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By Jeff Dunetz
Thankfully, God put Harry Truman in the White House to recognize Israel and, after eight years of an Anti-Israel President, put Donald Trump in the White House to repair the U.S./Israel relationship.
Facebook isn’t banning protests during the coronavirus lockdowns. It’s banning conservative protests.
As obvious as it is, weirdly, I forget, again and again and again, that the most rich and meaningful things are the most utterly simple.
What’s truly wrong is that portfolios are given out as bribes and rewards for political support.
But are quick, zippy minyans, conducive to thoughtful, heartful prayer and connection to the Holy One, Blessed Be He?
I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...
In an apparent effort to ensure both employee and public safety, only a limited number of people were being allowed into the building at a time.
Many in the BDS world assert that they would rather die than accept help from Israel.
By Guest Author
All of us can and need to develop a more positive home environment through enjoyable activities and better communication
{Originally posted to the author's website} Some things are too sickening to digest properly, and I can rarely remember being as horrified by an item as I was whilst researching this. Some things cannot be unseen. This exclusive is about a new Crypto currency that turns the Holocaust into a sick trading joke. I am […]
Why are there so many articles about 2 million Gazans who don't have adequate water and so few about the other 72 million people in the region who have the exact same (or worse) problem?
By Paul Gherkin
Ramat Shlomo is not a vacant plot of land, it is not privately owned by Arabs and it is not located in the middle of Judea and Samara / the West Bank. It is an established Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Despite the accusations against Bibi, he is not in politics for the money. There is no doubt that he has devoted his life to his, and my, country.
By Jeff Dunetz
During the six days between the 14th and the 20th, rather than trying to quarantine the City where CoronaVirus started, Wuhan officials who had no knowledge of what was happening, went ahead with their annual Lunar New Year potluck dinner for 40,000 families.
By Batya Medad
Most people can adjust to something difficult when they know how long it will last. But even with all the complicated computations and guesswork the experts have been coming up with, there are too many unknowns to factor in for any accuracy.
By Jeff Dunetz
There weren’t simultaneous outbreaks of identical illness, there was only one source, and that point of origin seems to be that research facility in Wuhan.
We knew that making aliyah three weeks before Pesach would be a challenge...
Making aliyah is never easy, let alone in the age of coronavirus.
What if you find yourself at this point in your journey living alone? Strangely enough, our assignment has the potential of being the most exciting of all: piecing our life story together like an immense three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.
"And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times as strong, like the light of seven days, on the day that Hashem bandages the injury of His people and heals the wound of his blow."
I will ask him, silently, to take with him hugs and kisses to my mother and father and brother, two time zones and thousands of miles away.
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 Jeff Dunetz
But can we teach about freedom when the government tells us that we have to stay in our houses and we can’t have the huge family gatherings we have every year? Passover freedom
By Paul Gherkin
But the United Nations made a special call out for the young women in Africa when older white men in Europe are dying by the minute.
The process of forming the government has so far been enormously expensive, with three elections at an estimated cost of 12 billion shekels. Keep in mind also, that for the past year the legislators have done essentially nothing, while drawing their salaries.
Thanks for sharing your opinion that the COVID19 virus did not originate in China, that it was developed by the U.S. who released the virus in order to destroy the world economy.
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.
Federal bureaucracy has slowed down the process for both distributing existing masks and making new ones. There are plenty of companies eager to make masks, without any Wartime Production Act pressure. They just need a streamlined process that will clear as many of the barriers and delays out of the way.
Will fear of Coronavirus do what years of negotiations and attempts at compromise have not, and make the Haredim cooperate with the state?
By JoeSettler
Gantz is trying to hard to push a very left wing government onto Bibi, and it may backfire on him.
Blaming Israel for the condition of the Gazan people is getting tired
By Jeff Dunetz
Sometimes people wonder what Israel does for the United States. There are tons of examples including sharing technology, intelligence, counterterrorism training and methods, advances in medicine and so much more. The Teva donation is just the latest.
