יום רביעי, י״ט תשרי תשפ״זWednesday, September 30, 2026
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Euro-Mid is blaming Israel for defending itself because killing terrorists creates widows.
Peres chose the uranium because Israel needed it to survive.
The man was reportedly suffering from mental illness.
By Batya Medad
Even if declaring partial sovereignty eases pressure on Israel immediately afterwards, it is dangerous.
Marvin Schick called Rabbi Frankfurters’s response "breathtaking in its mean spiritedness."
By Atara Beck
Israeli politicians have interfered to prevent the Jerusalem Patriarchate from firing Nadaf and destroying his livelihood.
Isn't the new pragmatic Iran wonderful?
By DovBear
The Forward resents the hegemony of the Hasmoneans.
By David Morris
This Dvar Torah is a must for every parent and educator.
The world lost a great man last week.
The Jewish Press now reveals what Kerry and Netanyahu really meant to say Thursday.
“I have daughters to marry off and the husbands they want to marry will not accept daughters of someone who is working!”
By David Morris
The image of Naama Margalit became a symbol, overnight, of the struggle for peaceful neighborly relations in Beit Shemesh.
By Tzvee Zahavy
These Jewish success books are "very dangerous."
You truly need to be an academic to be so stupid as to endorse this.
With Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party already has an Anti-Obama in waiting.
By DovBear
Yehudis and Chana are not part of our holy Mesorah!
I wonder in what way they were being "more machmir" when making grape juice...
If the Syrian-Greeks were not pushed out of the land, Judaism would have been lost.
By Paula Stern
Despite repeated promises by virtually every Israeli government in the last decade or two, E1 remains largely vacant.
By Batya Medad
He said Labor rejects the construction of Jewish settlements "on Palestinian land."
The focus of Israeli education is teaching war, so students will be ready to kill Arabs.
She had a heart problem but no one imagined she would pass away the next day.
By DovBear
We should view the Hillel and Shammai schools' dispute in the context of their founders.
How long do you want to live in America before realizing that you have not lived long enough in Israel?
Honestly, it would be hard to choose the one area that could win the title “the most dramatic site” in Eretz Yisrael. However, one strong candidate has to be Gush Etzion.
Basically, the real problem is bad parenting. He calls it parental selfishness.
By Atara Beck
The Obama administration has been touting its alleged rapprochement with Iran in recent months.
The constant expansion and destructive acquisition of small innovative companies maintains the illusion that the latest digital horse is something special.
Even the subject of sexual relations is discussed quite candidly and in my opinion quite beautifully.
A real boat that will try to leave Gaza in March and fight "against the Israeli blockade."
By DovBear
I am the crybaby, when he's the one who threw the original hissyfit
By Batya Medad
Not only is Shiloh the center of many Biblical events, but we are the place and the people politicians and world leaders want to move around like chess pieces.
He is an ideological and political rival and yes, seeks my removal from Shiloh.
After they made Aliyah, Randi discovered she was pregnant with Yisrael, who has Down syndrome.
By JoeSettler
Ask yourself, what would happen if Saudi Arabia were to change its buying habits?
Megilas Taanis simply proclaims the 25th of Kislev a holiday and it is forbidden to mourn for 8 days. The text does not give a reason for the celebration.
Modi’in, now a thriving city of 83,000 and fast-growing, is often referred to as the “Land of the Maccabees.”
When an Israeli peacenik is attacked, he is instantly willing to forgive. When an Arab liberal is attacked, he is instantly drawn to revenge, even if it takes generations.
By Batya Medad
In Judaism the majority isn't always right. There are inflexible absolutes. Democracy is not a Jewish value!
The government’s insistence on a core curriculum is considered an attack against the Torah.
By Tzvee Zahavy
Islamic yoga objections are more worrisome as the proponents of yoga in Muslim lands try to "avoid a fatwa."
No one represents Friedman's disgusting characterization of bigoted, menacing, trigger-happy European Jews more than Menachem Begin.
By Batya Medad
All I can say is that it looks good for Iran, but I wonder if it's good for the world.
I believe this is the first religious leader to have served a 16 year sentence for ‘raping, sodomizing and sexually assaulting a child relative…
The motivation for the attack seems to have been UWI’s success in reaching millions.
