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The War on Terror only became a forever war because we failed to confront two of the three pillars from which the enemy draws its strength.
I don’t want to be even more negative than I have to be, but there is a fundamental cultural instability in America that seems to be becoming more intense with time.
I too have questions. And like many, I too have not found satisfactory answers to them all. And yet I remain true to my faith.
When I can’t learn Daf Yomi with my regular Rav, I make sure to watch and listen to Rabbi Eli Stefansky’s amazing daf on YouTube. During one of his shiurim on Sukkah, Rav Eli quoted the Vilna Gaon as saying that the hardest mitzvah on Sukkot – and maybe the hardest mitzvah of the 613 […]
By Jeff Dunetz
How Walking With My Dad On The High Holidays Kept Me From Walking Away From My Faith
By Jeff Dunetz
May you be sealed in the book (or iPod) of life for a happy and healthy New Year.
Ben and Jerry’s parent company stands to lose $143 million in the Grand Canyon State alone
By Paul Gherkin
In 2019, an average American Jew was roughly three times more likely to suffer a hate crime than an average Muslim
It’s the 7th of Tishrei. It’s been 3 years since Ari Fuld hy”d was murdered.
Academic covert campaigns of hate.
Why do several men insist on davening in the women’s section in shul during the week?
By Sheri Oz
Each of these things is “just another thing,” right? “It will blow over,” right?
‘Even after years of therapy spent discussing these issues, I couldn’t have imagined how this small change could make such a huge difference in my thinking.’
By Paul Gherkin
The PA has not clearly articulated whether its demands for "East Jerusalem" requires the uprooting of the over 70,000 dead Jews on the Mount of Olives,
Yesterday, the day Sgt. Barel Shmueli was buried, Israel allowed “dozens of truckloads” of building materials into Gaza for the first time since the last mini-war. Today the government announced further loosening of restrictions. If I weren’t too embarrassed by the idea, I might say we are paying them for “protection.” Nice border you have there, we wouldn’t want it to experience a violent “demonstration.”
We all saw Biden checking his watch at Dover while waiting for the transfer of the men and women he killed to be complete
“The problem is there are other people running against our people.”
By Sheri Oz
All of this is a de facto establishment of a Palestinian state without war and without a negotiated final agreement.
It’s tragic that he was assassinated before he had realized his potential as a leader. The contrast between his greatness and the smallness of his despicable murderer is palpable.
None of these restrictions on Muslims exist in Israel.
A new interpretation of making the desert bloom...
Today’s anti-Semite has become very clever. He/she no longer says they hate Jews. That’s not nice and very politically un-correct. The buzz word these days is called “Anti Israel”.
What is the secret to really becoming something completely different; to becoming the new, real you?
Israel can request America not open its consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem, put a deadline on U.S.-Palestinian growing diplomacy if ‘pay to slay’ isn’t ended, and stop American funding of UNRWA until it stops hosting Hamas tunnels and rockets in Gaza and teaching anti-Semitism in its schools.
Bennett is very unpopular these days in Israel –Perhaps he thinks that if he throws Biden a news-cycle lifeline, Biden will be grateful enough to give him something in return.
Every man needs purpose, and I believe I have found a purpose that will propel me to my next pursuit: management of eldercare facilities and hands-on administration of female educational institutions for the Jews of this great state.
The holier Jews consider a site, the more Muslims want to take it away from Jews. It happens in Jerusalem, in Hebron, in Bethlehem, in Shechem
“If we do our jobs and have to face the violent mob, people might get killed and we might lose our jobs, which would be the biggest tragedy of all.”
I doubt there is a single parent that ever feared anything remotely like a drive-by shooting would ever happen to their child.
The Taliban may have won Afghanistan, but we’re winning the diversity race. And since diversity is more important than winning wars or being a military superpower, we’re beating the Taliban. Not to mention Russia, China, and Iran in the field of transgender defense officials.
Arafat had engaged in bad faith negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and rejected all Israeli offers without a counter-offer. Later revelations made clear Arafat had ordered the intifada while still at Camp David.
By Sheri Oz
there are two major issues that face Israel regarding Area C: (1) Israeli sovereignty – yes/no? and (2) Palestinian Authority (PA) encroachment onto Area C lands by means of illegal outposts set up with the help of the European Union (EU)
Making the Desert Bloom-Just look at the pictures...
