יום ראשון, י״ט אב תשפ״וSunday, August 2, 2026
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By Paul Gherkin
The pantheon of patriots perception of the President.
By Tzvi Fishman
Hashem doesn’t want us in Galut forever. We are supposed to long for the higher existence of Geula - of Jewish sovereignty in our own Land, with our Holy Temple in our midst.
By Paula Stern
What will it take for the world to be able to say - without lowering their voices - this was the work of Islamic extremism? This was Islamic terror? All Muslims...no. No. NO.
Rule of thumb: It almost never suits BBC editors to use the word terror when describing any act of savagery, no matter how transparently jihadist in nature, when such acts are directed at Israelis.
There are numerous common reasons for not making Aliyah, but they do not outweigh the benefits of coming home.
By Paul Gherkin
If only Jewish Democratic leaders had an Iota of Pride in Being Jewish as they have for the gay community.
By Selena Myers
Judaism is all about celebration. Between the simchas and the holidays, there are many occasions for celebrating, But the expense-oh the expense!
By Paula Stern
Nothing like keeping cool on the army base on Shabbat with some help from some friends
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Kook decries the tragedy of Jewish education in the Diaspora because it fails to teach that the Land of Israel is an indivisible part of being Jewish,
By Isi Leibler
Despite the overwhelming challenges, Israel remains one of the liveliest democracies in the world. So you can disregard Haaretz and others when they call Israel "Fascist."
The "Palestine Return Center" started a petition to the UK Parliament to apologize for Balfour and compensate all Arabs of Palestinian descent, likening the "nakba" with the Holocaust.
By Jeff Dunetz
Kaine “is everything that Donald Trump and Mike Pence is not.”That's correct--Trump and Pence are supporters of Israel who fight against radical Islamic terrorism, while Kaine and Clinton are not
tudies now show that the rate of growth in Orthodoxy now exceeds the dropout rate. “Increasingly, Orthodox Jews are choosing to remain Orthodox” says Professor Waxman.
By Paula Stern
I hope Trump wins, because Israel deserves better treatment than it got from Obama or will get from Clinton and Caine, who supported Obama's ongoing attempts to humiliate and insult Israel's leaders.
Without Israel, which is to say without the Jewish people, there never would have been a Koran or the emergence of imperial Islam.
The ER doctor’s parting words: “If you have any symptoms, no matter when, please come right back to the ER.” And I did-on Shabbat!
“He was using the right verb form for the third-person plural future,” recalled an agent.
By Jeff Dunetz
The document, allowing Iran to upgrade its centrifuges and increase its enriching capacity, long before the deal officially expires is the only part of last year’s Iran deal between not made public
“For a coup to be believable, you need the armed forces to be behind it, not just a few units with some others along for the ride.”
It is not a human right in the West to espouse, as does Islam, an ideology that embraces conquest and destruction of Western civilization. Islam is not merely a religion, it is an ideology.
{Originally posted to the blogger's website, My Right Word} Peter Beinart came to Hebron. He came to demonstrate against the "occupation". The real story, however, is here. In short, he and his friends - squatted on property an Arab claims is his (but it isn't and that's another part of the so-called 'occupation' tale) - […]
By Batya Medad
It's clear that these sore losers would rather hand the Presidency over to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats than support Trump
Isn't it actually rather poetic how Europe, that has done so much to hurt Jews and it's only tiny, embattled country, is reeling from the same terror that they abetted.
By JoeSettler
On Friday, "former" terrorists protested the same security wall that previously prevented them from carrying out their terror attacks against Jews.
We're doing this to ourselves!
By Paula Stern
There are days that are roller coasters of emotion here in Israel. The hint of a soldier's death brings terror and pain; When a terrorist attack has been averted, the sun shines a bit brighter,
Trump polled well below Clinton initially after his nomination was assured. Since Clinton has proven to be a careless and sloppy liar she is deemed less trustworthy the Trump, he is now running even
It seems all our governments are having a hard time defining right and wrong. It seems our countries and many of our people have given up on the idea that we are the good guys.
The ‘Palestinians’ have contributed nothing to the world except violent terrorism since they invented themselves in order to oppose Jewish sovereignty some 60 years ago.
By Batya Medad
Last month, Prime Minister Netanyahu considered himself very lucky to come to an agreement with Turkey because of the nation's stability. Seems to be a major miscalculation on his part
The great irony is that the attack in Nice may be the one that actually is NOT a terror attack it may be that Bouhlel is simply stone cold crazy and may have nothing whatsoever to do with Jihad
By David Bogner
One of the phrases that was nearly universal in both the international and domestic condemnation of the new law was that "it is anti-democratic".
