By Batya Medad
Many of the battles of the Maccabees were right here in the Shiloh area.
By Batya Medad
Both Labor and Likud are expected to get more seats in the upcoming elections.
Jewish communities worldwide commemorate Yehudit during Chanukah by eating dairy foods in her honor
By Batya Medad
Israel's problem isn't Indyk, Obama, UN, NGOs or even the media; Our problem is much closer to home.
None of the attacks on Jewish & property should come as a surprise in light of the Temple Mount.
By Batya Medad
No surprise! Israel is now being blamed for Ziad Abu Ein's death.
By JoeSettler
The party chiefs are acting drunk and childish - making stupid mistakes and inadvertently showing their true selves - just like on Purim.
Who was this Minister of Rage, Ziad abu Ein, and what did he do to qualify for his position as a senior minister in the PA?
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler explains the electoral mess we're in, and a possible solution for fixing it.
By Paul Gherkin
The UN has more censures against Israel than all of the countries of the world combined.
When Rabbi Shafran, Chief Spokesman for Agudah talks about his own battle with heresy, that's news.
By Batya Medad
Feiglin will never be elected Likud leader but he's the person to lead the Right into a power share
By Paul Gherkin
The "1967 borders” were deliberately never declared "borders" by the warring parties
By Batya Medad
Bibi hasn't done much for Jewish Rights and building in the Land of Israel, not even in Jerusalem.
UNWRA facilities both inside of Israel and in Arab regions (Gaza) harbor terror cells and missiles
By Paul Gherkin
The term “West Bank” falsely implies a long history of Palestinian Arab rule over the area
The shelf life of parliamentary government is about 2 years, hardly enough time to get anything done
By Batya Medad
The Pollard case proves the reputation of American "equal justice for all" is a myth.
By Batya Medad
Many Israeli citizens want a Right wing PM. There's just 1 problem: There's no such thing.
You'd think my passion, language skills&sparkling smile would've opened doors for me, right? Not so!
By Paul Gherkin
Israel's last election (2013) focused more on domestic issues than foreign; 2015 will be the same.
Oh, to be a fly-on-the-wall in the White House...
By Batya Medad
Calling Jordan "Palestine" gives recognition to a faux people, their faux culture&fictional history
Obviously, the better part of caution is to report credible reports of abuse directly to the police.
As the mud slinging continues...I guess the Yesh Atid party line is to brand everyone "an extremist."
{Originally posted on author's website, Emes Ve-Emunah} It seems so simple to me. So Logical. It makes so much sense. And yet it seems that logic is thrown out the window when it comes to the ways in which Charedi leaders in Israel view it. The ‘it’ I’m talking about is economically integrating itself productively […]
By JoeSettler
If Bennett and Ariel split the party, Bayit Yehudi votes will go to the only party fielding a strong, stable religious bloc... the Likud.
By Paul Gherkin
A Sad and Sick SATIRE of satanic sadism
By Batya Medad
Poll: Given the choice between Netanyahu as PM and the wannabes, Bibi got by far the most support.
By David Herman
One amazing story ends and immediately a new one begins. Like a string of pearls threaded expertly.
The Chilul HaShem of religious Jews-long beards&wearing religious garb-acting like inner-city thugs
Knesset members must be first and foremost loyal to the Jewish State of Israel
By Paul Gherkin
Contrasting its coverage of the pope's visit to Israel, the media chose to ignore problems in Turkey
By Batya Medad
I heard Netanyahu state his aim was to run for PM as a Centrist, establishing a Centrist coalition
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted on author's site, FirstOneThrough} The United Nations is inconsistent regarding its position on the “character”, “access” and “rights” of holy sites in the Holy Land across the Green Line. In 2010, UNESCO published a paper highly critical of Israel regarding its treatment of two holy places in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank: the Tomb of […]
By Batya Medad
Isaac Herzog, Leftist Labor Party leader, goes for the popular headline which ignore reality.
My Rebbe, Rav Ahron Soloveichik, permits celebrating the day with a festive family turkey dinner.
In Jordan,Palestinians are discriminated in every field: education; healthcare; employment; business
By JoeSettler
Everything you thought you knew about the "Jewish Nation State" law is wrong. Here are 5 common misconceptions about the proposed law.
By Batya Medad
It's clear that Obama equates Israelis and Arabs as equal sufferers of "violence."
By Paul Gherkin
Arab attacking Jews in the land date back a century, long before Israel was created or in control.
The malicious manipulation of frustrated fury is surely as egregious as merely perceived racism.
By Paul Gherkin
Cloistered captain Obama, touts his talents and has the temerity to taunt Bibi,his besieged ally
By Batya Medad
Undoubtedly, once he's "former president Obama" he'll join anti-Israel Jimmy Carter against Israel.
By JoeSettler
The silly people on the left have created a new campaign to try and force the rest of the country to capitulate to their suicidal fantasies, this time by riding trains and imposing themselves onto other people's conferences.
As events over the last couple of weeks amply demonstrate, the status quo isn’t working out either
Australian Ambassador to Israel ran to the hospital in J'm to visit the wounded and to donate blood
By Steven Plaut
Those celebrating violence with "No Justice No Peace" signs are opposed to both justice and peace.
