יום שבת, ט״ו תשרי תשפ״זSaturday, September 26, 2026
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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.
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.
September 25, 2026 
