יום ראשון, י״ט אב תשפ״וSunday, August 2, 2026
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By Jeff Dunetz
While we were celebrating Shabbat, other faiths were at work. Witches cast spells and potions against POTUS
For more than a century, the US State Department has been an opponent, not an ally of Israel and Zionism.
This Shabbat, we read what is known as Parashat Shekalim, which deals with the half shekel coin that was collected from males over the age of 20. Why only a HALF shekel coin?
By Batya Medad
It's very obvious that the Israeli Leftist media's trying to manufacture cases against Netanyahu and his wife Sara. It's no secret and it's not discreet. Something the Trump's can commiserate with.
By Fred Maroun
If Israel annexes the West Bank, the Jewish majority in Israel would be reduced immediately from 75% to about 57%, and the Arab minority in Israel would nearly double from 21% to about 40%
By teaching facts and not being PC, I might pay a price. It wouldn't be the first time--it wasn't. The company was not enamored of me for tearing off the blinders from their students eyes and I was fired
There are 2 opposite reasons students will want to study in Israel for a gap year: Either they are happy with their upbringing-home, school and community or they hate it and want “religious rehab.”
By Jeff Dunetz
President Trump is not only keeping his promise but keeping Obama’s broken promise of deporting criminal illegal aliens. So why ar Liberals having a cow?
Israelis look forward to Livni’s eventual impact on the UN, which, if Livni’s record serves as an indicator, will descend into irrelevance and impotence.
For 1300 years Jews lived as dhimmis sub-class non-citizens under the boot of Arab-Muslim imperial rule. With an Israel Hater out and Trump in it's time for Israel and the Jewish people to declare the days of desperate Jewish solicitude are over.
By Bennett Ruda
Refugees in general, and Palestinian refugees in particular, retain an option to return, this is not considered an absolute right. It is an option to be measured against consequences of repatriation
By Batya Medad
Israel is not part of the US; it is neither a state nor a "commonwealth." It's up to our own government led by Netanyahu. If he is clear world opinion doesn't matter, most opposition will fade away.
The rioters, Haredim all, protesting the arrest of a draft dodger, were destroying public property, burning garbage bins, causing a public disturbance.
By Paula Stern
Israel has been attacked from 3 fronts in the last week. A rocket landed in the Golan Heights; air raid sirens wailed in Eilat without warning; and Gaza fired a rocket landed on the Ashkelon beach.
The fundamental issue and biggest problem is that the Israeli government tacitly accepts the idea that Judea and Samaria are occupied territories – in other words, land that belongs to somebody else
Jewish forces (not Turkish or British), wiping from the face of the earth a vibrant God fearing community in Eretz Yisroel and sending Jews into an unknown future, was heart rending for normal Jews
By Batya Medad
My daughter lives in Ofra with her family. It's still a wonderful place to live but court rulings have strangled its chance to grow. Gd willing, a solution will be found to allow Ofra to thrive again.
By Selena Myers
While we lavish in the good times and praise G-d, we must suffer through the bad ones....and STILL praise G-d
By Jeff Dunetz
It cannot be emphasized enough: This is the first time any U.S. President declared that the settlements were NOT an impediment to peace.
By Jeff Dunetz
“We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances,” Schumer said. Schumer seems to have forgotten his previous statement.must be suffering memory loss
All mainstream Orthodox religious authorities and institutions have rejected the idea of female rabbis, except of course, Open Orthodoxy rabbis and the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
By Paul Gherkin
In a time of greater instability and violence, Obama barely acted to provide sanctuary. But there were no protests in the streets of America to let in more refugees. Why the lack of protests?
By Onan Coca
The right wing has used harsh terms, but only the most fringe have argued for the government's overthrow or the upending of a lawfully elected administration. Sadly the same can't be said for liberals
By Batya Medad
Just a couple of months ago, the residents of Amona had been told that they'd still be on the hill, or very close by, and that the government would build them a real community with real houses
Can you imagine a Supreme Court judge making rulings based on his own political leanings?
