יום ראשון, י״ט אב תשפ״וSunday, August 2, 2026
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By Paul Gherkin
The haters of Israel constitute a rogues gallery of ugly mugs.
By Jeff Dunetz
The alarming part of this latest health care debate wasn’t about whether or not government should be involved in health insurance instead it was about how involved the government should be
By Paul Gherkin
There are two different constructive steps towards peace: 1) treat Abbas like the unpopular 'leader' he is and force him to accept the peace proposal put in front of him; or 2) let the Palestinian Arabs hold new elections
By Batya Medad
“Peace Deal” is an oxymoron
Unlike the rest of the fine young men and women being honored, most born and raised in Israel, young Eliezer Menashe's journey began over 5,000 km. away in a remote village along India's northeastern border
And Israel's Birthday Party continues...
Mahmoud Abbas shamelessly lied to the President of the United States in front of the entire world.
By Jeff Dunetz
Pres. Truman judged not whether things made America popular in the Arab world but whether it was the right thing for the US. Today's leaders of his Democratic party defy his legacy.by opposing Israel
By Tzvi Fishman
We observe the precepts of the Torah because Hashem commanded us to perform them. How much more, HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook said, is this true with the mitzvah to dwell in the Land of Israel
I just had the most unusual email exchange with Hassan Nasrallah.
By Batya Medad
Yom Ha’atzma’ut, Israeli Independence Day is not merely a celebration of a historic event but transforms into a spiritual holiday when recognizing Gd's hand in everything that has happened to the Jewish People
The world is witness and beneficiary to the fact a handful of Jews have fulfilled the Biblical promise that the Jews will indeed be a blessing for the world.
By Forest Rain
In Israel, strangers can become instant best friends and tell you their most private thoughts. It’s not weird, they are just family you haven’t met before.
By Forest Rain
The boy I had known years ago, the one I had liked, the one I had talked and laughed with and even kissed once or twice… He had grown up and then he had been killed. Murdered by Hezbollah.
By Frimet Roth
Netanyahu has not raised the Tamimi extradition matter with the Jordanian king, so you’ll forgive us our cynicism when Netanyahu dons expressions of gravitas and compassion, as he undoubtedly will do on Yom Hazikaron
My friend was one of the 23,544 heroes who fell while protecting and defending this country. His name was Yehoshua Friedberg Hy"d Z"l.
By Forest Rain
The revenge of the Jewish people is a roar of defiance heard around the world. Do you know what it is? Children. Lots of them. Our revenge is life.
The brilliant yet unassuming Rabbi Lichtenstein bravely modeled for us a rich life of religious purity, intellectual rigor, constant study, broad-mindedness, and societal commitment.
By JoeSettler
Jordan's FM seems to have forgotten ISIS is knocking on his front and back door waiting to come in.
Haredi extremists were arrested for attacking a border policeman in Bet Shemesh This despicable behavior is becoming, sadly, a nearly daily occurrence.
The truth is that the diaspora Jewish Left is "chickens***"... as Obama might put it. The Jewish left is filled with privileged cowards terrified of what the advance of progressive-left anti-Zionism means to their Social Network.
By Batya Medad
Unlike anti-Semitic hypocrites in other countries, Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader, has asked French Jewry to sacrifice easily available kosher food to try to squeeze Muslims out of France.
By Batya Medad
"There's no place like home..." Ask the Arab bus driver for Egged who liked America but LOVES his native country, ISRAEL!
Calls to apologize for Balfour have been spreading since the 99th anniversary of the document, and even Mahmoud Abbas has been publicly insisting on an apology. Britain responded with a resounding no.
Some of Israel's most renowned authors and artists have made the pilgrimage to pay homage to Mr Barghouti and have lavished praise on him as the Nelson Mandela of the "Palestinian " people.
By Jeff Dunetz
The question to be asked is why didn’t FDR allow more Jews into the US and why didn’t he pressure Britain to allow Jews to move from Nazi controlled areas into what was then called Palestine?
By Batya Medad
Including Judaism in the group of religions connected to Jerusalem and the Holy Land lumps us all together and is extremely dangerous because it delegitimizes us, our religion and history.
By Jeff Dunetz
his year’s commemoration is particularly relevant as less than eight decades after Hitler was defeated, Antisemitism and Holocaust denial is growing at an accelerated rate throughout the world
By Paula Stern
Documents are surfacing that prove beyond question that the powers that be KNEW by 1942 that 2 million Jews had already been murdered and that Hitler was quite simply conducting a "massacre of Jews".
None of the Israeli news outlets saw fit to mention this dynamic: that of an Arab terrorist, attempting to murder a JEW.
A love letter from the author to a great-grandmother he never met, stolen from her family by the Holocaust.
By Paula Stern
In the hours that the Nazis sent our people to the fires, when Mengele was torturing and experimenting, the Allies -and the world-knew and chose not to act.
My friends and I were sure that our disciples, who were learned men, would get the joke, that Gebrocht was an April Fools prank and that would be the end of that. But it didn't happen that way.
Join the free BBQ outside of Ofer prison.
