יום שלישי, כ״א אב תשפ״וTuesday, August 4, 2026
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By Tzvi Fishman
Rashi informs us that 80 percent of the Jews in Egypt were stricken to death during the plague of darkness because they didn’t want to leave the cesspools of Egypt and go to the Land flowing with milk and honey.
Apparently it was due to criticism of Netanyahu after the Migron evacuation.
The IDF conducts physical profiling of Israeli children to determine placement in the army.
Yesha Council Chairman Dani Dayan appears in a pro-Likud video clip.
By Tzvi Fishman
The meaning of the Exodus is that Hashem chose the Jewish people to be His special Holy nation.
The Jewish state is supposed to be a place where people are not humiliated for being Jews.
Should a university be sued because their officials at that time misread those events as relatively harmless?
If this is how the poor Palestinians are living, I can only wish some day God grants me such poverty.
By Rafi Farber
Allowing private actors to produce and act selfishly redistributes wealth better and more fairly than the government ever can.
By Tzvi Fishman
The darkness of materialism is so great, who can fight against it?
By Hadar Sela
This short film made by Oz Segev of Ma’ale Gamla last week, shows some of the swollen streams of the south and central Golan Heights which all drain into the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).
There are things we do not understand - so many things, but I believe God answers every prayer that is sent to Him.
It is reported that U.S. officials admit that there is no way to prevent Assad from using the chemical weapons that were prepared.
I said I am proud of the President for choosing the best man for the job at Treasury even though he is Jewish.
What is the Obama Administration doing in the face of the imminent collapse of the largest and historically most important and powerful state in the Arab world, now ruled by an anti-Western and anti-Semitic radical Islamic regime?
By Adam Levick
The Guardian’s Jordan page has absolutely nothing warning of the nation’s dangerous lurch to the extreme right abyss.
No matter how altruistic one is - if he is afraid to speak the truth out of fear of being attacked, that is not leadership.
It cannot be claimed it is fair for one party to attack another, but not for the other to attack back...
By Tzvi Fishman
We don’t want to rule over the goyim. We are to be their teachers, that’s all.
The election-video recalls the practical achievements of the government over the last four years.
In 1992, the Tehiya Party brought down Shamir's government over the Madrid Conference, leading to Labor's victory and the signing of the Oslo Accords.
The Palestinians and their advocates rationalize the use of children in jihad.
By Adam Levick
Fatah is celebrating its 48th anniversary, but the group was in fact founded in 1959 which was 54 years ago. So what 1965 event are they actually celebrating?
While it is the right of every American to lobby congress for their legitimate needs, I think our case has already been well made.
The Ottoman Empire was in decline for most of its existence.
By Rafi Farber
Just about everything they both say is idiotic.
By Tzvi Fishman
The only thing preventing it from becoming a reality is the tragic fact that so many Orthodox Jews prefer living in the Diaspora.
I fear that if Israel ever faces existential danger such as that threatened by Iran, Hagel might just say that he is not the Defense Minster of Israel.
This is one of those times that I wish the anti-Semites were right, and that there was actually a semi-covert, powerful and well-funded Jewish lobby forcing the US to do its bidding.
By Daniel Pipes
The 25-minute show was the most hare-brained and loony of my 35 years going on television.
People are complaining about floods and traffic and the cold and through it all, there is this amazing joy.
Modern Orthodox Jews will join the ranks of Moderate Charedim as a socially cohesive group.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our sages teach it was the women of Israel that saved the nation from Egypt.
Looking backon Rabin's 1993 interview in Time Magazine.
The Obama administration has succeeded in making the issue of Hagel all about Israel and Jews.
The average of last week's nine polls in Israel
Statements from various rabbis about the complicity of Haredi parties in the dangerous policies of left-wing governments in Israel.
By JoeSettler
I fully believe Avigdor Liberman when he says that he will uproot Jewish homes for peace. So should you.
Let's face it, people here don't vote for representatives. Party bosses and power players do.
As if you needed proof that the new Egypt is an enemy lying in wait.
I don’t know what is in the air in Israel that makes some people think that they are doing the right thing by God in sticking knives into the heads of their opponents.
By Daniel Pipes
It will be a long, hard road to traverse, but there is no short cut and it can succeed.
By Rafi Farber
It was not a political statement or a planned exercise in disobedience. It was a spontaneous act of religious devotion meant to provoke no one.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that just as in the Torah in Egypt "there arose a new king," Israel today cannot rely on the stability and benevolence of it's neighbor's regimes.