By DovBear
Imagine a Google ad that brings together a Jew and an Arab who were separated due to the Nakba.
The JFK assassination became a liberal martyrdom in search of a conservative inquisitioner.
If all the world's experts on peace had raised turkeys on a kibbutz, there might be peace in the Middle East.
Why testify against ones boss or co-worker who engage in sexual harassment, if the case will most likely be dismissed anyway?
By David Morris
Pop-stars who wield extraordinary influence invariably have the potential to abuse their charisma, talents and fame, taking advantage of vulnerable, young fans.
The halachic position of such downloads has been debatable until now.
By Daniel Pipes
Dallas was a bastion of right-wing kooks with a vast legacy -- now, watch how this bastion gets blamed for the communist Oswald...
Friedman doesn't think anything bad will happen, and by gosh, that's all anyone needs!
By Batya Medad
Bennett may not have Bibi's charm or perfect "radio voice," but his mind is quick and his mouth is fearless.
The Fatah-Hamas divide in itself should have killed the idea of a two-state for two peoples’ paradigm.
To see such dire poverty among those whose values are supposed to be the highest among us - makes you question your own values.
By Batya Medad
Lately the Jewish Press has been posting many of my blog posts.
The proposal is to teach the Rabbanut a lesson in customer service and customer retention.
By Tzvee Zahavy
For all its tongue-in-cheek irony, Krauthammer's Law works because when I say "everyone," I don't mean everyone you know personally.
Incitement against Israel has reached a fever pitch, and PA officials are not even pretending to want to stop it.
In the first year of the Obama administration, statements coming from top officials showed that the US believed that Iran has a nuclear weapons program.
The God of Global Warming is the embodiment of liberalism and holds all the politically correct beliefs while carrying out brutal atrocities in the name of the left's favorite political causes.
In short, he says the whole thing was a prophetic vision, a dream. There was no physical battle.
And the anti-Israel crowd loves it!
I speak to Esther Aaron about the Aliyah process, revisit Rachel and her daughter Dena, still struggling with the matriculation exams, and pass on some general information.
Not only did Jonathan Rosenblum criticize Rabbi Lopatin, he criticized the British Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis for accepting an invitation to Limmud.
By DovBear
Chief Rabbi Lau the Younger is not going to be big on reinterpreting traditional Jewish sources to meet contemporary problems.
By David Morris
The conclusion of the report is that the overall incidence of child abuse is dramatically more than the official reports which reach the social services and police.
In Moses’ absence, the Israelites melted their earrings and “Out came a golden calf.” Is there an excuse for exalting the FIFA golden Trophy?
“Orthodox birthrates in just the last few years have been soaring,” said Jewish sociologist Steven M. Cohen. “The sky is falling for the rest of the population.”
"The governance is bad and that's why these idiots do what they do -- make trouble, turn to violence."
By Batya Medad
I have no idea who that tzaddik is, but I sure enjoyed his taste in music.
By Adam Levick
You don’t even need to believe that antisemitism is at play to be contemptuous of the extraordinary myopia displayed in the Guardian report.
Kerry expresses his “strong support” for the “humanitarian” delegation and asks that “every courtesy” be given them.
Universalism demands that war must answer to universal aims and objectives.
By Batya Medad
So far, most of this winter, which began a month and a half ago, has been with clear blue skies like in the picture I took last week.
By Daniel Pipes
Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.
People were literally saying that a chasid cannot write so well. It’s impossible they claimed.
The incidents took place in majority Christian district of the capital.
By David Morris
In a follow-up interview, Mayor Abutbol said he hadn't understood the term "gays," thinking it meant "pedophiles."
There was mixed seating. You got to sit with your spouse.
By Batya Medad
He should be as firm with the Arabs as he claims to be with the Iranians.
The world’s media have leapt to conclusions based on this finding, even though there is ample ambiguity after the passage of so much time.
By David Morris
"Over 2.4 billion Christians and over 1.5 billion Muslims, all tracing their inspiration and origins to the rather smaller Jewish people - most of whom seem to be in this room today..."
By Daniel Pipes
Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.
Hamas wants the PA to pay for the entire amount.
Prominent members of the Lakewood community publicly vilified him - in writing - as a Moser (someone who informs on a fellow Jew to the authorities).
September 25, 2026 
