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By JoeSettler
Peter Beinart asks that American rabbis lead prayers for Palestinian dead. JoeSettler agrees with Beinart...
An expert discusses the mistakes gamblers make and how to play safely at casinos.
By JoeSettler
Iron Dome isn't a solution, its a symptom of the problem.
By Linda Todd
Watching the news reminds me of when I was in Gaza. I know that many people say that Israel bombs indiscriminately, but when you are on the ground there in the middle of a major operation, it is horrible. This is a picture I took of the American International School hit in Operation Cast Lead […]
Beware of the "creative license" reporters and spokespeople take to claim maximal harm to Gazans by Israel.
By Batya Medad
We must destroy the Arab terrorist enemy completely!
The Left cannot get it "right."
Hamas dramatically upgraded its weapons stockpile, placing millions of Israeli civilians at risk.
Jameel reveals the secret plan devised by the Israeli cabinet for victory in Gaza
Murder is unexcusable. But so is the way Muslim society supports, lauds and treats its murderers and terrorists.
By Batya Medad
Things were quiet in the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem on Monday morning.
By DovBear
All groups have a mix of both good and bad people; it's the ratio that differentiates us.
It looks from here like a really bad weekend in Israel. Some 40-odd rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel within 48 hours, as far as Beersheva. Arabs rioted throughout the country, throwing rocks and firebombs at any available Jewish target. They systematically destroyed the light rail tracks, stations and equipment in Arab neighborhoods […]
Jewish bloggers respond to murder with joint condemnation statement.
By JoeSettler
The Justice Minister has opened an "incitement hotline", where you can report on your friends, enemies and neighbors, and the government will pay them a visit for you.
It is not Cain's fault that he kills. It is Abel's fault that he builds.
What do we do when we want to be mad at God but we also want God to make it all better? Indeed, what do we do?
Inevitably when tragedies like this happen there is a sudden burst of Achdus. Tragedies unite.
By Batya Medad
The State of Israel must also re-sentence each and every convicted terrorist.
Eye contact in Hebrew, literally, is eye connection.
Many Western commentators have adopted the narrative that al Qaeda and its ilk are the exception to the "religion of peace" -- Islam. However, the rise of "political Islam," the brainchild of the Muslim Brotherhood, is more akin to a highly infectious disease. No vaccine is available; its spread can only be halted by identifying […]
By Batya Medad
Our history is full of antisemitic attacks and wars, and in no case did any foreign power rescue us.
The Palestinians remain below the age of responsibility; the source of their behavior always in Israel’s actions.
By JoeSettler
Amalek kidnapped an Israelite. They thought they could confuse God and Israel by pretending to be local Canaanites.
Looking for a spiritual cause of a tragedy is a time honored tradition in Judaism.
Terrorists involved in the rockets launched at Israel last week were targeted Friday by the IAF.
Our daughter Malki was murdered, because she was Jewish,, by unrepentant Arab terrorists.
By JoeSettler
MK Mitzna compared Bayit Yehudi to Hamas, but doesn't his own HaTnua party have far more dastardly goals in common with that terrorist organization?
By Batya Medad
The families of the two believed responsible for the kidnappings were treated too well by Israeli media.
If you follow the Hebrew news, a key word you need to know currently is "kidnapping."
By Batya Medad
A safe uneventful trip was not something I or my children could take for granted.
Since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, terrorists in the area have fired more than 8,000 rockets into Israel.
Tragedies continue emanating from the decision to release 1000+ terrorists from Israeli prisons.
It would be tragic beyond all proportion if Yeshiva University were to fold. I don’t think that is going to happen.
IDF forces have searched about 1,350 locations for terrorists, illegal weaponry and the abducted boys.
Radical Islam is an idea, not an organization. It is the enemy, not terrorism.
55 of the 280 suspected terrorists who have been detained were part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.
The IDF is determined to reduce constant acts of terrorism in Judea and Samaria, many of which involve Hamas.
By JoeSettler
Israel has one of the highest concentration of foreign reporters in the world, yet the entire kidnapping saga is being completely ignored by the foreign press.
By Batya Medad
People in Gush Etzion shouldn't think that it is any safer or more Israeli than Gush Shiloh.
According to the Maharal, Sedomites' inability to perform chesed catalyzed their fall into a pit of immorality.
By Atara Beck
Foreign Minister Liberman expressed outrage that some blamed the kidnapped boys for their situation.
There have been 64 terrorist kidnapping attempts in Israel since the beginning of 2013.
Unfortunately it really doesn’t matter what the common Muslim wants. Fanatic religious fervor trumps it all.
By Batya Medad
If we can't hitchhike near Arabs, why does the world consider them our peace partner?
By Batya Medad
The position of President of Israel was created to be ceremonial.
By Atara Beck
A European Commission official sent profane messages to a United With Israel rabbi.
By Batya Medad
Ideological differences within Bibi's coalition members are less harmonious than a Chinese sweet and sour dish.
