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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?
It is important to Assad to promote the narrative that his ‘legitimate’ regime is under attack by outsiders like Israel.
David Cameron's response to infamous British MP George Galloway in parliament last week.
By Tzvi Fishman
After all, who has time to sit in the dark and watch narishkeit? We have a country to build.
By Adam Levick
By comparison, whites who avoid evoking anti-black narratives and imagery in America, by and large don’t bemoan the so-called “restrictions” placed on their artistic or intellectual expression.
By Batya Medad
Israeli citizens, we must do what's best for us and not pay and not pay attention to the U.S.A. That's the only way we'll get respect and be left alone.
By Rafi Farber
There should be no central bank which regulates the supply of money.
A general showed up to the checkpoint in full uniform driving a brand new, sparkling clean Mercedes.
Israel should use its new gas resources to further its political interests, just as the Arabs have done with their energy resources.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Torah commands, 'Honor thy father and thy mother, in order that thy days be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.'
The U.S. State Department appears to be coordinating recruitment efforts with groups reportedly associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to israeli Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Amnon Sofri, the transfer of unconventional weapons to Hezbollah is a red line for Israel when it comes to Syria.
By Batya Medad
In Israel, many of us mistakenly think that world Jewry and international politicians have nothing else on their minds but what's happening in Israel. The opposite is the case.
The New York Times criticizes Israel for not undergoing the scrutiny of the UN Human Rights Council, while at the same time recognizes the extreme bias the Council shows against Israel.
East Jerusalem has become code for: where Jews shouldn't be.
By Tzvi Fishman
If we can’t forcibly draft Diaspora Jews, then it’s up to them to enlist on their own.
Israeli willingness to do whatever it takes to prevent weapons of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands may be the only thing preventing civil wars or heated rhetoric from becoming mass atrocities.
Finally, what if, say, Venezuela was developing nuclear weapons and every other day one of their officials promised to root out the ‘cancer’ that was the U.S.?
Lapid lacks intellectual depth, is ignorant of historical facts, sees settlers as extremists to be battled, and wants to divide Jerusalem.
Lapid is a patriot who is both honest and who has a clear vision for the future. A vision that is inclusive of all!
By Tzvi Fishman
The Rabbis of the religious Zionist community serve in the army; why shouldn’t Haredi Rabbis also be brave examples for their students?
When it comes to the army, there are some thing you just don't post online.
According to the Midrash if the Hebrew slaves failed to produce their quota of bricks, Jewish children were plastered into the walls to fill the gaps.
By Batya Medad
The Israeli media are busy faux negotiating, publishing all sorts of possibilities.
By Daniel Pipes
Odd that CUFI is out there swinging and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is silent.
The story of three friends in the Holocaust reunited 67 years later.
By Adam Levick
Spare us your Holocaust pieties and consider honoring Jews who are still among the living.
MK-elect Dov Lipman is reportedly not very happy about having to relinquish his US citizenship.
This is the 'tznius chase,' a subset of the 'Frumkeit race,' also known as the move to the right.
Morsi, who all but expressly said Jews control the Western media, would find a comforting embrace in the anti-Semitism of some Westerners.
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes appeared on the 'Cross Talk' program to argue that the West should use its influence to oppose Islamism instead of supporting it.
Taking advantage of desperate people by getting them to part with their money in exchange for segulot is not what I believe God intended for us as a holy nation.
By Tzvi Fishman
To all my blogger colleagues in America: if you want to complain about things in Israel, at least come live here, and play your part in the building.
By Batya Medad
There's the "hype" that politician "a" or "b" can make it all better. None of it's true.
By Orat@Muqata
Historically, the Christian residents of Bethlehem did not identify themselves as Arabs.
There was little discussion during the campaign of 'the peace process, because everybody in Israel, with the exception of the European- and NIF-funded Left, knows that the “peace process” is dead.
By Tzvi Fishman
Without Eretz Yisrael, the Torah is a shrunken, truncated, mini-version of the complete Torah of Eretz Yisrael.
Even though there will be an unprecedented number of religious Knesset members, Haredim are closer to being drafted than at any time in Israel’s history.
By DovBear
The people who wish to end online anonymity are often also the people who think Kolko got a raw deal and would like to stone kofrim in Times Square.
The UN conceived of Jerusalem of extending from just south of Ramallah to Bethlehem and from Motza east to almost where Maaleh Adumim is today.
The Israeli phrase, 'Third time, Ice Cream' corresponds to the fact that the third time the ancient Israelites complained to God after the Exodus they got the manna.
No one should see Weberman's 103 year sentence as excessively harsh. Instead they should see this as a victory for the abused.
A little insulting but shouldn't the Temple become a central element in the public discourse?
By Tzvi Fishman
The previous two redemptions began when the Jews were very deficient in mitzvah observance.
Like Liberman before, Lapid will likely be Netanyahu's major partner as under almost any coalition figuration Yesh Atid can bring down the coalition.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian and other foreign media invested heavily in promoting their desired political narrative of a Jewish state lurching dangerously towards the right.
As evidenced by this World War I map, the Green Line is a new creation.
Someone asked me if Israelis were forced to vote or they had a choice...we so have a choice and we choose to vote.
Dani Dayan and Caroline Glick were met with hostility at the event (organised by Intelligence Squared) that was contacted at the lecture hall of the Royal Geographical Society.
By Hadar Sela
Today, Gamla is a nature reserve and alongside the ancient Jewish town visitors can also see Neolithic dolmens and the ruins of the Byzantine Christian village of Dir Krukh.
If you are thinking of voting for Kadima and Shaul Mofaz, if you are thinking of voting for Likud and Bibi Netanyahu - take a look at this news report.
Brennan is 100 percent on board with the Obama policy that our enemies consist only of 'al-Qaeda and its extremist allies.'
In his new book Movers and Shakers, Elliot Resnick was able to capture the essence of each of his subjects.
So my advice is, don't try to outsmart anyone. You will just be shooting yourself in the foot. Vote for the party you want to see lead the country.
September 11, 2026 
