It is Islamism that is the enemy and not al Qaeda. Al Qaida is but one tool of many dedicated to the cause.
By Daniel Pipes
One must expect future non-suicide bombers to turn to niqabs or burqas, as many terrorists and criminals have repeatedly done.
John Kerry, you owe the nation of Israel and the army of Israel an apology.
By Batya Medad
Most of us are totally oblivious to the fact that in today's world there are security cameras everywhere.
Ordinary Syrians are paying with their lives for the double-talk about the 'refugees.'
Universal army service will help integrate Haredim into the workplace so that they can earn a livable wage and support their families.
Europe has taken the path of multiculturalism and we can see the results.
Once Moroccans rose up against the French in their struggle for independence, the situation dramatically deteriorated for Moroccan Jews
This is Judah’s manifest destiny. This is the uncanny persistence of his youth, the anthem of his old.
By Batya Medad
In the center of Jerusalem, on Jaffa Road, the train is frequently as crowded as the NYC subway at rush hour.
The suggestion is intriguing, self serving and frankly somewhat humorous.
By Steve Schnur
One-sided cultural embargos such as those advocated by Mr. Waters are an affront to both Palestinian and Israeli moderates who seek peace.
By Daniel Pipes
Though my suggestion to now back Assad to prevent Jihadi takeover and allow both sides to fight themselves to exhaustion was rejected, it seems now the administration is taking note of my counsel.
When I heard he was from a very powerful Saudi family, I worried about this kind of thing happening.
By Rafi Farber
We would see a massive transfer of wealth away from the banks and the government and the stock market and real estate which will all crash and back to the wage earning middle class who would then be earning gold.
People go to Eilat to get away from it all, but today the trouble came to them.
They can say all day long that they are not protesting Israel. The fact that they will be out there in the middle of Manhattan talking about 'gezeirot' says otherwise.
The IDF's assessment, hardly surprising and certainly not for the first time, is that the attack on Eilat was made from the nearby Sinai Peninsula.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian's report noted that "Harding, who is Jewish, will also have to leave behind the pro-Israeli line of the Times."
Does the viciously random nature of the bombing give a clue to the motive?
By Adam Levick
Rita's music reportedly became an underground hit on underground radio stations in some Muslim countries, including Iran.
A highly regarded professor who is affiliated with Harvard engaged in anti-Israel rhetoric and a distortion of history.
Honor is a concept that is paramount in non-Western cultures, but sometimes it seems that the West has no clue about.
By Batya Medad
It's important to realize the cost of something and that includes the State of Israel.
Memorial Day in Israel is not a day of picnics and sales or barbecues and fun. It is agony. It is pain.
When a Jew who appears to the world as the most religious among us acts like a fool that is a hilul HaShem.
By Daniel Pipes
The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard the SS Jamestown and that it has just arrived the port of Suez. They cost the Egyptian government just under US$2.5 million. According to ministry spokesperson […]
By Batya Medad
Ben-Gurion would do anything to make sure that Menachem Begin's Herut Party would stay out of power.
Somehow it has become acceptable to dump on Christian Zionists for their political activities, but absolutely taboo to criticize Muslim groups, some of which support Hamas or Hizballah.
When I stand silently with my neighbors while the tzefira, the siren, is sounding its awful wail, I am thinking of my daughter.
But what does it mean to be proud of your heritage? Is that ethnocentric? Even supremacist?
Public protests of the expansion of the Robinson's Arch area for egalitarian prayer would only generate more enmity.
I personally see no problem with what Satmar did. They lobbied for the land and they got it. Black and Latino leaders could have done the same.
If we compare Western and Islamic cultures, we find that universalist attitudes are common in the former and rare in the latter.
I agree with Alan Dershowitz that Carter's presence at Carodozo Law School should be used as a positive.
By Adam Levick
Nineteen year-old Israeli Arab Lina Makhoul won Israel's "The Voice" reality show.
By Batya Medad
The aim of people like Jimmy Carter, who claims to love the Bible is to deny us our God given rights, written clearly in the Bible, to our Land.
By Batya Medad
Even the United Nations seems occupied with problems in the Middle East much greater than anything going on in Israel.
By Batya Medad
Considering all of the Holocaust history which is part of Israeli culture, are we immune from another massive slaughter of Jews?
