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Blogger and mother of 12, Varda Meyers Epstein is a third-generation Pittsburgher who made aliyah at age 18 and never looked back. A proud settler who lives in the biblical Judean heartland, Varda serves as the communications writer for the nonprofit car donation program Kars4Kids, a Guidestar Gold medal charity. The author's political opinions are her own and not endorsed by her employer.
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With the left ascendant, the Jews are in bad odor. Which renders Jewish hostages unmentionable not only by the president but by the mainstream media as well.
An interview with Stephanie Treger who has sparked a modest grassroots effort to explore the exclusive use of Jewish and foreign labor in her town of Efrat.
Is Biden's aid to Israel in the wake of October 7, as generous as it seems?
The focus is on stress produced in relation to the sirens that warn of impending rocket fire
Israel voted for a right-wing government, and they want right-wing policy. They don’t want to be overruled by the side that LOST.
Get What They Voted For: Right-Wing Legislation
Arab Media Suggests it's a Done Deal
What hit me hardest was the deception. I’d been led to expect something of value, and instead, came under attack because of my identity as a Jew.
Justifiying black antisemitism as a mutual hatred between parties—one advantaged, the other not
Get loud and make Malki Roth a household name
The Jewish city and history of Beitar is remembered by observant Jews each time they break bread, for the fourth blessing of the Grace after Meals commemorates the massacre and the miracle that happened there in that place. The massacre occurred in 135 CE. Hundreds of thousands (some say millions) of Jews were slaughtered by […]
To I*slam, death is a positive condition.
The vast majority of Arab residents left Israel of their own volition. No one forced them out of their homes. They could have stayed. But they didn’t.
Zelenskyy has left us Israelis with a bad taste in our mouths. He’s a hero the world over, and we want to like him, too. But it’s difficult for Israelis to like him after the things he said
We Jews can forgo the ice cream, of course. We’ve been through worse. What we cannot stomach, aside from the ice cream, is the hypocrisy.
Yet, if we are to give the vice president the benefit of the doubt, this says something dire about her ability to perform the duties of her office, or worse yet—to someday become president—though she is so wildly unpopular at the moment that this is impossible to imagine.
The conclusion is obvious: who says they don't want to have anything to do with their Jewish neighbors? They definitely want our patronage.
So yes. Is the Rikudgalim ostentatious, a show? Yes, it’s a display, for crying out loud. And displays are in your face. And in OURS.
Debates on subjects specific to this region are always about who hangs in the longest, and not about either facts or history.
What does it feel like to be targeted, to live with sirens and explosions, ruined homes and death?
The Holocaust is the worst thing people can think of, so no wonder they use it as a comparison point. Which is wrong. Period.
“Sovereignty will be an official political and national statement that this land is ours.”
Rather than the face of a saint, he had the face of an angel.
“They’re not here just to pick grapes”
It is Jews who are trying to shut Shannon down. WHY?!
Joe Biden’s brain issues, of course, may not actually be dementia
Clueless about the antisemitism of Farrakhan? Ignorance is a choice
Our children /lare watching their parents to see how we are holding up, and looking to us for cues.
By taking deep breaths and managing their emotions, parents can show their children that even scary situations can and should be met with calm, cool, control. Parents should also be prepared to have an ongoing conversation with children about the coronavirus.
iffany Harris isn't and won't be the only violent antisemite to be affected by bail reform. And antisemitism existed before the new legislation. Still, it's a bad time to be implementing these reforms, given the current spate of attacks.
I have a thing about Germans. I cannot stand to see or hear them. It isn’t intellectual, not something thought out, but a gut reaction: it literally turns my stomach to be in proximity to them, to Germans, even through the media of film.
This is about the teacher who was fired for threatening to send her students to the gas chambers, if they did not quickly turn in their work. Some thought it a bad move to fire her. I am not among them.
What sort of government do I want? How far to the right does my ideology go? But just how far right they go, is always a question for me.
Trump did offer these average American Jewish Dems the benefit of his doubt: maybe they're not disloyal. Maybe they're just clueless!
{Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two U.S. congresswomen with a penchant for making antisemitic comments and supporting antisemitic measures, are soon to visit Israel. When they arrive, we will have had several weeks' warning. But there will be nothing we can do to stop the two from […]
Rashida Tlaib believes in the merit of these tools of destruction of the Jewish State: the right of return and BDS. These are beliefs that are "Palestine"-centric. As such, we must conclude that far from having dual loyalties, Tlaib is loyal to a single country.
