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By Tzvi Fishman
Usually half of the day is allotted to women, and the other half to men. The shifts switch on alternating days to afford greater flexibility.
By Tzvi Fishman
The formation of Noam is seen as a strategic measure to prevent Bennett from attaining a position of influence in the Jewish Home Party and in any future coalition.
By Tzvi Fishman
"We need to change reality and passing societal norms to meet halacha – not the other way around."
By Tzvi Fishman
Marzel has something to say about Rabbi Peretz, Ehud Barak, Ayelet Shaked and even the Mashiach.
By Tzvi Fishman
People are still talking about the miracle. A devastating fire last week destroyed almost all 50 houses in the heavily-wooded Mevo Modiim community – the once pastoral residence of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach in Israel – but the village’s beloved, hand-decorated beit knesset survived unscathed.
By Tzvi Fishman
Israelis made it clear in this election that they want a real rightest government, he says, not a government of emotional Zionist speeches and compromise.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Horowitz told The Jewish Press, “When we first began to promote Hevron as one of our national treasures, the majority of Israelis, as well as tourists, were afraid to travel so deeply into what was called, the ‘Wild West Bank.’
By Tzvi Fishman
My friend’s son is being charged with murder and four other terror-related activities. Because he is a minor, his name cannot be disclosed according to Israeli law. But I know his father and spoke with him. Here is what he told me:
By Tzvi Fishman
We observe the precepts of the Torah because Hashem commanded us to perform them. How much more, HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook said, is this true with the mitzvah to dwell in the Land of Israel
By Tzvi Fishman
Diaspora Jews pass on the whole spirit and soul of Torah and the messages of Passover, which is the attainment of true Jewish freedom through establishing a holy Torah Nation in the Land of Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
All of our life changes when we are in Galut. Not only does our Clalli soul disappear, but every detail of our life is affected. In exile, Emunah appears in an incomplete form
By Tzvi Fishman
Even before the Beit HaMikdash is rebuilt, the return to the Land and Nation rebuilding, even in its outwardly secular stages, revives the dry bones of the Jewish People
By Tzvi Fishman
Hashem doesn’t want us in Galut forever. We are supposed to long for the higher existence of Geula - of Jewish sovereignty in our own Land, with our Holy Temple in our midst.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Kook decries the tragedy of Jewish education in the Diaspora because it fails to teach that the Land of Israel is an indivisible part of being Jewish,
By Tzvi Fishman
I love the Jewish People. That’s why I write what I write. History repeats itself. What happened in Spain and Germany will, in one way or another, transpire in America, France, and England, too
By Tzvi Fishman
To all you Jews in America enjoy the 4th, but remember, the Torah wants a Jew to praise G-d for having given him the Land of Israel, not for the old US of A.
By Tzvi Fishman
Once again today, Diasporas leaders are not leading the Jewish People to Israel. Instead the Jews in the Diaspora are 'diasporing' away.
By Tzvi Fishman
The BDS group SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) placed 'eviction' notices on Jews' dorm rooms, I'm glad. At least someone in US is telling young Jews that they don’t belong in America.
By Tzvi Fishman
We can disagree with a reform Jew and even despise his opinions, but we should love him for his connection to the Jewish Nation.
By Tzvi Fishman
Mrs. Cherna Moskowitz: "Irv’s passion was creating and developing businesses so that he could help Israel. For him, this was the right thing to do."
By Tzvi Fishman
The lesson to be learned is that aliyah is the only answer.
By Tzvi Fishman
Why are so many Jewish writers in America screaming Leftists? Why do they consider their Israeli brothers “occupiers,” and champion the Palestinian cause?
By Tzvi Fishman
Our task as Jews and as a holy Nation is to link the physical world with the Divine. As Rabbi Kook makes clear, Eretz Yisrael is the G-d given place ideally suited for this task.
By Tzvi Fishman
Since Rosh Hashanah, 67 Orthodox young people under the age of 35, in the tri-state area have died because of substance abuse. 21 suicides, 41 drug overdoses, and 5 alcohol-related deaths!
By Tzvi Fishman
All of our security and wellbeing, both in a national, military sense, and in the camp of our homes, depends on our personal purity.
By Tzvi Fishman
All early and later Torah authorities agree with the Ramban that the precept of conquering the Land applies in ALL generations, and ALL agree this is a Torah commandment
By Tzvi Fishman
The phenomena of Jewish writers condemning their Jewishness, or vilifying the State of Israel, is a very different kind of 'worminess'
By Tzvi Fishman
The next time you read anything about Israel by a Leftist, beware. You are only hearing half of the story.
