יום שלישי, כ״א אב תשפ״וTuesday, August 4, 2026
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When Chassidim make a request to a government official, he pays attention.
Iran had also threatened Israel specifically if it does anything in Syrian territory, but nothing happened when it did.
By Paula Stern
In the days and hours before my operation, many of my friends, even strangers that I meet, are asking me for my name and when the operation will be.
Historians currently assume the Bible was written between 720 BCE and 587 BCE, between the destruction of the Northern Kingdom and the destruction of Jerusalem.
Certainly the Al Aqsa Foundation web page will have this story, right? Well, no, it doesn't.
By Daniel Pipes
His singular foreign policy accomplishment, trumpeted ad nauseam, was the execution of Osama bin Laden.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recently honored Israel for developing innovative treatments for the disabled.
Seeing the sight of Jesus on a cross must have made them feel like they were seeing Avodah Zara in the Beis HaMikdash.
(CNN) Celebrity News Network - Now with More Holograms!
A kashrus agency should be concerned with one thing and one thing only: the kosher status of our food.
Who is considered a fashion designer? Can you be a designer? Remember that designers do not need to know how to sew, draw, cut…
I happen to know Gedolei Torah and Roshei Yeshiva who use I-phones and the internet. Are they all doomed?
Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.
By Batya Medad
"Only the wealthy won't feel Binyamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid's latest budget cut."
By Paula Stern
Three incidents have once again reinforced what I have known all my life.
Nasser al-Wahishi provides a step-by-step assessment of what worked and what didn’t in Yemen.
The modern left has become a curious amalgam of the modern, the post-modern and the savage.
By Daniel Pipes
Ahmed Shafiq, the former air force commander and former president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, actually won the presidential race by a narrow margin.
It is not everyday that a young man from Potomac, Maryland travels for tens of thousands of miles to join the Israel Navy.
The Egyptian army is fighting a movement that is extremely anti Semitic as a part of its religious theology.
Not a peep was heard a few months ago when Israel announced that it would build housing for Arabs in the same area.
Prof. Gabriela Shalev broke the glass ceiling.
By Paula Stern
When a doctor told her there was no hope... she decided not to listen.
By Batya Medad
It doesn't matter how many apartments are built. Housing prices still go up in Jerusalem.
The moderate Charedi world that I often talk about as the future of mainstream American Orthodoxy - is a beneficiary of the new high school curriculum.
Givati Special Forces conducted a joint exercise with the United States Marine Corps, to teach the IDF approach to urban warfare and to learn about the Marines’ operational experience.
Increased economic ties between Israel and China usher in cultural exchange.
By Batya Medad
Poets love to describe "spring" as the sweet smell of flowers and freshly cut grass in the spring, but this spring smells more like the sickly stink of a lot of broken bottles of cheap perfume in a closed space.
By Paula Stern
There is inside of me a part that thinks our greatest victory, even if the world does not recognize it, is simply that we are not like them.
By Batya Medad
"The last two episodes of the Tribal Update, this week's and next week's, are a celebration of our accomplishments over the past four years."
The proper response for almost the entire population of planet Earth to these eternal questions about man-made meat is “I am not qualified to render an opinion on this matter.”
Does President Obama know that his Administration is launching an all out effort to kill or capture people in the name of Islam?
"We believe that every person in Israel must have their fundamental rights met..." Not applicable to terror victims and their families' fundamental right to justice.
Following their dreams, young men and women from North America start a new life in Israel, joining the Israel Defense Forces as “lone soldiers.”
Parents who themselves have gone through the day school system recognize their value and no longer need convincing to send their children.
The world was deeply moved when Arafat waddled up to the UN podium, with his gun, wearing a mismatched cotton rag on his head.
By Adam Levick
Many in the media, including the Guardian, The Independent, and the Irish Times, have whitewashed the violent and often brutal crimes of the prisoners being released.
By Daniel Pipes
The point of having embassies in the first place is for them to remain open...
Qualifying for the IDF elite units requires true greatness. It takes courage, determination, strength and mental toughness.
Israel’s champion in women’s karate is an Israeli Christian who is proud to fight for Israel at international sporting competitions.
By Paula Stern
An hour later -- I kid you not, the hospital called. The surgery is in less than 2 week...
Certain books are excised from the subscription, in order to reinforce an imaginary history where nothing was inconsistent with Haredi Judaism.
"As soon as these chariots of kedusha started running, the suicide bombers stopped."
A jihadist group, "Islamic Emergency Defence" (IED), has set up a website and hotline in the UK for Muslims to to report non-Muslim initiatives and demos.
The U.S. is furious over the release of one Mexican drug lord, imagine how they would react if 104 “violent butchers” were released from prison.
Attendees learned about Israel’s success promoting women’s rights.
I know families with an OTD child that are very right wing, moderate Charedi, and right wing Modern Orthodox.
She teaches all things explosive: from how to handle the explosives themselves to utilizing them in operations, such as gaining access to buildings.
By Paula Stern
Ari Lesser - you're great! I hope this video reaches around the world...
IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shirly Subul is a woman on a mission and has built a career out of transforming the physical fitness of IDF soldiers.