We live in a world that runs by the sun, and yet it is the moon the reminds my people of who we are and where we are going.
The economy decides if our bodies have a future. The values economy decides whether it will have a soul.
By Tzvi Fishman
A discussion of various practices related to the shovavim period.
I wish to thank all of my readers for your support in helping to make this blog the success that it is.
Thirty thousand more Arabs left Judea and Samaria for Jordan than came into Israel.
The ideal is a tolerant Jewish state which is nevertheless fully Jewish. This isn’t an easy sell to secular Israelis.
How good are the chances for a better understanding on both sides of the dispute when the presence of one word on a printed label triggers the involvement of the military, the police and the judiciary?
Inspiring the unaffiliated can be done through inspirational stories or through our own behavior as role models.
There is as little chance of the conditions described in the poll being fulfilled as there being a porcine airlift.
By Tzvi Fishman
Mount Sinai was to be a temporary stopover to pick up the Torah, but the goal of the Exodus was to bring the Jews to Israel.
A recent poll claims that most right-wing Israelis would support Palestinian state and the division of Jerusalem, but that is a very misguiding description of Israeli public opinion.
By Tzvi Fishman
It’s time for the Jews of America to get out of the country with their money while they can.
The facts tend to be less urgent for individuals with an ideological predisposition to kicking out at Israel at every opportunity.
Boring is one of God's greatest gifts, especially for a soldier's mother.
A policy of appeasing the US and EU can only aid the Arabs in their project to weaken Israel and slice away at it, bit by bit.
A Chareidi rabbi lamented the attempt to denigrate a kiddush hashem preformed by a dati-leumi (national-religious) student.
By Tzvi Fishman
According to Kabbalah, the period of "Shovavim" is especially conducive to rectifying sexual transgressions.
The extreme emphasis on tznius (modesty) has even led to husbands and wives being buried in separate locations.
By Hadar Sela
The site of Tel Lachish shows evidence of human habitation in Israel spanning many different historic periods over thousands of years.
Israelis have finally realized what a bill of goods they were sold in 1993, when they were suckered into the Oslo agreements.
By JoeSettler
You might recall the famous case of MK Azmi Bishara, not coincidentally, also from the Balad party.
By Adam Levick
Many commentators on the far left scolded those who would suggest a connection between culture and success – imputing racism to such arguments.
The tragedy that we face today is that everyone thinks they are the sole possessors of the answer.
By Tzvi Fishman
The history of January 1st should make Jews think twice before they celebrate New Year’s and take part in its heathen festivities.
The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a rare cache of sacred vessels from the early days of the Kingdom of Judea.
May God forever bless us with these messy floors and children who never listen for the siren, never look where to hide.
Here in Israel, keeping your head in the sand is seen as an unbearably expensive option.
By Adam Levick
Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil spent over 302 days in prison for criticizing the Egyptian Military after it took power in early 2011.
My son-in-law needs to believe that there will be no need for soldiers in another 18 or so years. Deep down, I want to believe that too.
I believe that the massacre in Newton would never have happened if guns were made illegal.
How would the Beit HaMikdash fit into the landscape of the Old City?
Crowd culture expects everyone to follow the leader, to join the meme, to move with the flow, but that is something that crazy people cannot do.
By Adam Levick
Those who insist that the "settlements" represent the biggest obstacle to peace should be asked to explain why their theory doesn't match with the history.
My harsh criticism is reserved for extremist behavior that is a result of those Hashkafos – even if it is from my own.
In the diary of terror victim Tal Kehrmann, Tal's parents found a picture of a camel, but it had not been colored in...
By Tzvi Fishman
In galut, wee become possessed by the foreign lands and cultures where we live.
Ukranian politician Igor Miroshnichenko said Mila Kunis, who left the Ukraine at a yong age, was a "zhydovka" and not a "true Ukrainian."
Human Rights Watch attacked Israel for bombing a media installation. Perhaps they have forgotten the story of Palestinian journalist Ahlam Tamimi.
By Hadar Sela
During the Hellenistic period, the city of Nysa-Scythopolis was founded. In 749 CE it was destroyed in the massive earthquake which hit the area.
By Tzvi Fishman
If you think that living in a Xtrian land doesn’t affect you at all, it’s because your brain has been so saturated with dreams of white Christmases.
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