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He told me that according to a Muslim poet, children do not truly belong to their parents. Instead, parents are the vessel through which children flow into the world.
Dena was just on the cusp of turning 16 when her parents, both well-established professionals, made Aliyah from a major American metropolis.
By Batya Medad
Torah, Wisdom, and Inspiration for Life by Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
By David Morris
Enthusiastic fellow purple-people have established a Facebook Page called The Purple Zone, and punned in Hebrew "Am Segula."
Healthcare.gov showed us the same old clunky government, with the right companies hiring the right lobbyists and everything costs ten times what it should.
Tzipi Livni's statement undermines core Israeli positions and her argument is not historically valid.
The defacto infallibility of "gedolim" alienates “both those who were brought up frum and especially for those who were not.”
By Batya Medad
A Cabinet committee unsurprisingly defeated the Jewish Home bill to prevent the government from freeing heavy-duty terrorists.
I don't know where this will go or if it will gain any traction.
"There is no connection between the Palestinian refugees and the Arab countries."
By Paula Stern
Our Prime Minister must, in no uncertain terms, make it clear that the owners of the archives are the Iraqi Jews.
By DovBear
The desire to have contact with the dead, especially one's own relatives, is apparently universal.
The saddest part of this prisoner release agreement is that it is being implemented despite the fact that no progress has been made towards a peace agreement.
Here's some background these papers neglected to mention...
By Batya Medad
"Maybe in Germany in the 1930s and Russia in the 1970s but certainly in Sydney, Australia, Bondi you just don't expect an unprovoked attack."
By David Morris
At this point, I am rather envious of my friends in Efrat.
By David Morris
There needs to be huge public pressure - demonstrations, effective PR and media for the cause, utilising every legal recourse and civil disruption.
In Judaism men and women are given specific roles. Each has their own area of responsibility for fulfilling God’s will.
Join us at our press conference today.
The shift away from the U.S. is a major one, a source close to Saudi policy said.
By Batya Medad
The numbers of Arabs in Jerusalem aren't totally accurate, because many who hold legal residence don't actually live there.
By Guest Author
Until you come to see it in person, enjoy Jerusalem’s Botanical Garden virtually via this video!
By Adam Levick
To learn more about the story we contacted Anne Herzberg, NGO Monitor’s legal advisor.
Ruth Colian is running as a Haredi woman for political office.
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine...
By Guest Author
After four earthquakes shake Israel in one week, experts debate whether the big one is imminent.
By Batya Medad
Unfortunately, Israel is still dominated by Jews who are insecure in our success as a legitimate country.
The bad news is that Assad’s Syria is a pipeline of all kinds of support from Iran to Hizbollah.
As Orthodox Jews who understand the value of the Torah and the importance of following Halacha – how can we change this new secular Jewish paradigm?
Part of the problem of making Aliyah with kids involves the black and white nature of religious education in Israel.
The Djerba Arabs did not support the attacks.
Former IIIT member Abdur-Rahman Muhammad now reveals the original intent behind the concept of Islamophobia...
By DovBear
The absolute worst things you can do is mistreat the powerless and to behave selfishly #GOP...
By Daniel Pipes
In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time
"The project faces an obstacle: we do not know who owns the synagogue. This has been confirmed to us by the Inspectorate of Antiquities and Heritage. "
The Pope is saying that actions are far more important than faith. This is particularly ironic coming from Catholicism.
By Paula Stern
As you probably know, when you start to search for something, Google will, as it always does, offer you suggestions.
By Batya Medad
None of the ideas so blithely bandied about would give Israel and Israelis any added security.
To their credit, the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) came out with a statement applauding the courage of Kolko's young victim.
Karl Vick is clearly unaware that Rabin never advocated a Palestinian Arab state. He never advocated dividing Jerusalem.
Can we remain ambivalent in the face of what our eyes saw and ears heard?
By Adam Levick
This [particular] Volunteer Soldiers’ Basic Training was extra special.
By Batya Medad
Berko showed that it's possible to have a hasbara victory, even on campus.
The footage shows terrorists calmly chatting on their mobile phones while scouting the mall for new victims.
