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While I generally had a lot of fun on these interviews, I still am embarrassed when I recall our first in-Hebrew television interview.
{Reposted from the Sultan Knish website} A hardcover copy of "In Defense of Looting" will run you 21 bucks at Amazon and 28 bucks at Barnes and Noble. That’s just how capitalism works for the distribution and sales of a product from one of the biggest publishing companies in the world that’s part of the […]
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.
Ironically, the signings took place very close to the anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords – possibly the worst agreement since… ever… like in the history of the world.
By Avi Abelow
Did Israel really pay a price regarding F-35s, Sovereignty, or a Palestinian State?
De Blasio, who has a history of targeting the Chassidic Jews of Brooklyn, is no slouch and had blamed a rise in coronavirus cases on a Jewish wedding even before Cuomo kvetched.
By Tzvi Fishman
Caution is called for, but not to the point of turning our backs on the positive.
By Avi Abelow
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden stating that the US army will “escort [President Trump] from the White House with great dispatch”
By Avi Abelow
Police officers were shot, and this was the reaction.
By Jeff Dunetz
Dear Goyim, If you happen to see one of your Jewish friends walking to shul on Yom Kippur there's no need to hide. Thankfully the caffeine withdrawal headaches we get on Yom Kippur are NOT contagious.
By Avi Abelow
Navid Afkari is a wrestling champion. Executing him makes the Iranian Islamic regime look horrible, but they don’t care.
“It’s all political, and if an Arab country wants to normalize, they can just do it? That can’t be.”
Honor/shame relies to a large degree on the ability to lie - both to others and to oneself.
By Yehuda Lave
The sky is falling, the sky is falling. Time for some more lockdowns??!!
By Jeff Dunetz
There will be more countries to join the Peace with Israel process, and quickly, I would not yet believe the rumor that Saudi will be next. Qatar and Oman are more likely.
As I approached the school along with tens of other children and parents, the excitement was palpable. The principal stood at the gate of the school, greeting each child with an elbow bump and a smile.
Malawi announced plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem. It would be the first African country to do so.
“A war crime,” “tantamount to igniting religious war” –
All the lies fit to print
By Yehuda Lave
Obviously, I needed to go to some time of emergency room to get some fast treatment. But it was Shabbat.
By Paul Gherkin
After a decade of not referring to Hamas as a terrorist group in hundreds of articles which mentioned it, the Times did so FOUR TIMES in a single article as it linked it to a far-right extremist movement. Yet Hamas is not a right-wing movement but an Islamic one
Where better than SFU to enlist recruits for the eradication of the Jewish state.
{Reposted from the author's blog} Real crises end with a solution. Fake crises end when they become a real crisis. Black Lives Matter began as a fake crisis that used out-of-context viral video clips to falsely claim that police shootings of innocent black people were a national crisis. Black Lives Matter became a real crisis […]
By Yehuda Lave
Be good as a person, as an individual, and your part of the world will become holy. Then, if others emulate you, the world will suddenly and automatically turn beautiful and hallowed. It is Elul.
There is actually a fantastic Facebook group – “LoveLoveIsrael-Tried and Tested” – where you can find everything you may want to know about visiting almost anywhere in Israel.
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.
Now Trump Administration officials, including Ambassador Friedman, are regulars at the Wall. Visiting such a revered place should never have been a question, much less prohibited.
The Democrats have reversed the equation, fighting to protect criminals from their victims.
By Jeff Dunetz
The Democrats are afraid, not because of any of their fake attacks, but because Trump has been a good President who has done everything he promised, and the American people are beginning to listen.
Media reactions to Trump's speech show that the they have completely lost their credibility.
Before calling the municipality to arrange a special pickup of furniture or large appliances, residents often post pictures of these items on Facebook or WhatsApp groups with the simple message of "limisira b'ahava" (for donation with love).
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.
After the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was announced, it was rumored that other Muslim countries were on the brink of following suit. That hasn't happened yet.
By Jeff Dunetz
The promise made to Russia, China, and Europe in writing said that if sanctions were re-imposed –their companies would be “grandfathered.”
By Jeff Dunetz
A subcommittee with the Conference on College Composition and Communication, which is part of the National Council of Teachers of English, demands American teachers “abolish standard English. They call it ‘white mainstream English.”
Israeli travelers took to focusing on what they do best while out of the country: making themselves and their countrymen look like spoiled, whiny, provincial ingrates.
We find daily excuses to run in to pick up just a loaf of bread, and leave with our hands laden with hot bourekas, pita, and lachmaniyot (rolls).
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.
In truth, it's been known for a while that Israel and the UAE did things together, quietly. UAE even has a small, but active, Jewish community.
How do we educate parents to take their Judaism more seriously and with more enthusiasm so that they can pass that on to their children?
Though there was still no proof that Jews were responsible for this atrocity, it became part of the accepted narrative in almost all segments of Israeli society.
Of course this is not the first time the Charedi world responded to a crisis in order to benefit all of society. (Not just themselves as is often asserted by Charedi critics.) This also happened in Monsey, New York several months ago.
Israelis care too much about gaining international approval, especially by Arab and Muslim nations. So an official treaty of normalization of relations is almost impossible to resist.
The more Arab states that make peace with Israel, the less support Palestinians will get for holding on to their unrealistic version of a state.
By Jeff Dunetz
It's A Deal Only Trump Could Have Put Together
Here in Modi’in we have a wonderful Absorption Department, with olim coordinators that go above and beyond to help.
