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Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Ya'alon Demoralizing the IDF

By Batya Medad

Since taking office as Minister of Defense, Ya'alon has veered so far Left he makes Prime Minister Netanyahu look good

Felafel on Rye

Next Year in Israel!

By Tzvi Fishman

Rosh Chodesh Nisan, is Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's birthday. To honor his memory, let’s take a look at some of his teachings about the Land of Israel.

Guest Blog

Palestinian Terror Apologist Geraldo Rivera Has No Right To Criticize Cruz

By Jeff Dunetz

Geraldo Rivera, "Mr. Investigative reporter," condemned Israel without seeking the truth, making the memorable statement, “I’ve also become a Palestinian-ist.”

Guest Blog / Shalom Pollack Tours

The Price of Removing the Blinders

By Shalom Pollack

I was allotted 1 1/2 hours of the law school's 10 day program to present the "Jewish nationalist side"

Emes Ve-Emunah

An Attempt to Export Failure

By Harry Maryles

The Pew study provides a stark picture of the disintegration of American Jewry--with the exception of the Orthodox.

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: But I Don't Want to Go to War

By Paula Stern

I don't want to think about going to war. In two out of three of the last wars, you've taken one of my sons and this time, you could take...all of them

Guest Blog

Paul Ryan Calls Hugh Hewitt From Israel: ‘I’m Not Running For President…Period, End Of Story’

By Jeff Dunetz

Paul Ryan pulled a 'General Sherman' by rejecting any interest in being drafted as the GOP candidate for President.

My Point of Jew

Fighting Back The Fear

By Selena Myers

I find myself rushing through a shopping center because it seems like a likely target. Is nowhere safe anymore?

A Soldier's Mother

The Greatest Threat to Israel Today... Comes from within

By Paula Stern

The Times of Israel, shared the video, its employee went on Facebook and accused, tried, and convicted the 19-year-old soldier...more, she sentenced him to "rot in jail."

Guest Blog

To Defeat the Jihad, Our Moral Code Must Evolve

By Vic Rosenthal

The problem is we are at a point when the moral principles guiding our behavior conflict with the reality of survival in our the geopolitical environment

Guest Blog

UK Foreign Aid Funds Palestinian Terror

By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism

UK foreign aid directly finances Palestinian terrorists responsible for killing Israelis, including planners of suicide bombings, according to a Daily Mail investigation.

Emes Ve-Emunah

An Unorthodox Renaissance

By Harry Maryles

I disagree with Bayme's equating Modern Orthodoxy with the left but I agree that the left should be restored as a viable choice within Orthodox Jewry

Shiloh Musings

Much Support for Soldier Who Shot Terrorist

By Batya Medad

Considering that the arrest and condemnations of the the soldier who shot the wounded terrorist last Thursday were based on a purposely silenced video broadcast by an extreme Leftist group, B'Tselem, I find the support for the soldier very important and encouraging. We all know that in today's modern world every camera and cellphone record […]

A Soldier's Mother

S.O.S: Support Our Soldier

By Paula R. Stern

The terrorist was not checked properly. Had he been checked and neutralized, his jacket would have been off - if not, at very least opened.

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: To Rot in Jail or to Rot in the Ground

By Paula Stern

The soldier did not kill an "innocent" civilian. He killed a person with means and intent to murder soldiers or random innocent Israeli civilians.

Shiloh Musings

Is The Israeli Media Hyping for Early Elections, AGAIN?!

By Batya Medad

News articles leave out the fact that Likud always done much better in elections than in the polls

Guest Blog / Shalom Pollack Tours

Purity of Arms

By Shalom Pollack

The soldier who finished-off the snake last week, has more Jewish morality in his little trigger finger than all the IDF manuals based on anything but Jewish morality, tradition and law.

A Soldier's Mother

Gadi Eizenkot Should Resign NOW

By Paula Stern

Eizenkot, resign! You can't send a 19-year-old boy into battle then hang him to dry for a mistake...IF he made a mistake

Guest Blog

Giving the Soldier the Cold Shoulder

By Rav Zev Shandalov

We can not abandon this soldier! We can not permit B’tselem and other orgs to slander our soldiers!

Guest Blog

An (imagined) Interview with Meretz Chairpeacenik Zehava Galon

By Steven Plaut

Zehava, the Belgians were nice, even turned over much of Brussels to Islamists. Look what that got them

Guest Blog

An Open Letter to the Belgian Prime Minister from Shimon Peres [Satire]

By Steven Plaut

Mister Belgian Prime Minister, Blessed is the peacemaker. For capitulating to the terrorists you will be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize--I should know.