By Tzvi Fishman
The 7weeks of Sefirat HaOmer have cosmic significance. Our Sages tell us that these days are the root of the year.
By Tzvi Fishman
A Jew is not free to serve Hashem while enveloped in the foreign pollution of Diaspora due to the foreign celestial ministers who Hashem has appointed to rule over the lands of the gentiles.
By Tzvi Fishman
As Hashem didn’t want us to continue living in Egypt, He doesn’t want us to continue living in Brooklyn or Brussels today. Hashem gave us the Land of Israel to live in
By Tzvi Fishman
Many Jews in the Diaspora don’t understand the meaning of the Haggadah's statement: “This year, we are here; next year, in the Land of Israel. This year, we are slaves; next year, free people.” It means NOW!
By Tzvi Fishman
Just as the Jewish People are not complete without the Torah, a Jew cannot be complete without living in Eretz Yisrael.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rosh Chodesh Nisan, is Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's birthday. To honor his memory, let’s take a look at some of his teachings about the Land of Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rashi teaches, those who war against Israel really make war against G-d via proxy of His people.
By Tzvi Fishman
In a world that lives by the sword, Israel must take up the sword too, not sit and pray for miracles
By Tzvi Fishman
We prayed for 2,000 years to return home to Israel, does it make sense to leave the Holy Land on RH?
By Tzvi Fishman
Detention Camps for US Jews? Sounds farfetched but it did to Japanese-Americans during WW II as well
By Tzvi Fishman
Rebbe Nachman's stories awaken the sleeping; our film of his stories has the power to wake the world
By Tzvi Fishman
Going to Mt of Olives cemetery was like visiting Jurassic Park in a jeep with dinosaurs rampaging
By Tzvi Fishman
To boost aliya, Israel will encourage Marshall’s, Costco, K Mart & Entenmann’s Bakeries to open here
By Tzvi Fishman
Of course there's air in America, but it isn’t the holy air of Eretz Yisrael.
By Tzvi Fishman
The warnings came true: Among the 1000 released terrorists, many returned to terror activity
By Tzvi Fishman
Torah is to be lived. Rabbi Moshe Levinger was a completely living Torah, the Torah of Eretz Yisrael
By Tzvi Fishman
Without Israel, the Jewish People are scattered nomads lacking Torah’s true national grandeur&power
By Tzvi Fishman
If other pleasures exceed the joy we feel for Jerusalem, then something is wrong with our Judaism.
By Tzvi Fishman
There will be peace when we listen to G-d and do want he tells us to do – all for our very own good.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Kook often studied Rebbe Nachman's writings with guests during Suedat Shleeshi meal on Shabbat
By Tzvi Fishman
Point is, the eyes are the soul's windows and forbidden images, face it or not, pollute a Jew’s soul
By Tzvi Fishman
My friends, if you want to save your souls, don’t watch the Oscars. If you want to be a holy Jew, you have to work on it.
By Tzvi Fishman
An excerpt from this week's chapter of Tevye in the Promised Land.
By Tzvi Fishman
Like the lions in Rabbi Kook’s poem, may we also find the longing for freedom.
By Tzvi Fishman
After all, who has time to sit in the dark and watch narishkeit? We have a country to build.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Torah commands, 'Honor thy father and thy mother, in order that thy days be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.'
By Tzvi Fishman
If we can’t forcibly draft Diaspora Jews, then it’s up to them to enlist on their own.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Rabbis of the religious Zionist community serve in the army; why shouldn’t Haredi Rabbis also be brave examples for their students?
By Tzvi Fishman
To all my blogger colleagues in America: if you want to complain about things in Israel, at least come live here, and play your part in the building.
By Tzvi Fishman
Without Eretz Yisrael, the Torah is a shrunken, truncated, mini-version of the complete Torah of Eretz Yisrael.
By Tzvi Fishman
The previous two redemptions began when the Jews were very deficient in mitzvah observance.
By Tzvi Fishman
“How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” King David asks. The answer is that we can’t.
By Tzvi Fishman
By sitting in a Netanyahu-led government the Jewish Home would be an accomplice to the theft of the Land of Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
The novel, Tevye in the Promised Land, won the Israel Ministry of Education Award for Creativity and Jewish Culture.
