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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.
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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.
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.
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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."
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