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The Arab League has been promising to fund 7.8% of UNRWA's core budget since 1987?
Gunmen targeted 30 children who were taking part in a cooking event.
By DovBear
The Rabbis are not sharing Big Ideas, they're arguing about nothing more than the plain meaning of the verse.
Images of ‘the other’ are heavily biased by what the media report about them.
Two days before he spoke, Rouhani reviewed a missile transports parade in Teheran with the slogans “Death to America” and “Israel should cease to exist.”
Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan is a judicial and psychological consultant.
By Batya Medad
Saving Jewish souls from cults and extreme assimilation is terribly stressful work.
By Paula Stern
Each year, tens of thousands of Jews take one of these days and go to Hebron...
I do not enjoy the second Simchas Torah at all.
Spontaneity and quirkiness have their place but a sermon is neither the time nor place for either of those.
The trove of Jewish treasures was discovered by American troops in Baghdad in 2003.
Alert Guardianistas will now appreciate that robbery is caused by banks, and traffic accidents by roads.
By Daniel Pipes
"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."
The Charedi world has never seen the government in a positive light and condemns it frequently.
Uh-oh. Does the CuBox-I computer go on the boycott list or not?
Rav Soloveitchik stated that "to me it is something vulgar, this clamor of the liberals that abortion be permitted."
By JoeSettler
The Israeli government wants to track every single financial transaction you make - EVERY. SINGLE. TRANSACTION!
Shooting a weapon isn't just about being able to aim and hit a target accurately.
I question the success rate claims made by conversion therapy advocates upon which Agudah no doubt relies.
By Paula Stern
I'm not in a hurry to talk too much about him yet; I'm keeping him to myself a bit longer.
Waters consistently calls for the boycott of the only country in the region to respect basic human rights.
That there is even a debate in the religious sector about obeying eviction orders reflects a warping of core values.
By Paula Stern
They stood for several minutes talking about the engine. I didn't understand a word they said.
King’s sensitive, delicate words moved me.
They didn't just "flag" our talk: these brutes and thugs are attempting to destroy freedom of speech and impose the blasphemy laws under Islamic law.
It’s even more strange when the jokes come at our holiest times of the year.
Remember how the amount of polonium found on his underwear would havekilled a normal person in less than a day?
By Batya Medad
Shimon Peres personifies secular Labor's faulty reasoning.
Qanta Ahmed also praises Israeli democracy.
It used to be the case that an Orthodox parent would sit Shiva on a child who intermarried.
By Adam Levick
The Palestinian Authority is condemning Jews who tour the holy site by suggesting that their visits represent a broader Israeli scheme to “Judaise” it.
Being frum today is an upper-middle-class pursuit.
By JoeSettler
Refocusing on domestic issues, maybe Obama will leave Israel alone.
By JoeSettler
I think it's fair to say that Putin spit in Obama's face yesterday, and then rubbed it in for good measure.
You can catch glimpses of a city reeling from the incomprehensible.
The foundation stressed the fraud campaigns that are led by Israeli archaeologists.
What would compel a devout Jewish father to take the life of his own child?
After a short time in the unit, he did a paramedics course, and completed it with honors.
A couple of years ago, Hamas converted the power plant in Gaza to run on ordinary smuggled petroleum.
Organic dating has its own set of problems that the shidduch system can help avoid.
By Paula Stern
I can’t let the day pass without some reminder, some tribute and yet what words have we not said.
Haifa’s Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center promotes peace and the human rights of women.
I hope these Breslover Chasidim got what they wanted out of this visit… and that it was worth the Chilul HaShem it ended up making.
I recall the shock and pain of seeing my ruined ice cream on the street.
By Daniel Pipes
By all accounts, the mullahs in Tehran are getting ever closer to the point where they at will can order nuclear bombs to be made and readied for use.
The Republican Party is what it is because it lacks that sense of moral conviction. It takes positions for convenience.
Some have argued that the advent of Yoatzot is a slippery slope towards the ordination of female rabbis.
