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...
The Left refuses to admit we have a problem with radical Islam.
Tel Aviv mayor, Ron Huldai, blamed Israel's occupation of the 'Palestinian territories' for an attack on a Tel Aviv cafe that left four Israelis dead. Who's side is he on?
We must never apologize for our ability to fight back and defend ourselves.
Naomi came back to Bethlehem today after 10 years, marking the final time for about three millennia that a Jew will enter the city without need of an armed escort.
By Paula Stern
The funerals continue here, and the stories of who they were and what they were able to accomplish before their lives were cut short will bring you to your knees.
Today, in the modern world, the #1 expert to talk to is… the lifeguard at the beach!
By Paul Gherkin
The commandment of Shmita is not to just let the land lie fallow every seven years, but like the Sabbath, it is to remember that the land is God’s gift to the Jewish people.
Why is the NY Times pushing a putsch in Israel? The motive is obvious. They want Israel to bend to Obama's blatant anti-Jewish dictates,
By Tzvi Fishman
Our task as Jews and as a holy Nation is to link the physical world with the Divine. As Rabbi Kook makes clear, Eretz Yisrael is the G-d given place ideally suited for this task.
Shooting the animal was apparently the only way to do save the child. That should have been the end of the story. Instead, it was the beginning of public outcry
By Batya Medad
Israel had inferior weaponry, since the best suppliers-America and Russia-boycotted our country. The 1967 Six Day War was a miracle of Biblical proportions.
Ari Fuld asked a few simple questions at the Jerusalem Day Parade. Watch what happens...
By David Herman
A musical tribute to Yom Yerushalayim from a Jerusalem troubador, David Herman.
By Jeff Dunetz
All my life I had this overwhelming desire to go to Jerusalem, especially the Temple Mount. I never understand why--until I stood in its presence a few years ago.
What motivated France to initiate this conference? Is it deeply-rooted anti-Semitism? Appease the Muslims so that perhaps France will cease to be a target for Islamic terrorism?
By Batya Medad
Israel liberated the illegally occupied Jordan Valley, Judea, Samaria and eastern parts of Jerusalem including the Old City and Temple Mount, along with the Sinai and Golan Heights.
Israel’s situation is as follows: We aren’t afraid of our enemies, but we hold back because we are afraid of our allies-we don’t want to make them mad.
Gideon Levy, the Haaretz writer who hates everything Jewish about Israel, lost a debate at Oxford then reasoned it was due to Oxford Union being 'Racist'
By Tzvi Fishman
Since Rosh Hashanah, 67 Orthodox young people under the age of 35, in the tri-state area have died because of substance abuse. 21 suicides, 41 drug overdoses, and 5 alcohol-related deaths!
From the Arab perspective, the future of Holocaust-survivor-stabbing is bleak, and that replacements for it will not carry the same power.
By Batya Medad
This morning, an anonymous commenter wasted my time with such a total piece of garbage on "Palestine: Fictional Country/People" that I closed comments!
Ahlam al-Tamimi is a genuine pan-Arab celebrity an eloquent figure energetically advocating from Jordan for more violence, more murder and more jihad - all directed at Jewish and Israeli targets.
The UAE has already held talks with Israel about the strategy to install Dahlan, and the three parties will inform Saudi Arabia once they reach an agreement on its final shape.
By JoeSettler
Liberman didn't zig-zag. He didn't even say anything new. He probably just left out the details of what he actually meant...
By Jeff Dunetz
Not just hot dogs and parades, Memorial Day is meant to remember the fallen heroes who served the citizens of the United States of America
The root of the Israel-Arab problem hasn't changed in 68 years: Arab refusal to recognize the Jewish right to national self-determination in our ancestral homeland.
Palestine is a Potemkin village, as desolate as it was when Mark Twain visited it. Its culture is an empty building; plenty of bodies, but no soul. Palestine has no past and no future.
By Batya Medad
The newscaster's point was to make the Japanese look like innocent victims and not immoral, deadly enemies of America which attacked the poor innocent city of Hiroshoma with the deadly bomb.
By Guest Author
I want to be Israeli because I want my children to be Israeli. I want them to be Israeli so that they don't feel like they have to hide, or live in a cloistered ghetto. I want them to be full and free
By Paul Gherkin
For the NY Times, Gazan and Palestinian fears are real while Israeli fears are overblown, delusional scenarios, which the army then uses as a propaganda to conceal their over-reactions
The Guggenheim Museum should remove this article, not because of censorship but because the museum should not publish lies, fabrications and slander.
