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What will each of us do to maintain this brotherly bond once the battlefield quiets?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Maybe you don’t need to hear this, but it must be said to counter the voices arguing otherwise: You did not deserve this
This is a time that we need to dig deeper, muster all of our energy, courage and resources to stand tall and proud and to be practicing Jews.
When they do not contain a clear message and require interpretation, a crucial question arises: Who is empowered to interpret the dream?
Indeed, we are seeing a surge of feminine strength and resilience during these trying days for Israel and world Jewry. In our Jerusalem community, I am blown away by the acts of heroism and self-sacrifice that I am witnessing firsthand.
We should pay more respect to those who display moral courage and clear-headed moral principles.
Almost immediately following the deadly attack, and particularly after Israel’s declaration of war on Hamas, mass riots and rallies in support of Hamas sprung up all over the West. Iran’s information warfare machinery was in high gear in the United States and elsewhere.
On December 4, the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas announced the establishment of a new terrorist group in Lebanon....Hamas, in short, is saying that it is planning a similar invasion of Israel, but this time from Lebanon.
So far, the Biden administration has appeared unwilling even to entertain the thought of addressing Hamas's patron, Iran.
With regard to Lebanon, U.S.-Israel relations are on a collision course.
By Harold Rhode
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has every reason to welcome Sunni Arab immigrants.
Jewish students are being subjected to bullying acts intended to intimidate and harass them because of their actual or imagined support for Israel. Thankfully, there are legal tools available which can and must be used to assert and defend their civil rights.
It’s a crazy time to be a Jew.
Unfortunately, over the past several weeks, we have witnessed way too many adults and parents who have taken the liberty to discuss and describe in detail to one another the gruesome details of the October 7th massacre in the presence of their children and other children.
What the lack of an immediate Israeli victory has done is convince the Jew-haters who were always there that it is safe to come out and say what they really think.
After digging deep and forcing myself to come up with new material to thank Hashem for, I noticed more instances of Divine intervention throughout the week.
By Avi Ciment
The very fact that I now clearly see what we stand for. I saw it before, but for some reason, since October 7, rather than feel ashamed to be a Jew, I feel even prouder.
By dvora
On Oct. 7, some of the most fervent believers in peace with the Palestinians were reduced to ashes. Does he think Israel will now force 100,000 Jews to leave their homes in Judea and Samaria to create Hamastan?
'- JNS.org Einat Wilf also suggests linking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip with a Palestinian peace pledge.
The name of this war is Swords of Iron – like the swords the Maccabees fought with – even though Israel’s military technology is ultra-modern and cutting edge.
By BESA CENTER
Israeli intelligence failures – particularly those leading to the failure to warn of a large-scale attack, as suffered by Israel in the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 – are typically followed by the creation of investigative committees that scrutinize intelligence processes, highlight gaps and vulnerabilities, and recommend mechanisms to prevent future failures. But without a profound cultural shift within the intelligence organization and its personnel – specifically, the integration of humility into the organizational DNA – these mechanisms will not deliver the desired outcome.
By Bassam Tawil
The assumption that, three decades later, the Palestinian Authority is going to embark on any serious reforms is a mirage. Abbas and the PA leadership will not change unless they are pressured to do so... One thing is clear: the Palestinian Authority is in no way, shape or form up to this job.
By Noah Beck
To see if you beat Harvard's moral IQ, just take this quiz by indicating if one should PRAISE or CONDEMN the following statement
The JTA news service in their article on the death of Henry Kissinger stated "Regarded as a brilliant diplomatic strategist, Kissinger was one of the most influential Jewish figures of the 20th century..." Influential? Yes. Pro-Israel? No. Despite the many pundits who now wish to recast Kissinger as a proud Jew who proudly supported Israel […]
By Tani Burton
The world seemed to have completely lost its moral compass.
By Guy Millière
Western leftists started vocally to express hatred of "imperialist Israel" and, ironically, the hard-won democratic freedoms they were at that moment enjoying to the fullest: freedom of speech, assembly, education, sexuality, and supposedly equal justice under the law.
Javier Milei has emerged as the Argentine president-elect, and Geert Wilder will become the prime minister of the Netherlands.
They left their homes and jobs in an instant, and will remain in the field until Hamas is destroyed.
Multiple Choice Quiz-See how you do
Israel must be cautious about projecting conventional human rationality upon Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and others of their ilk if it is to combat them effectively.
The BBC and other Western media outlets are far more than mere useful idiots
By Adina Ciment
For 38 days, I had felt lost: praying, crying, trying to make sense of a world turned upside down.
One of the rabbis at Shura explained that they sanctified themselves through their death and need no further purification. Their blood and the clothing in which they died are left to awaken G-d’s attribute of mercy.
By Bennett Ruda
Defending Israel in the media, and having to have an immediate answer to questions that are usually unsympathetic is a daunting task.
Expect Mass Aliya After The War -
At around midnight during a lull in the work, I pulled out Reuven’s salami and started making a sandwich for myself and others. Once people started eating it there were requests for more. Before I knew it, the salami was gone.
By Bennett Ruda
Albanese's farcical claim that Israel has no right to defend itself after the Hamas Massacre only leads her to the foolish, and deadly, claims that Israel should send the police into Gaza or have the UN stroll into Gaza to disarm Hamas.
Taking ideas and success for granted, the third generation often descends into petty rivalries and personal animosities.
By Bennett Ruda
So is there any upside at all to this cease-fire for Israel?
Recently, over 50,000 people marched against anti-Semitism in London.
