief rabbi of Jerusalem, he visited the Bezalel Academy of Art, and encouraged the students to use their talents to paint landscapes of Eretz Yisrael to arouse a yearning for the Land in the hearts of everyone who viewed the paintings.
By Tzvi Fishman
Suddenly, Arabs, recruited by leftist groups, came forward claiming that they or their fathers had planted olive trees on the site or grazed their sheep there.
By Tzvi Fishman
Jewish values do not come from man. They come from the G-d of perfection and compassion.
By Tzvi Fishman
This means to stand strong and uncompromising regarding our rights to all of Eretz Yisrael, even if that means arousing the displeasure of President Trump.
By Tzvi Fishman
If the State of Israel has a G-d, its name is 'Sheket' - keep quiet. Just leave things the way they are.
By Tzvi Fishman
I agree with Rav Shlomo Aviner that if you enjoy a person's company, and he or she has a reverence for Hashem and Torah, that's reason enough to continue dating.
By Tzvi Fishman
It could easily drag on for years. There are mountains of files of supposed evidence and an incredibly long list of witnesses, both for and against.
By Tzvi Fishman
The government of Israel must reject the plan completely. It is a time-bomb of terrible danger.
By Tzvi Fishman
Arab women and children had rifles like the men. We had to battle our way from house to house. Arab men dressed as women surprised more than one of our troops.
By Tzvi Fishman
There have been many other cases where Arab rights have been given precedence over Jewish rights and where liberal philosophies have been championed over Jewish ones in the name of personal freedom.
By Tzvi Fishman
Over the last week, from 125 hospitalizations, we are down to 34. Five out of our six units have been closed.
By Tzvi Fishman
The danger remains very real. There is no justification for leniencies.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Maimon spoke with a directness that Ben-Gurion admired. In addition to his erudition in Torah, he had a vast knowledge of secular subjects as well.
By Tzvi Fishman
To foil his plan, the Jewish slaves who carried the menorah, upon crossing the Tiber River, threw it off the bridge, where it remains to this day buried in the muddy depths of the river.
By Tzvi Fishman
We know that many people carry the virus without getting overly sick, or without manifesting any symptoms at all. This might have saved economies that are now crumbling under the strain of the minimized work force.
By Tzvi Fishman
The anti-Zionist, anti-state community turns a deaf ear to government pronouncements, whether they come from the Health Department of the Chief Rabbinate, which they consider [to be a body] of Reform rabbis.
By Tzvi Fishman
The doctor has precedence. A king does not have precedence over a doctor who can save the lives of many others.
By Tzvi Fishman
If you want to build a skyscraper, then the one-story building can no longer remain. You have to destroy it.
By Tzvi Fishman
Interview with Rabbi Yitzhak Gelbstein, head of the General Chevra Kadisha Society in Jerusalem.
By Tzvi Fishman
My wife, who works harder than I do, wants me to emphasize the positive changes that the health crisis has inspired.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rachel Sternberg is an independent travel agent in Jerusalem. The Jewish Press asked her how business had changed since the outbreak of the epidemic.
By Tzvi Fishman
The other ancient, sealed gates of Har HaBayit are composed of thick barricades of mud and stone, but the five-meter-high Wilson’s Gate crumpled into dust after a few hours of ardent sledgehammering.
By Tzvi Fishman
Bibi and Bennett knew what the outcome would be, and rejected us and our constituents anyway.
By Tzvi Fishman
Generally, a person can break the laws of Shabbat to save a life, but can one do so to conduct research that may lead to a vaccine that may save someone’s life in the future?
By Tzvi Fishman
The MIGAL Galilee Research Institute in Israel has developed a vaccine against coronavirus in birds and hopes to soon do the same for the new coronavirus in humans. Ofir Akunis, Israel’s Minister of Science and Technology, has ordered all approval processes to be fast-tracked with the goal of bringing the human vaccine to market as […]
By Tzvi Fishman
What Bibi hasn’t done to advance building in Yesha and Jerusalem for the past 10 years, he is frantically doing now before the elections to draw more votes from the Right to Likud.
By Tzvi Fishman
Ten years ago, Bibi promised he would get it done. Nu? Where's the elevator?
By Tzvi Fishman
In a notice to the media, the Office of the Mayor stated that the billboards were removed due to “incitement and harming public feelings.”