אָדָם מֻפְנָם, אָדָם מֻחְצָן listen and repeat Some of us are naturally quiet, while others can be heard from a kilometer away. Introverts tend to keep their feelings and experiences inside, while Extroverts tend to be outgoing and expressive. The Hebrew term for introvert is אָדָם מֻפְנָם listen and repeat - literally, an introverted person. מופנם listen and repeat, an adjective deriving from the passive-causative […]
By Paula Stern
What right does Assad have to shoot missiles at Israel if Obama strikes his country?
When a Jew is shot to death in Eretz Yisrael and the murderer plea bargains to a twelve-year sentence, Israel’s banner is low.
The Marine Corp withdrew the charges because senior commanders had interfered in the case to get a guilty verdict.
"We need you alive," said her relatives.
For Egypt’s tiny Jewish community, improvements remain scarce since Morsi's demise.
By Batya Medad
If the opposition gets into power and has nerve gas, they'd use it, too.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar assesses the prospects of a Syrian attack in light of the U.S. president’s recent statements.
By Adam Levick
Such framing of events in the Middle East represents more than mere hostility to Israel.
The restrictions Beinart condemns today came because of Palestinian terror, not the other way around.
עִם מַבָּט קָדִימָה listen and repeat While the close of a year is a time to look back, the start of a new one is a time to look ahead. The Hebrew expression for looking ahead is לִהְיוֹת עִם מַבָּט קָדִימָה listen - literally, to be with a gaze forward - though the to be part is rarely used. […]
This is a partial report based on the intelligence we received from the field.
Japan the country and the society are still peering into the abyss.
It is not Israel’s job to “help sway members” of Congress.
He has taught his Chasidim that one of the worst sins a Jew can do is inform on a fellow Jew to the government.
A good number of their proxies are in the Obama administration.
It is doubtful that Hezbollah wants to start any attack on Israel.
By Paula Stern
Israel is not anxiously awaiting a US attack on Syria.
There are three additional rounds of convicted-terrorist releases, 78 more killers and terrorist thugs.
"Cancer is a white man's disease," said MSNBC political commentator Al Sharpton.
By Paula Stern
When Elie questioned the deal, Tamar started getting annoyed.
Experiencing rockets land so close to home has been devastating.
By Batya Medad
This year they set up for an audience of three thousand
Do we have the patience to listen and acknowledge others?
By JoeSettler
I was wondering how Obama was going to sidestep his promise to attack Syria if they used chemical weapons.
By JoeSettler
Syria presents a fascinatingly real, morbid ethical question, similar to the questions of Darfur and Rowanda.
Dvar Torah for Nitzavim Vayelech.
I disagree with continuing to make an issue of it.
קוֹלוֹמְבּוּס גִּלָּה אֶת אָמֶרִיקָה Visit Ktzat Ivrit .
Grant Jordanian citizenship and basic human rights to Jordan’s Palestinian majority.
By Adam Levick
There actually has been a decline in the proportionate size of Jerusalem’s Jewish population, with an increase in the proportion of the Arab population.
Reuters has the exact same bias in its reporting.
Rabbis have to stop dismissing everything that comes from outside the Beis Medrash.
Obama's shamelessness isn't incidental to his actions; it's their whole point.
By Daniel Pipes
Surviving the strikes will permit Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.
By Batya Medad
Tzom Gedalia is one of the "minor" fast days, when we only fast during daylight.
"There are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated."
While most surviving Jews left Poland after a brief return to search for relatives, some remained.
The last election didn't fix Egypt. There's no reason to believe that another one will.
Which means that Israel has conceded a great deal during the process.
Israeli intelligence reports confirm that Syria has used chemical weapons against her own people, yet the world does virtually nothing to stop the Syrian massacre.
President Obama feels boxed in by his ‘red line’ promise.
Eventually Prime Minister Rabin, who had offered up so many Israelis as sacrifices of peace, was privileged to himself became a sacrifice of peace.
By Batya Medad
According to Jewish Law, an insane person can't sign an important contract.
By Paula Stern
I feel I have the best of doctor and I'm looking forward to being able to use my arm fully...
The awful truth is that Israel invites foreign contempt because it shows contempt for itself.
By Batya Medad
Since my mother's death, my jewelry has suffered.
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