יום שישי, כ״ה תמוז תשפ״וFriday, July 10, 2026
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From that time on, I always found myself in the company of Jewish people.
A Q&A with Dov Lipman, a Voice for Anglos in Israel
What differentiates us is that we include everybody – men, women, Jewish and non-Jewish alike – whereas the other Hatzalah groups are composed of Jewish men, in many communities ultra-Orthodox men only.
A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!
By Alex Traiman
"By putting a consulate in Jerusalem and signaling a separate mission and a separate capital to another country, you are essentially dividing Jerusalem," said Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman
Xi Jinping was pressuring countries not to impose travel restrictions and quarantines on people arriving from China while he was locking down his own country.
In terms of previous generations: Gender roles were far more defined in previous generations and people had much simpler expectations and thus were able to tolerate things to a much greater extent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis made history as the first-ever Israeli woman appointed to be the sole rabbinic leader of an Orthodox synagogue, the Shirat Hatamar congregation in Efrat.
By Tzvi Fishman
Professor Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard University has written, “We are an improbable and fragile entity…the result of a staggeringly improbable series of events.… It fills us with amazement that human beings exist at all.”
The death in Jerusalem of the 86-year-old leader has robbed the Jewish world of one of its towering figures at a time when it is particularly ill-equipped for such a loss.
By Tzvi Fishman
There was a picture of Herzl on his wall along with pictures of his father and the Vilna Gaon and Baal HaTanya.
There are more people in downtown Buffalo at night than there are in Times Square.
By Israel Hayom
In an exclusive interview, Jonathan Pollard describes coming home to Israel after decades in prison in the United States.
The Sefer Chassidim says that a person is supposed to conduct himself with a non-Jew the same way he conducts himself with a Jew.
“These deals are complex and take a great deal of time, but any one thing could spark the right opportunity for a deal to actually be announced and quickly consummated, as we have seen,” said former White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt.
MK Bezalel Smotrich sat down with Rabbi Sholom Gold and Rabbi Meyer Fendel to discuss the different needs of Olim in Israel. Rabbi Gold and Rabbi Fendel are both Olim themselves who have established Jewish communities throughout the world.
We said it's crazy to underwrite the Palestinian Authority and send American taxpayer money there while they’re threatening Israel. It’s not only immoral; it violates the Taylor Force Act.
By Tzvi Fishman
In one case, a father threatened to take violent revenge on the local authorities, and the next day, his child, who had supposedly died, was returned.
I started reading and learning and collecting, and now I have over, I’d say, about 10,000 items – all kept very neatly in one room in my house. And to this day, all these years later, it’s still a thrill for me.
By Tzvi Fishman
One of the last Jewish artifacts to be spirited out of the Jewish Quarter before its fall in the 1948 War of Independence was a wrapped bag containing the remnants of Rav Nachman’s chair.
I don’t think cancel culture is healthy for anyone. I mean, you look at someone the wrong way and you get canceled.
By Tzvi Fishman
How long must Jews be second class citizens in our own Jewish homeland?
By Tzvi Fishman
The sole purpose of all the afflictions which smite us in our exile is to arouse us to return to our Holy Land….
An interview with David Schoen, Donald Trump’s orthodox impeachment lawyer.
By Baruch Lytle
I feel our community needs someone who can keep up the mantle of Chaim Deutsch and really push for what we need.
One of the reasons I wrote this book is because the years 1945-1950 are absolutely critical for the history of Zionism and the Jewish people, and we know nothing about them.
By Tzvi Fishman
Heaven forbid to judge the Children of Israel in a less than positive fashion, but, to our sorrow, this is the situation.
By Tzvi Fishman
Today, even in Afghanistan and Pakistan, many people have Internet. We have a page on Facebook, and we receive many comments from Afghans who trace their lineage back to Yaakov Avinu.
Let’s be clear: the MOU [memorandum of understanding with Israel] that the Obama administration entered into is non-negotiable. None of that money can be taken off the table. Israel has the right to defend itself and that money is non-negotiable.
By Tzvi Fishman
Everyone and his brother thinks he’s already the prime minister and that everyone else is completely incompetent.
They were very old-fashioned and very unashamed about their Judaism…. And they weren’t tormented by the kinds of questions that torment people today.
By Tzvi Fishman
Soulika requested that she be given metal clips…which she dug into her flesh and tied to her garment so that her naked body wouldn’t be exposed to the public.
In halacha, the foods that require the most supervision are meat, wine, and cheese. Now, within the cheese category, not everything is as difficult to make as my cheeses.
There seems to be unlimited power that the judicial branch has completely failed to protect us from.
By Baruch Lytle
I can always imagine…what my life would have been like if we had not left Iran. So, it was natural for me to build my career around wanting to deliver those things for other people.