By JoeSettler
Who are the winners and the losers of the election crisis, and what did we learn from it?
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 JoeSettler
Blue&White will lose if they try to force Amir Peretz to give up his cozy new chair as Knesset Speaker, and Peretz has his own long-term agenda.
By JoeSettler
For Blue&White, running the country is secondary to getting rid of Netanyahu.
Be full of joy – yes, real “simcha” – especially now during these challenging days.
When the rules were first announced, many people felt that PM Netanyahu and his advisors in the Health Ministry were overreacting, but as the number of cases grows, most Israelis have come around to the idea that tough measures are needed.
By Paul Gherkin
Some far-left celebrities even accused Israel and Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law from developing the virus so that they could get rich from selling the vaccine.
A pilgrimage festival under current circumstances will prove an epidemiological nightmare.
The system is what is preventing us from having a functional democracy, not Bibi Netanyahu.
By Paul Gherkin
A complete Times piece on Israel must have #FakeNews in addition to #AlternativeFacts and inversions
We didn’t realize that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been suspended at Ann Arbor and wonder if other Amendments like the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery will be negated by Michigan U’s student censors.
Tonight at candle lighting time, Jews in Israel and around the world will go out to their gardens, porches, and windows to sing Lecha Dodi and Shalom Aleichem together.
Assuming that the name of your organization reflects a sincere desire to see the two parties negotiate a happy ending to 1400 years of Islamic animosity towards Jews, maybe Peace Now might want to look into the historical refusal by the PA to negotiate with Israeli Prime Ministers and U.S. Presidents.
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.
There are many unknowns. Will the virus die out or slow its progression during the summer, as happens with the flu? If so, will it come back next winter? There are at least three laboratories in Israel on the verge of testing a vaccine. Will there be an effective one and when will it be ready? Are there other possibilities for treatment?
Gantz and other party members of Blue-White claimed over and over that they would not try to form a minority govt supported from outside the government by the frankly anti-Israel group of parties in the Joint Arab Lis
There are many unknowns. Will the virus die out or slow its progression during the summer, as happens with the flu? If so, will it come back next winter?
The degree to which the key people in Blue and White – as well as their partner Avigdor Lieberman – have both personal and political animus against Binyamin Netanyahu can’t be overemphasized. But the fact that they appear to be ready to become indebted to and wholly dependent on anti-Zionist parties in order to accomplish their goal of forcing him out is shocking.
By Jeff Dunetz
Twenty-four hundred years later, politicians and world leaders are masking the truth the same way “politicians” did in ancient Persia.
Purim is about recognizing the miracles in everyday life and not being afraid to do the right thing.
Those liberal or progressive American Jews that still feel themselves a part of the Jewish nation will have to choose: Make aliyah or work in the diaspora to support Israel,.
By Jeff Dunetz
Sounds like the Cherokee nation considers Elizabeth Warren to be an illegal immigrant.
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 Paul Gherkin
Such is the state of elections today: Israel forever holding elections, Palestinians never having elections and the United States attempting to control the election outcome.
If you think that elections in Israel are finally over… think again, because the fun is just about to begin! The only part that’s over is election day
America is not divided because local newspapers are dying. They’re dying because they’re on one side of the divide. True institutions reflect the diversity of the civitas. False institutions reflect only themselves.
By Jeff Dunetz
Socialism takes away that free choice given to us by God
Mondoweiss, being Mondoweiss, tries to find a way to tie everything to hating Israel:
Israel is a Jewish state--heck, even our Ninjas are Jewish!
Newman is being attacked by BDSers because she has been outspoken and articulate about how these new "social justice warriors" are enabling antisemitism as well as racism and sexism.
You went to the American Islamic conference where many attendees think of Jews as people who worship ‘Benjamins’. That kind of racism you can support, but American Jews who support Israeli settlements violate your principles? Please.
