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By Greg Lauren
The best thing we can do is educate the next generation on what the source of our light in the world is.
Four Republican senators voted in favor of Hagel, including Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Making gay marriage not just value neutral but something positive. It is in effect koshering a forbidden lifestyle.
Obama’s policy is Saudi policy. That is where the irrational push to create a Palestinian state comes from, and that is where the handcuffs on the IDF are forged.
Obama, don't come...or at least have the decency to bring Jonathan Pollard home.
By Batya Medad
Now, the NRP is getting nervous. They should have looked more carefully before signing the Ketuba, marriage contract with Bennett.
The era of Godless leadership in the Knesset ended with Menachem Begin. One might even say it ended with the Six Day War.
By Daniel Pipes
Both law enforcement, the media and elected officials are reluctant to give out information about the attackers' religion, much less their motives.
I believe it is because of Obama's upcoming visit. The Palestinians have been cooking up this idea of when and how to put on the pressure.
Footage of how Purim was celebrated in Israel in the 1930s.
Barack Obama will bravely step in to take the political risks necessary to once and for all save Israel and the Palestinians from each other — which he will do by forcing more concessions from Israel, yet again.
In the version of events provided by Argo, it wasn't radical Islamists who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, but the Iranian people as a whole.
By Batya Medad
One thing I have no doubt about. These recent Knesset Elections here in Israel have been the elections from Hell for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Nothing has gone as planned. His pact with Avigdor Lieberman-Yisrael Beiteinu ended up costing him a comfy plurality. And instead of the usual one surprise strong showing of newcomers, there were two,Yair Lapid-Yesh […]
By Orat@Muqata
Jews of 14th century Jerusalem celebrated Purim on both the 14th and 15th of Adar.
Background on MP George Galloway, the British legislator who refused to debate an Israeli.
Four Jews who will not celebrate Purim this year are Yitzhak Ames, Talia Ames, Kochava Even-Haim, and Avishai Schindler - all murdered by Hamas.
By Batya Medad
Bennett shouldn't have trying to play chicken against a pro.
I have seen thousands of Palestinians - in our stores, on our trains, in our cities. I have never seen any being harassed.
There ought to be a process of exempting yeshiva students via bechinos (tests).
According to former Mossad official Rafi Eitan, the Egyptian military was ready to announce that Ahmed Shafiq won elections, but the US pressured them to announce in favor of Morsi.
By JoeSettler
Google had a good idea on how to present the data.The only problem is, the data is wrong.
The fault lies with both the executive and legislative branches of government. Neither wants to budge from their ideological positions.
Many people fell for the LifePatch scam, thinking it was a great new Israeli start-up. In the end, the scammers were convicted.
By Daniel Pipes
You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.
Living in Israel is often a study on kindness between people.
By Daniel Pipes
The AWACS Israel is selling to Turkey will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.
It is to Jonathan Rosenblum’s great credit that he has written this critical essay in a Haredi publication.
A clear explanation of what international law is and is not, and how it applies to some of the controversies around the Jewish state.
As a youth, MK Dr. Ruth Calderon was not satisfied with the secular treatment of Judaism she got in Israeli schools. So eventually she founded a secular yeshiva.
My alarm bells went off when the President chose Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.
Abdullah Barghouti, who murdered our daughter and receives a monthly salary from the PA, is just one example of how the West is funding terror.
It seems that over the top anti-Zionism often comes from Jews.
Gedolim are not perfect. They are human, just like the rest of us. A true Gadol will always try to do the right thing. And the public should not lose out because of occasional errors.
By JoeSettler
No one wants Hareidim moving into their neighborhood. But no one is letting them build all-Hareidi communities either.
Not exactly what Jewish Home voters thought they would get on election day.
Palestinian Arab terrorism is subsidized and rewarded by money from Western sources.
By Batya Medad
The Jewish Month of Adar is known as a time of change, reversals, bad to good, winter to spring.
Do these rabbis really think that Naftali Bennett, an observant Jew, or Rabbi Dov Lipman have “risen in our generation to destroy the Jewish people”?
The institution of party primaries in Israel needs to be expanded not shrunk, so that the government will be under the supervision of the people from which it derives power and the moral authority to govern.
All together, there were four different organizations of first-responders represented in some way at our conference.
By Batya Medad
Inflexible 'principles' are for the opposition only, not the coalition.
It is ethical and moral behavior that makes us a light unto the nations.