The idea persists, despite the fact that — by any objective standard — the behavior of Israel is anything but expansionist and invasive.
By Batya Medad
I honestly don't understand why Israel continues membership in the United Nations, an international organization that is doing all it can to undermine and destroy the State of Israel.
If your hip measurement is larger than your bustline, you’re probably a pear shaped woman.
They live in a world apart from the rest of observant Jewry.
The messages from the region are as worthless as the cheerful prognostications about waves of reform from Western media men who know little of the Middle East beyond its waiters and airports.
By Daniel Pipes
As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister
By Paula Stern
This morning, the jets have been flying and, child that I am inside, I keep going to my balcony and watching them.
The JVP claims to be a Jewish movement that values peace but instead promotes the BDS Movement, supports the "Palestinian right of return," and works to undermine true peace and security for Israel.
By Batya Medad
Faux peace, implemented by "treaties" is external and wears off, like the "democracy" of the "Arab Spring," which has been proven a deadly farce.
The article argues that while naturally aligned with their fellow orthodox Jews, women from the modern orthodox community in Israel are finding themselves aligned with secular feminists.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller did not want to publish this work during his lifetime. He felt that so soon after the Holocaust it would upset survivors
By Paula Stern
Hirsi Ali was handed the microphone and, 16 months later, her words remain imprinted on my brain: "Even if you give them Jerusalem, there will be no peace."
Many Hispanic Americans carry Jewish DNA.
I don’t know that the majority of the Haredi world actually considers memorials to IDF fallen soldiers to be idolatry.
Hollywood blockbuster portrays Israel as a shining example, dedicated to safety, security, and helping other nations in need.
The revision of the DSM that omitted homosexuality was not based on research, nor was much else. It was "political" pressure.
Judges at Jeddah criminal court reportedly dropped the heaviest charge of apostasy - which carries an automatic death sentence.
A mother doesn’t tend to call the man who freed the murderer of her child "Bibi."
By Daniel Pipes
The military has grown so large because of preferential tax treatment, subsidized labor, an extra-legal status, and old-boy networks.
It's still going on now. The same old courtship that has become the mid-life crisis of the West.
Although Palestinians can receive medical treatment in Gaza, many turn to Israeli hospitals for more advanced care.
Ahmadi criticizes Iranian leadership’s view of Israel as “little Satan” to the US’ “big Satan.”
By Adam Levick
The number of actual Palestinian refugees from the Arab-Israeli War, out of the initial 750,000 or so after the war, is estimated to be closer to 30,000.
In 1998 The APA issued a report claiming “that the ‘negative potential’ of adult sex with children was ‘overstated.’"
Sick of the Palestinians displaying their "map of Palestine"? Nothing will enrage them more than this map.
Despite dubious claims to the contrary, Israel has international law on its side.
Netanyahu betrayed the families of the victims of these terrorists, who were shot, burned, stabbed, blown up and beaten to death.
One might say that this is a major achievement by the administration. But one would be wrong.
Amid its divestment from Judea and Samaria, the EU refuses to boycott ongoing human rights abuses in Morocco and Armenia.
Obama's 6 trillion dollar debt is a testament to the high price of ignorance.
By Paula Stern
I have been searching for the answer to this question...who did they kill...those 104 we are about to release? I know of a mother and her three children; I know of a grandfather stabbed in the back. I don't know all the names but it is for these we weep today - once killed by […]
By Batya Medad
"Only the Likud can do it." That is why I don't vote Likud.
By Guest Author
Why can't I face Yehoshua's parents? Because I took the call that came in from a payphone in Europe, during their stopover on the way to Israel.
Most Israeli terror victims oppose releasing convicted Palestinian terrorists, viewing it as a fruitless attempt to save lives.
By JoeSettler
Bibi wants to release terrorists, and is surprised by the push-back against the deal. Neither side understands the other.
By Paula Stern
It was clear, even in the first minutes, that it was not a terror attack...
When Al Arifi calls for jihad in Syria, he is calling for blood and murder.
By Batya Medad
The folks at Haaretz needed a poll showing that the public supports a peace agreement but they had a problem.
"The victims of his crime were not even notified of his appeal… Where was IDF Central Command head General Nitzan Alon when all this happened?"
פְּעִילוּת listen and repeat Some of us like grammar, and some of us don't. The word verb excites some of us, while daunting others or making them drowsy. But most of us know that a verb is a word that indicates action. In Hebrew, this is easy to remember, since the very word for verb itself - פֹּעַל ( listen […]
How manipulating shadchanim and even offering financial "incentives" to marry men off to older women is ethically sound or halachically permissible has yet to be explained.
A rabbi who writes controversial things becomes international news.
He who gets to write the questions, wins the referendum.
Have you never bought the wrong clothing just because it was on sale?
The EU Boycott of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is expected to adversely affect Palestinians.
The only real things keeping American cities from going bankrupt are inertia and some fancy cultural footwork.
Why does a opinion in the Talmud say the last verses in Devarim were not written by Moses? Was it the easiest solution to a very obvious problem?
By Batya Medad
Everyone in the streets and the windows said, "Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don't they fit him to perfection?
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