Ben Caspit says the Shalit's kidnapping may have been prevented. That’s easy for him to say. He was not under rocket attack when he made these judgmental comments.
Groups defined by Ha'aretz as "US Jewish Groups' are vicious anti-Jewish groups bent on destroying the tiny Jewish state.
By Daniel Pipes
What is it about Jewish organizations that they acclaim their opponents?
Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 children out of the ghetto.
Unbeknownst to the hackers, the 28th of Nissan, in some ways, is the most auspicious time of the year to counter and transform the threats and trials leveled against the Jewish people.
Digitally removing women from Holocaust photos dishonors those women and the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
The Jewish lesson of the Holocaust is this: Jew hatred is real, it is dangerous and it is not possible for Jews to depend on others to protect them.
Is Israel wrong in its policy since we're actually targeted by mortars, shootings, rockets, missiles and underground tunnels?
In the mainstream media version, the IDF killed peaceful protesters. In reality, the terrorists were throwing firebombs at an army post.
As long as rabbinic leaders live in the past and insist on calling the idea of ‘sharing the burden’ a 'shas haShmad,' antagonism toward Haredim will not change.
A Muslim women's group has emerged to protest a western women's group which is protesting oppression of women in Islamic countries.
By Batya Medad
At present, ordinary Arabs fear the terrorists more than they fear Israel.
The IDF recently distributed ear plugs to artillery officers to protect their ears from being damaged by the roar of their weapons.
Rabbi Pirutinsky discussed the issue of 'metzizah b'peh' at length, concluding that if medical experts determine that there is a danger to the child, metzizah should be performed by other legitimate methods.
Following the letter from American Jewish leaders calling on Israel to make concessions, the Emergency Committee for Israel penned it's own letter to the Prime Minister.
By Adam Levick
According to the Associated Press's logic, shouldn't the terms 'illegal settler' and 'illegal settlements' also be put out of commission?
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.
Divinity exemptions are designed to produce clergy that will serve the populace, not so that every single member of it becomes a member of the clergy.
No country in the world would put up with rockets being fired regularly across its border.
The South African doctor arrested and detained in Dubai was acquitted but may nevertheless be forced to remain there as the prosecution appeals.
By Batya Medad
'Doublelife: One Family, Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope' is well written and compelling, but wrongly suggests that intermarriage is a workable option.
In what has become a daily occurrence, Palestinians are routinely throwing rocks at Magen David Adom ambulances, smashing windshields and seriously endangering the MDA medical crews.
By Adam Levick
Salsa dancing flash mob and music in Paris.
By Rafi Farber
People, we are being hoodwinked. No matter what the government says, the government does not define marriage, nor can it.
Yeshiva University needs to admit that mistakes were made by leaders both past and present.
The global media are roiling about the death of the terminally-ill Abu Hamdiyeh. Try googling for any mentions the one who died at the hands of Hamas.
A sentence has not been pronounced yet, but the murderer of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonathan faces the possibility of a life sentence.
Your children will look back and thank you for moving them to Israel now.
Over a century ago, Jabotinsky argued that apologizing too much practically means accusing one's self.
Here's the response the New York Times didn't print regarding its feature on the Palestinian village that spawned the terrorist who killed our daughter.
By Daniel Pipes
Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.
By Batya Medad
As many new homes as we build, there's still a housing shortage in Shiloh. Jewish families of all ages, from all over the world want to live here.
By JoeSettler
An article in Mekor Rishon appeared to offer readers the oppurtunity to participate in the Korban Pesach.
The fifth cup is based on a machlokes in the Gemarah.
Israel must insist that there can be no negotiations until all parties agree that Israel is the Jewish state of the Jewish people.
By Batya Medad
Over the years we collected quite a few different Hagaddot. There are all sorts of illustrations, the IDF, immigrants and more.
By Rafi Farber
The finance minister will be me and only me, and I will cut everyone’s budget by 100% and return all the money to the taxpayers who it was stolen from.
I think Obama is genuine in his expression of appreciation and even admiration for the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
Israel's 'apology' to Turkey will not improve relations with Turkey because relations are poor as a result of a deliberate strategy, not an unpleasant incident.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.
By JoeSettler
Can you imagine having the opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah of Korban Pesach!