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By Tzvi Fishman
The Yalkut Shemoni says that the year Mashiach comes, the Iranians will wreak great havoc in the world.
Hidden away in the storage room, Shmuel Aryeh's Torah school survived the worst pogrom Europe had ever seen.
By Tzvi Fishman
The writing must be for the sake of the mitzvah, and kavanah is especially required when writing the names of Hashem.
If somebody reads that Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs than people of Scots-Irish descent – and I speak as a Scots-Irish person – and they feel resentful, that’s their problem.
By Libi Astaire
Those of us who engage in the pursuit of factual accuracy do so out of love.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Hague is called the International Court of Justice? It is the International Court of Evil.
Instead of choosing to hide her pain, Franciska took a difficult situation and found a way to shine a light on it to help women seeking to find solace within their hardest moments.
A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!
In Iran, Persian Jews didn’t have the opportunity to learn. When they came here, they actually wanted to celebrate Iranian non-Jewish holidays – because that’s what they knew.
By Tzvi Fishman
After the outburst of yelling, the voice sweetened with promises to give us exclusive scoops in the future if we cooperated. We went ahead and published the story.
By Baruch Lytle
Moskowitz, who later became an NYPD office, said the skills he teaches are strictly for defense, not offense, though “sometimes a quick offense is the best defense.”
By Bennett Ruda
The conclusion of the interview with Alex Ryvchin on his new book: Zionism As A Reflection of Jewish History
By Tzvi Fishman
The vast majority of Jews... called Yehudah a fanatic and messianic dreamer, who endangered the security of the nation.
By Tzvi Fishman
Since fast-food hamburgers are pre-cooked before Shabbat, cooking is not a problem. The warming mechanism, though, is not like a regular Shabbat platter.
Israel certainly played a pivotal role in allowing her to see herself as part of the Jewish people.
Many attempts to secularize Judaism describe halachot as utilitarian. They’re useful for certain purposes as opposed to being acts in which you can connect to a personal G-d.
By Tzvi Fishman
There is no greater wickedness than a rabbi declaring a person guilty before his trial, and the evil is multiplied a thousand-fold when the person in question is the country’s leader.
By Tzvi Fishman
We want to create a boomerang effect, whereby the lies of the world boomerang in its face when confronted with the truth.
While really experiencing the Land of Israel for the first time at 17, Kowalsky recalls that “Everything about it was wow!”
I think we kind of understood then - though we now understand completely - that Shlomo could not be our own private uncle. He was, in a sense, everyone's uncle.
The first thing we have to do is recognize the problem. How do you solve a problem if you don’t even recognize where it’s coming from?
By Tzvi Fishman
Everyone knows a secular person or two. Why not invite them to experience the beauty of a Shabbat?
By Tzvi Fishman
Whenever people called him a racist, he would answer, “I don’t hate Arabs – I love Jews.”
I was trying to be successful in both roles, as a lawyer and as a mother. Staying at home all day with three very young children also wouldn't have been easy for me!
By Tzvi Fishman
The Brit Olam organization is in contact with thousands of Bnei Noach who seek spiritual and halachic guidance.
By Noa Amouyal
Unit 669 shows a face of the IDF that many outside of Israel are not familiar with.
Desbois is not just interested in where the Jews were killed. He wants to know exactly how they were killed. No detail is too small for Desbois in documenting what he calls the “Holocaust by Bullets.”
By Tzvi Fishman
While there are many meaningful aspects to Darwin’s writings, evolutionary biologists don’t accept his theory of gradual change.
Believing in man over G-d naturally leads to selfishness, which leads to a society not having children.
By Tzvi Fishman
The etrog is the only pri hadar that produces fruit five times annually. For Sukkot, we keep only the last three harvests.
There’s a note in the file from U.S. army intelligence saying: We have no objection to his extradition – and then it’s as if Kammler never existed. There’s no trace of him from that point forward.
By Tzvi Fishman
The tank to my left took a direct blow. Two tankists were killed. Two others made their way wounded to our tank, but we couldn’t stop to help them, so they fled on foot to the base.