By Jeff Dunetz
Trump’s decision was made to prevent terrorists from coming into America. FDR prevented refugees from coming into America because they were Jewish and he thought the country didn’t need any more Jews
No one serious is saying the Palestinian Arabs don't need aid or shouldn't get it. The problem is that foreign aid to the Palestinian Arab gets turned by them into something lethal and hideous.
By Batya Medad
There is no equivalency between the Jews who were persecuted and threatened with certain death during the Holocaust and today's Arabs clamoring to leave their troubled countries. Period.
By Paul Gherkin
Orthodox Jews only make up about 10% of the 5.3 million American Jews and are the fastest growing denomination by far and overwhelmingly support the Republican Party.
In the author's view, one should never give up hope that a child will be convinced to return to his roots even after they marry out.
By Batya Medad
The well-stocked stores would seem to contradict the general perception of suffering and impoverished Palestinians.
By Selena Myers
A view on Trump from across the pond. Jewish Press blogger, Selena Myers, expounds on the changing of THE Guard in Washington.
By Jeff Dunetz
Obama believed he knew what the Israelis and the Arabs needed better than the Israelis and the Arabs knew themselves
By David Herman
A musical offering in honor of America's newly inaugurated 45th President, Donald Trump
Perhaps the single greatest teacher of Rabbinical CBT was Rabbi Akiva. The Talmud (Berachot 60B) teaches that Rabbi Akiva was always in the habit of saying " Everything that God does is for the good."
By Paula Stern
I am a Jew. I was born a Jew and I will die a Jew. I was also born a woman. Never once in my life have I felt those to collide or contradict and I pity anyone who feels that they do.
By Jeff Dunetz
Obama stuck it to the Jews one more time before he leaves office by appointing Ben "I massaged the truth to sell the Iran deal to the American public" Rhodes to the US Holocaust Memorial Council.
These Arabs complaining that Syrians who are desperate to save thousands of lives and are willing to ask anyone for help, including Israel, are "conspirators" with Israel and "traitors" to Syria.
This issue of ordaining women is not a Charedi versus Modern Orthodox battle. Only the fringe of liberal orthodoxy embraces it; The entire spectrum of Haredi to centrist-Modern rejects it.
By Fred Maroun
I am an Arab, lucky enough to be one of the few Arabs who live far enough, both physically and intellectually, from Arab thugs to be able to speak my mind. So I will speak my mind.
By Batya Medad
Now in Europe, at this Paris meeting, over 70 countries sent representatives to try to find a way to facilitate the replacement of Israel with a new Arab country which they will call Palestine, sic.
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
I am advocating a halachically acceptable and Torah mandated embrace of values and concerns in harmony with Torah views even if the beneficiaries of these movements and causes are primarily non-Jews.
Like the old Monty Python bit, the two-state solution is a 'dead parrot.' The Press 'shopkeepers' keep trying to sell us its stiff body insisting the peace process is just pining for the Oslo accords.
Many Women of the Wall members applauded the passage of UNSC resolution 2334 demanding Israel return to pre-67 borders. WoW has no problem with the Kotel in Arab hands, just no separate prayers!
Monsey has gone from a bucolic small town to a center of conflict where both sides having strong arguments.
By Paula Stern
Senegal sees no issue in taking our aid and then supporting an anti-Israel resolution, one-sided, unfair, completely out of proportion to what Palestinians are doing.
By Batya Medad
There's no apartheid against Arabs. The only people restricted are Jews. There are places and businesses we're warned not to enter, roads not to drive on, schools we are forbidden to study or teach in
Israelis are drifting wider apart on where the moral boundaries on when soldiers are to "fire" are to be drawn. This debate is rapidly escalating where it has long been pushed under the carpet.
By Jeff Dunetz
“Moderate peace partners” of the Palestinian Authority are threatening Trump they will react with violence if the US Embassy is moved to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem. Will their threats stop Trump?
‘Is moving the US embassy to Jeruselam worth it?’ Is it the right thing to do? What will be the actual repercussions of this move? Is moving the embassy to Jerusalem worth the ‘price’ of doing that?
