יום ראשון, י״ט אב תשפ״וSunday, August 2, 2026
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The biggest and most damaging error made by Israel was the massive sacrifice offered in the Oslo Accords, allowing the dying, irrelevant PLO to come back to life, and to insert its cancerous cells into her body.
By Fred Maroun
ezbullah’s claim of defending Lebanon against Israel and their other claim of liberating Palestine are both bogus, simply excuses to allow them to dominate Lebanon with the support of Iran. So stop being a puppet, and be a leader!
By JoeSettler
I'm reminded of the INS Hanit that Hezbollah nearly sunk in 2006, because their missile-defense system was not activated.
This was a great week for the Orthodox Union (OU). This blog celebrates this fact.
By Forest Rain
The problem is that if the world doesn’t learn from the experiences of the Jewish Nation, They will have to learn for themselves. Maybe when it is the bodies of their friends, their loved ones, When the horror knocks on their door, Maybe then they will begin to count.
By Fred Maroun
My birth on the Arab side of the Israel-Arab conflict was not my choice, but my moral stand is my choice, and my choice is Israel.
There is a reason why we say when in Rome, do as the Romans do. It’s not merely to avoid draconian penalties for what we consider minor offenses. It’s because good manners dictate that a guest shows respect for his host.
The law is stupid, and probably impossible to enforce fairly. You can’t legislate history. What happened, happened. It’s important to know what and how so perhaps it will be possible to keep it from happening again.
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted to the author's blog, FIrstOne Through} It has been often reviewed how the United Nations has manufactured Palestinian Arab “refugees.” The fabrication done at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been via: calling someone a “refugee” when they left a home or town, […]
By Batya Medad
Reflections from the well-known blogger on her inspiration to being Torah observant and how it is reminiscent of Yitro.
Trading the "Gold City" of Jerusalem for the famed "White City" Tel Aviv,,,And the story continues
By Forest Rain
Rebranding is how anti-Semitism became anti-Zionism. But the product has always been the same: Hating Jews
The uniqueness of the Holocaust is that the Jews were targeted for extermination for their genetic content. The Nazis saw the Jewish people as a species. Their goal was that there would be no more Jews in the world, ever. The thoroughness with which they approached this task was remarkable. Nobody else got that treatment.
if Reem's restaurant was instead "Ariel Sharon's Joint and Whiskey Bar" and featured a worshipful mural of Baruch Goldstein the people of Oakland would have arisen as one and shut that place down in a New York Minute with the full support of city government. HYPOCRITES!
Except for the righteous gentiles among them, the Poles were perhaps the most eager participants of all nationalities in helping Nazis send Jews to the death camps of any other country.
Israel, smaller than New Jersey and with a population of 8 million, is not the address to solve the problems of the continent of Africa’s 1.2 billion people and should not be accepting the migrants
By Paul Gherkin
The divide in the narrative of the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian communities can be summarized in one city, and it’s not Jerusalem. It’s Hebron.
"Though I may disagree with some of the things Rabbi Riskin has done of late, when he’s right, he’s right. And when it comes to whether Israel should remain an Orthodox state, I couldn't agree more that it should."
By Forest Rain
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” "They say there is a land.” That Land is the Jewish homeland, Israel
By Jeff Dunetz
"In every generation..." An overview of this generation's gallery of Left-leaning rogues, looking to hurt the Jewish people and Israel.
So much is spoken and written these days about Emunah but I beg to differ. What is needed is Bitachon – strength and resolve in the future and the courage to take on those challenges
The Palestinian problem with Christian Zionism is far deeper than a disagreement over "justice." It is doctrinal. Israel's very existence is a challenge to their entire belief system, which values hate for Israel and Jewish nationalism above the words of the Bible.
By Batya Medad
Most nominees and wannabes for the White House sound as pro-Israel as Donald Trump did while campaigning, but once elected their tunes change but Trump has kept his word
By Jeff Dunetz
{Originally posted to the website, The Lid} By Faye Higbee and Jeff Dunetz Saturday’s Women’s marches like similar progressive protests since Trump’s inauguration was infused with anti-Semitic messages and leaders. Much of the propaganda that is perpetuated by this so-called “Women’s Movement” is pro-Hamas. (Reminder- Hamas is a terrorist organization). How’d that happen? One of […]
By Paul Gherkin
The reality is that the group that suffers the most hate crimes is not blacks, Muslims, women or gays, it is Jews. Year-in and year-out. And no one speaks up for them at these marches.