By JoeSettler
There are already two Jew-free Palestinian states, how many more do they need?
By Tzvi Fishman
All of our security and wellbeing, both in a national, military sense, and in the camp of our homes, depends on our personal purity.
By Batya Medad
By sabotaging Trump and going contrary to the wishes of potential Republican voters, party leaders will hand the White House to the Democrats and destroy the Republican Party.
If a secular or Dati Jew is subject to be put in harm’s way, so too should a Charedi Jew--Everybody’s blood is red.
The main message of the evening was that anti-Semitism is being used solely to attack Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and to silence all criticism of Israel-the victim as victimizer.
By Batya Medad
Did Bibi pull a trick play on the subsequently sidelined 'Buji' Herzog'?
By Paul Gherkin
In a region which has perfected finger-pointing, the Palestinian Arabs have once again shown their mastery of hypocrisy.
By JoeSettler
How do you fight an opponent who wins by manipulating through media and drowning out opposing voices?
Racism in thought, hatred in feeling or damage to life and property in practice, are all the opposite of the basic spiritual and moral fundamentals of the "settler" movement's perspective
By JoeSettler
LIberman's entry into the coalition may bring about even more changes than expected...
Most Mechanchim currently struggle on the salaries they are paid. How should the Torah world address this shameful situation?
A great man once said that, a "dumb, illiterate Arab is far less dangerous to Israel than a smart educated one - especially the ones that WE educate."
The survey reveals a significant and ongoing passion on the part of a significant overall majority of Palestinian Arabs for Arab-on-Israeli knifing attacks:
Why is the term "settlements" used to describe Jewish communities in a land where the Jewish nation and Judaism thrived from time immemorial?
By Paula Stern
Who Am I? I am a Jew whose family was forever changed by the Holocaust; I am an Israeli, forever ready to welcome the world's Jews and more, ready to send our sons to protect our Nation
Incorporating ideologies that contradict Jewish norms is not the way to conserve Judaism, bor restore Modern Orthodoxy.
By Batya Medad
Bibi wants a national unity government, because his narrow coalition (61 out of 120 MKs) is too tight to allow him to make any policy changes
By Batya Medad
Many find it totally incomprehensible that here in Israel, we burst into joy after so sincerely mourning our dead, Makes perfect sense to me.
By Paula Stern
Israel is not perfect, but it is the one place Ive been that actually strives for perfection; Israel is a place where I don't feel out of place--even though I am not Jewish.
By Tzvi Fishman
All early and later Torah authorities agree with the Ramban that the precept of conquering the Land applies in ALL generations, and ALL agree this is a Torah commandment
Sorry Melody, Palestine before 1948 and the declaration of the State of Israel generally meant 'Jewish.'
Rather than risk the "peace" with our "peace partners," Mofaz, then chief of staff, observed as the soldier bled to death-and did nothing!
ISRAEL will soon celebrate its 68th INDEPENDENCE DAY as a strong and sovereign Jewish State! Yet, the question arises: "Is Israel truly independent?"
By Paula Stern
All over Israel, Israeli flags are flying. The next 24 hours are among the hardest in Israel: Tomorrow night we will celebrate but before we do, we will mourn with all our hearts.
“In our presence, the Palestinian representative complained that hundreds of Palestinian children are in Israeli prisons. One of the children he talked about murdered my wife!"
In a metaphorical sense, God has His refrigerator and His magnets, Our good acts get placed up there on His 'fridge'
By Batya Medad
Regardless of how he is viewed in the White House, Prime Minister Netanyahu is widely admired by Americans.
Golan MEANT to say, "The time has come for the Palestinians to stop trying to be like the Nazis "
A vile comparison from the mouth of the man who led the expulsion of Jews from their homes.
By Paula Stern
Sadiq Khan, London's newly elected Mayor and lawyer to terrorists, might just inspire London's Jews to come home to Israel
The baking of a key inside a bread is a non-Jewish custom which has its foundation in Christian, and possibly even earlier, pagan culture.
By Batya Medad
In Israel, 2 days a year TV programming suits the restrictions of mourners. One was last night, the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day.
By Guest Author
We have risen from the ashes of a broken world and for the first time in 2000 years we have a Jewish army, committed to the phrase "Never Again"