By Paula Stern
"How...how do parents say good bye to their children in the morning as they leave home...and then bury them that night?" How?
By Fred Maroun
After 69 years of obstructionism, the Palestinian leadership no longer deserves a seat at the table. It is time for Israel to behave as the victor of the conflict, and to win the peace.
Neo-Nazi groups from the UK, Sweden, France and Greece will attend the march and “a representative of Hamas will be in attendance, and will give a speech about the international threat of the Jews.”
The Democratic Party is shaking off support for Israel because it views Israel through an anti-imperialist lens and because Muslims are a more important constituency in the long run for the party
By Paul Gherkin
Ellison, who is running to be the new chair of the Democratic National Committee was amongst the minority of Democrats who voted against the effort to condemn the UN censure of Israel. Not surprising
I, like many of you reading this, am sick and tired of funerals.
By Paula Stern
In today's attack, one soldier is seen running towards the attack, only to stop and turn back. Then dozens of others are seen running away from the truck that rammed into the soldiers.
Kerry gave a racist speech pretending to be noble. It was a speech about booting the Jews from Jerusalem, again, as if it were inevitable and right. In short, there was much in the speech to denigrate
By Paula Stern
Elor Azarya is a soldier of Israel. 10 months ago we sent him into battle. His friend was stabbed in that battle. Elor raised his gun and shot the terrorist. It wasn't murder. It wasn't even manslaughter.
An angry Ari Fuld discusses when the boundaries get blurred between the good guys and the bad guys.
By Jeff Dunetz
Does the UN compiling blacklist of companies doing business In 'West Bank' constitute their joining the BDS movement?
By Paula Stern
Not only was Elor Azariya slapped in the face, but every soldier with a gun. The message is they must, in the middle of battle, stop and think what some idiot judge will think of their action.
It is one thing to reside in the left wing of Orthodoxy. It’s another to cross lines that virtually all other segments of Orthodoxy said should never have been crossed.
A blessing for the outgoing President and his Secretary of State. To quote the rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof: “May G-d bless and keep President Obama and Secretary Kerry…FAR AWAY FROM US!”
By Batya Medad
How long will it take, if ever, for Trump to reduce the amount of $ the US gov't gives to the Palestinian Authority. Trump has a lot of work to do to fix things in terms of Israel and our security
By Paul Gherkin
FirstOneThrough, despite fewer posts in 2016, saw its number of visitors jump by 35% Facebook, The Jewish Press and Twitter were key reasons
Obama will likely be known in the Jewish world as the US president who, whatever his honest intentions, did more than any to divide the Jewish people from one another and from the Jewish state.
By Batya Medad
Hopefully,Netanyahu has gotten sufficiently angry and disgusted to recognize that his trying to be a reasonable "Centrist" isn't working. We need a zealot who only tries to please G-d. A Maccabee.
By David Mark
When our enemies tell us to choose between their culture and being Jewish the light rises within us, drawing us to our destiny. This cannot be stopped; not by Obama and not by John Kerry.
There is no doubt who Trump will blame if a Mid East peace deal doesn’t work out. Trump has already indicated that it is Palestinian violence against Israel that is to blame-NOT the settlements.
By Paula Stern
The problem with listening to John Kerry is that within minutes you start to get a headache - and that's the best I can say.
Simply put, today, under Israeli control, Muslims, Jews, and Christians, live and pray in Jerusalem. When it was under Arab control, Jews could not even visit.
Small deeds can have a huge impact, or as better said in Chovot HaLevavot the Jewish self-improvement manual, “a small light can shine forth and push away much darkness” This is the essence of Hanukah
By Jeff Dunetz
In 2008 despite warnings, despite the fact Obama sat in church hearing anti-Semitic sermons for 2 decades, despite being pals with PLO members, the Jewish community gave Obama 78% of the Jewish vote
By Fred Maroun
By betraying the Jews of Israel, Christians are not only continuing a long history of anti-Semitism but also undermining tBy betraying the Jews of Israel, the world’s Christians are betraying the only state in the Middle East that protects Christians from extinction and are undermining their own heritage. heir own heritage.
