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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.
The “reimagining” of Judaism in terms of leftism is an act of enormous arrogance.
Make time to learn with your children. Sit with them, not just on Shabbat, but during the week as well and light their neshamas on fire! Make Torah fun for them and show them you genuinely care about their connection to Hashem. Show them how you are growing closer to Hashem and they will want to do the same thing!
Regarding a third election, know that if – God forbid – it should happen, the results will be even worse for both of you. Many Israelis won’t vote in protest, some will vote for smaller parties, and the Arabs, who have gotten a taste of the power that it can give them, will vote for Arab parties in even greater numbers.
By Jeff Dunetz
{Originally posted to The Lid website} You don’t have to be Jewish……Not everyone who fights against Antisemitism is Jewish. In fact, to legitimize the fight, it is essential to include brilliant non-Jews ensure the issue is recognized by the broader community. In present-day America, where one political party is decidedly anti-Semitic, the fight is more […]
One out of 25 Jews like Bernie--More than you'd think-or should
By Jeff Dunetz
Wishing the world a Happy New Year
I conclude that when the smoke clears, we will have a unity government including at least Likud and Blue and White, and possibly a few others
By Jeff Dunetz
In its purest essence, the Jewish High Holiday period is the antithesis of the various forms of liberal and progressive government.
By Paul Gherkin
Proudly announcing the funding of terrorism and inciting terrorism at the floor of the United Nations is the answer to Abbas’s own question about why the PA cannot be allowed to become a country in its current orientation.
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.
Mr. Corbyn, you are not very convincing in the role of opposing Jew hatred in your party. The current lie you support that Jews are mass killers is on a par with the libels put out by the German Nazis prior to the transformation of Europe’s Jews into smoke and ash.
The Arabs of Israel must become similar to “green card” holders in the USA. Someone with a USA green card can register his kids in public schools, obtain a driver’s license and even get social security and medicaire benefits. The one thing they cannot do, however, is vote in federal elections.
Weiss wants to fight antisemitism by being honest, liberal, proud, and enlightened. All those qualities are useless against enemies that are precisely the opposite in all respects, and that is the case with antisemites. There is only one way to deter your enemies, and that is to be more powerful than them – and to demonstrate this whenever the occasion arises.
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.
There is not an iota of real difference between the way Torah is studied in the Beis HaMedrash of YU and the way it is studied at any other Yeshiva. It is more than time that Modern Orthodoxy is treated like an equal among equals and given the same prominence they give those to their right.
Well. well, well; then it's decided. All peace-loving people in Israel simply must vote the current government out and replace it with one that Ms. Omar will be much happier with. She did not say exactly which party she does embrace and endorse.
There is no escape from those who would kill us, but that we kill them first. The failure to understand that is the failure to survive.
What sort of government do I want? How far to the right does my ideology go? But just how far right they go, is always a question for me.
The more Netanyahu associates himself with Trump, the more Trump’s enemies become our enemies. And when they ultimately gain power, they will attempt to reverse Trump’s policies, including – especially – his pro-Israel ones.
A recent regional history of the "NO"
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 Jeff Dunetz
Just about everyone remembers where they were when they found out about the attacks on 9/11/01. But too many Americans including too many of the leaders of the Democratic Party have forgotten the collective national pain, the reasons we were attacked, and desire a return to the appeasement that made the terrorists strong.
The flight of several hundred thousand Arabs in 1948 was primarily a consequence of decisions made by Palestinian leaders and elites, as well as the leaders of the Arab states. We don’t have anything to do tshuva for.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
He wanted to elevate men. The Nazis put an end to that. At an airport, a world away and a lifetime later, he finally got his chance
By Tzvi Fishman
The forces of impurity in the world sense their end is near, so they do everything they can to interfere.
A century of terror, courtesy of our Arab neighbors.
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.
Democrats have made it clear that if they win the presidential election, they will restore the flow of cash to the terrorists. Joe Biden vowed to restore “security” funding to the Palestinian Authority. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand promised to restore the aid programs that “President Trump has cut.” Andrew Yang called for restoring aid to the terrorists. Senator Bernie Sanders and Peter Buttigieg went further, threatening aid to Israel. None of them condemned Rina’s murder.
And, thanks to postmodernism, facts don’t matter.
By Jeff Dunetz
{Originally posted to The Lid website} Here’s what President Trump said while answering press questions last Tuesday, “Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” A day later, when asked by the press, the President clarified that the Jewish disloyalty was […]
By Forest Rain
Pres. Trump said two words no one wanted to hear, pointing out a situation many recognize but most are afraid to mention: Disloyal Jews. With a piercing, instinctive understanding, Trump put a spotlight on an identity crisis in the Jewish community.
