"[Hezbollah] is no longer that party that defends the Umma [Islamic nation]; instead it plagues the Umma."
Sexual violence was used as a weapon of war, as is common in East Africa.
By Batya Medad
The inevitable is starting to happen. There are serious cracks in the Hashemite Kingdom.
לֵהָנוֹת Every season has its perks. But with the arrival of summer in the northern hemisphere, now's the time that people are really starting to enjoy themselves. The Hebrew word for to enjoy is the same as that for to benefit - לֵהָנוֹת (listen and repeat). Here's an example using ליהנות in the sense of to enjoy: […]
But the assertion raises as many questions as it answers because court testimony indicated the subway plot investigation began with an email.
By Guest Author
In Birkenhead, near Liverpool, slaughterhouse workers had refused to process any more meat for Jewish consumption until the attacks on British soldiers in Palestine stopped.
Farran struck him repeatedly on the head with a rock, causing his death.
Playing the usual black-is-white games, the catalog notes say the people depicted are "those who lost their lives fighting against the occupation.”
By Batya Medad
The State of Israel shouldn't beg anyone for peace.
By JoeSettler
There's no question that many of the backers of the Women of the Wall see the obliteration of Torah Judaism in public places in Israel as their ultimate goal.
Now the Obama Administration is allowing history to repeat itself with more humanitarian interventions and smart strikes that overlook the real threat growing on the horizon.
By Daniel Pipes
Secure Freedom Radio Originally published at Daniel Pipes
Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same experiment twice and expecting different results.
Two prominent Turkish Israeli communal leaders speak out about events in Turkey. According to Eyal Peretz, chairman of Arkadash, an organization promoting the Turkish community in Israel, “The Jewish minority in a very extreme fundamentalist state is not a positive situation. Of course a secular state is a much better situation for minorities. I hope […]
Despite PA claims that no Jewish connection existed, many Muslim religious sources throughout history have accepted the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount area
“What’s the Matter with Kids Today”. That is the title of a song sung by actor Paul Lynde from the 1960s musical Bye Bye Birdie. Whenever I see a story like the following one, it makes me think of that song. But not in good way. In fact it kind of makes my blood boil. I […]
No matter how many minority voters Cory Booker brings to the polls, there is no conceivable way that Christie could lose this election.
By Daniel Pipes
Things have never been so good in the Jewish state.
The yellow star is probably not in the running as label for "settlements" products, but it should be.
קְרֶם הֲגָנָה, קְרֶם שִׁזּוּף As it's warming up in the northern hemisphere, now's the time to get some sunscreen. The Hebrew term for sunscreen means literally, protection cream: קְרֶם הֲגָנָה (listen and repeat). The second word, הגנה (listen and repeat), is the noun form of the active-causative הִפְעִיל verb to protect - לְהָגֵן (listen and repeat). Another term means […]
Every day, IsraAID is given a new assignment and they go wherever the victims are.
During the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations the US government has actively courted Muslims who have overt connections to terrorism.
By Adam Levick
The language in Sherwood’s report was revised to note that it is only the Palestinians who view them as “political prisoners.”
Obama's Department of Justice seeks to criminalize criticism of Islam -- a declaration of war on the first amendment.
Few figures in American political life have been as consistently wrong as often as John Kerry. The former Senator bet on every Communist leader and Middle Eastern tyrant he could find only to watch the wheels of history roll over his mistakes. And now as Secretary of State, Kerry is at it again. In between […]
Let me emphasize that it is not me indicting Lakewood. It is coming from a Charedi Musmach.
By Ariela Davis
Anyone who read this news story probably had the same thought I had: what a chillul Hashem.
מַה נִּשְׁמַע...? In English, we've got many ways of asking someone how they are feeling, what they are doing, etc, such as how are you? how's it going? what's up? how are you going (Australian)? how are you doing (American)? what's going on? what's happening? etc. In Hebrew, we've also got a bunch of ways […]
The present situation in Turkey illustrates perfectly the lack of freedom that exists within the country.
By Ed Lasky
In the last two days, Sharpton has declared--despite all evidence to the contrary--that there is "no evidence at all" connecting Holder to scandals .
You can use color knowledge to your advantage. It’s a very pleasant experience.
By Adam Levick
The war, if it comes, may not be a disaster, if it delivers Golan back into Syrian hands.
Instead of passing big laws, there will be lots of small laws. The old totalitarians would have outlawed suicide. The new totalitarians outlaw Tylenol.
Unless he at some minimal level wants to try and go back "On the Derech" the parent will not love them.
I've known this for a long time, but not its full meaning - until I just researched it to present it to you.
By Ariela Davis
I used to work in a school where the question often arose as to whether I am yeshivish or modern Orthodox.
The seeds of a Turkish spring are presently being planted within Turkey.
By Batya Medad
Here in Shiloh, more and more young religious women serving in the IDF.
Many streams in Judea and Samaria have turned into channels for crude industrial waste characterized by a high concentration of pollutants.
Upon the conquest of Canaan, Joshua assigned Hebron to the tribe of Judah.
I don’t see why any group has to identify itself as gay or straight in this parade.
