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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.
By not making sleep a priority, we are literally making ourselves sick.
By Paula Stern
A remarkable video from 1978 showing 28-year-old Netanyahu.
By Paula Stern
I will forever remember that the French crew was offered the chance to leave with the Christians... and chose to stay.
The backlash is coming in the form of attacking Charedi recruits.
"The Settlers is a documentary feature exploring the Israeli settlement-enterprise in the West Bank."
Excavations in a late Roman era synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s eastern lower Galilee have uncovered a new mosaic depicting the biblical hero and judge, Samson. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been conducting archaeological excavations at Huqoq since 2011, notes that while scenes from the Bible are […]
By JoeSettler
It would mean a stable Egypt, hopefully a less extreme Egypt, and perhaps even a democratic Egypt.
There is no real theological reason that tznius be heavily codified in Jewish law while other areas of our lives that require modesty are left to our whims and desires.
חִלּוֹנִי, חִלּוֹנִית listen and repeat In yesterday's dose of Hebrew, we saw the root for profane or not sacred is ח.ל.ל (kh.l.l). This is the root of the Modern-Hebrew term referring to someone or something secular or non-religious - חִלּוֹנִי ( listen and repeat) in the masculine and חִלּוֹנִית ( listen and repeat) in the feminine. For example: תֵּל אָבִיב הִיא לָרֹב עִיר חִלּוֹנִית. Tel […]
Pictures provided by the RCMP showed rusted nails inside the pressure cookers.
A state that requires sacrifice from its people to survive, will only get it if there is a compelling ideological motivation driving its citizens to make the requisite sacrifices.
By Batya Medad
Does Finance Minister Lapid know what he'd doing?
"Yeshiva University is not only an institution. It is a faith, a vision, a dream, a destiny. It has been my faith, my vision, my dream, and my destiny."
Getting involved in the politics of any other country is bound to make enemies.
Add George Sa’ado to the list of cheap Jewish blood in Israel.
By Paula Stern
Having reviewed the month carefully (no, not really), I feel comfortable awarding the Stupidity Award for June 2013...drum roll please...
חוֹל listen and repeat Last week, I wrote a post on the Hebrew term for mermaid and how that relates to the name of the Israeli coastal town, בַּת יָם ( listen and repeat) - Bat Yam. Here's a post about sand, which inspired the name for Bat Yam's next-door neighbor town, חוֹלוֹן ( listen and repeat). The Hebrew word for sand is […]
By Batya Medad
A military appeals panel validated the Hebron Jewish community’s purchase of a three-story building.
By Dana Nasi
Under Morsi’s leadership, minority rights for Jews and Christians within Egypt have plummeted.
Metro had repeatedly denied the advertisement until the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) threatened to sue the agency.
Exploiting guilt is much more effective than exploiting virtue.
There is already a three-year agricultural agreement in place where Israel assists Indian farmers.
Statements from various rabbis about the complicity of Haredi parties in the dangerous policies of left-wing governments in Israel.
It is time to let Rabbi Lipman speak for himself and explain what he is doing and why.
It’s really not that different than the situation in Israel with the charedim. Both situations need insiders to make the change happen.
The waist is usually straight and the silhouette is athletic.
שָׁנוּן, שְׁנוּנָה listen and repeat If you're familiar with Jewish prayer in its original Hebrew, you probably know the phrase וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ ( listen and repeat) - and you shall teach them to your children. The root of ושננתם ( listen and repeat) is שׁ.נ.נ (sh.n.n) meaning learning by repetition. It's also the root of the word מִשְׁנָה ( listen and repeat) - […]
By JoeSettler
I fully believe Avigdor Liberman when he says that he will uproot Jewish homes for peace. So should you.
Rabbi Bloom’s condescending condemnation is particularly troubling because he clearly bases it on assumptions about someone he has never met.
“I feel even sorrier today for the people in Gaza as Hamas is pulling a publicity stunt with their blood."
Two accomplices in last year’s murder of Lior Farhi Hy"d received sentences of eight months each.
By Paula Stern
It goes to Rabbi Yosef Antebi, the beaten Amsterdam rabbi.
July 31, 2026 
