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The continuing settlement of Eretz Yisrael is the most important mitzvah of our generation.
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
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
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
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
Now that we can come home, why linger on in gentiles countries which are becoming more hostile every day?
By Tzvi Fishman
A true Jewish leader does whatever needs to be done without worrying what the goyim will think.
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
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
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
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
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
You do not need 100 percent to achieve herd immunity, and I don’t think we should chase after it.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jewish values do not come from man. They come from the G-d of perfection and compassion.
By Tzvi Fishman
The government of Israel must reject the plan completely. It is a time-bomb of terrible danger.
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
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
If you want to build a skyscraper, then the one-story building can no longer remain. You have to destroy it.
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"Not only is Hanukah really a foolish and unnecessary holiday, it is also one that is dangerously fanatical and illiberal."
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
People don't make aliyah because they are in love with the exile and don't want to give it up.
By Tzvi Fishman
Even though Obama is no longer around to say no, Bibi keeps his hand on the brakes.
June 26, 2026 
