יום שני, י׳ תשרי תשפ״זMonday, September 21, 2026
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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.
You can't blame the French for wanting to minimize their made-in-Europe Islamic terror problem. The problem is with how reality keeps messing with comfortable theories.
What is really being gained by continuing to force Haredim to stay in the beis medrash full time via a draft that exempts Haredim?
The video story was part of a theme that has run through Obama’s presidency from the beginning.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian took the hideous claim that the IDF fired mercilessly at a young boy until he was dead at face value, without even a hint of journalistic skepticism.
By Orat@Muqata
Two people have reported snow in the late May-early June, though in both cases, it was hearsay.
It seems Russia has decided that the "strong horse" in the Middle East is Iran and the Shiites.
Ouni Abed Botrous Hadaddeen compares the Jordanian king to Yasser Arafat, claiming that Abdullah to is two faced.
If Shas does agree to allow a secular core curriculum in their schools, that will put Ashkenazi Haredi leaders between a rock and a hard place.
What Rav Soloveitchik said in 1974 is truer than ever: normative Judaism is on the defensive in the modern world.
The Ruth story demonstrates how all Jews should treat the strangers among us.
The Egyptian ambassador warned against allowing Jews to pray at the Temple Mount even under a time-share system.
A response to Ahmadinejad's vitriol from a Jew of Persian descent.
the title rabbi (or its equivalent) is more than about recognition of achievement.
By agreeing with said gangsters that ‘Palestine’ is a state, Google is in effect agreeing that the Jewish people do not have a legitimate state.
A Jewish withdrawal from East Jerusalem would make the situation in Sderot look like paradise.
By Batya Medad
The proposed budget harms the poor more than the rich.
The issue is not our obligation to listen to our rabbinic leaders. It is about whether we should listen to the rabbinic leaders of others.
Shmuel Katz and a former Mapai MK Eliezer Livneh coauthored a pamphlet in 1971 arguing against the appeasement of Palestinian terrorists.
Experienced and professional Fashion Styling is the art that could help.
לְפַנֵּק In many countries all over the world yesterday it was Mothers Day - יוֹם הָאֵם, in Hebrew. Here's a song by Arik Einstein dedicated to his mother. I venture to say it might be sung for most mothers. One of the lines in the song is: אִמָּא, אִמָּא אַתְּ פִּנַּקְתְּ אֹתִי Mom, mom, you […]
At campuses in the University of Maryland and California systems, pro-Israel students say they are harassed, pro-Israel events are interrupted, viciously anti-Israel speakers are brought into speak, anti-Israel students are even accused of of assaulting pro-Israel students.
By Daniel Pipes
If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.
With all the good intention of Israel’s rabbinic leaders, how could they not see that this was going to happen?
Going forward, Guardian reporters would be well advised to keep their opinions firmly within the confines of the Guardian’s op-ed page.
The upcoming President's Conference has a rich list of speakers and unlike some others, I personally don't think Stephen Hawking will be missed.
In the snake pit of academia, where unfashionable explicit Jew-hatred has morphed into enthusiastic and widespread over-the-top anti-Zionism, Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin stands out.
It was only in 20120 that Geneva Initiative featured Jibril Rajoub in their 'peace partner' ad campaign.
What I do not understand is the harshness of his condemnation.
There is more than enough area on the Temple Mount to reach an accommodation for Jews who wish to pray there.
The Chinese proposal gives nothing to Israel except a vague "right to exist" — which of course is in not question regarding any other nation. Indeed, it could have been dictated by Mahmoud Abbas.
Jordan’s annexation of the East Jerusalem was never recognized by the international community.
By Batya Medad
Thousands of people want to buy homes in Judea and Samaria, but the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to finalize permits.
We are a people whose mandate is Torah observance in all matters - between man and God as well as between man and his fellow man.
If anyone is restricted in Jerusalem today - it is we Jews, who are not allowed to move our lips in a whispered prayer, on the Temple Mount. But for today, I will think of the greater celebration.
While the Palestinian refugee crisis needs to be solved, it should be solved in the Arab world, not in Israel.
There is only one word that can explain the over the top reaction by Haredi establishment to this: Paranoia.
It's a mistake to think that it's only the Islamist ultra-extremists of Hamas that are busy promoting self-destruction among the children of Palestinian Arab society.
By Adam Levick
A raw live version of the Israeli hit 'Ein Ani' performed in front of an IDF unit in 2012.
What do you do when you find yourself in a no-win position?
Long term trends are mostly in Israel’s favor, although there are serious short-term threats that have to be overcome.
I must ask, where is the hotline for victims of sex abuse? Or victims of financial fraud? What are the remedies for the victims? Or the sanctions for the perpetrators?
The Israel Academia Monitor organization hosted a conference in Tel Aviv to raise awareness about anti-Israel professors who contribute to the delegitimization of Israel.
Sexual dysfunction can take various forms for both men and women. If those statistics are right, it is a much bigger problem that I ever thought.
By Batya Medad
In actuality, Lapid as Finance Minister, isn't doing all that well.
What is developing behind-the-scenes? What secret diplomatic activity is occurring? Will there be a new 'holy basin' plan?
I, of course, have no problem with such a library. But is this what the State of New Jersey had in mind in approving $10 million dollars to Lakewood?
By Batya Medad
This 'peace' the politicians and media are touting only causes more death and destruction for Jews.
If an Arab barged into your home and demanded to marry your daughter, it was impossible to refuse him.
We have never understood how Abbas continues to be called 'moderate.'
Despite the risks, Ozbudak believes that 'someone should speak up and say the truth, so others can follow.'
By Daniel Pipes
Muslims make up 30 out of 31 most wanted terrorists, or about 97 percent of them.
In the spirit of 'elu v’elu' we should just agree to disagree and respect each other’s views and lifestyles as long as they do not impinge on the rights of others.
Blaming foreigners, however hostile they may be, yields only further self-delusion and suffering.
September 18, 2026 