Hyenas are clever animals. Like their canine relatives, they can be surprisingly perceptive.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri has a proclivity for turning what most would consider weighty matters into 'non-issues.'
In a million years I would have never dreamed that people who look and dress the same way and very likely share the same religious values could be so radically different.
By Batya Medad
I speak Hebrew, English and pantomime with the Arab customers.
Fact checking leadership means asking tough questions.
Yiddish words are increasingly seeping into the English language.
By Batya Medad
I decided that it's best to start the week off with our group prayers at one of the holiest sites in the HolyLand, Shiloh.
I particularly like how he positions the Syrian regime as a Muslim nation when it has been largely secular and anti-Islamist.
In California, Columbus Day became Indigenous People's Day, which sounds like a Marxist terrorist group's holiday.
The Obama Administration announced that it wanted to meet with the Taliban in Doha for “peace talks.” The Taliban laughed and never showed.
Minister Lapid should not be judged by a few offhand comments spoken in angry response to being constantly attacked as a Torah hater.
By Paula Stern
At the door to the building, I put my purse and a bag on the guard's table...but he wasn't looking at them. He was looking at me...and down at the belt.
There are many good, solid reasons to support applying the death penalty to a variety of crimes.
No bomber ever exploded because she or he wants to commit suicide.
The Talmud is making a general statement for which there are more exceptions that situations where the rule applies.
He tortured and raped her repeatedly to maintain family honor.
His passing marks the fading of an age.
The federal government may have run up a 16.75 trillion dollar debt, but it also has some mighty appealing assets.
He was a giant not only to his own Sephardi community, but to the entire Torah world.
The Shariah Courts approved 1,022 of them.
By Batya Medad
The head of the company didn't think it would be proper for us to be selling clothes when the great rabbi was being buried.
By DovBear
The beast's tremendous bulk makes its continued existence impractical.
Americans are hounded from the moment they are born until the moment they die by a regulatory state where being left alone has become the greatest of luxuries.
By Batya Medad
If I can trust my memory, Psagot was a brand new yishuv when we moved to Shiloh in 1981.
The T that is missing is in the honorific ‘ZTL’ written after the name of rabbinic leaders that have passed away.
Trying to explain Holocaust deaths as tikkun and a way of cleansing a soul is offensive.
“We are constantly challenging our base assumptions.”
The Egyptian public hardly realized what had happened.
Too many Pal. policemen have used their weapons to kill Jews.
By Batya Medad
I got the idea to invite Jewish women to pray together at Tel Shiloh on Rosh Chodesh.
The joyous members of Skvere had absolutely no compassion for this poor woman. They only saw someone who left the community and went OTD.
.....to describe the Republicans' principled stand for the American people.
By Batya Medad
Rav Kook's and Jabotinsky's followers are together in the Israeli Government, but they haven't taken the best from either philosophy.
Even though 10% of Jewry identifies as Orthodox, 14% to 17% say they were raised Orthodox.
Bibi dared to mention the NY Times' own shoddy record of believing dictators on the threshold of nuclear weapons capability.
Very few middle aged and older people consider themselves ultra-orthodox. It’s a youth movement.
The conference develop into a nightmare - a sick and calculated blueprint for the annihilation of Israel.
By Batya Medad
Our people in Jewish Home and Likud kept campaigning that they had to be in the coalition to influence government. They're in now, and what influence do they have?
It is a fact that heterodoxy is no longer the threat to Orthodoxy it once was – if at all.
By Daniel Pipes
In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.
By Adam Levick
Pretending that the facts of the Holocaust are a matter of serious historical dispute is a classic rhetorical evasion.
The Iranian regime apparently believes that its frequent repetition of the “fatwa” lie will make it be accepted as truth.
According to the Torah Temimah...
The sun has risen over Masada, the temperature is rising after a cool night, and five hundred faces are painted in camouflage colors.
I don’t know what it is that turns good people into crooks.
By DovBear
Why did the Pope excommunicate every single Communist in the world, but never excommunicate a single Nazi?
A few months ago Barack Obama declared that al-Qaeda was “on the path to defeat.”
He based his decision on reading their web site? That's too hard to accept or respect.
July 31, 2026 