Guest Blog

Israeli Students Fearlessly Face Vicious Anti-Israel Protesters in Washington

By Atara Beck

While many Americans were afraid at AIPAC, Israelis confronting anti-Israel protesters "have not one ounce of fear"

Shiloh Musings

Today's Persia, Purim in Our Time

By Batya Medad

Many Jews in Persia considered assimilation the way to succeed and an easier life--What has changed?

A Soldier's Mother

Pray for the World

By Paula R. Stern

Congratulations Europe, you saved the masses from my toothpaste! But you missed the damn explosives

Guest Blog

A Note to One of My Many anti-Trump Friends

By Michael Lumish

I don't want Jihadis here any more than I would like to see additional Klansmen or Nazis.

PreOccupied Territory

Sire, Haman’s Lottery For When To Kill The Jews Promotes Gambling

By PreOccupied Territory

Sire, just because Eilat is considering legalizing gambling, doesn't make it good for Shushan!

Shiloh Musings

Trump Should be Cheered by AIPAC!

By Batya Medad

The only topic Donald Trump has been rather quiet about has been Israel and the Middle East.

Felafel on Rye

Why the World Hates Israel

By Tzvi Fishman

Rashi teaches, those who war against Israel really make war against G-d via proxy of His people.

Guest Blog

Why You Might Not Want To Donate To Sport Relief (especially if you’re Jewish).

By Richard Millett

With rising anti-Semitism in the UK it's a shame that Comic Relief/Sport Relief indirectly funds attacks on Israel and British Jews.

This Ongoing War

A Couple of Near-Invisible Blips on the Radar

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

The world doesn't know about the "near-misses" or failed attacks in daily Arab-on-Israeli terror war

FirstOneThrough

Political Pinatas: Populist Greed Meets Populist Anger

By Paul Gherkin

This Presidential Campaign shows a dangerous path of divisiveness waged by both the far-left & right

Emes Ve-Emunah

Emes Ve-Emunah: Another Look at Israel’s Reality

By Harry Maryles

Until Palestinians start focusing on helping themselves instead of hurting us, nothing will change.

My Point of Jew

A Flickering Flame

By Selena Myers

Slowly, Jewish core characteristics are fading. Sadly, we’re blending in, no longer a nation apart.

PreOccupied Territory

BDS Protesters Using Banners Made In Jewish Settlements

By PreOccupied Territory

Signs of the times: BDS signs made beyond "Green Line" BDS is 'black and blue' from 'Blue and White'

Jordana in Jerusalem

Jordana In Jerusalem: It is Better to be Feared Than Loved

By Jordana Brown

Israel is respected when it cares about it's citizens and world Jewry and not about the world's love

Shiloh Musings

Are Bibi's Days Numbered?

By Batya Medad

Though Bibi's approaching retirement age, he's younger than US Pres. hopefuls Clinton, Sanders&Trump

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Co$t of Being the "People of the Book"

By Harry Maryles

Average annual Jewish day school tuition grades K-12=$15,000; average Catholic school tuition=$3,383

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: "PA" Arabs Clamor to Work in Israel!

By Batya Medad

Claims that Arabs suffer working in Israel or for Israeli companies is just anti-Israel propaganda

Emes Ve-Emunah

Emes Ve-Emunah: Is It All Over but the Shouting?

By Harry Maryles

Trump has exponentially surpassed all expectations and is on a path to win the Republican nomination

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Voting for HIllary because She's a Woman is SEXIST!

By Batya Medad

It's pretty pathetic to promote Hillary for her 2 XXs rather than top experience and accomplishments

The Muqata

Jerusalem's Arabs Must Go

By JoeSettler

JoeSettler says, if you want to save Jewish Jerusalem, let the Arabs go!

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: What We Do to Ourselves

By Paula R. Stern

Why did I wear my "star"? Here once, Germany had labeled Jews, now I freely chose to label myself.

FirstOneThrough

Arabs in Jerusalem - The Fastest Growing Population

By Paul Gherkin

Jerusalem's Arab population is growing faster than its Jewish population, faster than regional Arabs

Guest Blog

The 'Donald'

By Michael Lumish

Despite the potential horrendous consequences, I find the prospect of Hillary vs. Trump fascinating

Guest Blog

GOP Debate #11: What a Bunch of .... !

By Jeff Dunetz

The Fox moderating team offered a 'real-time' onscreen fact-check forcing Trump to explain specifics

The Muqata

Gideon Levy and His Gush Etzion Delusions

By JoeSettler

Levy claimed the Gush Etzion junction was forcibly stolen from the Arabs - but that never happened, except in Levy's imagination.

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: Is it REALLY Because of the Occupation

By Paula R. Stern

Is their hatred because of the occupation? NO! It's because we are Jews-NOT about the occupation.

