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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.
The draft is but one area Haredi leaders badly stumble over.
By Adam Levick
Contrary to claims made in the media, there are no ‘Palestinian only’ bus lines.
By Batya Medad
I must admit that I really don't care which parties are in Bibi's government coalition anymore.
The UNRWA cancelled a marathon in Gaza because women would be banned from participating.
By Batya Medad
Bennett's pact with Yair Lapid, is not good for the country and is leading to fraternal hatred.
When journalists question why a black woman won a beauty contest - even if it is disguised as referring only to this particular black woman - I think that is sad.
Indeed, Israeli Arabs have reached positions that blacks in apartheid South Africa could only dream of.
The terror unit's leader is still at large in Gaza.
By Daniel Pipes
Extra thoughts that could not make the main text of "When AIPAC Went AWOL."
We'll be here, Mr. President, long after you have turned to dust, your memory not even a breeze in the wind.
Peter Beinart now has the Jerusalem Light Rail, which services Arab neighborhoods, in his cross hairs.
When push comes to shove, today’s liberals, even “strong supporters of Israel” like Chuck Schumer, are Obama supporters first.
If the ulpana truly wanted to act as a role model for their students, they should not have fired their teacher.
By Tibbi Singer
Sally "played Frisbee with the Grateful Dead and served as Jefferson Airplane’s muse."
Israel supplies 125 megawatts of electricity to the Gaza Strip from the power station in Ashkelon that has come under repeated rocket fire over the past six years.
By JoeSettler
Israel might need to roll the proverbial dice again and go for new elections, because this atmosphere is simply too poisoned.
No, I'm not laughing...but come on, locusts? Egypt? Just before Passover?
By Batya Medad
Like it or not, coalition or not, Netanyahu may continue as Prime Minister for quite a while.
By making underprivileged children laugh and smile, Daniele Knapp is truly doing a mitzvah - a mitzvah in memory of her son Claude.
By Daniel Pipes
Assassination sends a specific signal to others not to follow in the victim's footsteps.
Reality inversion is a tactic that has proven especially effective in the war against Israel.
When it comes to victims of abuse the overriding approach should be one of compassion and understanding. But school officials' mishandling of a situation should not automatically result in termination.
The violent Palestinian riots over the past week were found to be mis-founded.
By Batya Medad
One thing that Netanyahu does understand is that a Prime Minister should have as broad a coalition as possible to represent all sectors in Israeli society.
On Friday, people were running in Jerusalem again, but this time for a marathon.
Civil rights has become a mechanism by which the government tramples on property rights to further assorted ideological ends.
Many people would rather be ignorant of the truth than change their views and biases.
By JoeSettler
It is time that this hypersensitivity got toned down. Save it for real racism.
There has been much reluctance by rabbinic groups such as Agudah to be more forceful in their approach to abusers. They find the allegations hard to believe.
By Batya Medad
People should know that if they try to destroy a person and that person's career that they will be destroyed instead.
July 31, 2026 