Americans don't know the enemy. And increasingly our elites don't know ourselves.
By Jeff Dunetz
Obama is rarely correct, but that statement was a true prediction of Joe Biden’s first seven months in the Oval Office. Since inauguration Day on January 20, everything Joe Biden has touched has turned to manure.
When the world comes to see that Jews in the Diaspora are as fearless as the IDF in Israel, they will leave us alone. When they see Jews fighting back in the streets when a Jew hater comes up and attacks, they will leave us alone.
And that is why a Jewish state, even though the fact of its existence does not itself prevent antisemitism, is invaluable in ending it. A stateless people is a powerless one, and the use of power is the best remedy for Jew-hatred.
By Paul Gherkin
The anti-Zionist lexicon is changing the very meaning of words in an aggravated assault against the Jewish State and Jews around the world. Everyone should readily recognize the mendacious slander and call out the perpetrators for their libel.
Calling liberals anti-Israel or anti-Semitic is inaccurate. Lumping all liberals together as followers of progressive elected officials and their anti-Israel positions is a mistake.
Both Pfizer AND Moderna have said that we will all need a 3rd booster shot before the winter.
By Paul Gherkin
If Rashida Tlaib wants to put a pretty picture on Hamas, the minimum she should is to get the political-terrorist group to release the bodies of the two Jewish men who have been withheld from their families for last seven years.
By Paul Gherkin
Successful race baiters become famous and powerful. They first attract attention which brings in followers, and then money and ultimately true power.
The ONLY heritage month we truly need is the heritage of our freedom from all tyrannies.
No matter what kind of Jew you are, we have more in common than the trappings that divide us
By Fred Maroun
A substantial percentage of Jews refuse to stand up with their fellow Jews against antisemitism at a time when antisemitism is particularly virulent
Ben & Jerry's didn't boycott a place, they boycotted a people - the Jews of Judea and Samaria.
- if the media weren't systemically anti-Israel--a VERY BIG IF
By Fred Maroun
Despite its faults, Israel is still far more democratic, far more just, and far more respectful of life and human rights than its enemies (which include my native country Lebanon).
Israel’s struggle with Iran has a physical and cognitive aspect. Every skirmish has components in these two realms. Israel often wins a battle in the physical realm while losing it in the cognitive one
Kamala Harris is paradoxically the strongest vice president in generations and the weakest.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
A true story that will inspire hope: Herschel, the HERO
War is needed to stop this insanity is a regime change in Tehran.
Palestinians love repeating the line that house demolitions don’t deter attacks on their own. The answer is that house demolitions together with other policies combine to create a terror shield.
By Aryeh Werth
Kaner visits Israel each year with his family, but the deeper source of Kaner’s motivation for defending and supporting Israel is found in the family history.
“I’ll probably never be there again.” Was Richie WRONG!
By Alan Zeitlin
Many who were interviewed by this reporter days earlier stated that they did not believe in a boycott of Israeli Ben & Jerry's owners because the situation was more complex and Jewish owners could lose their livelihood.
What do you do when G-d, the Bible, and the struggle within don't move you? You find what does.
Once it’s established that “Palestine” is a good cause, then the more that a person aspires to moral goodness, the more anti-Israel they become. It doesn’t hurt that preexisting antisemitic conditioning, subliminally present in both non-Jews and Jews, makes it easy to see Israel as evil.
By Jeff Dunetz
While the Jewish community should not be punishing Unilever which is a big supporter of the Jewish State, we can and should do much to fight Ben & Jerry’s.
If we can’t make them realize the folly of their ways, we can at least try and stop them from profiting from it
By Forest Rain
While UK’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn honors terrorists that committed this atrocity, repeated attempts to give the slaughtered Israeli athletes the recognition they are due, have fallen on deaf ears.
This past week, I read more articles and heard more jokes about Ben & Jerry’s than I have in the last 100 years… ok, only the last 59 years. While everyone meant well, including the “We Stand with Israel” attitude, I have to be straight and honest with you… you’re focused on the wrong thing! […]
By Alan Zeitlin
There are arguments on both sides if the Kof-K should remove its certification of Ben & Jerry's.