By Batya Medad
The parliamentary chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel issued a statement saying that “Israel can rest assured that a UK led by Theresa May will be there in its moments of need."
It is summertime and the kids are off to camp...
The word "historic" to refer to pre-1967 could easily be used to claim that any Jewish presence in the Old City is a violation of the 1948-1967 status when Jordan ensured the Old City was Jew-free
Shuki Gilboa lost his eye in the terror attack.
The best thing that pro-Israel American Jews can do is to exemplify Jewish pride, self-respect and self-reliance. They should act like Jews, descendants of the people from ancient Judea.
Hillary's actions may not have warranted a criminal charge, according to FBI Director Comey, but it certainly calls into question her qualifications for President
The BDS hate movement demands a boycott of Israel. It’s time instead for us to divest from Palestine. Divestment isn’t hard.
By Paula Stern
Peace will come when families can drive safely without concern of being shot.
By Fred Maroun
Jordan integrated some refugees. The Arabs showed the world, as they continue to do, that their hatred towards each other and towards Jews is far greater than any concept of purported Arab solidarity.
By Batya Medad
Whenever there's an "incident" in which a white shoots a black, those descriptions are accepted; when it is black shooting a white...
Israelis don’t see the point of Reform Judaism, maybe because living in Israel provides the sense of Jewish community that many American Jews seek from their congregations
By Jeff Dunetz
Though most of the facts are still not out, the news about Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Philando Castile in St Paul, and five dead Cops in Dallas is nothing short of sickening.
By Paula Stern
Paula Stern responds to Gidon Levy's article in Haaretz, where he criticized the soldiers who shot the terrorist near Ariel.
By Paula Stern
This has never been a life and death struggle for the Palestinians. No one is threatening their lives;
I strongly oppose having rabbis vet suspicions since there will be an inherent, if unintentional, bias favoring an accused abuser, especially if he is otherwise a respected member of the community.
By Tzvi Fishman
I love the Jewish People. That’s why I write what I write. History repeats itself. What happened in Spain and Germany will, in one way or another, transpire in America, France, and England, too
By Fred Maroun
European leaders refuse to face the reality that the Palestinians are led by a charlatan and pretend that organizing a peace conference will deliver the ever elusive peace agreement
By Paula Stern
"The fact is, I can name no less than five right-wing bloggers who have decided to give TOI a pass rather than put up with any more abuse. "
US Jews owe a tremendous debt of gratitude - Hakaras HaTov - to America, a country where we enjoy a historically unprecedented level of freedom.
Numerous worshipers at the contested holy site hesitated before commenting on the American July 4 fireworks tradition, confused by the evident lack of intent to harm others in the celebration.
In Israel, unabashed Zionists are considered at naïve and often extremists. while many among the small % of Israelis who are extremely, even pathologically, critical of the state, sit in key positions
By Batya Medad
Arabs attack Jews in Tel Aviv, Netanya, Sedrot, all over. That's because they don't want any Jews to survive. Yes, that's just like the Nazis.
My Aliyah continues to be the best decision I've ever made. But with any huge life decision there are peaks and valleys. And this year came with higher peaks and lower valleys than in my first year
By Tzvi Fishman
To all you Jews in America enjoy the 4th, but remember, the Torah wants a Jew to praise G-d for having given him the Land of Israel, not for the old US of A.
There can not be a sharper dichotomy between two societies living side by side: We build, they destroy; We nourish, they poison; We pray for peace, they pray for destruction.
By Paul Gherkin
The world appreciated the efforts of Wiesel, and awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for "his message ...of peace, atonement and human dignity."
By David Herman
A song in honor of hero Yoni Netanyahu on the anniversary of his death. He fell during the Entebbe raid, July 4th 1976
Something has changed about the rabbinate in recent years. Most notably in the area of conversions to Judaism.
By Paula Stern
Thursday, they murdered a 13 year old child in her bed; Friday, they murdered a father of ten. Today, we bury him. Tomorrow, we will stand up, in pain, in anger and faith. We will be strong...tomorrow
By Paul Gherkin
The United Nations condemns terroristic violence everywhere, and it can find solidarity with every country in the world as it fights the heinous acts –except for Israel.
By Fred Maroun
I oppose Jewish settlement building in the West Bank because Israel is allowing the settlements to be used as an excuse by corrupt Palestinian leaders to demonize Israel and to reject peace.
By Selena Myers
I think as British Jews, our fear should be that extremist politicians now have the chance to seize their seats in our house of commons.
The US Jerusalem Consulate's Facebook page makes no mention of the murder, and subsequent State Department condemnation, of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who also holds US citizenship
By Batya Medad
Only Jewish strength will defeat the terrorists!