By Batya Medad
Pop quiz: The shortest book ever written? "Palestinian History and Positive Contributions" text book
By Paul Gherkin
“Why do people get complacent with the things they’re told?”
We are the continuing generations from our Father Avraham who was given this Land by our L-rd.
By Batya Medad
When a country supports ($) the PA or Gaza or "recognizes," "Palestine," they promoting terrorism.
There is no question whatsoever that Odeh was behind the fatal bombing of a SuperSol market in 1969
As we Jews returned to the Holy Land and prayed at our holy sites, forces fighting holiness came too
Channel 10 TV published on Sunday a poll they commissioned asking Israeli Arabs a rather straightforward but important question:
By Paul Gherkin
Operation Moses: First time in history that non-blacks came to Africa to free blacks from oppression
By Paul Gherkin
Perhaps attacking a terrorist's legacy broadly and publicly would dissuade others from terrorism?
By Batya Medad
According to PM Netanyahu, the bill would enshrine full equality under law to all Israeli citizens.
Master Sergeant Zidan Saif (Zt"L) a Druze from the Galilee, was shot and killed saving Jewish lives.
By JoeSettler
President Rivlin's recent statements are only half right, and that's why he's completely wrong.
This is our song "Learn to Love;” May joy and light be restored to Jerusalem speedily in our days.
By David Herman
I have a dream...President Obama will go to that prison, Pardon Jonathan Pollard and set him free
I joined the large crowd but this time it was more personal; my cousin Aryeh was one of the victims.
By Paul Gherkin
The phrase that the “Arabs are resorting to violence” is disgraceful and blames the victim.
The burden of proof that a person is against Israel but not anti-Semitic rests on that person.
By Batya Medad
Bibi's promising a good battle, not a victory in the war; We need to WIN the war against terrorism!
By Batya Medad
For 1000s of years it was perfectly OK for Jews to pray on Herod's Extension of the Temple Mount.
By Paul Gherkin
"The Temple Mount could, like the Cave of the Patriarchs, become a place of tolerance and prayer."
The focus on the "Occupation" since 1967 is yet another invention to justify hatred and murder.
It should be clear Israel’s existence is not the real issue; the issue is Islamic fundamentalism.
But I am not afraid.I know this is Jewish land, not because of UN/foreign gov'ts saying we can exist
A grassroots initiative of hundreds of Chareidim from Har Nof is underway to attend the funeral of Zidan Saif and to pay their respects to the fallen policeman and to the Druze community in the village of Yanuch-Jat in Northern Israel.
A Jew is no more exempt in this war by living in the US or UK than I am enlisted by living in Efrat
Officer Zidan Sayif saved lives in the Har Nof Massacre, but was shot in the head and is now fighting for his life.
"Y.E." a United Hatzalah paramedic was injured while treating the wounded under fire in the Har Nof Massacre.
It is time the leaders in Israel and the world realize this has nothing to do with settlements or the Temple Mount or a fake claim of occupation and everything to do with radical Islamic barbarism!
By Batya Medad
The Leftist Israeli media has always been unabashedly political;To them "objective"="in my opinion"
Is this the world's longest oxymoron or just a misquote?
By Batya Medad
Why do Moslems have de facto sovereignty in the place holiest to Jews?
By Paul Gherkin
A majority of Palestinians support Hamas and the direction of support is increasing.
Artifacts are not what make the Jewish people great; it is our conduct that does.
What the world calls confessional writing, we call teshuvah (returning to God and His Torah).
The RCA stated their review will add protection for the convert and not tamper with Halacha.
By Paul Gherkin
Obama’s dance card of evil wasn't quite full; he sent a secret letter to Iran to enlist their help.
Bottom line; Israel lost this round too:Jews are more restricted, humiliated and the Arabs empowered
By Batya Medad
Why did Bibi go to Amman and let US Sec'y of State Kerry chastise him like a naughty child?
We are all contributing to the 'Chinese Water Torture' eroding Jews' rights to live, breathe, pray in Israel when we fail to correct others.
Yehudah Glick's wife requests that prayers continue to be said for Yehuda's full recovery and to please NOT visit him at the hospital at this time.
It undermines the tenets the rabbi preaches to his congregants when his wife does not live by them
By Batya Medad
We Demand Real Security!! That's what the public wants and expects from the government.
Can you name the holiest sports arena on the face of this Earth?
By Paul Gherkin
FirstOneThrough Veterans Day music video with song by Dire Straits
Argue with Rabbi Gordimer on the merits;Go ahead. What Rabbi Katz did went well beyond the pale.
How did your favorite MK vote? In favor of freedom or in favor of Bolshevikism?
By David Bogner
It's Hamas and sympathetic cousin, Islamic Jihad firing these first shots of the vehicular intifada,
"Now North Korea and Iran will come to Israel to learn how to shut down newspapers..."
The terrorists more often than not are Israeli Arabs, with the full rights of Israeli citizens.
Fiddler on the Roof moved some Jews to explore their roots; it actually led some to become observant
By Batya Medad
Arab terrorism is not the cause of the problem to the State of Israel; it is the symptom.