California legalized theft with Proposition 47. Since then pharmacies and small businesses have been forced to shut down by a wave of shoplifters with nothing to fear from the law. But it’s not just stores that are reeling from the crime wave unleashed by criminal justice reform. Proposition 47 was passed in 2014. LAPD crime […]
Wiki's editors lie through omission, demonise Israel, belittle Jewish history, obsessively create new pages every time something happens and sanction all those who oppose them. Wikipedia's world vision is an antisemitic one.
It is shocking to me that one out of four American Jews thinks that Israel is an apartheid state and is committing genocide against the Palestinians.
The Shalabi terror mansion may be dust and rubble, but the Biden administration will not forget the martyred mansion and intends to fight on so that no more terror mansions are blown up.
A development that threatens the absolute nature of Islam’s inevitable dominance in Islamist theology.
It is every parent’s right to talk privately with their child about their family’s values and balancing modern values with Torah practice. It is not your right to publicly discuss other people’s observance.
With King Abdullah's visiting Washington at the invitation of Pres. Biden, it is most appropriate to share this open letter addressed to the Jordanian monarch.
By Forest Rain
You don’t need Ben & Jerry’s in order to have good ice cream. If you have a mixer in your house, you can make your own ice cream, any time you want.
Applying one standard to Israel and another to the rest of the world makes Ben & Jerry's hypocrites of the first order. Please tell me that you stopped selling ice cream to other countries for moral reasons so I can resume eating your wonderful flavors
The world seems to pretty much agrees with this antisemitism.
Jews need to be proud of our Judaism and of Israel. We shouldn't be defensive - we should be enthusiastic.
It is an expression of the Antisemitic idea that Jews must always be held to the highest of standards – indeed, to a standard that is continually raised so as to ALWAYS be out of reach.
By Jeff Dunetz
Tisha B’Av is the saddest day of our year because we didn’t trust God' promise to give us the land of Israel. In a way, our collective egos were too big then and 3500 years later we are still weighted down by our large egos
It is naïve to think Palestinians or their advocates will be placated by an easing of Palestinian restrictions. Only when Israel cedes control of all the land and ends the Jewish state will Palestinians be satisfied.
By Jeff Dunetz
In an open sea ceremony, the Zionist blue-white flag with the Star of David was hoisted and “Hatikvah,” which became the Israeli national anthem, was sung over and over. The Exodus 1947 became Israel’s first ship of state.
Home field advantage
Spotting Jews will become a matter of seconds, rather than having to ask around, which can waste precious minutes during an altercation in which a Jew might defend himself.
By Alan Zeitlin
Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late senator John McCain, said that in one of her last conversations with her father before he died, he said to keep the flame of Israel burning.
It was important to have a rally today to show that it is not acceptable for Jews anywhere to be attacked.
So we see that Jews lives in Halhul in the Middle Ages, they venerated it for much longer as the burial place of a prophet, and it is clearly an important Biblical site.
The question is why? Why is the Taliban so successful? This brings me back to extremism.
No laundries, no showers, no swimming, and no pastrami sandwiches. It seems like the big expression during the Nine Days is: "Just say no!" Please allow me, therefore, to change things up a bit. Here is a list of things you can say "yes" to during this period.
The solution is to employ a proactive, not reactive strategy; to attack rather than defend.
By Fred Maroun
Without systemic antisemitism, it would be impossible to explain why the United Nations condemned Israel 17 times in 2020 while the UN’s combined condemnations of ALL OTHER COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET, including China which is engaged in a genocide of Uighur Muslims, amounted to only 6.
By Jeff Dunetz
To put it more succinctly, tying Islamophobia to Antisemitism is just bull.
There's simply no excuse for generalizing about an entire group based on the actions of a few people in the group.
I've noted before that the legal analyses given by NGOs like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are not only biased against Israel but they betray an ignorance of the laws of armed conflict.
Bet Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch has fired the Charedi members of her ruling coalition.
Every day, the paper – which publishes both a Hebrew print edition that few Israelis read, and an English internet edition that is read around the world by decision-makers in governments and businesses – pumps out its vileness. Every day its writers present a slanted version of events in which Israel and Israelis are oppressors, occupiers, murderers, racists, thieves, and liars.
September 25, 2026 
