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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!
We were all sitting around Rav Shachter in a circle. And we were all thinking the same thing.
Who individuals are attracted to is none of our business and shouldn’t influence our encounters with them, but that is different than the normalization of gay sex.
By Adam Levick
Music video from the Israeli band The Angelcy of their original song, 'My Baby Boy.'
This Pesach, let us take to heart what solidarity means for Am Yisrael and act accordingly.
Why the two-state solution is no solution at all.
Obama's visit remains a symbol that among us are those who still carry the ghetto mentality.
Community is one of the factors that has brought many people, including Olim, to come to live in the small towns of Judea and Samaria.
There is no reason why Haredim should continue to be the single biggest and fastest growing welfare demographic in all of Israel.
If Israel can maintain itself with an Arab minority of 20%, "Palestine" can't be a state with 17% Jews?
By Batya Medad
Now on the Eve of Passover we should be remembering that our salvation will come only from God, not the President of the United States.
Mariam wanted her sons to die a glorious Jihad death, taking as many innocent lives as possible with him. If there was one thing Mariam was not, it was a mother.
By Batya Medad
Drastic changes must be done gradually and with the cooperation of the affected sector of society.
Unlike some of his biggest detractors, I believe that the President actually likes Israel and values the friendship of the Israeli people.
By Daniel Pipes
Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.
Obama's visit is costly and complicated, and will have objectives that the President thinks are important, like Israeli withdrawals.
One of the monsters produced by Nabi Selah is the Ahlam Tamimi, the terrorist who killed our daughter Malki and now, due to the Shalit deal, roams free in Jordan promoting violence against Israel.
By Daniel Pipes
Both Hamas and Fatah are playing the game of pretending to end violence.
I would love to consider all people who observe Shabbos as observant. That was once the case.
By Batya Medad
Benjamin Netanyahu made his bed when he put pragmatic secular politics over Jewish values.
By Batya Medad
Tel Aviv's Mayor had said that it was impossible to postpone the half marathon because of Obama's visit.
If you respect American law, than you must accept that Jonathan Pollard was sentenced for committing a crime that, on average, results in a sentence of 3-5 years.
I would love to see Mrs. Freier become the role model for all Hasidic women – and not just for those like the ones she attended school with.
When does the 'Unbreakable Bond' become an abusive relationship?
By Daniel Pipes
Erdoğan can be seen as the anti-Atatürk, the leader who seeks to undo substantial parts of his predecessor's legacy, especially Atatürk's rejection of Shari'a, or Islamic law.
A new blog about Aliya and living in the land of Israel.
By Batya Medad
Recently, archaeologists have been back to Tel Shiloh looking for ancient treasures which will show what life had been like in Biblical times when Jewish pilgrims came to Shiloh to pray.
To a great extent, the whole idea of a two-state solution as presented by President Obama, Shimon Peres, etc. is a winged pig.
By Daniel Pipes
Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."
By Adam Levick
The damage done by the now iconic image of Misharawi clutching his slain child can not be ameliorated by even the clearest retractions.
Salafists are frequently refered to in relation to Islamist terror. It is a slippery descriptor that is sometimes used in contradictory ways.
By Daniel Pipes
As ever, Muslims raise startling new issues and Islam drives the social and legal agenda in the West.
People are not influenced by rational argument, but rather by emotion, so make your appeals powerful and emotional.
Most of us know right from wrong and live as though it matters because it does. This is what David Brooks reported.
By Batya Medad
Everything Dov Indig, killed in action during the Yom Kippur War, said about the secular kibbutz movement has happened.
There's something sadly familiar about political figures looking back at terror attacks that occurred when their rivals were in charge and declaring that it was all handled badly.
European politics is populated by a multitude of individuals who are hopelessly ambivalent about Islamists.
In an online op-ed for the New York Times, a philosophy professor presumes that democracy precludes national symbols of any specific national group and on that basis argues that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.
Even though his prognosis was never good, it was still a shock when it happened.
By Batya Medad
We keep hearing these fantasies which claim that there's a safe and just way to divide up Judea and Samaria between Jews and Arabs, which is preposterous.
It was a smart move on the part of the accused, Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, in hiring a Jewish lawyer as only a Jew would have the nerve to make such an outrageous request.
A tangled web of non-profit political organizations reveals that George Soros is behind yet another Jewish anti-Zionist front.
By Daniel Pipes
Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.
Once again we see a great rabbinic figure who apparently does not understand what it is that really upsets the non-Haredi public, including many observant Jews.
By Batya Medad
It's not that the various coalition partners don't trust Bibi, but that he doesn't really trust them.
The UN peacekeeping force on the Syrian side of the Syria-Israel border, UNDOF, has been scaling down activities in fear of attacks.
Monique Parsons of NPR happily goes along with Hamas-CAIR's ruse of using women and children as props for jihad.
It's not surprising that, especially in Egypt, the State Department had a hard time finding someone who did not share the common prejudices against Jews.
Haredi leaders could not care less if Israel retains Judea and Samaria - as long as their Mosdos (religious institutions) get funded.
Congratulations, JStreet, you won before you even started! Perhaps you can save your breath, energy and George Soros' and god knows who else's money and go home.
By Daniel Pipes
Before the "8 March Revolution," Syria had been exceptionally unstable. Then came the heavy hand of the Ba'athists.
By Batya Medad
I can't imagine a tougher challenge for Lapid. It's so much easier to complain from the outside.
A US diplomat proposed that UN negotiating rooms be 'inebriation-free zones.'
Lawlessness in the Sinai is growing and the danger of terrorists taking control is huge.
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