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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.
The gov't and courts must resolve to fight and prevent terror regardless of where/how it's committed
By Paul Gherkin
Nov. 9-10, 1938 Germans&Austrians staged a massive pogrom-"Kristallnacht"- launching the Holocaust.
I showed my mother the headline about the stabbing. "A 'settler'? Why did they call her a settler?"
Yehuda Glick wrote down a message for everyone this morning.
By Paul Gherkin
There are over 1 million cities and towns in the world. Fewer than 1/10,000 are divided cities.
By Batya Medad
Although we in YESHA are loyal, law-abiding Israelis the gov't considers us "second class" citizens
"This can't be the 'West Bank,' that's ridiculous" my mother said to me.
It is the acceptance of all Halacha that is important – not the immediate knowledge of them.
By Batya Medad
Everyone who wants to enter the Temple Mount must be inspected with equal vigilance.
The Temple Mount has never belonged to Jordan or the Arab nations; It belongs to the Jewish people.
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted on author's site, FirstOne Through} Liberal political pundits are making broad declarations about the 2014 US elections. They refer to a country that is “more divided than ever before” and that the Republicans won simply by being negative about the state of the country without offering solutions. The liberal commentators talk about “white […]
By JoeSettler
Even if every Jew in Israel were secular, we'd still be in a religious war with the Arab-Islamists, because for them this is a religious war for Islam's survival.
Only in Israel does a police car [have to] drive in front of a light rail train providing a security escort against Arab terror.
By Batya Medad
The streets of East Jerusalem were quiet. You could see more security than ordinary shoppers.
“It’s a natural synergy of goals and talents,” says AI spokesman.
Charedi poverty cannot be solved by only changing the system from one of learning to one of working
By JoeSettler
Concrete barriers show that the Arabs have brought their desert into Jerusalem, but there is a solution.
When you don't or won't implement a particularly effective deterrence plan to prevent terrorism, it appears the only step left is to wall yourself in.
Despite its shortcomings, Jewish education is the key not only to Jewish survival but to its growth.
By Paul Gherkin
Will “progressives” and “liberals” rally to Rabbi Glick and advance the cause for Jewish rights?
By Batya Medad
The US is strengthening terrorists, by calling them "moderates" and "peace partners."
By David Herman
The world awaits the "Pale-STONE-ians" abandoning the "Stone Age" for the Age of Peace & Love.
By JoeSettler
What's the real reason the government is afraid to allow Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount?
And I know in Israel you have to be psyched when it rains-but I'm not there yet.
Jews can't move their lips, carry a Bible or prayer book there - they WILL be arrested.
By Paul Gherkin
Abbas called for hard labor/life imprisonment, or death for any Arab that sold land to a Jew.
By Batya Medad
Glick, has dedicated his life to fighting for Jewish rights on Judaism's holiest spot, Har Habayit.
"Holy from womb to tomb," is lying; It is a lie of omission which is worse than a lie of commission.
Let's cut to the chase! The people who call themselves Palestinians are simply Arabs (Muslims) who came to this area from several Islamic regimes. This is not my opinion but rather what their leaders clearly say.
By Batya Medad
Please pray for a complete recovery, רפואה שלימה for Yehuda Yehoshua Ben Rivka Ita Breindel Glick.
By Batya Medad
Obama/Kerry hate Bibi, because he is what they aren't: smart and was a real soldier in the top unit.
By Paul Gherkin
Palestinian anti-Semitism in 2014 is more extreme and mainstream than German A/S in the 1930s.
Here are 5 quick facts that prove Jerusalem was NEVER A Muslim Holy City.
By Batya Medad
For further proof that there's no justice for Jews in this world, the United Nations Security sic Council is planning to meet about Israel's building plans. (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting this week on recent tensions between Israel and the Palestinians in East Jerusalem due to Israel's plans to build more […]
By JoeSettler
The AlephBet soup of American Jewish organizations must demand an apology and retraction from the Obama Administration to the Jewish People for this crass and vulgar insult to the leader of the Jewish People.
July 31, 2026 
