יום ראשון, י״ט אב תשפ״וSunday, August 2, 2026
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The never-ending Arab-Muslim war against Jews has nothing to do with Jewish mistreatment of Arabs but everything to do with the Qur'anic religious imperative to keep "unbelievers" under submission
Hamas prioritizes weapons replenishment over getting Gazans electricity and much needed goods. Does the average Gazan share those priorities? Why isn't Hamas smuggling in things that Gazans need?
If reports are true, one of America’s preeminent Rabbis, Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, head of the RCA Beis Din, has been dishonored by Israel's Chief Rabbinate which rejected conversions he approved
By Paula Stern
Maybe there is reason for optimism: Today Israel has diplomatic relations with over 160 countries, nearly double the number Israel had when Netanyahu served as Israel’s ambassador some 30 years ago.
By David Mark
Al Quds University, the Palestinian University in “East” Jerusalem, opened a branch moments from the Temple Mount, site of the two destroyed Jewish Temples and holiest site to Jews around the world
If you are Israeli or a supporter of Israel, you know that the UN has ONE very important function. They are there to ruin the international reputation of Israel.
By Batya Medad
Bibi, who in some ways can be considered even "more American" than Obama, has never found a common language and comfortable demeanor with the present POTUS.
The Dems and Left, has taken something worthy and noble, the Civil Rights Movement, and turned it into a bludgeon with which to silence alternative viewpoints or bully people into political submission
Could our man in Damascus be coming back home to Israel?
Clinton said we first need to examine the facts of the attack. Well… of course. But I did not hear any determination in her voice. Not this time and not really ever.
By Paula Stern
"it's Elul and we need the shofar, especially this morning. Two police, did you hear?" "Yes" I answered sadly. "They should have a complete recovery." "Amen," I said and watched as he blew the shofar.
A major reason for Israel's indecisiveness is the increasing influence and control over Israeli decision-making by the US – whose government, at the same time, has become less and less supportive.
Peres has always been a Zionist and does not believe that there is an irreconcilable conflict between the Jewishness of the state and democracy, nor that one should be sacrificed for the other
By Paula Stern
There's a growing tendency in the world to deal with terrorism by denying it. Regardless of who set those bombs in New York, it wasn't an accident-It was terrorism.
PM Netanyahu clearly pointed out in the video that the Palestinian authority's demand for a Jew-free, 'Judenrein' area is called ethnic cleansing and is a crime against morality and humanity.
By Fred Maroun
If Lebanon had prevented terrorist attacks against Israel, not one bullet would have been fired between the countries. Today, Lebanon would be enjoying the benefit of diplomatic relations with Israel
Yes, indeed the permanent, knee-jerk reaction is to tell WOMEN to make a change that may help bring about a refuah for someone sick or for some other ill that plagues a community.
By Paul Gherkin
The US and UN have no time or interest for Israelis stating simple truths about ethnic cleansing. If you want the world's applause, you'd best be served by denying facts as the Palestinian Arabs do.
By Batya Medad
This "package" is poison for the Israeli economy, particularly our military industries. A sovereign leader always has a choice. By accepting the many stringed offer, Netanyahu is showing weakness.
The UNRWA Commissioner-General begging for more $ perpetuates, rather than solves, statelessness, is self-serving and continues blaming Israel rather than the true culprits: itself and Arab leaders.
By Paula Stern
I considered the question, "Should we pray for Peres?" struggled with it for barely a second, and knew we should be because he's a Jew, because he's a human being.
If America goes down, so does that thing called Western civilization. Unfortunately, the American political system has failed: there is no great leader anywhere near the horizon.
By Paula Stern
In the last few years, terror attacks in the US and Europe have clearly become more common. I question not the interpretation of the fact, but the almost-desperate need to manipulate and deny it. Why?
If one looks at the range of tuition one would have to pay per child, one might get sticker shock. It doesn’t take a genius in math to multiply those figures by 5, or more, children.
By Batya Medad
There's nothing more dangerous for the State of Israel than dependence on a foreign country-The more weapons Israel gets from America, the more control the POTUS has on the State of Israel.
Which is worse: A Jewish cop beating a Jewish teen for moving his lips in prayer on the Temple Mount, or an Arab cop doing the same?
By Jeff Dunetz
New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman does not believe that justice is blind. Rather, it seems he believes justice is his tool to score "Progressive" political points.
By Batya Medad
Hillary, I hate to break it to you, but when you're running for office you're supposed to try to convince those who support your opponent to change camps and support you, not insult and alienate them
Who let Hamas out?
By Paula Stern
And then, in horror, as I watched, the second plane hit. I started to cry as the shocked voices could be heard through the television; I started to pray, "Oh God,
By Jeff Dunetz
You want a REAL 9-11 conspiracy? Try WFAN radio's coverup of announcers Francesca and Russo's anti-Semitic, fact deprived commentary blaming both Israel and American Jews for the attack on America.
