יום חמישי, י״ג תשרי תשפ״זThursday, September 24, 2026
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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?
מוּטָב מְאֻחָר מֵאֲשֶׁר לְעוֹלָם לֹא listen and repeat Yesterday my great-uncle had his בַּר מִצְוָה ( listen and repeat) - Bar Mitzvah. Yes, my great uncle. He's 82. Because when he was 13, he was in Auschwitz, where they didn't do בר מצווה ceremonies. En route, I told the cab driver about the event. He made his comment […]
Get out the lollipops: Nefesh B’Nefesh reports today’s El Al Flight LY 3004 has more children aboard than any previous group flight.
R’ Yaakov’s experiences once he left the cocoon of the Lakewood environment provided him with an entirely different perspective on what non Jews are really like.
Netanyahu: "The release of prisoners before the conference is not the path to peace, it is the path to terror."
בְּיַחַד listen and repeat Today is ט"וּ בְּאָב ( listen and repeat) - the 15th of the Jewish month of Av - which is the Jewish day of love. The Hebrew word for together is בְּיַחַד ( listen and repeat) (alternatively and more formally, יַחַד ( listen and repeat)). For example: טִיַּלְנוּ בְּיַחַד בַּמִּזְרָח. We traveled together in the east. listen You […]
According to Arab media reports, the show "focuses on the social, economic, and religious lives of the Jews, including ... the way they managed and controlled the [Arab] tribes."
To pardon terrorists mocks our love and our pain...
Jewish sympathy for the African American struggle dates back to the abolitionist movement.
No one who was born after 1935 has walked on the moon. That period is swiftly becoming a historical relic.
By JoeSettler
The current peace talks raise some obvious questions, the answers are a little less obvious.
Categorizing all black people as one large group where the acts of one black person in Florida somehow tell us something about a different black person in Seattle is racist.
I get so worked up when one of us, especially one who is observant, somehow misbehaves in any way.
"My father kicked me out when he discovered I enlisted," said Ibrahim. But this Bedouin soldier’s dedication to the IDF eventually changed his father’s mind.
“The bones of Joseph which the Children of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried in Shechem in the portion of the field that had been purchased by Jacob.”
Turkey became home to Jews expelled from Hungary in 1376, from France in 1394, and from Sicily in the early 15th century.
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s real goal is to delegitimize Israel through slander and attacks on its cultural, economic, and academic relations.
Every year, one of the greatest challenges going into Tisha B'Av is the statement of the Gemara Yerusalmi “A generation in which the Temple is not built is considered to be one in which it was destroyed"
Every aspect of life was industrialized, regulated and militarized, but it wasn't the fictional militarization that frenzied pacifists imagine, but real life militarization.
Can we hear the agony in his words? Can we step into his shoes and experience his torment?
IDF forces will be smaller, far stronger, far more skilled and far better equipped.
The rhetoric that has accompanied the proposed legislation to subject Charedim the draft seems to be bordering on hysteria.
By Paula Stern
Irena Sendler is a reminder that in the darkest of times, a small light of humanity and hope brings forth the greatest hopes.
By Batya Medad
There has been a perversion of Judaism in the name of the Torah which is very frightening.
פְּשָׁרָה listen and repeat An important tool for conflict resolution is compromise. The Hebrew word for a compromise is פְּשָׁרָה ( listen and repeat), while to compromise is the reflexive-intensive הִתְפַּעֵל verb, לְהִתְפַּשֵּׁר ( listen and repeat). (To compromise in the sense of compromising safety is לְסַכֵּן ( listen and repeat) - also to endanger.) The root of these two is clearly פ.שׁ.ר (p.sh.r)... but exactly how […]
It's about a black leadership that is more interested in posturing as angry activists and shaking loose some money than in healing the problems of their own communities.
Unlike the survivors of abuse that took place at YU, I do not want to see YU close down.
A police spokesman described groups of local people “picking through the wreckage” on Friday night and looting from the bodies of victims.