When he was still in high school in Telshe, Maverick made a list of possible jobs he would like to someday pursue. One of those listed was “radio.”
By Tzvi Fishman
Rav Shlomo Aviner has stated that women are not permitted to serve in the army just like they are not permitted to violate Shabbat.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our starting point is that every Jew belongs in Eretz Yisrael. Not out of fear, but out of strength and free choice.
Luckily, anti-Israel students do us a favor. They paint such an inaccurate portrait of Israel that when we show students the reality, it almost always changes their minds.
By Baruch Lytle
I believe in the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves. I believe in the rule of law – first G-d's law, then the government’s.
By Tzvi Fishman
My father and my sister’s son were both fighters for Jewish independence and freedom. The loss can never be replaced, but we don’t let it break our spirits.
Reuven Bauman’s heroic rescue on a Virginia beach echoes his grandfather’s lifesaving deed 50 years earlier.
By Tzvi Fishman
The location of the Ark is recorded in our sources, and today, there are those who know exactly where it is.
By Tzvi Fishman
In 2018 Nefesh B'Nefesh helped approximately 3,600 olim from North America and over 500 olim from the UK fulfill their aliyah dreams.
By Tzvi Fishman
People...stop thinking for themselves. They become lazy and dependent on Professor Google, Dr. Google, and Rabbi Google.
By Linda Levin
Melody and her friends wanted to continue helping other. “What can we do now?” her friends asked. Melody realized that she was being presented with a major opportunity.
By Nathan Lewin
Stevens agreed to call off the arguments...and ever since then, the Supreme Court has not sat to hear oral arguments on Yom Kippur.
Year the first shliach went out: 1950 – to Casablanca, Morocco. Year the last shliach went out: 2019. Two recent ones went to Purdue University and Takayama, Japan.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our job is to take groups of these largely undisciplined, apathetic, know-it-all kids and turn them into miniature versions of Yehoshua Bin Nun and Yehuda HaMaccabee.
I realized how many women in my shoes craved both validation and guidance.
Dr. Knoll hopes that JOWMA will serve as an unprecedented avenue for Torah-observant female physicians to bring their expertise into the community.
A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!
By dvora
I find Judaism to be such an amazing sustaining force: it brings me great joy.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Israeli Supreme Court has said it's forbidden to torture the terrorist to learn details of the planned attack. According to Jewish law, though, torturing the terror-gang member is permitted to save the lives of other people.
Donata, like Eberhard, viewed the Nazis as “a failure of human decency.” Equally despising their heartlessness, she took the risk of defying them to save Jewish lives.
Hundreds of people have gotten to the chuppah directly or indirectly through the group.
By Tzvi Fishman
What does it profit the world if a rabbi works on himself in the confines of his home until he becomes a great tzaddik and turns into an angel while the rest of mankind turns into beasts?
By Tzvi Fishman
Polls are fake. According to the polls, Feiglin and Bennett were supposed to win the sweepstakes in the last elections, but they were left with their mouths wide open.
The factory owners said that it was dried crab. My translator, not knowing that I understand what he is saying, started to explain to them that their answer is not good and they must find a better answer, so they said seaweed.
Although Jews of the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan may have had differing cultures in previous centuries, they are currently referred to as Bukharian Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Shabbat meals he’s arranged over the years while meeting wandering Jews in Jerusalem have given countless young adults their first taste of a traditional Shabbat, and often, an enduring appreciation of Judaism.
By Baruch Lytle
The more I wrestled with the temptations of the world, the more the hole inside me grew, as well as the hunger to fill it with something meaningful.
By Baruch Lytle
I said, ‘I made the trip; would you be so kind as to at least read through it, to see if it’s of any value at all. He said, ‘That I’ll do.’
He has stunned audiences all over the world with his spellbinding show.
By Tzvi Fishman
As an army commander and military analyst, it is clear to me that we will eventually have to conquer the Gaza Strip, eliminate the heads of the terror organizations ensconced there, and destroy all their infrastructure.
Of the 40 people involved in the operation – 20 intellectuals, and 20 technical workers – 33 perished and seven survived.
