By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Isaac Herzog: “Sons and daughters of Abraham can reside together in peaceful coexistence.”
No, Mt. Sinai is not having a sequel-but there is a lab in Israel...
By Sarah Stern
The agonizing reality is that no matter how polite one is—no matter how humanistic, how compassionate—there will be those who single us out for hatred simply because we are Jews.
By COLlive.com
The attacker threatened the woman, saying, “you little Jewish girl better get off this train before I hurt you."
Whether or not it is true that more Americans hold antisemitic views than in the past, my guess is that American Jews are right to be concerned, because the fragmentation and disintegration of American society that is occurring now has released numerous demons, including antisemitic ones – and the demons are increasingly violent
Woke culture demands ritual acknowledgements about Native Americans. Those, however, who think this should also apply to Palestinians don’t understand that Jews are indigenous in Israel.
Lifting of Covid lockdowns in Europe and Operation Guardian of the Walls led to a dramatic increase in antisemitism.
As Arabs increasingly turn towards Israel and survival, the West continues in the opposite direction.
What do you do when there’s no one left to hate?
Looking ahead, this is what I see: A rotten nuclear deal with Iran, conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah, government stability but stagnation, and despite it all – a banner economic year.
If people are basically good, what is the Torah for? What are all the commandments for? If people are basically good, why would God need to command us ...?
By COLlive.com
The creatures were a unique species of harvesting ants that are found specifically in the Negev region.
The Texas hostage-taker wanted to release an anti-Semitic terrorist whose freedom is sought by Muslim groups. Is it Islamophobic to discuss who might have inspired the incident?
By Israel Hayom
Only 35,000 news small businesses opened in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The current government has adopted a post-Zionist ethos and governing agenda. We must reinstate the Jewish consensus around Zionism in our schools, media, and politics.
A terrorist attempted to stab people waiting at a bus stop at the Gush Etzion junction.
By Jeff Dunetz
The die was cast. The love affair between Jewish and Black Leadership, fomented by two great men, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, was fractured by the Jew-hatred of Dr. King’s successors.
Unfortunately, many Israeli politicians seem to have internalized the mindset that is promoted by the psywar campaign
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Though we’re already more than a week into January, even a belated New Year’s resolution could make a difference in someone else’s life—and help restore a sense of optimism to ours
A massive demonstration held Thursday night outside the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem marked four weeks since the murder of Yehuda Dimentman in a terrorist attack outside of Homesh in Samaria. Dimentman, who studied at the yeshiva there, died after he was shot in the neck. Two other people were wounded in the attack. Dimentman […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman concluded that he could not exercise jurisdiction over the case, despite being allowed to by the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Arabs plant farms and groves to lay claim to the land.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF stated that the two officers were killed “during a security patrol near an IDF base in the Jordan Valley.
Every opportunity should be utilized to express to the Palestinians that their rejectionism will be defeated, and that the Jewish state will ultimately emerge victorious.
The Iranians approached the Israelis, mostly females of Persian ancestry, through Facebook, usually by pretending to be an Iranian Jew named “Rambod Namdar.”
Despite the halt, Ra'am isn't done with their demands from Bennett.
By Ben Cohen
The poisoning of our society's discourse with pseudo-scientific claims and conspiracy theories, often rooted in medieval prejudices about Jews, is destroying trust in education, in government and worst of all, in each other.
Every government action must be seen through the prism of whether it helps defeat Palestinian rejectionism.
The IDF Civil Administration will be meeting with the farmers of the Arugot Farm
This just in: "Antisemitism is no longer a problem." Now back to the news
Jeremy Gimpel was #13 on Naftali Bennett's list when Bennett first entered politics in Bayit Yehudi.
Freedom reigns...for now, at least
2022 will require strategic vision, personal integrity, and an appreciation that America's leadership role in the 21st Century will be tested as never before
By COLlive.com
The rabbi led a yeshiva high school for 32 years, founded a rabbinic ordination program, authored sacred books and was known for his Torah scholarship and knowledge.
Biden's policies of appeasement towards Iran and Russia are bad enough. But the greatest threat to the free world today comes from China. Biden has a long record of appeasing Beijing.
By COLlive.com
Both Menashe Shapiro and Fred Kreizman are graduates of Yeshiva University.
COVID-19 has come with us into the New Year, bringing with it another wave of grim tidings.
Three people were onboard.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Over 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries and Iran between 1948 and 1967. It is estimated that they left behind property worth approximately $150 billion.
The pandemic made us an even lonelier nation.
The IDF has begun hitting Hamas targets in Gaza, in retaliation for the two rockets launched by Hamas at Tel Aviv on Saturday morning.
For those who seek silver linings in the dark clouds that gather, here are 10 positives from 2021.
U.S. pressure against the Atarot housing project north of Jerusalem was likely meant to keep the two-state option alive.
He was far more vocal about Israel’s imperfections than about the genocides in Rwanda, Darfur and Cambodia.
By Sarah Stern
“Thought police” have cancelled speakers on campus. Students even cancel themselves over fear of arousing the angry mob. And, as is so often the case, the first victims of this particular form of tyranny are the Jews.
I see a version of history being taught in which the US and the West in general are presented as the greatest of evils. Young people are learning to despise their own country and to want to destroy it, rather than to identify with it and improve it.
Anyone connected to reality would be perplexed by church leaders' campaign to blame Israeli Jews for driving Christians out of Israel, as the country's Christian population actually increased last year.
By Moshe Dann
Arabs who call themselves Palestinians—derived from the word “Philistines,” an invading force from the Aegean Sea—use the word “indigenous” to legitimatize their efforts to carry out their struggle against Israel’s existence.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The march comes amid rumors that the government plans to destroy the yeshiva at Homesh and ban all Israeli entry to the area.
