יום ראשון, י״ג תמוז תשפ״וSunday, June 28, 2026
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As we look back over the past 50 years, we feel enriched that the Almighty has given us this opportunity to provide something that has proven to be so successful and so influential.
As we must go out to battle again, we are reminded of the chain of succession and success from the time of Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua ben Nun.
But of course, despite all these signals that something was very, very, very, wrong, nothing in my wildest imaginations conceived of the full horror that confronted me upon opening the news motzaei Simchat Torah.
LeAdam Maarechei Lev, UMeiHashem Maaneh Lashon – The thoughts of the heart are man’s, but from G-d comes the utterance of the tongue (Mishlei 16:1). I barely know what I am feeling yet I trust Hashem to give me the words.
By Sydell Stern
As I watch the Western and European news, which at first was so supportive, I knew that it would be only a matter of time before the support for Israel started to be challenged.
They are scared. They are dealing with emotions adults struggle to deal with. Breathe, I say to my youngest son. Breathe and know we have each other.
By Shui Haber
Our world seemed to shift overnight. Flights canceled, a family bar mitzvah postponed, the resurgence of online school – we were thrust back into a lifestyle reminiscent of the covid era.
Everyone has a husband/son/brother/nephew/cousin who has been called up, and ten days in, already everyone knows of someone who won’t be coming home.
As the days of this war proceed, possibly well-meaning people ask us to care for those who may be collateral damage. The actions of Hamas have made that quite impossible. The responsibility lies exclusively on their shoulders.
By Ariela Davis
The fear and stress are very real and while we are mostly managing now, the questions about how bad it could get are a place where our minds don’t want to go.
By Avi Ganz
We have all fallen into a sort of lull wherein this is the new normal, but it is not the new normal and it is not any normal, and guess what? Not everything needs to be normal.
By Naami Ganz
We are all being called up. None of us are untouched by this war. It may be different for you or for me, but at the end of the day, as Jewish people, we are all connected.
One thing of which we are certain, and something that provides moments of not just comfort, but of hope, is the response of the ordinary people of Israel to the difficult times in which we find ourselves.
We are a resilient people. We have survived thousands of years with a lot of hatred and evil directed at us over the generations. All we can do is trust that as a nation we will get through this. By hook or by crook.
Each circle is crucial. Each circle reinforces and enables the others, and each contributes to the extraordinary effort that we must collectively make.
I can handle navigating a slew of complicated existential questions from my kids, but when my sweet, caring eight-year-old daughter turned to me one night and asked the simplest question of all, But why? Why do they hate us so much? I have no answer for her.
Monday we had sirens in Jerusalem. It's very frightening. It's hard for me to rush anywhere, and the only place I can go is into the hallway – and then comes the loud boom, thank G-d.
By Hillel Fuld
We are in this together and we will win this, no matter how long it takes. We have no choice. As a nation, we’ve gotten through much harder times. They hurt. We lost so many. But we are here and we are not going anywhere.
He could be hit by a bus in Toronto, or die because he is a Jew in Israel. One death is meaningless; the other has infinite meaning.
But we citizens, especially religious citizens, must take this terrible debacle as a severe wake-up call to unite again as a people.
Can there be a better name for this child born on the brink of one of Israel’s worst wars than one that means – Hashem, listen to our hearts!
By Ben Waxman
If there is one thing that I can take comfort in, it is that the Arabs misunderstand us just as badly as we misunderstand them. If they thought that surprising Israel would bring us to our knees, then maybe they should have checked with Nassrallah about that assumption.
I don’t get it. What cruel version of humanity kidnaps a Filipino caretaker and her Alzheimer’s patient? For what purpose?
There is hardly a home in Israel that has not been touched. But the People of Israel are the eternal people – and we will prevail.
Hamas will ask for a lot for the hostages. Hamas will rightly believe that there will be intense political pressure to rescue the captives at almost any price. Although we think that no price is too high for the return of Jewish hostages, there may be some prices that are too high.