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.
Hezbollah is doing everything it can to conceal this information. Not since O.J. Simpson has a party appeared more guilty and yet claimed it wasn’t.
The “occupation” is an excuse, not a reason, for rabid anti-Israel hate. And the easiest proof is to look at the anti-Zionists of the 1950s – before “occupation.”
So do I shed a tear when my enemy falls? No, I read the Psalms with joy that praise God for just that.
If the Jews were in charge, don't you think that they would have dominated the news cycle particularly since they control the media, banks, Hollywood, the music industry, and the NFL.
Will the same rules that most Americans have had to live under apply to Sharpton and his Black Lives Matter hate event? Or will the notorious bigot and his racist allies once again be free to do as they please. Are the pandemic rules there for all of us, or are they just intended for ordinary Americans?
Today the USA is a candidate for a radical change away from the republic that was created when its constitution became effective in 1789, and which gradually evolved into what it is today.
By D.J. Kolpak
“This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
Even the name Palestine...
By Paul Gherkin
The “promised land” is commonly used as a metaphor for a perfect society. Let’s strive for that perfection by acknowledging that its foundation is the Jewish State of Israel.
By Jeff Dunetz
Get ready for your eyes to roll all the way back into your head with this one. RACIST Oprah Winfrey
Admittedly, the lift included some items we had planned to leave behind and others that we had wanted on flight, but while packing had not gone as planned – a running theme in our aliyah – it would have to do.
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.
As of now, if a budget of some kind is not passed by the end of August, the government will be dismantled and new elections called for November.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
The land belonged to the State of Israel in 1967, and indeed in 1948. It belongs to us today. We are the aboriginal inhabitants of the land, we have never lost our connection to it, we have the imprimatur of international law, and we have (so far) successfully defended it.
By Sheri Oz
In general, there were different reasons for Arab versus Druze opposition to the law.
By Batya Medad
We're now suffering another round of what I call Korach demonstrations meaning that those demonstrating/rioting don't have the same aims other than to destabilize the government.
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.
While olim are offered a steep discount on taxes associated with purchasing a new car, it comes with many complicated strings attached.
Unlike in the States, now right-wing protesters are starting to show up to counter (read: fight) the leftists.
By Jeff Dunetz
According to the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren… The Biden/Obama administration deliberately damaged the relationship between the United States and Israel. Biden never renounced that goal.
I am discouraged. Is this the end of America as we know it? ...the America I know and love?
By D.J. Kolpak
With a a few notable exceptions, the Jewish community appears unaware of the significance and relevance of these groups.
Hearing is easy, but listening is much harder. That, however, is what we really need, and maybe that’s the biggest lesson we can take from these challenging times.
'Whitenessphobia' may be the great mental illness of our time; To 'Whitenessphobes', everything has a “whiteness” problem.
How do you know when Beinart is lying? When he is talking.
I think the election will mark the inflection point at which the curve of civilizational decline turns sharply downward. When the US loses its dominant economic and military position, the effects will be felt everywhere. The crisis in the US will begin the sharp acceleration of the decline of the West.
"certain unnamed contractors who continue to claim they need fees to cover various zoning variances and building permits for the Third Temple and other, associated facilities, when in fact no such fees were stipulated in the contract.”
As we’ve learned time and time again through this aliyah process, ultimately everything is in Hashem’s hands.
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted to the author's blog} There is a major battle underway between Socialists and Capitalists in America which is using a template that the Arab countries used to attack Israel in 1967. It is a four step battle plan, many of which have recently been effectuated by the far left. Deny the Enemy Rights […]
Something for both sides to consider especially during the 3 weeks
What's in a name? Would ANY names still be safe? Birds, animals, colors, and the climate? Just avoid history.
In 1991 while waiting for a SCUD, I didn’t follow the rules and instead drank a BUD… but in 2020 I am ready for the TASK by caring for neighbors and wearing my MASK.
The Jewish community does not need leaders who will accuse it of racism to score points at their Manhattan cocktail parties for the Public Art Fund, but real leaders who will stand up for it.
Cuomo, who killed thousands of nursing home patients by forcing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients, keeps saying, he follows the science. Not actual science, but whatever nonsense the expert class pushed out there
The brands telling Americans that they need a reckoning with slavery have their own reckoning.
By Jeff Dunetz
Despite it being a great song, this idea should just "Wither" and die.
The Prime Minister acts almost exclusively to protect himself, and not on behalf of the country. The evidence for this is the absurdly fat and expensive “unity” (one has to laugh) government with its 35 ministers and 8 deputy ministers. This structure exists so that Binyamin Netanyahu can continue to be Prime Minister. There is no other reason.
In New York, you can walk into a showroom and examine a range of models; here, most stores carry a few show pieces and otherwise direct you to look through their catalogue to see if you like anything.
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.
“We find slightly more support for the idea that Israel should rely on existential enemies to help guarantee its security.”
A nationwide lockdown is being considered, but in the meantime it was decided to lockdown only charedi areas because the courts won't protect them like they would other places.
The only time I feel completely comfortable is when visiting Israel. I am far less worried about being a terror attack victim there than a victim of an antisemitic hate crime in the US.
By Jeff Dunetz
Cites Fake Statistics for spike in NYC violent crimes. If it walks like an ass and talks like an ass, it's asinine.
July 31, 2026 