By Tzvi Fishman
Don’t cast your vote for a party that condemns Torah values and honest and dedicated people who have led the way in the education of our youth and the settlement of Eretz Yisrael.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rashi informs us that 80 percent of the Jews in Egypt were stricken to death during the plague of darkness because they didn’t want to leave the cesspools of Egypt and go to the Land flowing with milk and honey.
By Tzvi Fishman
The meaning of the Exodus is that Hashem chose the Jewish people to be His special Holy nation.
By Tzvi Fishman
The darkness of materialism is so great, who can fight against it?
By Tzvi Fishman
We don’t want to rule over the goyim. We are to be their teachers, that’s all.
By Tzvi Fishman
The only thing preventing it from becoming a reality is the tragic fact that so many Orthodox Jews prefer living in the Diaspora.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our sages teach it was the women of Israel that saved the nation from Egypt.
By Tzvi Fishman
A discussion of various practices related to the shovavim period.
By Tzvi Fishman
Mount Sinai was to be a temporary stopover to pick up the Torah, but the goal of the Exodus was to bring the Jews to Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
It’s time for the Jews of America to get out of the country with their money while they can.
By Tzvi Fishman
According to Kabbalah, the period of "Shovavim" is especially conducive to rectifying sexual transgressions.
By Tzvi Fishman
The history of January 1st should make Jews think twice before they celebrate New Year’s and take part in its heathen festivities.
By Tzvi Fishman
In galut, wee become possessed by the foreign lands and cultures where we live.
By Tzvi Fishman
If you think that living in a Xtrian land doesn’t affect you at all, it’s because your brain has been so saturated with dreams of white Christmases.
By Tzvi Fishman
Each individual Jew should put his life in line with the goal of Clal Israel and not just live a private, ritual Judaism, practicing personal precepts, stripped of our national essence.
By Tzvi Fishman
Jewish life changes when we are in Galut. Not only does our Clalli soul disappear, but every detail of our life is affected.
By Tzvi Fishman
Thriving and prospering, materially and even spiritually in galut, with an abundance of Torah learning and observance, is nevertheless defined by the Torah, our Prophets and Sages, as death.
By Tzvi Fishman
By and large, American Jews are not really waiting for Mashiach to come.
By Tzvi Fishman
This is the Land of Miracles, where our Redemption is unfolding today.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our Sages teach that when Chanukah comes around, we are to thank Hashem, not only for the miracles that He performed for us in Israel long ago, but also for the miracles which He performs for us today. So, with your permission, I want to take this opportunity to thank Hashem for all of the […]
By Tzvi Fishman
My rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine."
By Tzvi Fishman
We become a “light to the nations” precisely when we are living together in Eretz Yisrael.
By Tzvi Fishman
Recognizing the terrible danger of unsupervised Internet viewing has extra significance now, at the time of Hanukah.
By Tzvi Fishman
The modern day Hellenists are the Jews of the Diaspora who have the ability to move to Israel, but prefer to identify with a foreign country and foreign culture.
By Tzvi Fishman
“It wasn’t the Greeks whom the Israelis conquered. They were Palestine refugees from Syria."
By Tzvi Fishman
Emunah, the very heart of the Torah, teaches us what God and the Nation of Israel are all about.
By Tzvi Fishman
While my writing may be blunt and painful to some, I don’t blame the Jews in the Diaspora for their misunderstanding of what the Torah is really all about.
By Tzvi Fishman
Pure Judaism? Without the Land of Israel? Sorry, but that isn’t Judaism. It’s a new religion.
By Tzvi Fishman
Diaspora Jewry should examine their role in Israel's failures to combat Palestinian moves at the UN.
By Tzvi Fishman
Just so the jolly little elves and white-bearded Santas don’t fool you, it pays to recall the truth about Christianity.
By Tzvi Fishman
Hamas's celebrations of victory are based on fantasy and lies, and their joy won’t last when we hit them ten times as hard the next time.
By Tzvi Fishman
Dear Son, Do not be confused. Know who the enemy is. With all the meaningless talk of peace agreements and cease fires, the satanic enemy continues to fire rockets of destruction and blow up buses filled with innocent civilians. In the same breath, they demand that Israel end the assassination of its leaders, as a […]
By Tzvi Fishman
We learned in Lebanon that we can’t defeat the enemy with our Air Force alone. What’s the point of a truce that will last for three weeks until Hamas fires more rockets at Israel?
By Tzvi Fishman
Some people like the smell of napalm in the morning, but I love the smell of missiles.
June 26, 2026 