There are good people in the world. There were many non-Jews during the Holocaust who risked their lives to save Jews. Evil is real, and we have very real enemies. But not every Muslim, Arab, or Palestinian is our enemy.
By Avi Robinson
I hope you will decide that encouraging your children to experience Israeli solidarity, in the way that we have, is a worthy educational goal.
Given the scale of the tragedy and the weight of the fear we all feel, our societal divisions that are normally so acute – the religious secular divide, the huge arguments between right and left – seem to have evaporated completely.
There is one difference, though, between 1905 and 2023. We have our land and we have our army, and despite whatever shortcomings were exposed, our army, with Hashem’s help will punish the murders and continue to protect us.
I was there! I was in Bnei Brak. Not on Thursday evening, not at the raucous, red-shirted, “progressive” women’s demonstration. I was in Bnei Brak on the Sunday before...
It’s not democracy that’s worrying the opponents of the judicial reform, said Shine, it’s demography – the fact that the religious right is gaining in numbers and strength.
I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...
One of the thousands of people who were first responders on 9/11 is a resident of Efrat and a United Hatzalah volunteer. His name is Eric Andron.
Last week, I woke up one morning in my Nazareth home and was astonished to discover I was living under a racist, apartheid regime whose only purpose is “the promotion and perpetuation of the superiority of one group of people—the Jews.”
I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...
With a few Kalachnikov bullets, this despicable terrorist cut off the life of my precious and pure grandson, Amiad Yisrael, Hy"d.
Telling the story – the miracle story of the Six Day War – is my duty.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Eliyahu has rarely spoken about his experience of a child during the Holocaust, but after witnessing the world’s fading memor and after the advent of Holocaust denial he has changed his mind.
We will continue to oppose Iran’s malign influence. And under this president, America will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
By Jason Ciment
This year though I want to highlight a different aspect of the Convention – I’d like to talk about why 14,000 Jews leave their busy lives each year to come to AIPAC.
By Deborah Katz
At dawn on November 25, the first couple of hundred passengers from the Atlantic, including my parents, started boarding the Patria.... At 9:00 a.m., the bomb exploded.
This Friday, November 9, marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. To commemorate this tragic date – the beginning of European Jewry’s destruction – The Jewish Press asked six German Jews what they remember of that night and the following morning. The whole shul [in Frankfurt] was up in flames. Not only that, across the […]
Pesach in Israel is extraordinarily special. You can actually feel the chag in the air. For days beforehand, everyone is busy cleaning and preparing for the holiday.
We sat down, ate, drank, sang, ate dessert, started singing some more – and in the middle of our Shabbat song the commander's military phone started ringing...
By Edwin Black
The Farhud occurred June 1&2 1941 in Iraq, effectively ending 2,600 yrs of Jewish life in Arab lands
Rav Goren, a general and the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli army, recalls the excitement of and hurdles to being the first Jew to open the gates of the Cave of the Patriarchs in more than a thousand years
By Daniel Luria
The True Builder of United Jerusalem in Our Times
My family was at the Western Wall in Jerusalem along with tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends...
I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...
By Beth Perkel
The arm of my grandmother had a scar, a branding of the Holocaust that was her young adulthood amidst the fires of Auschwitz.
The best hasbara campaign to defend Israel and Judaism will never really be enough; there is not the trust and common language needed for such efforts. The gap can be bridged not via hasbara but via joint Jewish-Islamic courts.
Ted Cruz is a true Oheiv Yisroel and the kind of unyielding moral warrior we need in the White House.
Today (10 Nissan – April 18) is the 21st yahrzeit of my daughter Alisa Flatow, Hy”d. I’d like to share with readers of The Jewish Press some personal reflections on the events of 1995 and what has happened since.