The average monthly cost of living for a family in central Israel is $5,000, while in Southern Israel it is only $3,890.
Likewise, thousands in Kafr Kanna demonstrated this month in support of Morsi. Arabs near Hevron raised the swastika outright in May.
By Batya Medad
On Friday, before the Jewish Sabbath began we had the news on, the international TV channels, and they showed Malala Yousafzai speaking at the United Nations. Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N. In a speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head […]
Bigotry is the bugbear of the moment, but next year it might be salt or short hair. Racism just happens to be easier to rally against.
Satmar has long ago established itself as anti Israel and everyone knows it. Standing on the same stage creates the perception of endorsing their views.
A peek into how a combat squadron functions once the sun sets.
Human nature is such that hearing something over and over again for forty years will inevitably have an impact on the person.
Rabbi Eliyahu Ya’akov of Jerusalem’s Old City shifts the paradigm for Birthright and MASA participants by educating them in Judaism’s wisdom and life teachings.
I am not angry at the dogs who attacked a Charedi soldier. But I am upset at the Rabbinic leadership who have thus far remained silent.
It has been noted that every rocket attack is attempted murder.
Your upper and lower bodice measurements are well balanced, but you still have to pay attention…
The judges who sentenced him expressed regret that condemning Abdullah Barghouti to the death penalty was not an option available to them.
The chain of events doesn't make much sense to the elites.
Documents found in the Cairo Genizah confirm that a Jewish community lived within Safed from the 13th century.
By Batya Medad
It takes a strong military dictator to control the volatile Egyptian population.
לְאַיֵּשׁ listen and repeat If you read the title of this post and didn't quite understand what I'm getting it, you're probably not the only one. The word לְאַיֵּשׁ ( listen and repeat) doesn't really have a direct translation into English. The best I could come up with is to man and to staff, but these don't quite do this word justice. It […]
By JTA
The president of the International Criminal Court has taken the first steps toward an investigation of a war crimes lawsuit against Israel over the 2010 raid on the Mavi Marmara. Sang-Hyun Song of South Korea appointed a three-judge panel to study the procedural requirements for the suit. The appointment puts in place the legal apparatus […]
The gist of Rabbi Shafran’s argument was that Rabbi Sacks was criticizing a legitimate form of orthodox Judaism and was doing so from a place of ignorance.
Are ready for the 9th of Av? The children are....
"Religious freedom is an absolute human right under Israeli law, but not in the Palestinian Authority.”
By Paula Stern
I saw this graphic on Facebook and thought I'd share it.
By Batya Medad
In typical Israeli inventiveness, "rock-proof windows" were developed.
“The Herev Battalion must teach the entire IDF how to fight effectively against Hezbollah."
He said: "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims."
The fault lies in the attitudes fostered in the societies that produce these animals.
Many great Jewish thinkers have described Jewish prayer as a form of meditation.
לַעֲבוֹר דִּירָה listen and repeat In English, we talk about moving from one residence to another. The Hebrew word for residence is דִּירָה ( listen and repeat) - which is also the word for apartment or flat. But to move is literally, לָזוּז ( listen and repeat), and that's not what we say in Hebrew. The Hebrew expression is לַעֲבוֹר דִּירָה ( listen and repeat) - […]
For Obama, the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood attained power in a more-or-less free election, outweighs the fact that their political principles are thoroughly anti-democratic.
By Batya Medad
There is such a market for homes here in Shiloh that there are even a couple of multifamily projects.
Obama's rise to power could not have taken place except through a forgetfulness that has been with us for some time now.
The news media are focused on other things, and the victims are remembered mainly by those who knew and loved them.
This kind of stringency borders on silliness.
In March of this year, a Cypriot court sentenced Hossam Yaakoub to four years in prison for involvement in planning a terrorist attack.
The latest volley in the intra-Orthodox ‘wars’ is the one between one of my heroes, Lord, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and the rabbinic leaders of Agudah.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar: I’m not expecting hugs and kisses. All we need is that the peace agreement will be kept and implemented.
September 25, 2026 