An official from Russia’s intelligence agency admitted his organization failed to maintain adequate data security.
As a rabbi, I’ve heard my fair share of interesting questions…
By Paul Gherkin
Terrorism in France seemingly captures the hearts and minds of people around the world. Is it because of the country’s devout secular nature?
Air conditioning and heating are not how we change the climate. They’re how we cope with it.
And then Banana Republic debuts four hijabs and it’s cultural appropriation even though Islam appropriates cultures the way hot dog eating contest winners go through sauerkraut and brats. Huge chunks of the Koran are appropriated from Judaism and Christianity like a little kid trying to write his own comic book by taking all the best parts of all the books and movies he saw and mixing them up.
Trump is comfortable with nationalism, which American liberals have long since rejected, and it makes sense to him that members of a people would naturally want to stick up for their ancestral homeland, even while preferring to live somewhere else.
By Jeff Dunetz
Trump wasn’t talking about disloyalty to America, he was talking about disloyalty to the Jewish people, and President Trump is 100% correct.
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 JoeSettler
We have a tradition, when Jews want to forget they are Jewish, the non-Jews come around and remind us, the hard way.
By Jeff Dunetz
Monday’s Tlaib/Omar presser was a horrible display. Two members of Congress were expressing their Antisemitism in public, aired live by major media, their hate speech supported by their fellow Democrats. Although as far as acting goes one of the two members of Congress had provided an award-winning performance, but she left out one important point...
This is not the first time MSNBC chose to offer negative opinions on Israel. This leads me to wonder if MSNBC’s editorial policy is to represent the interest of the Palestinian Arabs with little desire to provide Israel’s position
Despite what the critics say, Netanyahu’s decision doesn’t seem to have been ideological – although I think it should have been – but rather a simple balancing of the likely consequences of the options available.
As the debate over immigration continues, we must ask ourselves difficult questions about the price we are willing to pay to welcome in one particular group without caring about the cost to ourselves.
By Paul Gherkin
The trend of denying people entry to a country because of the perception that they will foment hatred or violence is occurring in several democracies--including the US and UK
Tikkunism is a radical departure from traditional Judaism. Reform Judaism deemphasized the “ritual” commandments like observance of kashrut and Shabbat, while emphasizing the “social” commandments like concern for strangers, widows, and orphans, and the political vision of the Prophets. Tikkunism goes even farther and redefines the social commandments and in terms of progressive politics.
You were quoted as stating that “Jews and Zionists have terrorism in their blood”, and are trying to destroy Poland.
It took an American president to stiffen the backbone of Israel's leader.
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.”
The idea that Mizrahim are “Arab Jews” is wrong. It is also insulting, suggesting that they lost sight of their ancient heritage during their time in exile, and assimilated to the surrounding culture. And it is pernicious
By Jeff Dunetz
{Originally posted to The Lid website} Saturday was a horrible day for America. Two mass shootings. Thirty-one people were killed and more than fifty injured. Liberals and the mainstream media (yes I know that’s redundant) were quick to place blame for the mass shootings on President Trump’s rhetoric and his followers. Perhaps the most hypocritical […]
A few years ago, I realized something that changed the way I look at Tisha B’Av and while I can’t say I look forward to Tisha B’Av I started to focus on what I call “The Tisha B’Av of Today”. I focus on the national tragedies of what is happening right now – and what I can do to prevent them from continuing.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Harold Brofsky was not our friend's real name, but the story is his and needs to be shared.
I want to tell you about a dream I had this past Shabbat on Tisha B'Av..
By Jeff Dunetz
{Originally posted to The Lid website} This coming Saturday evening August 10th begins the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’ Av (literally the 9th of the Jewish month of Av). Since the time of Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, through modern times, horrible things have happened to the Jewish people on […]
By Jeff Dunetz
I know this is a radical theory, but I blame Saturday’s massacres on two people–the two monsters who took guns to public places and started killing.
By Paul Gherkin
While Sanders wants to destroy capitalism immediately, Warren is simply seeking to establish the mechanisms to kill investment and motivation. Her long-term goal is to let capitalism choke under the weight of government
By Tzvi Fishman
People don't make aliyah because they are in love with the exile and don't want to give it up.
They dominate the Forward's entire site; they dominate the NYT's editorial and news sections, JTA gives them plenty of coverage yet they claim they are not allowed to speak.
By JoeSettler
Asking the right questions and looking at the data a little differently makes you realize that everything you've been told about Chareidim is wrong.
On behalf of the American council of Jewish Plastic Surgeons, I want to thank you for bringing this medical issue to the forefront. It is hoped that Jewish people will take a look at their noses in the mirror, feel insecure about them, and then be motivated to visit one of our offices.