By Tzvi Fishman
“It is not widely known that the Irgun’s first leader, David Raziel, studied at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook,” Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen, a teacher at Machon Meir Yeshiva, told The Jewish Press.
By Tzvi Fishman
We need to rise up to a new stage of settlement in a positive and productive manner with a new wave of settlement…in Israeli-controlled areas distant from existing yishuvim.
By Tzvi Fishman
The swarming type that devour everything in their path are called locusts of the desert. They visited us in Israel a few years ago, which gave us an opportunity to study and eat them.
By Tzvi Fishman
Just as a normal husband doesn't make a deal whereby he gives his wife to a neighbor for two days a week, the nation of Israel is commanded not to make deals over the land that G-d gave us.
By Tzvi Fishman
In the beginning, when our initial attempts to settle the site failed, people told us we were crazy, that it would never be, and that we should give up the struggle.
By Tzvi Fishman
I’ve always loved stories of Jewish bravery, especially under very difficult conditions. Tales of Jews who guarded the mitzvos, even when it seemed impossible, I’ve always found very inspiring.
By Tzvi Fishman
Two-hundred years ago, a famine wiped out a third of the community and another third were forced to adopt Christianity.
By Tzvi Fishman
Several days later, when the police left the area, the families began to rebuild their homes, but the police returned and knocked down walls the settlers had erected. Now the homes are standing once again.
By Tzvi Fishman
I am demanding that an independent inquiry committee be established to investigate foreign involvement throughout the ranks of Tzahal.
By Tzvi Fishman
The attorney general has now ruled that the sign is not offensive and that banning it violates democratic freedom of expression, which should only be suppressed in extreme cases.
By Tzvi Fishman
On Shabbat Parshat Bo, we call upon everyone throughout the Land to demonstrate their love for our day of holiness and rest.
By Tzvi Fishman
The people who speak about a halachic state don’t know what they’re talking about.
By Tzvi Fishman
How do you explain to a child that a Jewish government in the Jewish homeland destroyed the homes of Jews?
By Tzvi Fishman
Over the weeks, we saw thousands of children taken away from the ramp where the trains arrived and marched straight to the crematorium. No one ever walked out of those buildings.
By Tzvi Fishman
On a national level, I saw that the settlement movement was put on freeze and that the integrity of the Jewish state and the Torah were being threatened by the spread of liberalism, especially in the Religious Zionist camp.
By Tzvi Fishman
Overnight, the Arabs and Bedouins erect a few tents and shacks on a piece of deserted land, then claim that their grandparents lived there for hundreds of years.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Yalkut Shemoni says that the year Mashiach comes, the Iranians will wreak great havoc in the world.
By Tzvi Fishman
The writing must be for the sake of the mitzvah, and kavanah is especially required when writing the names of Hashem.
By Tzvi Fishman
If Smotrich doesn’t play ball, he may find himself on the sidelines this time around, warming the bench with Moshe Feiglin, who has already decided not to run, declaring that his unique ideas cannot be heard in this electoral atmosphere.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Hague is called the International Court of Justice? It is the International Court of Evil.
By Tzvi Fishman
From my experience working with young Russian olim, the fact is that they don't want to convert. Why should they? They already enjoy full privileges as Israeli citizens under Israel's 1970 Law of Return.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Jewish Press asked Rav Kustiner if the IDF command has responded to the storm of protest. “Not that I am aware of,” he replied. “I am only a very tiny screw in the system. They don’t ask my opinion.”
By Tzvi Fishman
After the outburst of yelling, the voice sweetened with promises to give us exclusive scoops in the future if we cooperated. We went ahead and published the story.
By Tzvi Fishman
"Not only is Hanukah really a foolish and unnecessary holiday, it is also one that is dangerously fanatical and illiberal."
By Tzvi Fishman
The vast majority of Jews... called Yehudah a fanatic and messianic dreamer, who endangered the security of the nation.
By Tzvi Fishman
Since fast-food hamburgers are pre-cooked before Shabbat, cooking is not a problem. The warming mechanism, though, is not like a regular Shabbat platter.
By Tzvi Fishman
While we don’t agree with all of his policies, especially with his resistance to further settlement building, he is a guardian of Eretz Yisrael. If the Left rises to power, they are going to slice up Judea and Samaria like a watermelon….