International journalists and international "human rights" bodies --dragging their halos around-- customarily overlook Arab victims whose sufferings have nothing to do with Israel.
The American experiment in trying to export our own form of government to Muslims didn’t work. The Middle East still has monarchies and only one democracy, Israel, with free and open elections.
The European-supported Left in Israel works to encourage Israelis to feel guilty toward Palestinians, and to make Palestinians more angry at the Jews.
A moving love letter to a departed mother-in-law, from a devoted son-in-law, Rav Zev Shandalov.
Pro-Palestinian advocates claim Jews learning the Palestinian Talmud negates Palestinian culture and recasts it as Jewish in the ongoing Zionist effort to displace the indigenous Palestinian people.
By Batya Medad
How could it have happened? Apparently, the owner decided to add a garden on top and like many of us, figured that "a garden doesn't weigh much" without properly checking engineering ramifications.
By Fred Maroun
While the Palestinian cause, sadly, is still today dominated by non-Palestinians, the Zionist movement has benefited from being driven by Jews and not by foreign parties and it must remain this way.
By Paula Stern
Those screaming out from below the rubble begging Israelis to come help them, were definitely foreign workers or Palestinians. Do you see any hesitation among the Israeli rescue workers? ZERO
By Batya Medad
The policymakers responsible for the sign expect Israelis to be attacked and actually condone it. Attackers are not prosecuted, only Israelis who venture, whether intentionally or not, are.
Hayes conflates that Hasid's "Jewishness" with his representing the Jewish State-which he does not. Does that give Hayes license to boycott the State of Israel because one Jewish dude ticked him off?
By Batya Medad
Without declaring ריבונות Ribonut, Israeli Sovereignty over all of the Land we liberated with Gd's help in the 1967 Six Days War, we are effectively turning our miraculous victory into a defeat.
Virtually all Palestinians believe a false narrative designed to combine with the features of the Arab and Muslim culture in such a way as to create endless, insoluble conflict with the Jewish state.
By Batya Medad
The trial-a witch hunt-is a moral travesty. Soldiers in the field, like Azaria, even citizens who find themselves in the midst of terror attacks, should not be held to civilian theoretical standards
By Batya Medad
erry shows the world how he misunderstands terrorists. They don't just murder and attack for the attention. It's an act of war, another genre in the military lexicon.
By Jeff Dunetz
According to Kerry the way to stop terror is to stop covering it in the media. Really that’s all we have to do–if the media doesn’t cover it, no one will know about it and abracadabra…no terror!
I steeled myself because I knew the family leaned to the left politically.But from start to finish, the victim's son, Micah, spoke straight. I agreed with everything he said-politically and otherwise
By Batya Medad
Honestly, I don't see how wearing modest swimwear could be considered a security, moral or cultural problem. On this I'm with the Muslims!! The French are nuts!!
By Paula Stern
Into the commanders' errors, entered a young soldier. What that soldier thought and did CANNOT be judged by those who were not there, who rely on a manipulated video that tells only part of the story
By Batya Medad
Seemingly harmless domestic responsibilities given to "Palestinians" have morphed it into a dangerous terror state recognized as real by most countries of the world
By Selena Myers
Some say that we have the ability to choose so that we can shape our lives and undergo tests impartially. The way I see it, free-will is a gift of trust.
By Batya Medad
Defying the old adage, "Voting with your feet," it seems people are now voting with their heads.
Those who claim to be pluralists and reject religion, regard all religions as equally guilty of preaching war. But are they?
Rooting in the Olympics for Team Israel after being an American fan for many years is like rooting for the underdog of all underdogs, after rooting your whole life for the all-time world champions
Trump's chance came from a combination of circumstances: The economic slaughter of America's working class and Obama's contempt for this group. PC mania, and a grossly dishonest/disliked Dem candidate
Moses descended from the mountain and beheld the uncontrolled passion with which the masses were dancing about the idol they had adopted.
By Batya Medad
Is new Defense Minister Lieberman changing the rules of engagement to the dangerous missile attacks by Gazan Arab terrorists to aproper and suitable response? Or is this a one time event?
By Jeff Dunetz
Which former Secretary of State do you believe, a decorated General with a reputation for integrity or a former Senator/Presidential candidate who has had a career dogged by scandal?
By JoeSettler
People on the Left like to ask the people on the Right, "What's your solution for peace?" Here's my answer...
If something bad happens to Jews or the Jewish state there are some, inexplicably, in British media or politics who cannot pass up the opportunity use it as a stick to beat Israel or Jews
By Jeff Dunetz
Until the world recognizes the fruits of their appeasement, horrors like the Sbarro bombing, San Bernardino, Paris, Orlando will continue to happen in Israel, Europe, the US and throughout the world
By Paula Stern
For Israelis, the Olympics comes each time with tremendous emotional baggage. We remember the 1972 Munich Olympics when the Israeli squad was taken hostage and subsequently slaughtered by the PLO
By Fred Maroun
If countries like Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and others cannot put aside their hatred of Israel, or any other country, at least for the duration of the Olympics, they should not be allowed to compete.