The best way to picture our position in the cognitive struggle is that of a nation besieged. Our objective is to relieve the pressure so that we can continue with our normal lives. We are not interested in conquering and holding “enemy territory,” but we do want to destroy our enemies’ stock of cognitive weapons and crush their will to fight.
The Arabs and Europeans are not forcing us to clean streets on our knees like the Nazis, but by ignoring our sovereignty over the land, especially in our capital, they are reaffirming their belief – both the Muslim and Christian versions – that Jews do not have the same rights as others.
By Forest Rain
In the middle of the concert Jon rededicated “We Don’t Run” to our People.
To prevent the embarrassing discovery that the disgraced Barak has anything to do with him.
We can solve the problem that five administrations have struggled with if we reevaluate our flawed assumptions about the world, the Palestinian Authority and the fictional people it represents.
Letters that SHOULD be written
With all due appreciation for my former country, which I still love and care about, increasing Israel’s dependence on the US is not in Israel’s interest.
If you won’t eliminate the Diaspora – the Diaspora will eliminate you. – Ze’ev Jabotinsky, 1936
By Tzvi Fishman
Even though Obama is no longer around to say no, Bibi keeps his hand on the brakes.
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 Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
he Gemara teaches us, “From my students I have learned the most Torah.” I can say the same about Reb Reuven, but in his case, the lesson came after he was in my shiur.Over the years I occasionally meet up with former talmidim. Most say hello and inquire about their eighth-grade rebbi. Rav Reuven was different.
By Jeff Dunetz
Is it right to boycott a country because of its faith like BDS? Can we boycott because of Skin color? What if someone wanted to boycott any business owned by African-Americans? Or Muslims? Should people boycott Saudi Arabia because it is primarily Sunny Muslim? Or Lebanon because it’s Shia? Maybe we should never go to Brazil because the majority of its citizens are Catholic.
David Halbfinger of the New York Times wrote a veritable infomercial for J-Street in his story about their trip to Israel
By Paul Gherkin
Omar, Sarsour and fellow Muslim woman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are proud anti-Zionists who attack Israel with “apartheid” charges,
By Jeff Dunetz
Omar's Bill of 'SLIGHTS"
My question is, is there anything other than national suicide that Israel can do to help their adversaries wash out the shame of the establishment of a Jewish state on land claimed by the Arabs as their own?
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 Paul Gherkin
According to the ADL, once a country passes the 95% Muslim population threshold, almost every single man and woman hates Jews
By Paul Gherkin
The Times presents a fake narrative to its readership that the Palestinians are in favor of a two-state solution and are valiantly engaged in nonviolent protest to achieve their aims, despite every Palestinian poll which shows the opposite. But facts do not matter for the Times; the editors have chosen the good people and the bad people in every story
While I am not a member of the Rashida Harbi Tlaib fan club, her twisted logic has actually scored two points in my book, without her even noticing!
As a Jewish person who is well aware of the Palestinian effort to delegitimize Israel, and your role in this hoped for erasure, I can tell you that you that it doesn’t make any difference what nonsense you spew.
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.
When Moses, after four hundred years of wandering through the wilderness, finally led he Palestinian People into the land Allah promised to their ancestor Cain.
Sen. Booker’s anonymization of Jews as “folks” strongly echoed Obama’s dismissal of a Muslim terrorist attack on a Jewish supermarket before the Sabbath, as “randomly shot a bunch of folks in a deli.”
This is why the moderates don't matter. They lose. Whether in London or Gaza it is the extremists with their hate, threats of violence and ostracism that rule the streets. Events like PalExpo is designed to create more of them. This is the truth of the PalExpo.
We do need to take the complaints of the Ethiopian-Israeli community seriously. At the same time, they should stop calling what happened last week “murder.” They need to understand that the police have a job to do, an essential job to maintain a secure society. The anger on both sides needs to be replaced by rational problem-solving.
Jews view the Temple Mount, the site of two ancient shrines and the focal point of Jewish longing for thousands of years, as the most sacred location in their religion, but no one cares what Jews think or feel.
I suppose that “opposition” means opposition to everything Trump does and says, regardless of its merit. And it fits with the anti-Israel wind blowing from the left in America, where the Iranian threat is seen as an Israeli problem, not an American one.
By Fred Maroun
Arab states who had a central role in starting the conflict, may end up being the catalyst that finally infuses the pragmatism that is needed for a solution.
Further proof of the Jewish plan to destroy the human race can be observed when two Jews meet, they mutter (speak softly) ‘bless the bagel’, which Jews understand is code for destroy the human race.
July 31, 2026 