It was a mistake to have filed sexual misconduct accusations against Dershowitz and the charges are hereby withdrawn
By Jason Ciment
All I could think of as a first-timer drinking the Cool-Aid, was where do I sign up for next year.
By Guest Author
Only the Rabbi and his wife had a personal escort of guards accompany them on the Temple Mount. Why?
Def. of Chutzpah: 2 super successful Israeli Arabs told the crowd Israel oppresses its Arab citizens
I was at Ben Gurion Airport and suddenly was surrounded by security guards, guns pointed at me.
The same anti-Semitic hatred I saw in Yad Vashem is exists day after day, especially in Jerusalem
Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu has some final words for JewishPress.com readers before he moves on to his next phase in life...
By Guest Author
An appeal to American Jews to stop funding organizations that harm Israel's Defense Forces
By Leah Bowman
I decided that I’m not going to let terror keep me away from what I love to do, and all the more so, Jerusalem and guiding throughout Israel.
Don’t panic. Don’t stop your car. Don’t shoot. And most importantly, don’t give the enemy a victory by staying off the roads.
Yehudit's backstory and her poems related to the Yom Kippur War are a MUST read
"Yesha" and Binyamin Regional Council leaders said the attack "is not the path of Jews in Judea and Samaria."
If the Iran deal passes, Obama's WH becomes world's leading financier of terrorism against Americans
“I hold the woman’s place over that of men in every fundamental aspect of public and private life."
I was entranced by Kaddish, a song of sorrow of the whole of Israel for the 1000s of years of exile
Latvia, July 4, 1941 they forced many Jews in the shul putting it on fire; everyone was burned alive
No longer will delegitimization efforts go unchallenged. That's a silence we will continue to break.
By Tzvi Fishman
To boost aliya, Israel will encourage Marshall’s, Costco, K Mart & Entenmann’s Bakeries to open here
Coke, the "Real Thing," may be in REAL trouble.
By Elie Pieprz
In Ayala's case, the art of receiving can have an even bigger impact than the art of giving.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Hundreds visited Oz ve Gaon to mark 1 year since the abduction of Gilad, Eyal & Naftali, HY”D.
By David Herman
During my spiritual journey I discovered G-d spoke to man only once, to the Jewish people at Sinai
By Nathan Lewin
FBI’s undercover agents contacted ORA (Org. for the Resolution of Agunot) pretending to be an agunah
The Ravens' Ray Lewis screamed that violence is never the answer." Unfortunately, he is wrong.
The one reason to make Aliyah outweighs all the arguments not to move to Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
An Israeli actor pal asked me why I knew nothing about Judaism-The question hit like a thunderbolt
By Guest Author
Rav Lichtenstein did not learn Tanaim, Amoraim, Rishonim and Achronim, rather he learned with them
By Guest Author
"Rav Lichtenstein's vision and inspiration served to guide the development of Tzohar."
Told to conceal Jewish symbols- kippa/tzitzit-I despaired having to hide my Jewishness in Jerusalem
The decision to not publicly light the Menorah in Sydney, epitomizes the eternal dilemma of Judaism and Jews in the Diaspora.
A ‘good news’ story from the Nepal avalanche disaster to warm your heart. Take out your Kleenex.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority cannot even agree to move their clocks back on the same day.
Is Woodstock still leading the world to destruction?
There is much I can write you about what is going here, but I am wondering what I should not write. I will start by imagining that I am you, sitting at home in the Los Angeles area and flipping back and forth between the weather, traffic reports, the Ukraine, Mexican illegals and Gaza. No […]
We mourn the dead, wish a speedy recovery to the wounded, and pray that God guides the government.
The only thing disproportionate is the world’s hatred of Israel.
"They took him and cast him into the pit. (Gen. 37:24). Rashi: “There was no water; there were snakes and scorpions."
"I'm an old hitchhiker, I wonder what's a waitin' ‘round the bend" - John Denver.
June 26, 2026 