This Ongoing War

Behind the Camouflage: More Barely-reported Arab-on-Israeli Violence

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

The key characteristic is that many, probably most, of these attacks are done by Arab kids and teens

The Muqata

What We Settlers See at the Gush Etzion Junction

By JoeSettler

Gideon Levy wants to know what Settlers think of all the army at the Gush Etzion junction. JoeSettler lets him know...

Emes Ve-Emunah

Gadol School

By Harry Maryles

The problem in much of Charedi education is insisting ALL young men should strive to be THE Gadol.

FirstOneThrough

New York Times Grants Nobel Prize-in Waiting to Palestinian Arab Terrorist

By Paul Gherkin

Barghouti is NO Mandela. He was jailed for his direct involvement in murdering Israeli civilians

Emes Ve-Emunah

Does This Make Me Open Orthodox?

By Harry Maryles

Open Orthodoxy wants to dispense with brahca shelo asani isha or believe Chazal guilty of misogyny

Guest Blog

Jewish Professor Hounded at California Riverside Campus For Holding Pro-Israel Views

By Phyllis Chesler

Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel Brownshirts are growing much more aggressive on American campuses

PreOccupied Territory

Therapist To Help Hamas Men In Collapsed Tunnel Who Feel ‘Trapped’

By PreOccupied Territory

Feeling "trapped" and "no light at the end of the tunnel" has led to depression among Hamas diggers

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: The Animal has been Caught!

By Paula R. Stern

Tzvika was known for greeting shoppers with kindness. He wasn't armed; he was attacked without mercy

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Refreshing to Read Some Truth About "Palestine" sic

By Batya Medad

They keep insisting that Mahmoud Abbas is a "peace-loving" moderate, which is a total and utter lie!

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: Praying for Tzvika

By Paula R. Stern

Arabs work here, shop here, see doctors here and Friday morning, tried to murder a security guard

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: Stop and See the Beauty...

By Paula R. Stern

The "stuff" of our lives are different moments...different views. Remember to stop and see beauty

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Age No Criteria When it Comes to Terrorists

By Batya Medad

UN, Europe and NGOs teach Arab kids that Israel causes ALL their problems and they should kill Jews

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: The Lost Wallet

By Paula R. Stern

The wallet was found but was it ever really lost when it was always in hands of people who cared?

FirstOneThrough

The Illogic of Land Swaps

By Paul Gherkin

Using “1967 lines” as the basis for borders of Israel and Palestine in a 2-state solution is absurd

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Underage Arab Terrorists, No Surprise

By Batya Medad

The brainwashing of Arab kids is generously supported by the EU, countless Leftist NGOs, and the US

Shiloh Musings

Trump Ahead, because He Voices What People Think/Feel

By Batya Medad

Seems the "One and Only" Donald Trump voices the thoughts and emotions of America's "Average Joe"

Standing Together

This Is What Makes The IDF The Most Unique Army In The World

By Ari Fuld HY"D

It is quite an enigma how I can have a very heated political argument with one of my platoon mates and then go out together on a dangerous IDF operation knowing that we would give our own lives to save each other.

Standing Together

I Returned To Lebanon, But This Time It Was All Smiles

By Ari Fuld HY"D

It took me a couple of seconds to shake off the chills I felt when hearing the words "going to Lebanon"...

This Ongoing War

On the Search for Terror at Haaretz

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

According to Haas, there seems to be no such thing as Arabs committing terror.

FirstOneThrough

UN Breakthrough? “Hamas Continues to Directly Threaten the Security of Israel”

By Paul Gherkin

Mladenov: The issue of (Arab) incitement runs to the heart of the current climate of tension and fear

Jordana in Jerusalem

Lest Ye Be Judged

By Jordana Brown

If I love Israel, do I actually have to hate America? What a stupid question, of course not!

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: How Dangerous is it Here in Israel?

By Batya Medad

Arab terror attacks aren't Israel's greatest danger- Traffic accidents kill more people by far

Guest Blog

Rock , Paper, SCISSORS-No Magazine

By Steven Plaut

When an Arab terrorist enters the editorial offices of Haaretz, sing Kumbaya in 4 part harmony.

Shiloh Musings

Olmert off to Jail- No Remorse

By Batya Medad

Who could predict Olmert veering Left, spearheading the Disengagement and convicted of corruption?

Sultan Knish

To Understand Trump, You have to Understand New York

By Daniel Greenfield

Trump excels at capturing that bar/barbershop angry reaction and it may even be completely authentic

My Right Word

Boycotting Zionism Since 1931

By Yisrael Medad

The Arab Boycott of Israel dates back long before the formation of the State in 1948

This Ongoing War

Weaponizing of Pal Arab Children Goes on as Major News Media Pretend Not to See

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

The escalating weaponization of children by the Palestinian Arab leadership goes unreported by MSM

Emes Ve-Emunah

Why Orthodox Jews Tend to be Politically Conservative

By Harry Maryles

Originalists,as Scalia called them, follow the constitution just as its framers originally intended

My Point of Jew

Come Back to Reality

By Selena Myers

Many look at other people’s lives as posted to Social Media and just feel jealous

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Why is The Republican Party Shooting Itself in The Foot to Lose?