By Tzvi Fishman
Once again today, Diasporas leaders are not leading the Jewish People to Israel. Instead the Jews in the Diaspora are 'diasporing' away.
Ari discusses Islamic terrorism, the Kiryat Arba attack and the Turkey Deal, and how they're all connected.
By Paula Stern
You [God] gave me a present and now I am returning it to You. Take her. She is the flesh of our flesh. Hug her, because I will never again be able to touch her. Make room for her, so she can dance.
By Paula Stern
There are days that the anger chokes you. Well, to the Times of Israel Staff, congratulations. I'm choking. I can only pray Hallel's parents are not reading your paper's reporting of the TERROR attack
The penalties for those who seek to murder Jews within Israel must be harsh enough to seriously discourage the idea that it is perpetually Jew Killing Season among Arabs.
Stats on those who went off the Derech: 19% do it based on finding contradictions to what they have been taught or lack of proof; 31% say they do it for other intellectual reasons
Until Hamas returns out brothers, we must refuse normalization with Hamas's close ally, Turkey.
By Paula Stern
Our children grow in this land of Israel, strong and proud. We march through the streets of our land, unafraid and yet committed to helping others, seeking peace, treating others with respect.
The Palestinians threaten that if they don't get what they demand, even if that demand - Jerusalem - has no basis in international law, they will make the world will suffer the consequences.
Since it is the two year anniversary of the Mavi Marmara incident, it is reasonable to remind people: IDF soldiers were shot on board the ship, and the IHH terrorists shot first.
By Batya Medad
I am so disgusted that Bibi is paying off these Turkish terrorists and their terror supporters. It will just encourage them to kill more Jews.
By Paula Stern
Here in Israel, soldiers are an integral part of our society. The army not only knows this but encourages this. Yes, God protect them, they fight in wars but they protect us in our daily lives.
By Hadar Sela
Despite the BBC reporting the sentencing of Hamas terrorists convicted for murdering 2 Israelis in a planned terror attack, the words 'terror, terrorist or terrorism' do not appear once in the report
By Tzvi Fishman
The BDS group SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) placed 'eviction' notices on Jews' dorm rooms, I'm glad. At least someone in US is telling young Jews that they don’t belong in America.
State Department spokesman John Kirby, spoke surreally about the vicious libel by Abbas but didn't come close to condemning it.
By Batya Medad
Britain opts OUT of the European Union.
Now that's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one.
If they are Palestinian and live in what the UN and their leaders call the State of Palestine, where exactly are they refugees from?
By Tzvi Fishman
We can disagree with a reform Jew and even despise his opinions, but we should love him for his connection to the Jewish Nation.
“It would have been more humane to enable the doomed people trapped in tunnels to play, for example, Candy Crush.”
By Paula Stern
Though it is essential in a democracy to have an active opposition, Herzog has gone too far by attempting to subvert, undermine, weaken the government, and therefore the country itself.
Resettlement? No one is calling for Palestinians to be resettled! But if they are refugees, shouldn't they be included in the massive worldwide push to resettle refugees? Why aren't they?
By Batya Medad
The late Irving Moskowitz, Z"Tz"L, used his money for the good of the Jewish People. He was a giant. He made history and changes.
By Paul Gherkin
The Palestinians pivoted from condemning the Jews’ goal of self-determination to the libel of 'colonialization' that created “racism” and “incitement.”
By Selena Myers
What actually inspires me? What do I see or do that really leaves me speechless and breathless? I realized that I had no answer and that upset me. Deeply.
By Batya Medad
It is dangerous, and foolish, to project one's mentality onto terrorists, thinking that the logic or goodness that would convince you to do something would influence a terrorist.
By Paula Stern
A characteristic many don't see at first glance, or fail to recognize at all, is that Israelis are actually very kind people.
By Tzvi Fishman
Mrs. Cherna Moskowitz: "Irv’s passion was creating and developing businesses so that he could help Israel. For him, this was the right thing to do."
By Tzvi Fishman
The lesson to be learned is that aliyah is the only answer.
By JoeSettler
The ongoing behavior of withholding the Get is not pious behavior, therefore one can't demand the privileges and services that a pious person requires, demands or expects.
By Tzvi Fishman
Why are so many Jewish writers in America screaming Leftists? Why do they consider their Israeli brothers “occupiers,” and champion the Palestinian cause?
After Erin Schrode’s, a Jewish woman running for Congress in California, personal information was posted on a neo-Nazi website, she received messages of anti-Jewish abuse, death and rape threats.
By Batya Medad
Unlike other presidential candidates over the years, nobody is parve, neutral about these two. Either you love or hate one or the other or both...
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