Love of Israel is in no way contradictory to love of America. American Jews are very appreciative to live in a country that is not only welcoming of Jews but also a staunch ally of Israel. The pride of being American is part and parcel of the pride of being a Jew and a Zionist in America.
We are sick of politicians. We are sick of the way their selfishness has prevented us from getting a government that could deal with the many issues facing the nation today, including the most important strategic ones. If there were a button to push that would remove all of our politicians, we would push it.
We are so happy that your city is intent on holding its annual parade celebrating the people of Aalst’s hatred of Jews. Handing out rubber large noses to parade goers was a brilliant move that will unite Aalstians in disgust for the faces of Jews.
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 Forest Rain
A quick look at Bennett’s resume makes it crystal clear that there is no place for the word “weakness” in any sentence describing the man.
By Jeff Dunetz
While the publishing of this list is a disgusting example of the UN’s hatred of Jews and Israel, sadly it is not surprising. During her term at the UN, US Ambassador to the Nikky Haley called the UNHRC the United Nation’s “greatest failure” and condemned it as a “cesspool of political bias.”
The status quo is unacceptable. It is expensive, it prevents the development of Judea and Samaria – despite what the Left says, there is almost no actual Jewish construction across the Green Line – and it leaves us vulnerable to terrorism. And no other proposed “solution” is practical.
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 Forest Rain
With Gantz the issue is more his incoherent sentences which seem to reflect very confused thinking. But many Israelis want anything that isn’t Bibi.
The Countdown Begins: Sefirat Ha"Leftovers"
Literally every Jewish shrine in the Holy Land is claimed by the Palestinians to be their own, which is a hell of a coincidence.
Then there are those Jews, both in the diaspora or Israel, who simply see a profit in signing up with the forces of misoziony- the extreme and irrational hatred of the Jewish state.
By Forest Rain
New plants will cover the ugly scars terrorism left behind. Tu B’Shvat should not have to be used in this way but it is fitting that it was. Ours is a love story between a people and their land, between a land and its people.
What’s true for Jews goes triple for their state. I won’t repeat the depressing statistics about the number of UN resolutions condemning Israel that pass every year, and the fact that it is consistently attacked there for crimes that it did not commit while countries that do engage in murder, aggression, and oppression are never mentioned.
So the Left can tell us what antisemitism is and the Forward cannot? Because according to them, there is simply no such thing as any antisemitism that is not from the far Right, and mentioning any other type outrages them. Arab antisemitism is "protesting for Palestinian freedom" no matter how many times the word "Jew" is used. Attacks on Jews in Brooklyn are twisted to somehow be Trump's fault
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.
Zionism is a form of ethnic nationalism, and in today’s intellectual climate, forged by the European wars of the 20th century, nationalism is considered incompatible with liberal democracy. However, Israel is a special case, because the Jewish people are a special case.
By Jeff Dunetz
Mah Nishtanah Ha Peace Plan Ha Zeh?
By JoeSettler
The Blue & White campaign ad implies there are too many dedicated religious Jews and we're dirtying up Israel.
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 JoeSettler
Sovereignty, the elections and Trump's peace plan have been destroyed with a single interview, but Israel can still make it happen...
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 Batya Medad
Even if it's better for Israel than all previous proposals, it won't give us PEACE.
By JoeSettler
In a perfect world and on paper the plan is ingenious - but what happens when it meets reality?
We would be very pleased to assist you to set up this event at no charge. Here's hoping you enjoy your 'Day of Rage'
if you get caught in a lie, no big deal. Just move on. It's the Palestinians' way.
By Paul Gherkin
Limiting the definition of antisemitism narrowly to the Holocaust and Israel ties the two together in a false narrative that the world gave Israel to the Jews as penance for European crimes of antisemitism, which in turn produces more antisemitism
Trump may have cut the Gordian Knot in the Middle East. If the American voters give him time to follow through, he may be able to prevent Iran from going nuclear and might even end the Arab war against Israel, after some 100-odd years.
July 31, 2026 