I love my necklace because I love my country. Which is why it was so disturbing when my son Aharon drew my attention to a website called PaliRoots. The website and its Facebook page market things with the same shape you see on my necklace—the shape of Israel—except they are calling it “Palestine.”
On Route 4370, we have two sides of a road. On one side we have Arabs and Jews driving on the same stretch of highway. These are the Arabs who have accepted the situation and are making the best of things. Israelis are happy to coexist with them on the same road. Just as they are happy to work with them in Bahrain. Those on the other side of the road, refuse to see Jews as human beings
Malki will never be a statistic but an inspiration. And in remembering her, we also realize that she and the savage who engineered her death are not—as several dull journalists said to me at various points in the weeks after the massacre—two sides of the same coin
To be clear: Jews aren’t semites. Neither are Arabs. Antisemites hate Jews, not Arabs.
The unheard Jew is a voice worth listening to.
With each party, there is something in the platform, or something about someone on the list that is so fundamentally opposed to my own ideological beliefs that I can’t even stomach the idea of voting for any of them. Not voting is something I have thought about, too. But if I don’t vote for the right, it’s a vote for Blue and White. The thought of Gantz/Lapid at the helm, scares the living daylights out of me.
Noa Ansbacher’s face was probably the most wrenching sight I’ve ever seen. Shouldn’t the world see that? See what it is for a mother to lose a child to hatred? Might it not change something in the world, seeing that photo? Could it not make a positive difference?
it’s all actually much more expensive than it appears to wage a war of terror--$ that could have gone to some state-of-the-art hospitals. So don't come crying that you 'need medical treatment'
The left wants us to think that Jews are white. The right wants us to think they are not. But Hitler couldn't have cared less.
Teller, you see, doesn’t believe it’s enough to study Torah. He feels that we must defend Eretz Yisrael as soldiers, on the ground, with our warm bodies. He gave up a cushy executive job at a private firm to defend the State of Israel. But after much thought and study, his passionate beliefs left him with no other choice.
No matter how much Bennett promises to finish off Hamas for good, the promise remains an empty one. Even if Bibi were to appoint him defense minister, Bennett wouldn’t have carte blanche to make military decisions on his own. The prime minister always has the final say.
I ask you to remember that Shelly Yachimovich endangered IDF soldiers, the Jewish State, and Officer “M”’s bereaved family in a horrible tweet filled with outright lies, for the sake of political capital.
And when the dreaded names were announced at last, there it was, the person whose name I knew. Rose Mallinger, 97
Maybe without Israel, American Jewry would long ago have succumbed to its final death throes? Maybe without Israel as American Jewry’s symbol and primary project, that North American Jews would have no reason to remain Jewish or to have Jewish pride? I’m just going to throw that out there for you to think about.
There’s a feeling that the GA choice of Tel Aviv over Jerusalem is meant to be “in your face” to President Trump, who moved the United States embassy in the opposite direction, something much desired by both Israeli and American Jewry up until now
Let’s examine the phrase “legitimate criticism.” Those who engage in criticism of Israel often affix the label of “legitimate criticism” as a fig leaf.
Here is how it seemed to me: The moderator, seeing my covered head, was afraid I’d ask a question along the same lines as Mrs. Stern’s question. That could not be risked. The questions that were acceptable were those that questioned the hegemony and righteousness of the Rabbanut, the hegemony and righteousness of orthodoxy, of halacha.
Homes don’t get in the way of peace negotiations.
Israel must stop playing chicken with Hamas. We need to throw some fear into the terrorists, in spite of the cost to civilians. We have to end the situation whereby Israel issues warnings as weak threats:
Based on her decision, one might conclude that Judge Collyer’s thinking runs along these lines: Settlers are bad and need to be punished. She’s not blaming and punishing the victim, but the victim’s parents. It’s their fault the boys are dead.
"In this thought provoking article Varda Meyers Epstein touches on the choices made by two very different societies – the choice to hate vs the choice to serve, to open doors and strive for something better. " Forest Rain Marcia
Netanyahu has appointed a known Christian missionary to a position of power and importance as deputy media advisor. Now the missionary will have unfettered access to millions of Israeli Jews with the imprimatur of the PM. Boggles the mind.
All the talk of security needs, of finding a suitable physical plant, etc., is nonsense. Moving the embassy technically requires only changing a sign. The American Consulate is already in Jerusalem. Just change the sign from "consulate" to "embassy"
What is peace to a Muslim? It is submission. To Allah, to jizya, to the sword, to other Muslims. When others submit, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, there is peace and quiet. After all, if you slaughter people, they no longer make noise or fight back. They're DEAD.