By Alex Traiman
“You can see nations all across the world coming to understand that the Palestinians have rejected reasonable offers to negotiate time and time again. And the leadership has simply failed its own people,” says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The folks claiming only a lunatic would inquire about fraud are used-car salesman denigrating a customer who wants to pop the hood.
Bebinyan Yerushalayim nenucham. (In the rebuilding of Jerusalem shall we be comforted.)
By Tzvi Fishman
Like many people who’ve heard him speak, I walked out of that room a different person than when I entered.
As a chaplain in the army, I have met countless Christians who quote the verse from Lech Lecha to me, “And I [G-d] will bless those who bless you..."
By Alex Traiman
“We've done more for the cause of peace within this region than any administration in the history of the United States. And, I think those opposing us just are not seeing the situation clearly,” America’s envoy to the Jewish state tells JNS in a wide-ranging interview.
If it looks like a witch-hunt, swims like a witch-hunt, and quacks like a witch-hunt, then it’s probably a witch-hunt.
When you call somebody a racist or a Nazi, civility has ended.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Kook called upon all lovers of Judaism to write articles in opposition to the preachers of secularism.
I don't think you necessarily learn healthy social skills by being thrown into the pack with everybody.
By Tzvi Fishman
The medical team at the hospital reported that his situation was dangerous. Then he began using our Kinor Lev method according to my telephone instructions.
By Tzvi Fishman
Since 1986, we’ve been working to uncover the ancient site of the City of David via archeological digs in conjunction with the Israel Antiquities Authority.
By Tzvi Fishman
One of the Gra's students moved to Tzfat where he dressed as a Sefardic Jew and learned Arabic.
We have shuls in Dubai and in Abu Dhabi. In addition to the 2,000-3,000 Jews who live here, we now have thousands of Jewish tourists who are already starting to come.
By Sabina Lohr
Rivka Abramovitz reads the e-mail, her curiosity intensifying into shock. She looks up at the Hasidic Jewish family seated around her. Should she tell them what the e-mail said? Definitely, no. Her long-lost mother’s sudden e-mail appearance had just told this Jewish woman that she is actually Arab.
By Tzvi Fishman
In addition, in a symbolic attempt to mirror Rav Adin’s monumental work, hundreds of us joined together to study the entire Tanach, Mishnah, Talmud, Rambam, Zohar, and Tanya in time for the shloshim.
In Psalms, we say, “Chadeish yameinu ke’kedem – Renew our days as of old.” In other words, revive today with the fire and passion of those early, founding days. “Make America Great Again” can refer to such an endeavor.
Forced to defend Judaism and their Jewish brethren, these rabbis summoned their best arguments and refused to back down – often at the cost of their lives. They were both unfree and free at the same time.
By Tzvi Fishman
The American system is unique in that it is federal and bicameral and is predicated on a real separation of powers. Israel is more like the European system, with which the early Zionists were more familiar.
If you engage in BDS, you will be held accountable, you will be sued, and eventually - if you're stupid enough to go to court - you will be held liable.
God didn't give us this great free republic so that eventually we would just say, Well, it's not going so well, we're going to just let it go.
By Tzvi Fishman
Shaare Zedek is working on a new 50-bed Corona Department so that we won’t have to requisition beds in our Internal Medicine Department come wintertime.
An exclusive interview with Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon about ‘JobKatif’ a nonprofit organization to aid the Gush Katif evacuees in finding employment he established 15 years ago, about the employment programs he has developed since, about the unemployment crisis in the wake of the COVID-19, and about what the state must do immediately to solve the employment crisis. Clue: LISTEN
“In Rav Yechiel’s disputation, he says the Talmud’s discriminatory laws against non-Jews don’t apply to Christians.”
By Sandy Eller
When you wear a yarmulka or a sheitel, you are wearing a uniform of sorts that represents your service to a higher power. That type of pride carries over perfectly into the pride of being a representative of the Air Force.
By Tzvi Fishman
A main reason for this was that all through the initial wave, the public was bombarded with catastrophic scenarios in which tens of thousands would die.
By Tzvi Fishman
Jean Jacques Rousseau asserted that culture transforms man into an egotistical and lust-filled creature, places him in constant competition with others, and causes him to be a jealous liar.
You got the message either subtly or not so subtly that America was a great country, that its founding made it great and unique in the history of nations, and that we are part of that American project.
By Tzvi Fishman
Suddenly, Arabs, recruited by leftist groups, came forward claiming that they or their fathers had planted olive trees on the site or grazed their sheep there.
By Tzvi Fishman
This means to stand strong and uncompromising regarding our rights to all of Eretz Yisrael, even if that means arousing the displeasure of President Trump.
By Tzvi Fishman
If the State of Israel has a G-d, its name is 'Sheket' - keep quiet. Just leave things the way they are.