Daniel Pipes said nothing would be better for the Palestinians in the long run than losing hope, because the fundamental cause of the conflict is Palestinian rejectionism
Left-Wing hypocrisy: When War = Peace and Peace = War, and what I think about women in the IDF.
By Forest Rain
“But why does he have to make provocations with these declarations of his?!” I was shocked to hear this sentence come out of the mouths of my Jewish-American relatives. Yes, they were referring to Trump (who they hate) and to the Jerusalem Declaration. I love my relatives but they live in a completely different universe than I do.
By Jeff Dunetz
Oslo didn’t stop terrorism. In the 2 years between the signing of Oslo and the assassination of Rabin, 10 Palestinian terrorist attacks killed 75 Israelis, wounding another 242. The crazed zealot who killed Rabin did so because he hated the Oslo Accords, but by killing Rabin he may have saved Oslo
Abbas never fails to amaze with his alternative theories to reality.
By Batya Medad
The State of Israel is about to celebrate seventy 70 years of independence and the world isn't happy
By Paul Gherkin
Abbas’s stupidity knows no bounds. He claimed that Palestinian Arabs have been living in the holy land for the past 6000 years.That’s pretty impressive for a group that didn’t arrive in the land of Israel until about 1400 years ago, even by the admission of Arabs themselves.
Israel has nothing to do with Jews, according to Abu Mazen.
By Fred Maroun
Israel has absolutely no obligation to let BDS activists enter the country. There is no automatic right to enter any country that one wishes to enter. It is a privilege that must be earned.
Israel needs a death penalty, or that we should fire a cruise missile at the center of the town that the murderers came from and then build a Jewish town on the ruins.
By Batya Medad
The Left/Democrats have been searching for a celebrity to run in 2020. Administrative and political experience aren't necessary. They are looking for someone who has a big smile and can generate applause. Being black, female and able to learn lines is another bonus,
By Jeff Dunetz
President Trump has been incredibly successful for a “mentally unstable” man during his first year on the job.
Now we have another Jewish widow and six new Jewish orphans.
What is incredible is that some Arab governments are willing to go with an Israeli-ruled Jerusalem as part of a permanent peace agreement, and to tell the Palestinians to stop using it as a roadblock to peace.
By Fred Maroun
In the 69 years of this history, Israelis’ support for the two-state solution, however, has slowly eroded. The main reason is the realization that the Palestinians never wanted it and are not likely to ever want it.
Fifth, is it "profanity" in naming a train station after President Trump? Truly? Of course, if it is Trump himself that bothers you, rather than naming the station after a person, a non-Jew, then we are left with a political dispute.
By Guest Author
Iran's murderous, dictatorial, Islamist leader Khamenei, posted a tweet using the American left’s rhetoric to attack the US. This should alarm any liberal who has even the tiniest capability for introspection.
By Paul Gherkin
In truth, the relationship between various progressive branches of Judaism and the Jewish State have been terrible for a long time. A number of Jewish organizations actively seek to harm Israel in public fora.
In order for there to ever be peace between Israel and her neighbors, the Arabs must face reality: that Israel is a legitimate country belonging to a legitimate people, and that the Palestinians are not going to “return” to it, not ever. The charade of the “Palestinian refugee” must end.
Once simple categories of 3 races and 2 genders has mutated into an infinite alphabet of identities and ethnicities--national, cultural, racial and religious--each with its own microaggressions and shows no signs of slowing down its expansion
By Batya Medad
The secular Left suffers from an insecurity, since their religion/ideology keeps changing with the seasons. And they never know who's going to ask too many questions and end up taking on traditional Judaism and/or Right views.
The deal made to release Shalit only gets worse with time.