American Jews feel insulted and abandoned by Bibi's "ruling coalition?" because they haven't a clue Bibi had no choice. He can't have his government fall for some American whim which essentially has no impact on egalitarian prayer
The Arab world that slanders and hates us simply can’t take it that instead of being the evil thing they say we are, this movie, as embodied by Gal Gadot, portrays us as the good guy,
None of the Israeli news outlets saw fit to mention this dynamic: that of an Arab terrorist, attempting to murder a JEW.
How many times have you heard someone say, “Trump is the most pro-Israel president, ever.” Or maybe it was even you who said that to others. Is there proof of this?
Like a breath of fresh air, the official congressional delegation chaired by Cong. Ron DeSantis (R-Fl), came to Israel for 1 day to explore the feasibility of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem.
It's madness, these media puppet JINO's (Jews in Name Only) who can't generate umbrage for Jewish issues but can only be lit up by foreign forces possessing interests anathema to Jewish philosophy
Israelis are polled on their reaction to UNSC Resolution 2334 and the U.S. abstention. Surprisingly, even a significant number of leftists think our response should be to build settlements.
Kerry gave a racist speech pretending to be noble. It was a speech about booting the Jews from Jerusalem, again, as if it were inevitable and right. In short, there was much in the speech to denigrate
The Judean Rose cites her 10 Condemnations of the most recent and offensive UN/US travesty
I steeled myself because I knew the family leaned to the left politically.But from start to finish, the victim's son, Micah, spoke straight. I agreed with everything he said-politically and otherwise
Though Pollard has finally been "sprung," he is still being punished-as a Jew. The system has taken away the thing that is dearest to him--his observance of the Jewish Sabbath.
13 years ago, Lt. Daniel Mandel, of the Nahal Brigade, was murdered by a terrorist. Today, there are 18 babies who have been named Daniel, after him.
Ruth Wisse said it best, "People talk about the Arab-Israel conflict. I think the term itself is a lie...What you have is the Arab war against Israel."
Dafna was murdered not because she was Israeli or a settler. She was murdered because she was Jewish
Pnina Gutman asking, "Who am I? What is my name?" isn't a philosophical query, it is one of identity
Rowling wants to make Arab terror about lame excuses rather than the truth: Classic Arab Jew-hatred.
Words win:“Israel” NOT “Occupied Palestine” “Arab” NOT “Palestinian” “Judea&Samaria” NOT “West Bank”
Yesterday, I wrote a mealy-mouthed piece entitled, Obama/Fareed Agree: Bibi is Pushy, Inappropriate. Why mealy-mouthed? Because I wanted to say so much more. I wanted to say, for instance, that Fareed had asserted as fact an antisemitic trope and Obama approved: Joos=Pushy. Now of course, Zakaria has no great love for Israel. Of Zakaria, Haim […]
I don't buy that US Jews didn't know Obama would be bad for Israel even in 2007 when his reign began
The problem with US treatment of Israel did not start with Obama but with birth of Jewish State
If Obama read the Bible he’d accept & respect that Jews ARE the indigenous people of Judea & Samaria
For coexistence, Jews (& everyone) must draw a line in the sand showing “This is where we part ways”
How do you put a love of Judaism into a middle-aged man when it was never there in the first place?
Only Bibi has the sort of leadership qualities we need to get us through this perilous time.
Come live in Israel-make us stronger and live unashamedly JEWISH in our God-given land. We need you.
"I don’t think my kids have any difficulties that are specific to the Israeli school system."
The universities and the local progressive culture make Pacific Northwest a hotbed of Israel hatred.
Finding Tekhelet is about fulfilling an ancient mitzvah that was there the whole time.
While tekhelet is a biblical commandment, it’s one full of "buts" that bring me up short.
"We very strongly identify with the Aseh Chayil National Religious and Modern Orthodox ideology."
"Everything we have done and learned regarding the gifted students has also come from speaking to more experienced Olim, not through the system."
She had a heart problem but no one imagined she would pass away the next day.
After they made Aliyah, Randi discovered she was pregnant with Yisrael, who has Down syndrome.
I speak to Esther Aaron about the Aliyah process, revisit Rachel and her daughter Dena, still struggling with the matriculation exams, and pass on some general information.
We tried to put him in kindergarten but the Jewish day school couldn’t handle him. Their solution was to put him in "time out" all day.
Dena was just on the cusp of turning 16 when her parents, both well-established professionals, made Aliyah from a major American metropolis.
Part of the problem of making Aliyah with kids involves the black and white nature of religious education in Israel.
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