By Paula Stern
At what point do you wish someone dead? For me, it is when they forsake their humanity and take real and clear steps to take the life of another. I shed no tears for the terrorist "neutralized" today
By Guest Author
The PA does NOT have to reject terrorism. What it must do is harder: Accept a definition of terrorism that does not change depending on the identity of the perpetrator or the identity of the victim.
By Paul Gherkin
Leftists like the New Israel Fund rewrite the Haggadah and alter “Next Year in Jerusalem” to “Next Year in Palestine and Israel,” rejecting the centrality of God’s gifts and the role of our community
By Batya Medad
There are too many, OK even one would be bad, radical Leftist Jewish groups calling themselves "pro-Israel" while their policies support the delegitimization and dismantling of the State of Israel. Here in Israel there's "Peace Now," as if "peace" is s commodity that one can just buy for a price. And there are those women's […]
Barghouti is no different than the terrorists Arafat and Abbas.
By Tzvi Fishman
Diaspora Jews pass on the whole spirit and soul of Torah and the messages of Passover, which is the attainment of true Jewish freedom through establishing a holy Torah Nation in the Land of Israel.
By Jeff Dunetz
Passover is the celebration of our freedom as a people, and the blood libel is NOW an around the year problem. "In every generation..."
By Batya Medad
A HAPPY PESACH to ALL Jews of all traditions!
By Paul Gherkin
This year in Jerusalem is the 50th anniversary of the city's reunification; Next Year in Jerusalem for the world's Jews
By Batya Medad
Considering that I was injured in the first ramming terror attack over twenty years ago, I'm a bit hyper-worried about them.
Barghouti paid for the explosives that destroyed Jerusalem's Sbarro pizzeria and killed our daughter Malki. He then sheltered several of the members of the Hamas gang that executed the massacre
By Batya Medad
The question is, "Can really be an appreciable cessation of the anti-Israel policy and resolutions in the United Nations?"
The poor Arab terrorist drove his late-model Audi into a a group of Israelis.
By Jeff Dunetz
Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice requested the “un-masking” of the US persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions involving the Trump transition team, ALL for political gain
The coalition is collapsing-I refer to the coalition of the JEWISH PEOPLE. The streets overflow with hatred of fellow Jews, hijacked by hoodlums blocking roads; calling for the murder of fellow Jews
By Frimet Roth
Please share this post, thereby intensifying the pressure on Jordan's ruler, essential to extraditing Tamimi. The US DoJ said this is the ONLY chance this evil woman will be brought to justice.
Anyone who accepts the lie that Odeh was innocent of her role in a 1969 supermarket bombing is nothing but an anti-Semite who will bend over backwards to justify the deaths of innocent Jews in Israel.
In reference to Israel, Rabbi Cosgrove threatened, "that country will have to learn to fend for itself."
One of the keys to the pedophiles’ ability to continue to ply their “trade” was the protection they were afforded by members of their own community.
Incitement doesn't radicalize every young person who hears it, but it does plant the idea of killing Jews as an obligation on some people and 'magically' turning these murderers into 'heroes.'
By Batya Medad
The Arabs and proponents of the "two state solution," promote apartheid, The truth is that all those faux moralists, hypocritical so-called liberal democrats are promoting this anti-Jewish apartheid.
Israel Police, on Monday, arrested more than 20 Jewish ultra-Orthodox men as suspected sex offenders whose alleged crimes were known to their insular communities but CONCEALED from the authorities.
The insurmountable obstacle to a deal is that the essence of the Palestinian movement is the denial of a state belonging to the Jewish people in any part of the land between the river and the sea
By Batya Medad
A great improvement in US relationship under Trump with Israel isn't policy, it's attitude. This may be a great change, but Israel's fate and future remain in its hands, not those of foreign leaders.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Rabbi, please use your pulpit and your column to spread the message that we ‘older-singles’ have feelings too. We all know we are single; however, we still have lives and we still are human beings!”
Sadly, the ideal of ethnic and gendered diversity has been replaced on the illiberal progressive-left by multicultural fragmentation and identity politics as represented by the hijab
By Batya Medad
Jews are forbidden to live as Jews in Jordan, the PA-Palestinian Authority and many other places, but for some fokokt antisemitic reason, nobody calls that apartheid.
By Paul Gherkin
The NY Times ran an article “Deadly Attack Near U.K. Parliament; Car Plows Victims on Westminster Bridge,” which ran over 1700 words. At no time did the article mention the words Muslim or Islamic.
By Jeff Dunetz
So typical of the Obama administration: IRS hurts Conservative, Tea Party, Pro-Life, Pro-Israel and other groups whose political objectives Obama didn’t like…But an after-school devil worshiping program, that gets the VIP treatment.
Kitniyot, Kitniyot, the controversial legume; for Ashkenazim to eat it is a big ASSUME
The defecation took place last week, as Netanyahu’s motorcade made its way through Jerusalem. Bibi has had it tough with birds: Obama compared him to 'chickensh*t' and now this. How FOWL!
