By Rafi Farber
Bibi wants the smallest Likud possible while still maintaining his PM seat.
Left, Right or Center Jameel advises you on which party to vote for.
By Tzvi Fishman
“How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” King David asks. The answer is that we can’t.
A Hebrew University professor suggests that the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheik Jarrah is actually the Biblical town of Nob, where David fled from Saul.
Although I allow people to post anonymously (albeit with at least an alias) I would prefer that people stand by their words and not be afraid of them.
Republicans who try to adapt to liberal values are pursuing a dead end.
Originally published at the Elder of Ziyon blog.
President Obama, one could easily accuse the US of not knowing what is in their best interests. After all, they re-elected you, didn't they?
Sometimes I read something that is so on-target and illuminating that I want to say “stop what you are doing and read this now!” Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian journalist who was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2008 and was Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She has just announced that she is leaving […]
How many times can we be said to have turned right? And why are journalists surprised?
By Tzvi Fishman
By sitting in a Netanyahu-led government the Jewish Home would be an accomplice to the theft of the Land of Israel.
The thugs on the ground in Europe and the Obama Administration now simply want to impose the UN’s diktat on Israel.
Analysis released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research contains a wealth of insights which have been ignored by the media.
There are always people who in cases like this will cast the victim as a provocateur.
Peace will hold so long as the Egyptians believe that we are strong enough and well trained enough to defeat them again.
Splitting votes among right-wing parties could lead to a left-wing government.
By JoeSettler
Temple Mount, Temple, Messiah, Rebuilt Temple, Jeremy Gimpel, Jewish Home, HaBayit Hayehudi, Tzipi Livni, Video,
By Tzvi Fishman
The novel, Tevye in the Promised Land, won the Israel Ministry of Education Award for Creativity and Jewish Culture.
65 years ago this week, 35 student soldiers set out from Jerusalem to bring much needed supplies to the kibbutzim in the besieged Etzion Bloc south of the city.
As predicted here, Mori's anti-Israel rants will have no affect on U.S. policy of aiding Egypt's transition to an Islamist democracy-dictatorship.
Individual therapy can be very helpful as long as the therapist does not turn his or her client against the spouse without hearing their side of it.
By Rafi Farber
There is nothing qualitatively different between a trillion dollar coin, and a one dollar bill.
The Channel 10 report included the fact that none of the Likud's district candidates would get in and even MK Carmel Shama could be on the chopping bloc.
By Tzvi Fishman
Don’t cast your vote for a party that condemns Torah values and honest and dedicated people who have led the way in the education of our youth and the settlement of Eretz Yisrael.
If Schumer buys Hagel's transformation so will a majority of senators.
Among the many things Judaism can do for you is to give meaning to your life.
I'd suggest it is Israel that is saving the West, if only they'd let us.
Trump even works in the Likud's election slogan, "A strong prime minister is a strong Israel."
The JewishPress.com was the first major English language Jewish/Israel news publication to have the story about the video.
When Jews are attacked in broad daylight in the world's holiest city, something is horrifically wrong in Israel.
By now a critical mass of Charedim has learned and internalized that the evils – which are real – are not the only thing the internet has to offer.
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.