The Chief of Staff has confidence in the IDF’s capabilities to meet every threat head on.
No Presidential pardon, no goodwill gestures to Fatah or Hamas in honor of Ramadan, and no pressure from the United States will allow for the terrorist to be released, ever.
By Batya Medad
The Arab terrorism isn't due to Jews living somewhere, it's because the Arab leadership, want to destroy Israel.
It seems like now more than ever Frumkeit has replaced sincerity as the primary focus of the right.
One measure for living a "normal" life is Halacha, and the other is societal standards.
The mission had to be a complete surprise for it to succeed.
By Batya Medad
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should be using this opportunity to totally close off all negotiations and tell the world the truth.
The IDF will soon begin using a special robot to gather intelligence in underground areas. Another vehicle will scan enemy territory before Israeli forces even enter the field.
By Batya Medad
It was Netanyhu's acceptance that has facilitated the rapid progress the P.A.'s Fatah has made.
49 MKs didn't sign for anyone, including coalition heads Netanyahu, Lapid, Bennett & Liberman.
Rabbi Slifkin gives us a Jewish view on Evolution.
A rocket from Gaza failed to make it over the fence. It crashed somewhere on the Hamas-controlled side.
Judaism is not only about doing the Mitzvos. It is also a belief system.
On June 7, 1967, Jerusalem was reunited as the Jewish homeland's capital, as it had been 3000 years before.
By Batya Medad
There is a waiting list to get into many yishuvim, such as Shiloh, because of the severe housing shortage.
The government is renewing a law exempting shmitta-observant farmers from arnona payments.
The teenagers in the video, then, were either injured non-seriously by rubber bullets, or faking for the camera.
Eisenhower forced the residents of a nearby town to go to one of the liberated camps to see what their leaders had done.
By Batya Medad
The pope's "even-handedness" was an affront by equating the State of Israel with that band of Arab terrorists.
Pope asked to dine with poor families, but church leaders instead use locals as props to slam Israel!
I don’t think we can see ourselves as one cohesive unit of Orthodox Jews any more.
By Batya Medad
Davka that the pope's visit coincides with the forty-seventh anniversary of the 1967 Six Days War is terrible timing.
We need both armies of Israel: the spiritual one, the Yeshiva world, and the physical one, the IDF.
By Batya Medad
Naftali Bennett's staff put together a brilliant video clip explaining the dangers of a nuclear Iran.
There is going to be a march in Bet Shemesh, protesting that charedi soldiers are being harassed.
By Chabad.org
Felder said he and his fellow students learned well the teaching of the Rebbe.
UNRWA's numbers mean half the refugees in the world are Palestinian Arabs.
IDF has a support center for women, and a women’s adviser in every unit of the IDF. No other military has that.
There was an obvious appearance of prejudice – even if there wasn’t any in actuality.
The Talmud belongs to all the Jewish people, not just Orthodox Jews.
If anyone can claim that what Prof. Shindler asserted and what Netanyahu said are similar, I guess there is something wrong with their reading glasses.
The New York Times article overlooks the necessary importance of intelligence gathering.
By J. E. Dyer
To investigate Holocaust denial is to enter into a sick world of darkness and brooding fury.
No matter what the PLO did, you blamed Israel. Like you blamed America, no matter what the Viet Cong did.
Every airdrop for battleground missions involves troops from both air and ground branches of the IDF.
The bottom line for me here is that a life could have been saved.
Boko Haram enforces a patriarchal oriented society in which women are treated as “sexual slaves.”
Mrs. Obama, our daughter's murder by another Islamist terror group - Hamas - was also unconscionable.
When President Obama was newly elected, he made a trip to the Middle East to address the Arab nations. He spoke about Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish nation citing the Holocaust as the reason. He was roundly criticized for that by many – especially in the religious community. Because as we all know […]
By Batya Medad
The Evening Prayer includes dancing and singing plus a long shofar blowing to remind us the siren is modeled on the shofar.
The two days complete each other–the happiness rising from the grief.
“His final act demonstrated his values of friendship and commitment,” Col. Braun says of Tzachi. “He was always first, even this time.”
By Batya Medad
The Prime Minister, like too many others, lives in the shadow of a brother whose life was cut short.
Please, Ribbono shel Olam, no more children or soldiers be called to join the holy minyan in Heaven.
Rambam would also allow charity from a mumar as long as the person maintains basic belief in God and Judaism.
According to a recent survey in Mishpacha Magazine, most secular Israeli Jews do not hate charedim.
Livni's party does not pass the new threshold.
By Frimet Roth
To commemorate Remembrance Day, Netanyahu has, so generously, dealt us yet another blow.
Michael Levin's inspirational story is known worldwide, and people across the globe have followed in his footsteps to join the IDF.
By David Morris
Of course, our enemies will try to use Holocaust references in their attempts to condemn Israel's activities and policies.
July 31, 2026 