In the minds of parents who make a war out of pants vs skirts, they are “fighting” a noble cause but many times they have lost their daughter—both in religion and in terms of their relationship.
By Batya Medad
Growing up in the 1960's America, the concepts of Integration and Desegregation were idealized. Reconsidering them a 1/2 century later, primarily spent in Israel, I see things very differently.
By Jeff Dunetz
The true story of the Benghazi video that went viral thanks to Clinton and Obama has never been told... until now.
American politics has been so 'toxically' partisan for so long it has become virtually impossible to separate fair assessments of truth from media-driven propaganda favoring the Democratic Party.
By Paula Stern
When it comes to the Jews, Israel's government rarely hesitates to block our access, restrict our rights, humiliate and insult Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, while it's Arabs instigating trouble
I always wonder how women wearing the Niqab, a veil that covers up the entire face except for a slit at eye level, take ID photos, eat-DRIVE?
To say that Rabbi Eckstein is controversial is an understatement. But I happen to believe that he is getting a bad rap from most of the Orthodox world.
By Paula Stern
Dear Donald, If you want to win this election, you need to convince more Americans to be pro-Trump rather than just anti-Clinton.
Obama is easily “infuriated” by Israel but the problem in the US-Israel relationship is America has trouble treating Israel as a sovereign nation.
Leaked files show how George Soros is going after Israel through Israeli-Arabs.
By Jeff Dunetz
The mainstream media has become obsessed with trashing. If they could get past their literal tendencies they'd not only understand what Trump was really saying, but they'd know he's speaking the truth
By Paul Gherkin
Bloomberg declared that this election was not about love, but getting the job done. By a professional with a rate card. Pay-for-play is the Democrats way.
I Rav Zev Shandalov, observant Jew and proud Zionist, using the Zoabi model, wish to take a bold step: I hereby announce my candidacy for the upcoming PA Municipal Elections.
By Paula Stern
Twelve years...how could it be twelve years since that fateful, horrible summer when Israel acted unilaterally, stupidly, leaving Gush Katif
By Paula Stern
Congratulations to the Israeli team for acting with dignity and self-respect and not escalating the conflict with the Lebanese and for making us all proud.
Today, the 20th day of Av, is the anniversary of the murder of our daughter Malki. along with her closest friend and 13 other innocent victims in a Hamas terror attack inside the Sbarro pizzeria
By Batya Medad
Building with "LEGO" is not just for kids anymore. Adults are using ot to build communities.
I have not gone up although I yearn to walk, pray and worship on the holiest place on Earth for the Jewish people and it is emotionally depressing to see what is happening up there.
By Tzvi Fishman
All of our life changes when we are in Galut. Not only does our Clalli soul disappear, but every detail of our life is affected. In exile, Emunah appears in an incomplete form
By dvora
When I mentioned we had just made aliyah, everyone proceeded to dance around the table singing the words, “V’Shavu Banim LeGevulam.” (The children shall return to their borders)
By Paul Gherkin
Arabs objected to the memorial of the Israeli athletes slain at the Munich Olympics, just as they refuse to recognize Israel, refuse to compete against Israeli athletes or even ride on a bus with them
By Batya Medad
Not only do we in Israel suffer from Arab terrorists here in Israel, but they are an inspiration and training ground for terrorism all over the world,
By Jeff Dunetz
The first time in history the people of Japan heard their Emperor’s voice was when he announced Japan’s surrender over the radio, after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Tzvi Fishman
Even before the Beit HaMikdash is rebuilt, the return to the Land and Nation rebuilding, even in its outwardly secular stages, revives the dry bones of the Jewish People
By Batya Medad
When it seems like the whole world is against us, against the State of Israel and Jewish Rights to our Holy Land, it is so refreshing and encouraging to see that we do have support.
The Olympic organizers asked the Israeli team to not make a scene.
What made Germany open the gates to hell, sacrificing its nation to a horde?
By Paula Stern
Time may change, but unfortunately, we are plagued by the same disgusting occurrences,
It is critical first to determine why your spouse does not want to make Aliyah. There are some cases where it may not, in fact, be feasible.
By Paula Stern
Arranging a holiday in Israel can be very interesting. It seems like the whole country goes on vacation at the same time
There never was nor will be, an Arab Palestine, because so-called Palestinian nationalism exists not because of an authentic history but because it was created to increase hatred of the Jewish nation
By Paula Stern
The hypocrite says that the Palestinian Authority will NOT allow Israel to hold on to the dead bodies of terrorists, presumably those who died in the act of terror and those who caught afterwards.
I have to question why anyone today would want to do something that is so unaccepted instead of focusing more on those thing which are.
Israel is doing better than ever but the relative stability of the post-WWII period – or even of the longer Western ascendance over the Ottoman empire – may be coming to an end
Addressing various reasons given by people as to why they believe Aliyah won’t work for them, and the author's comments about each reason commonly given.
July 31, 2026 