By Tzvi Fishman
I agree with Rav Shlomo Aviner that if you enjoy a person's company, and he or she has a reverence for Hashem and Torah, that's reason enough to continue dating.
Stealing a pair of sneakers has to do with emotions? The people who are doing this are doing it lishmah, in memory of the black victim? Really?
By Tzvi Fishman
It could easily drag on for years. There are mountains of files of supposed evidence and an incredibly long list of witnesses, both for and against.
Other organizations also bring Spanish-language journalists to Israel, but we’re the only organization that has a follow-up mechanism and that works 24/7 to provide these journalists and influencers with anything they need to cover Israel.
It was a family project from the beginning, and our children helped out as Shalva counselors – doing music, art, and caring for the other children. We couldn’t have done it without them.
By Tzvi Fishman
Arab women and children had rifles like the men. We had to battle our way from house to house. Arab men dressed as women surprised more than one of our troops.
By Tzvi Fishman
There have been many other cases where Arab rights have been given precedence over Jewish rights and where liberal philosophies have been championed over Jewish ones in the name of personal freedom.
Why can't a chassan send a simple beautiful bouquet? Why must it be a massive, towering monstrosity?
By Ariel Kahana
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman believes that applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria can take place in a matter of weeks. In a special interview, he dismisses the Left's criticism, saying, "We have doubled areas A' and B' and reassures the Right it will only have to contend with a Palestinian state "if the Palestinians become Canadian."
By Nissan Tovey
Roy tried to fill that void with meaning by volunteering for the usual causes du jour, but the frail set of values that he lived by always seemed to collapse upon deep reflection.
In his store, customers are asked to wear masks and stay six feet away from each other.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Maimon spoke with a directness that Ben-Gurion admired. In addition to his erudition in Torah, he had a vast knowledge of secular subjects as well.
By Tzvi Fishman
To foil his plan, the Jewish slaves who carried the menorah, upon crossing the Tiber River, threw it off the bridge, where it remains to this day buried in the muddy depths of the river.
“After 1967, Rabbi Twersky and Rav Soloveitchik ate breakfast, lunch, and supper together three days a week, spent Shabbasos together, and formally had chavrusa time together.”
By Tzvi Fishman
The doctor has precedence. A king does not have precedence over a doctor who can save the lives of many others.
My mother believed in the pinteleh Yid that exists in every Jew. And she would never ever, ever allow herself, or anyone else, to give up hope on any neshamah.
By Tzvi Fishman
Interview with Rabbi Yitzhak Gelbstein, head of the General Chevra Kadisha Society in Jerusalem.
Eating disorders often thrive in secrecy, preventing other people from noticing odd behaviors and challenging them.
By Tzvi Fishman
The other ancient, sealed gates of Har HaBayit are composed of thick barricades of mud and stone, but the five-meter-high Wilson’s Gate crumpled into dust after a few hours of ardent sledgehammering.
By Tzvi Fishman
Bibi and Bennett knew what the outcome would be, and rejected us and our constituents anyway.
By dvora
I had the honor to stand beside him as he reached this mountain peak in his life.
By Sandy Eller
Tzipi spends hours with parents, holding hands and offering both solace and a listening ear.
Glanz offers a unique service with zero competition. She helps her clients make Israel's bureaucracy work for them instead of against them.
By Tzvi Fishman
What Bibi hasn’t done to advance building in Yesha and Jerusalem for the past 10 years, he is frantically doing now before the elections to draw more votes from the Right to Likud.
The cops I talk to see the worst of underclass behavior, but they fervently believe they’re supported by the good people in the community and continue to work on their behalf.
By Tzvi Fishman
The swarming type that devour everything in their path are called locusts of the desert. They visited us in Israel a few years ago, which gave us an opportunity to study and eat them.
The Kashuela Farm was founded on May 24, 2012. It is named after Yaakov Zarchi, a Palmach fighter whose nickname was Kashuela.
By Tzvi Fishman
I’ve always loved stories of Jewish bravery, especially under very difficult conditions. Tales of Jews who guarded the mitzvos, even when it seemed impossible, I’ve always found very inspiring.
By Tzvi Fishman
Two-hundred years ago, a famine wiped out a third of the community and another third were forced to adopt Christianity.
By Elliot Resnick and Shlomo Greenwald
I think the inability to either charge or hold [someone for] crimes that people might view as petty crimes is going to lead to a deterioration of conditions in neighborhoods.
By Tzvi Fishman
The people who speak about a halachic state don’t know what they’re talking about.
By Tzvi Fishman
On a national level, I saw that the settlement movement was put on freeze and that the integrity of the Jewish state and the Torah were being threatened by the spread of liberalism, especially in the Religious Zionist camp.
By Tzvi Fishman
Overnight, the Arabs and Bedouins erect a few tents and shacks on a piece of deserted land, then claim that their grandparents lived there for hundreds of years.
July 10, 2026 