By Batya Medad

The Bush-Republican Party would rather lose the WH than support the people's choice, Donald Trump

FirstOneThrough

#NYTimes #BlackLivesDontMatter

By Paul Gherkin

{originally posted to the author's website, FirstOne Through} The New York Times is one of the country’s most venerated and most liberal newspapers. Its articles and editorials often use a pluralistic and “progressive” approach in covering events. Yet, for some reason, year after year, the paper refuses to highlight the terrorism running rampant in Africa. […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

Emes Ve-Emunah: A Women Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

By Harry Maryles

All candidates pledge support of Israel but relations will most improve with a Republican like Rubio

Shiloh Musings

The World According to Anti-Semites

By Batya Medad

Anti-Semitism is the underlying source of numerous/all acts against Israel and Jews around the world

Guest Blog

The Unabashed Zionist

By Michael Lumish

Pessin's began The Unabashed Zionist blog because an "unabashed Zionist is better than a bashed one"

FirstOneThrough

J Street: Going Bigger and Bolder than BDS

By Paul Gherkin

J Street's antipathy to Israel is so extreme it exhorted the US to abandon Israel at UN Sec. Council

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: My Israel

By Paula R. Stern

My Israel is the only place I have ever felt home; the only place I have never wanted to leave.

Shiloh Musings

Let Them Have The Kotel- If We Can Have Har Habayit!!

By Batya Medad

It's time for Jews to have full religious and civil rights to hold Jewish Prayer on Har Habayit!!

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: Israel At the Forefront of Maternity / Paternity Rights

By Paula R. Stern

Mothers still take the first 6 weeks, but fathers can now take up to 8 paid days as paternity leave

My Right Word

Egalitarian Jews and Islamist Fanaticsm

By Yisrael Medad

The "Price" for a share of the Western Wall.

FirstOneThrough

The Undemocratic Nature of Fire and Water in the Middle East

By Paul Gherkin

Peres was clear: Any Palestinian government that included Hamas did not seek peace with Israel

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: The Myth of Israel's Foreign Allies

By Batya Medad

A "YES" vote to the UN Partition Plan on Nov.29, 1947 did not constitute being an ally

FirstOneThrough

The UN’s Ban Ki Moon is Unqualified to Discuss the Question of Palestine

By Paul Gherkin

The UN Secretary-General has shown himself unfit to judge the Arab-Israel conflict squarely & fairly

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Bernie Sanders: Good for Israel or Jews?

By Batya Medad

the "situation," in Israel as I do, don't vote Democrat. And I strongly doubt that they'd change their minds to try to put a Jew in the White House.

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: What Next Summer Will Bring...

By Paula R. Stern

My Prayer: Israel-flood the tunnels; God-Let Hamas' missiles land and explode inside their borders

Emes Ve-Emunah

Emes Ve-Emunah: Restoring Our Image as a Light unto Nations

By Harry Maryles

How disappointing it is that a declaration made about Jewish ethics in Jewish leadership is needed.

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: P.A. Cop Shoots Israeli Soldiers, Act of War?

By Batya Medad

It's about time that Israel stops deluding itself about negotiating peace with the "Palestinians"

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: The Importance of Home

By Paula R. Stern

The trick with a soldier is to send him to base with a piece of home as a reminder of what's waiting

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: To be Grateful; To be Blessed

By Paula R. Stern

"Today, I am grateful for..." To say that EVERY day of one's life defeats one's enemies.

My Point of Jew

Remembering Dark Days

By Selena Myers

I walked out of Majdanek concentration camp knowing that decades ago, no one else was able to.

The Muqata

There's Hope for the Left After All

By JoeSettler

When a Meretz councilwoman is thoroughly rebuked by her own constituency for her anti-religious hatred, it means there's hope after all.

Shiloh Musings

Shiloh Musings: Has Labor's Herzog Suddenly Gotten Smart?

By Batya Medad

Did you notice that Herzog said unilateral withdrawals are dangerous?! Maybe he is catching on!

A Soldier's Mother

A Soldier's Mother: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Paula R. Stern

You want to remember the Holocaust, Europe? Great but please work harder at preventing the next one

A Soldier's Mother

The Perfect, Most Important Post You’ll Ever Read

By Paula R. Stern

As usual after tragedies and attacks, Israelis are united--if not in hope, than in pain and in anger

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