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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.
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.
October 30, 2026 