לְשַׂמֵּחַ My professor of Bible and Aramaic at Yeshiva University, Dr. Moshe Bernstein, taught me that 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant declared that it's worth studying Hebrew for ten years just to read תְּהִלִּים ק"ד- Psalm 104. Jews all over the world read that psalm Sunday and Monday in honor of רֹאשׁ חֹדֶשׁ, the "head" of […]
By JoeSettler
As you must have heard, Prisoner X, was kept in a secret Israeli government jail, the one previously used to hold Yigal Amir, and it's forbidden by the censor to talk about him or his incarceration. Here at the Muqata, we've uncovered the real reasons why Prisoner X was arrested. Here they are (a joint Joe-Jameel effort): […]
Hezbollah is preparing for the next conflict with Israel.
The songs I like are those that speak to me, tell me a story.
By Rafi Farber
In an interview with Galei Yisrael radio station, Likud MK Moshe Feiglin hinted he has a secret plan to help free Jonathan Pollard.
By Adam Levick
Here’s what a Guardian reader casually glancing at the Palestinian “prisoner” wouldn’t have known.
The relationship between the Jewish people and the Catholic Church has never been better. And the current Pope deserves credit for that.
The real villain is the Iranian regime, which has colonized Syria and is colonizing Lebanon in its attempt to squeeze out U.S. influence in the Middle East.
By Batya Medad
I was especially disturbed in the troubling times leading to the Disengagement expulsions when so-called Torah observant rabbis said that a Knesset vote could over-ride the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
In what country do people act this way? Stop to deliver soup to a stranger; give a blessing; ask someone to fix your bracelet...or fix someone's bracelet. In Israel.
With this comment Rabbi Schneierson wiped out of Orthodoxy most of observant Jewry including many Haredim.
A secular Israeli industrial design student has taken the joke about a kippah clip being the ultimate tool and made it into a reality.
By Daniel Pipes
When will American politicians and military leaders eventually realize that training foreign soldiers does not allies make them?
Torah will probably flourish more with Shas out of the government and hopefully the Chief Rabbinate will revert back to a Rabbinate for all of Israel.
By Batya Medad
If the Ketubah would be taken seriously, as an enforceable legal document then there would be fewer agunot, "chained" women awaiting Jewish divorce from their husbands.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Europe for failing to combat terrorists. Of course we wasn't referring to Hezbollah.
Despite Chabad’s success in spreading Torah, they are not really integrated with the rest of Orthodoxy.
By Rafi Farber
All Feiglin really should say is that the gay community should do whatever it wants, raise its own money, and stop trying to legislate laws which cost money and force unwilling people to pay for something they don’t believe in.
Ayalon's new position on the Palestinian statehood doesn't quite match his prior criticism of the Palestinian's bid for statehood at the UN.
By JoeSettler
When a drafter of Israel's Constitution says there is a problem because too many IDF commanders are religious, we need to worry about what kind of Constitution he is drafting.
By Batya Medad
The timing of Obama's announcement, that he is davka now accepting the long-standing invitation to visit Israel is worse than rude.
I am surprised that burkas aren’t standard apparel for the woman in the street.
As citizens of Israel these ‘Palestinians’ enjoy the highest standard of living of any Arabs in the Middle East, as well as more personal and political freedom.
The question is, why would Israeli Arabs hurl curses, harass and stone IDF soldiers -- when the anti-rocket system protects them as well?
By Tzvi Fishman
My friends, if you want to save your souls, don’t watch the Oscars. If you want to be a holy Jew, you have to work on it.
By Batya Medad
Israel needs to become more confident in the justice of its cause.
CAIR's #MyJihad campaign and the media's coverage of it bears no connection to reality at all, or to the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations and enslavement.
Now that the U.S. is closer to energy independence, importing less oil now than at any time since 1987, the Saudis do not have anywhere near the leverage that they had in 1973.
Metzizah b'peh is not even required by many Orthododx poskim. In fact it is actually discouraged by some.
By Batya Medad
Jews and Christians here are to the right of the Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu.
By Daniel Pipes
The sort of reasoning going around in Turkey regarding the Israeli strike in Syria can quickly leave one with a sore head.
The Emergency Committee for Israel released a new web ad highlighting Chuch Hagel's confused response about U.S. policy on Iran.
The City of Chicago has the indecency to call us 'morally reprehensible,' but it is they are morally reprehensible for attempting to deny us our First Amendment rights.
The Indian army prepared to move in and rescue the hostages, but before they did, the Israeli hostages had already overpowered their kidnappers, tied them up and handed them over to the army.
By Tzvi Fishman
An excerpt from this week's chapter of Tevye in the Promised Land.
The implication of such statements is that anyone who serves in the army is guilty of violating a yahorog v’al ya’avor.
Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton spoke with the Washington Times about US foreign policy.
By Tzvi Fishman
Like the lions in Rabbi Kook’s poem, may we also find the longing for freedom.
By Daniel Pipes
What a launch for Kerry, whose mental vapidity promises to make Hillary Clinton actually look good in retrospect.
What does it say about us that we create programs to measure how fast we can run and where we can seek shelter?
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