By Jeff Dunetz
New Year’s the time for political pundits to make their predictions for the coming year. Here are some of the more 'outrageous' prognostications, courtesy of Jeff Dunetz, founder and editor of 'The Lid'
By Forest Rain
The issue is not Christmas itself or Christians. The problem is that Arab solidarity against the Jews is more often than not, stronger than the values of Christianity.
By Paul Gherkin
One is left to wonder, where does the New York Times get its information?
The consequences in the region if the Iranian regime were replaced by one prioritizing economic development over foreign adventures would be immense. Israel would be overjoyed if the $ sent to Hezbollah stayed in Iran
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
This may seem like a strange topic for a Rav of a Shul to talk about; however, since I enjoy sharing all facets of my life here at the Shul, I am not going to exclude you from an interesting episode of my life which occurred just last night. I am probably the only Orthodox […]
By Jeff Dunetz
The Palestinian efforts to “sway public opinion” have failed, in fact, the only result of PA President Abbas’ efforts has been to drive a wedge between Pres. Trump and the Arab World.
This letter is different. It isn't a begging you to change your mind. Once you have bought into the BDS lies, it is very difficult to shake them. It is absolutely true Palestinians suffer. The only real questions relate to why this is happening, and what can be done about it.
Love him or hate him, you have to admire Donald Trump’s genius for manipulating the media. What’s even more impressive is the way he’s been beating them at their own game.
By Forest Rain
Words shape meaning and if you take the 'Christ' out of Christmas there is no reason to celebrate. Accommodating bullies who want to enforce political correctness isn’t “being nice.”
By Batya Medad
I am extremely unhappy with the so-called "anti-corruption" demonstrations going on here in Israel. They are to force the hand of the already Left wing judiciary and the police.
By Paul Gherkin
The Iranian government has found new Jewish friends willing to publicly undermine Israel. And for Iran, these Jews have the added value of looking like hippy college professors as opposed to the black hat Neturei Karta rabbis.
By Batya Medad
Bibi's far from perfect, but I don't see anyone who can replace him, certainly not former Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon.
Obama’s was the most consistently anti-Israel administration since the founding of the state of Israel, considering the deliberate insults and provocations. It also failed the American public by "permitting" Hezbollah’s narco-terrorism
By Batya Medad
The anti-Semites and anti-Israelis, including many countries like Great Britain which have claimed to be Israel's allies, have now shown their true hatred of Jewish rights, history and Israeli sovereignty.
A few times a year I take an extreme left-wing tour in Israel. These tours aim to show why settlers, the IDF, the occupation etc. are all evil. What I didn't appreciate on the tour was being lied to by the Leftist organizations, T’ruah and Breaking the Silence
By Batya Medad
During our various exiles, the focus of our prayers and yearnings have always been towards Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
Ari Fuld talks about Shirley Temper and her family....
For all we know, the disabled Abu Thuraya might have chosen to be "martyred" by his fellow Hamas members in order to elicit exactly this sort of reaction from the UN and world media.
Do the Palestinians expect that the US will say that all of Jerusalem belongs to them? Clearly not. So why the rage, the riots, the rockets and the terrorism?
So now this "Palestinian" teen is a hero and an example for millions like her who view the Youtube clip and will now dare if they did hesitate before.
By Jeff Dunetz
If he continues with the type of policies shown during his first year in the White House, President Trump will be most pro-Israel president since 1948.
Turkey intends to open an embassy in East Jerusalem. Even though all the arguments against the Trump declaration apply even more so to the Erdogan declaration--silence. The Europeans who stumbled over themselves to condemn Trump are silent on Erdogan. The UN and NGOs aren't saying anything.
The Jewish Press hopes that your Hanukah was joyful and illuminating.
By Batya Medad
There is nothing discreet about Chanukah. Chanukah Sameach!
Why didn't the soldier grab this little terrorist and detain her the first time she kicked him? Because he was afraid of getting in trouble! 'What would the world say?!'
By Forest Rain
{Originally posted to the author's blog, Inspiration from Zion} Hanukah is not a holiday of the Jewish religion, it is a holiday of the Jewish people. Although not really considered a religious holiday, it is a holiday of miracles. We’re complicated that way. The Hanukah miracle most people focus on is that of the oil […]
Let’s take a little test and see how things add up. Is Israel judged by a double standard? You be the judge!