By Tzvi Fishman
There is no greater wickedness than a rabbi declaring a person guilty before his trial, and the evil is multiplied a thousand-fold when the person in question is the country’s leader.
By Tzvi Fishman
What the police didn’t know was that a hidden camera recorded all their actions, including the curses and blows they aimed at the defenseless youth who stated over and over that they were violating his G-d-given right to live wherever he pleased in the Land of Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
We treated more than 40 people suffering from anxiety attacks, several who had to be hospitalized.
By Tzvi Fishman
We want to create a boomerang effect, whereby the lies of the world boomerang in its face when confronted with the truth.
By Tzvi Fishman
Everyone knows a secular person or two. Why not invite them to experience the beauty of a Shabbat?
By Tzvi Fishman
Whenever people called him a racist, he would answer, “I don’t hate Arabs – I love Jews.”
By Tzvi Fishman
Avraham Avinu made aliyah when only idol worshippers filled the land. He came even though there were no deluxe apartments, no Jewish army, no flourishing yeshivot, no synagogues, and no kosher pizza shops as there are in abundance today.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Brit Olam organization is in contact with thousands of Bnei Noach who seek spiritual and halachic guidance.
By Tzvi Fishman
The evidence for a conspiracy is too glaring to ignore.
By Tzvi Fishman
Golani soldiers attempted to arrest several youngsters and fired shots in the air over their heads.
By Tzvi Fishman
While there are many meaningful aspects to Darwin’s writings, evolutionary biologists don’t accept his theory of gradual change.
By Tzvi Fishman
For whatever reason, bad news sells. The same is true when it comes to Israeli news.and this is not new--over 3,300 years ago, the Spies entered a land that was full of luscious fruit, yet they chose to see only frightening giants and constant funerals
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Kook considered some Jews - like Jewish communists who persecuted religious Jews in the Soviet Union - as people who had broken all ties to the Jewish people.
By Tzvi Fishman
The etrog is the only pri hadar that produces fruit five times annually. For Sukkot, we keep only the last three harvests.
By Tzvi Fishman
Some people make the blessing over the candles in the sukkah and then bring the candles into the house to avoid the danger of fire. This is a non-kosher practice, however.
By Tzvi Fishman
He replied in a loud, irritated voice, "Why do they ask me a question that every child in cheder can answer?!"
By Tzvi Fishman
His books are still banned in charedi yeshivot, and, in the eyes of a large part of the charedi world, the students of Rav Kook are barely considered rabbis.
By Tzvi Fishman
The tank to my left took a direct blow. Two tankists were killed. Two others made their way wounded to our tank, but we couldn’t stop to help them, so they fled on foot to the base.
By Tzvi Fishman
The rabbis maintain that in raising his family and grazing his sheep in an area encroached upon by Arab poachers, Zaroge is helping defend Jewish sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Shlomo Aviner has stated that women are not permitted to serve in the army just like they are not permitted to violate Shabbat.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our starting point is that every Jew belongs in Eretz Yisrael. Not out of fear, but out of strength and free choice.
By Tzvi Fishman
This material fosters positive perspectives on homosexuality, same-gender parenting, and Arab-Jewish marriages – all approved by former Minister of Education Naftali Bennett.
By Tzvi Fishman
The forces of impurity in the world sense their end is near, so they do everything they can to interfere.
By Tzvi Fishman
Otzma Yehudit is not afraid to say things in a clear voice – just like I try to do – so I found my place in that party.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Abba kissed the stones – which don’t yield fruit or produce – to demonstrate that the Land was holy in and of itself.
By Tzvi Fishman
“Why don’t all the religious Jews in America move here?” I expected to receive a long lecture on fine halachic points. Instead, the wizened sage held out two fingers, rubbed them together, and said, “Dollarim.”
By Tzvi Fishman
My father and my sister’s son were both fighters for Jewish independence and freedom. The loss can never be replaced, but we don’t let it break our spirits.
By Tzvi Fishman
People don't make aliyah because they are in love with the exile and don't want to give it up.
By Tzvi Fishman
The location of the Ark is recorded in our sources, and today, there are those who know exactly where it is.
By Tzvi Fishman
In 2018 Nefesh B'Nefesh helped approximately 3,600 olim from North America and over 500 olim from the UK fulfill their aliyah dreams.
June 26, 2026 