As there never was an independent, Arabic state called Palestine, there cannot be any Palestinian territory. The Arabs in fact rejected the UN Partition Plan which would have given them that state
The bloggist provides a decidedly alternative perspective but arrives at the same and right conclusion: Mr. President, I say Thank you. But ‘Good riddance!
By Jeff Dunetz
The Obama/UN call for Israel to stop building communities outside the 1949 armistice lines is absurd: There were no 1967 borders, nor any intention for Israel to move back to the 1949 armistice lines
“Obama.’s been angling to abandon Israel since before he took office.”
By Jeff Dunetz
The anti-Israel team of Obama & Kerry directed UN Amb. Power to abstain rather than veto an anti-Israel resolution in the UNSC. Abstaining had the same effect as an anti-Israel UN Vote.
The simple fact is the Forward hates everything Jewish except left-wing Yiddish protest chants.Its editor's latest rant is entitled, "Why I Detest Hanukkah, and Why All Right Minded Jews Should Too"
By Jeff Dunetz
Jewish liberals are very upset at the prospect of a pro-Israel Trump administration because they fear losing their standing in the generally anti-Israel Democratic Party or Jews may vote GOP in future
The direction non-Orthodox Jews are going is clear. Heterodoxy has failed while Orthodoxy has succeeded, strong evidence that it is Halacha that has kept us alive throughout the millennia
By Jeff Dunetz
The CIA version of the Russian hacking story had both the DNC and RNC being hacked into but only the DNC’s info was used, making them believe the Russians were trying to sway the election toward Trump
By Jeff Dunetz
The Left is having a cow because President-Elect Trump chooses not to get the President’s Daily Briefings (PDB) every day. Is that REAL reason behind their alarm?
I can think of no better endorsement for Friedman than J-Street vehement opposition to his appointment.
By Jeff Dunetz
Since both Chanukah and Christmas begin in less than two weeks, as a public service it’s time for me to explain the 18 differences between the two (in the usual Lidblog snarky way) ENJOY!
By David Bedein
The permits for building Amona issued 20 years ago were challenged by agencies of the New Israel Fund, not because the NIF wants justice for the Arabs but because they want Jews out of YESHA
Left-wing groups like the AJC have sold out the Jewish community by siding with Muslims over their Jewish victims, allying with Islamic hate groups supportive not of Jews, but of the murder of Jews.
By Paul Gherkin
The NY Times coverage of world affairs follows a familiar pattern: Christians and Jews do suffer, but hardly as much as Muslims and people of color, and their reporting reflects this view.
By Batya Medad
According to many, there's some unique and super-advanced Israeli technology in the F-35s, which are now part of the Israeli Air force.
A great, quick overview of the Jewish legal claim to Israel.
The Democratic Party betrayed the State of Israel and the Jewish people when it decided that making a home for itself of anti-Semitic anti-Zionists was a dandy idea
Thousands of police are now under going intense training for the imminent forced expulsion of 50 Jewish families from Amona, formerly an unwanted rocky hilltop now a miracle of green and life
My son the soldier, in silhouette, sitting alone in his uniform on top of a mountain, wrapped in his tefillin, reading from a siddur, the sun rising in the distance, bursting forth into the sky-NACHAS
Hezbollah's stated goals since its founding in 1985 were the elimination of Western influence, the assertion of Islamic (Shiite) dominance over Lebanon and the destruction of Israel. Nothing's changed
By Jeff Dunetz
The ADL's real self-serving purpose was to isolate Jewish groups who pointed out the failings of Pres. Obama’s anti-Israel policies. The ADL wanted Jews to continue supporting the Democratic party
By Paula Stern
I continue to read messages blaming me and others like me for the Trump victory because we dared to argue that Hillary Clinton was not an option. But how can I be blamed when I didn't vote for Trump?
In all too many cases elderly leaders that are unfamiliar with the things they are asked to comment upon end up making mistakes – which later have to be corrected when they become better informed.
July 31, 2026 