Rabba Hurwtiz is wrong in blaming opposition to women being in the Rabbinate on a pre-existing male power structure. Poskim of virtually every mainstream Orthodox organization stated that women cannot be rabbis and serve in that capacity regardless
By Jeff Dunetz
The importance of the Bill of Rights is a list of limits on government power. It is designed to keep government off our backs by setting lines over which the government cannot pass. Progressive’s today attack numerous amendments.
Rabbinical students with such an obviously limited understanding of Jewish history, both ancient and recent, who hear the cries of their “Palestinian brothers and sisters” more loudly than those of their Jewish ones who are being stabbed on the street in the Jerusalem that they claim to love so much, should find another line of work than being rabbis.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I still recall every year on the fifth night of Chanukah as I distribute the “Chanukah gelt” to my own children, the happiness and contentment which filled me on that blissful night decades ago when our family burned the midnight Chanukah oil together with love and affection.
PLO leaders and minions meanwhile made it quite clear that now the dead peace process is truly dead. A week later, the peace process is still as alive and as dead as it ever was.
By Forest Rain
Israelis have a spirit of wild defiance that is incomprehensible to our enemies; the defiance of freedom to determine our own destiny. The idea that Israelis would cringe at the disapproval of other nations or swayed by terrorism is laughable.
By Jeff Dunetz
Chanukah is called the festival of lights because Jews believe that God’s teachings bring his light into the world. The Chanukah festival was not only a re-dedication of the Temple but a re-dedication of the Jews to the Torah and the light of God
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
The lighting of the Chanukah candles which took place just minutes after the conclusion of his funeral was meaningful in that it represented the rekindling of that exact spiritual light which he infused in this world during his over 100 years of active service to Hashem and His people.
So long as the Arabs believe they have a reasonable claim to the City of David they will never stop pushing or sending their children into the streets with knives. So long as they believe that Jerusalem is up-for-grabs then they will consider the whole shebang up-for-grabs.
Trump can’t make Jerusalem our capital – only the people of Israel can do that. But his statement represents a crack in the truly anti-Semitic double standard that has been applied to Israel with respect to Jerusalem since 1948.
How dare those who live on distant shores offer to sacrifice Jerusalem for us. It is MY son on the front line defending this land, defending Jerusalem from the north, as my city defends it from the east. They have no right and more, they do much wrong.
One can say whatever they wish about the President or his ulterior motives. But one cannot deny the significance of what he has done for the Jewish people.
Jordana weighs in with her Top 5 on the US recognizing JERUSALEM as the capital of ISRAEL.
I think it’s worth emphasizing the surreal nature of this issue. Israel controls Jerusalem. No other nation has made Jerusalem its capital city since the Jebusites lost it to King David’s army around 1000 BCE.
By Jeff Dunetz
Though Trump will announce the intention of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv To Jerusalem the process can take a few years as first they have to find the proper site for the embassy, followed by 3-4 years of designing and building.
By Jeff Dunetz
Don't let the Main Stream Media (MSM) mislead you on the facts about Jerusalem. Here is a fascinating presentation of the truth...
By David Herman
Jerusalem's venerable troubadour, David Ben Reuven, presents his musical offering in honor of the US recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. ENJOY!
The New Israel Fund is in effect the military wing of the Reform Movement, using $ instead of rockets as weapons, annually giving millions to groups working to remake the state of Israel in accordance with its vision, and even to some groups whose goal is to destroy it.
Our partners-in-peace, the Palestinian Authority and its president-for-life Mahmoud Abbas, are taking pains once again to lay out how peace is going to come about, and more specifically, how not.
By Batya Medad
The actual existence and survival of the State of Israel and victories in our wars were not because of any help we got from other countries--not from the UN nor the Balfour Declaration
By JoeSettler
I hope President Trump is doing this because he wants to do right by Israel and the US. But what if it's a down-payment for peace talks?
By Jeff Dunetz
That the New School invited an anti-Semite like Linda Sarsour to speak at an event entitled “Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Justice” is crazy enough; the fact she used the opportunity to spew an anti-Semitic stereotype, pushes it into the Twilight Zone.
July 31, 2026 