Defense Minister Gantz says Iran’s UAV arsenal is “one of the most significant tools” developed by Tehran.
Is it possible to stem the tide of assimilation that is ravaging Diaspora Jewry?
By Ben Cohen
We cannot prevent the cycles of history from returning to batter us with the same discredited tropes, but we can prepare ourselves more astutely.
If we want to survive here, we need to regain the respect that we have lost as a result of our spiritual weakness. How do we do that? A step at a time. Start with executing terrorist murderers, then punish their families, their clans, their hometowns. Make terrorism more painful for them than for us
There is no contradiction inherent in the formulation “a Jewish and democratic state,” because all citizens, Jews and Arabs, have full civil and political rights. That is true, as far as it goes. But it’s our country, not theirs.
Claims of a spike in settler violence made headlines while “routine” terror attacks, including murder by Palestinian Arabs against Jews, are downplayed or treated as justified.
Hamas has been using the border crossings to infiltrate Israel, and exploiting the generously awarded commercial permits for terrorist activity.
Israel must expose Hamas’s covert military activity in Lebanon and hold the Lebanese government responsible for any hostile action against Israel.
By COLlive.com
The shul has been using the land to build a sukkah since 1963. Mohammed Farag, their neighbor, bought his house adjacent to the land in 2016.
By Israel Hayom
A Washington Post report attributing two strikes on Syrian chemical weapons manufacturing facilities does not make it clear why the US was not the one to attack, despite having promised it would not allow the Syrians to obtain chemical weapons.
Jerusalem Arabs do not want the neighborhoods they live in transferred to Palestinian Authority rule.
By Guy Millière
The behavior of the Biden administration towards Israel is all the more worrying in that at the same time, it places itself in a weak position regarding negotiations with Iran
Israel attacked multiple Syrian military sites over the past 2 years to prevent the production of chemical weapons.
While the Jewish community reacts to hate when it's banging at the door, it makes the fatal error of ignoring the root causes in the futile hope it will all blow over
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This dramatic statement, which was carried by the entire Israeli media over the weekend.
By Israel Hayom
There are those who say the West's victory over the Soviet Union was the worst thing to happen to the US as it ironically expedited America's downfall. Can we be sure Beijing will be the one to take Washington's place?
Blurting out the first thought that comes to mind is now a global habit, one without borders, filters or, apparently, hesitation.
If it's legal does that mean it's also permissible according to Jewish law and Jewish values?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has been facing a growing number of attacks in the cyber realm in recent months.
The 15-year-old terrorist ran into her school to escape after the attack.
By Bennett Ruda
Did Israel's initial slow response to Hamas' barrage influence cause the international community's to downplay Hamas terror threat?
There may well be things more depraved than an Israeli minister soliciting funds for a self-declared mortal foe, but none comes readily to mind
"A bad deal with the Iranians will have implications for our national security."
The U.S. Constitution is not "waived" due to disease or natural disaster. We must beware of politicians and other officials who seek to exercise power through "mandates" without a single vote or the active exercise of informed consent.
With more hackers targeting health care, technology helps safeguard patients and their records from ransomware and other money-making attacks.
Barnea: “Not in the coming years, never, it’s my commitment, it’s the Mossad’s commitment.”
Are economic relations and trade effective tools with which Western democracies could persuade totalitarian states to introduce reforms that could lead to democratization?
By Edwin Black
That name, Yom HaGirush, marks when Jewish communities across many countries were once again dispossessed, but became repossessed in the free nation of Israel.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the Tomb of the Patriarchs was a reminder of both Jewish rights and the intractable and irrational nature of a conflict that Palestinians don’t wish to end.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
"She was later taken by ambulance while still undergoing CPR, to the Carmel Medical Center."
Bidentiochus’ Chanukah gift to the Jews is an Islamic terrorist consulate in Jerusalem.
In the intervening years between the Great Revolt in 70 CE and the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 130 CE, Yavne became the most important Jewish spiritual center in the country.
By Jeff Dunetz
Despite what you may have been told, the meaning of Chanukah is not “let’s come up with a holiday around Christmas time
In response to the newly discovered 'Omicron' strain of the Coronavirus...
So many of us are caught in the hamster wheel of life--just get off for an instant to savor the moment
According to Haaretz, the warden did not investigate the internal complaint and concealed it when the IPS began investigating the case.
Several days ago, Eliyahu told a friend that after years in the army, in yeshiva, and in agriculture, he felt that when working at the Kotel he was completely living his dream.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
nce again, the world struggles, and fails, to understand that there is no essential difference between Zionism – the movement to restore a national Jewish presence in the Holy Land – and Judaism. It is impossible to be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic, and vice-versa.
"It's Sodom and Gomorrah in the State of Israel."
The discourse about Israel in Dubai and Ramallah couldn't be more different: cooperation versus confrontation, celebration versus demonization
It will take a long time to repair the damage that the machinations used to ensconce the current coalition have wrought.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Thousands of Israelis gathered at the Modi’in cemetery on Monday to accompany Eli Kay on his final journey.
What prevents Israel from doing what’s necessary to regain her lost honor?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Kay, worked at the Kotel, served in the IDF’s Paratroops Division, was engaged to be married in a few months and was a yeshiva student learning in Kiryat Gat.
There are reports of Israeli dead and wounded. The terrorist was neutralized.
Happiness is not an emotion; it is a decision. Stop waiting passively to feel it and start actively choosing to be it.
Riots and looting broke out around the country in response to the not guilty verdict.
The U.S. Constitution isn’t a blueprint for a purely secular country. But it guarantees that all creeds are welcome and that the nation has no state religion. Those who would change that endanger everyone’s rights.
The couple were arrested by Turkey for taking a picture during their vacation.