Personal Empowerment, Inclusion for All and Giving to Society--Surpassing expectations
Why was someone so beautiful and so giving taken away with such swiftness and pain?
By Tzvi Fishman
Did the Master of the World bring us out of Egypt to live in Honolulu or Brooklyn?
By Tzvi Fishman
The Talmud states...that the surest sign that the exile is ending is the trees of Eretz Yisrael bringing forth their fruits in abundnance: "Rabbi Aba stated, 'There is no greater revealed end of the exile than this.'"
By Deborah Katz
From the moment a Japanese or Indonesian soldier was spotted by us, we had to bow very low and avoid eye contact; otherwise we would be severely punished.
When you look at Jewish civilization, it seems to me that it is the most superior civilization that has ever existed.
“This administration has been a very strong supporter of Israel, and they’ve been supportive of our efforts to collaborate with Israel off-space exploration, so it’s been a productive relationship.”
I felt a mission to tell the story of Salonika's Jews so it would be known and remembered.
Through my research, I not only discovered my history, but also what it means to be a Jew.
By Tzvi Fishman
He said that in the Death March toward the end of the war, he drank his urine, again and again, to survive.
By Tzvi Fishman
There is a Midrash that says the Ten Martyrs at the time of Rabbi Akiva were the reincarnation of the 10 brothers who sold Yosef, and their martyrdom was their tikun.
The Times was staunchly opposed to Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon and incredibly uncomfortable with Netanyahu.
By Tzvi Fishman
In moving to Israel from America, I always longed for the idealism of the original pioneers who built the country. Here was the perfect chance, I realized.
By Tzvi Fishman
This is what we’re doing each year in performing the exercises involved in bringing the Korban Pesach. We are learning and preparing.
Bris Avrohom has reached scores of Russian immigrants and their families through their centers in Hillside/Elizabeth, Jersey City, and Fair Lawn.
By Deborah Katz
We try to visit them once a year although obviously it is challenging to visit those living in the Outback.
By Naomi Gross
We were so privileged to have known and loved them, so enriched by their wisdom and warmth, and so devastated by their respective passing.
By Tzvi Fishman
I felt I had to dig to the roots to know why we had to fight for the Jewish homeland.
No one was interested in hearing about marriage with a chuppah. I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.
By Tzvi Fishman
We have to listen to the Torah. Even if we are attacked on Shabbat, we are commanded to bear arms and defend ourselves against the enemy.
By Tzvi Fishman
By adding 3 billion shekels a year to the healthcare system over the next five years, Israel could prevent the medical crisis that could develop if warning signs are not addressed now.
We're tolerant of the intolerant under the guise of tolerance.
All the dictators that tried to diminish the spark of Yiddishkeit did not succeed, declared Mrs. Kanelsky.
The people who did not attend – I respect them, but none of them have been chosen as the party’s nominee.
By Baruch Lytle
My brother said, “Come with me.” We walked two blocks, and I just was screaming in the street, “Tell me what happened to Ari!”
By Baruch Lytle
I did a sermon in my house, and I spoke about Amalek and how it is not ancient – that there is still pure evil in this world – but as Jews we have to add light.
This is the museum to bring students and all young people to – to show them that the Holocaust wasn’t about Jews going like “sheep going to the slaughter,” as so often has been said.
By Rhona Lewis
My physical self has limits, but my true essence, my inner thinking process has no limits.
By Tzvi Fishman
We should not be afraid of the gentile nations nor give in to their demands.
Looking to Israelis, the congressman says “they are fighting and protecting and advocating for the same ideals, concepts that we believe in, such as democracy.”
By Tzvi Fishman
Over the last decade, the political Right has...totally forgotten about returning to Shechem, Jenin, and Jericho - let alone Gush Katif.
Many women do regret their abortions, and it’s very rare for women to just go back to normal after having an abortion.
By Tzvi Fishman
Chevron is the City of our Patriarchs, the cradle of Jewish history. You don’t give it to an enemy to satisfy America.
July 3, 2026 