By Batya Medad
Bibi is a wily politician and I don't think that Bennett or Lapid will have an easy job unseating him. They'd have to join forces, sort of like the rotation that Labor and Likud tried in 1984
UNESCO chief Irina Bokova, who received death threats for denouncing the resolution denying the Jewish/Jerusalem connection, is stepping down. 4 Arabs are on the shortlist of 9 to replace her.
By Jeff Dunetz
Falk’s support of false and hateful charges about Jews isn’t limited to his praise of one anti-Semitic book. As UN Watch, Falk’s blog is loaded with “crude anti-Semitic comments”
Why do peace activists defend people, ideologies and cultures that are simply evil?
Jordan, despite protestations to the contrary, never had a problem giving Tamimi major public platforms giving her 'celebrity-murderer' status. Will Jordan ever honor its treaty obligations to the US?
By JoeSettler
Iran is feeling expansive, and Russia seems quite fine with Israel's actions to keep Iran in check.
Clearly, Ha'aretz is the toxic little Israeli brother of the NY Times, but I never figured they would actually hurl poison at Jewish ballplayers in order to score points with their big brother in NY
Israeli aircraft bombed targets in Syria, preventing the transfer of “advanced weapons” from Iran to Hezbollah, Though this was not the first such bombing, this time things were VERY different
America's public school system is a failing enterprise and needs radical changes to restore it to former greatness. Examining certain Orthodox schools may provide some inspiration
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
If HaShem says, "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow" here are some suggestions for a fun day!
The wheels of justice have finally gone into motion; hopefully, justice will soon be served.
Ahmed Daqamseh was given a rousing welcome in his home village in northern Jordan after being freed on Sunday. He expressed no remorse for the killings.
By Paula Stern
This thing, Daqamseh, that is not human has been released-EARLY. This thing that murdered 7 little girls and then spoke with pride at his accomplishment. At least this thing made his mother proud
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A sovereign state decides which non-citizens may cross its borders. Period. There is no internationally recognized human right to enter any country one wishes. Israel can deny the enemy entrance
If Purim culminated with a lesson on tolerance, liberal Jews might be inclined to celebrate it. Unfortunately it ends with Jews fighting for their lives, winning and slaughtering their enemies. Not PC
By Paul Gherkin
The New York Times consistently disseminates lies or misleading information about Israel. It is one thing you can absolutely count on.
This is not the first time the BDS movement has claimed victory as the result of a development that actually runs counter to their goals.
By Jeff Dunetz
When defeating Persia, Esther used her beauty. For her modern feat, Esther used a computer worm named Stuxnet, whose first file was named 'Myrtus' or 'Myrtle,' which means Hadasa, Esther's other name
By David Herman
8 years after the Holocaust, the Jewish people and the free world were again in great danger from Hitler's one time ally Stalin, whose tyranny led to the loss of 94 million lives. Stalin died on Purim
America's 'National Pastime' is quickly becoming the 'Promised Land's' national pastime with Israel's squad surprising success in the World Baseball Classic. GO JEW CREW!
24 years ago today, an IDF platoon mate, a friend and a future leader of the Jewish nation was stolen from us by terrorists.
Trump has launched a cultural revolution in the US by pulling the PC cork from the bottle and long pent up frustration is now being triumphantly released by the masses of "deplorables."
By Paula Stern
A potentially enlightening television report about Ma’ale Adumim ends up twisted into an anti-Israel diatribe; it wasn’t the beauty they came to see, it was lies they hoped to spread.
By Paul Gherkin
The International Apartheid Week began its thirteenth annual hate-fest of lying propaganda this week. It’s aim is to circle the globe with calls on college campuses to end the Jewish State.
With the 2016 presidential campaign, it seems as though there has been an explosion of Jew-hatred. Is this true? Who is responsible?
By Fred Maroun
What makes someone an anti-Semite? Stupidity? Dark souls filled by all-consuming hatred? Probably a combination of both, but that doesn't matter because anti-Semites have and will always exist.
In my wildest dreams, I never thought an Orthodox Jew would be a top adviser to the leader of the free world. And yet that is exactly what Ivanka Trump has been to her father, the president
By Batya Medad
Israel must quickly rip off the bandage of 'occupation' and fully annex and declare sovereignty on Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley and any nook or cranny that is still in a status of uncertainty.
By Jeff Dunetz
In his first speech to congress, President Trump who isn’t known as a great speaker, delivered a spectacular speech that surprised in both content and delivery.
By Jeff Dunetz
Rasmea Yousef Odeh, spent a decade in an Israeli jail for being the ringleader in terrorist bombings, including one that murdered 2 Hebrew University students while she was a member of PFLP
Two of the most significant political questions in the West today are immigration policy and identity politics. Linda Sarsour, stands at the crux of both and poses a dilemma for pro-Israel world Jewry
Once again at the Kotel, WoW did their monthly thing at the Kotel, promoting Feminism, definitely NOT Torah Judaism
By Bennett Ruda
The truth is that for a while, in the 1970's, Gaza rivaled -- and even surpassed -- Singapore, now Hamas says with pride it has no interest in becoming another Singapore.
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