It isn’t just in Sweden. It’s in France as well.
By Jack Curtis
In 1943, integrity meant one's adherence to Judeo-Christian values; today, it means adherence to...something.
Noted African American author Alice Walker has falsely called Israel an apartheid state and supports the BDS movement, the reality is that the State of Israel is a strong democracy. Alice Walker, the noted African American author of “The Color Purple,” has called upon African American performer Alicia Keys to not give a concert in […]
Like a band that only knows one song, politicians only know one response to Islamic terrorism. They wall off that vast majority of Muslims who did not actually come down to Woolwich and hack at a soldier with a machete and did not fly two planes into the World Trade Center from those who actually […]
I’m sure this is an empty threat. No one is going to get lashes. It is just a scare tactic. Or is it?
By Adam Levick
Over a two month period, Sherwood has published three reports and over 1500 sympathetic words about Blanc’s case.
Three workshops for manufacturing the chemical agents, including sarin and mustard gas, were uncovered.
נְחִיתוּת, נַחַת Visit Ktzat Ivrit.
It's all about establishing Jewish-free areas.
By Batya Medad
There weren't any security concerns. Terrorism was unheard of. It was truly a great time to be growing up.
By Batya Medad
Moshe rather naively expected all twelve of them to understand that this was the "mother of all" pilot trips.
Hafeez believes that the most important thing to do in dealing with Muslim antisemitism in the United Kingdom is to acknowledge the problem.
Without the Negev Desert, Israel would be a small non-viable state, a fact which motivates anti-Israel activists to focus on it.
Virtually all the Gedolim of previous generations, including Rav Soloveitchik, forbade any religious collaboration with heterodox rabbis for fear of giving them tacit recognition.
It's time to let the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) protect our citizens.
The OneFamily fund for victims and families of victims of terror has compiled a cookbook, featuring the favorite recipes of Israelis who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.
Will someone sue the US government over politicized tax enforcement?
Despite the criticisms, Haredi society has positives that should be recognized.
By Adam Levick
Israeli musician Idan Amedi was discovered on the Israeli show Kokhav Nolad.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian has called terrorists convicted of murder or attempted murder 'political prisoners.'
By Batya Medad
There's nothing new in journalists trying to make news; they just can't make facts out of lies.
In Gaza, the Egyptian data from 1965 had about 100,000 additional people, or 25% more than the Israelis counted.
A situation has arisen in Judea and Samaria where attempted murder — and sometimes the attempts are successful — is a daily occurrence.
I listened to what was supposed to symbolize a massive missile attack - sirens wailing all over Israel.
According to Sivan Hendel of the Peres Center for Peace, 'Sports is an international language.'
It's sadly familiar to hear Abbas invoking cultural values that reject kidnapping and hostage-taking while threatening to do exactly that.
No religious Jew would deny the merit that Torah study. But it is the height of folly to believe that a strong military is therefore unnecessary.
By Adam Levick
The Palestinian “refugee” swindle is but one of the many political derivatives of the Palestinian narrative which so often passes for serious journalism at the Guardian.
While there are many heartwarming tales told about Egged, sadly, the less than amazing is often more the norm.
As someone who lives on the front line of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Klieman has personal experience when it comes to Palestinian terrorism.
By Daniel Pipes
Other characteristically Muslim crimes taking place in Western countries include honor killings, female genital mutilation, and slave holding.
Just as the IRS targeted conservative groups, according a report, a leaked document states that Israel's Economic Affairs Ministry is targeting Haredi businesses and Yeshivos.
By Orat@Muqata
From the Islamic sources, it is clear that Eilat had a significant Jewish population, which existed for hundreds of years after the Muslim conquest.
Not one Jew was allowed to remain on the Jordanian side of the cease-fire line.
Welcome to Obamaland, where death and taxes is no longer an ironic statement, but a grim reality.
One of the medieval Aliyot was that of the Sephardic Jewish community which fled Spain following the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition.
Eliminating all secular studies is taking "Talmud Torah k’neged kulom" to an absurd extreme.
The sixteenth century Arab historian Mujir Al Din wrote that Rachel’s Tomb was a Jewish holy place.
Lise Watier, Canada's authority on cosmetics, said in a recent interview: “I was sure of myself inside and insecure outside.”
A Muslim cleric in moderate Tunisia called for her stoning death.
If ritual observance is voluntary and all that counts is ethos, why not just drop the whole charade and just call anyone with an ethical perspective on life a Reform Jew?
Why didn't then Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak demand that all the footage shot by France 2 on that day be placed at Israel’s disposal to do a proper investigation?
The area around Rachel's Tomb has been fortified, cement barriers erected to protect those wishing to pray beside her grave.
The entire Land of Israel, have been the subject of incessant Islamic reinvention.
By Batya Medad
True peace is something that evolves when neither side aims to destroy the other one.
There is a new group of zealots who have taken a cue from the price taggers. They refer to themselves as Torah taggers.
Little Heroes or 'Giborim Ktanim' pairs ordinary Israelis with mentally challenged children with the goal of helping such children to better fit into Israeli society.