Abbas’ advisor before Hamas’ attack: We won’t attack Israel because we don’t have the “military capabilities”; Abbas’ advisor since the war: “The struggle in all its forms” – i.e., including terror - “won’t stop until the end of the occupation (i.e., Israel)”
Biden now seems to be adopting a very different stance, one where it appears ready to scale down its commitment to supporting Israel's right to self-defence, and destroying Hamas, in favour of a ceasefire deal that would essentially gift victory to Hamas.
Israel is being extremely vigilant in trying to reduce civilian casualties, yet Kemp said President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak regularly warn Israel to adhere to the laws of war and reduce civilian casualties to a minimum, even though they know precisely what the IDF is doing. This is nothing but theater to placate constituents and others who oppose Israel.
Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in this war and want it to destroy Hamas; the overwhelming majority of lawmakers from both parties share that view.
So far the Democrats continue to mock Trump and refuse to take him seriously. This could cost the Democrats dearly. For even if the solutions that Trump suggests appear weird the problems he raises are real.
It is false morality to cry for the children of Gaza killed inadvertently while Israel targets Hamas-ISIS murderers and, as collateral damage, unavoidably kills Hamas’s human shields. A war must be won
No one should be allowed to live here who does not want to be here, in the Jewish state
The main action in which the Iran-led militias are engaged at present is the ongoing campaign of harassment of US forces in the country.
Rami Davidian is a man whose name should be remembered forever.
A confident government, leveraging off a successful army, would be demanding, not asking, for the following conditions in order to effect any kind of a hiatus in the fighting:
Alongside the disdain for the U.S. and Western countries, the Palestinians also believe that moderate Arab countries also play a negative role.
What adjustments are we making to our lives and routines to reflect that for so many of our people, nothing is normal?
If there is an "occupation" problem in Gaza, the occupier is Hamas, not Israel.
As Jews, we are intrinsically aware of the divine presence at a mass gathering. When G-d handed down the Torah he did so at a mass gathering at Mount Sinai.
By Joel Petlin
Protests are done by angry people with masks over their faces, waving banners and signs in support of Hamas terrorists, defacing public property, burning flags of Israel and America.... The rally I attended had none of those things. It was peaceful and organized.
Dear Ms. Owens, I have never met you but have appreciated you from your emergence in the public eye, as during that early Congressional hearing and your early debates on Fox with Cornell West. You became a superstar as your career was boosted by the likes of David Horowitz’s Freedom Center, Dennis Prager’s “Prager U.,” […]
By Daniel Pipes
:I have my own idea, which is that the Israelis carefully and quickly turn the administration over to Gazans who are opposed to Hamas, opposed to the goal of destroying Israel. Gazans who are willing to live in a neighborly way next to Israel."
One thing that is clear from this war is that Hamas must be taken out of the picture. It is not that we did not know before this that they were intent upon the destruction of the Jewish state. Rather, the calculation was whether they could be contained at a lower cost than having to uproot them.
Once again it is shocking to me that while we hold our collective breath and pray for the hostages and our soldiers and ourselves, daily life and all its messiness still swirls around us.
By Bassam Tawil
If such a large number of Palestinians in the West Bank support the murder of Israelis and Hamas, it is safe to assume that a new "Palestinian state" would be controlled by Hamas or another genocidal, antisemitic terror group.
By BESA CENTER
Negotiating with Hamas for the release of the hostages in Gaza through comprehensive, all-inclusive deals mediated by Qatar (“everyone for everyone”) would undermine Israel’s strategy in the Swords of Iron war. It’s time to make a fundamental change in Israel’s policy on this issue and readopt the Entebbe Doctrine, which can save the lives of the current hostages and prevent the taking of more in the future.
It is time for the U.S. to propose an economic and national security "war" cabinet to coordinate, strategize, and implement plans to address the China challenge as well as the national debt's impact on our ability to confront it
Those “innocents” elected and reelected Hamas. They knew Hamas was building tunnels under their homes and storing rockets and drones in their residential apartment buildings, outside their schools and inside and under their hospitals
Westerners assume that the Palestinians seek a future of prosperity and freedom and peace because that is what they aspire to preserve for themselves. But this isn’t the case.
Suicide bombers guarantee international media attention. [1] “The media are part of the war. CNN is more important than airplanes,” asserted Malek Wabdeh, a Hizballah cultural representative [2]
By Donny Fuchs
It was the first pogrom in history that was proudly and brazenly documented by the same gleeful demons who committed it, with go-pro video cameras affixed to their heads.
You do not understand that “two wrongs don’t make a right” is not the moral principle upon which we must stand when faced with genocidal terror.
They are not mere victims of brutal terror whose lives until this moment, were of no account. They are people who lived vivaciously, accomplished tremendously, and were loved unconditionally.
Forty families were able to celebrate Shabbat together and give their loved ones some love, care and attention before they returned to fight in Gaza.
"We are not sub-humans. Let me repeat: We are not sub-humans," said Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Authority's representative to the United Nations, after the sub-human atrocities inflicted on innocent civilians in Israel by his fellow Palestinian Arabs. He felt the need to repeat the claim twice last month at an emergency session of the of […]
You have to wonder why, according to the Radak, Yitzchak needed to place his wife before him. Could there be anything more important? Could he possibly have been thinking about anything or anyone else when his wife was barren and desperate for a child? Apparently, yes.
When will we begin to connect the dots?
The former Israel bureau chief of The New York Times has discovered who is really to blame for the Hamas pogrom on Oct. 7: Israel. This vile bit of slander comes from the pen of Ethan Bronner, who spent 26 years at the Times posing as an objective journalist. That included the years 2008 to […]
During both World Wars, the Arabs had “gained everything and contributed nothing….”
By Bassam Tawil
These demonstrators, who appear to feel so virtuous, send a message to the terrorist groups that people in the West happily support violence, terrorism and the Jihad (holy war) not only against Israel and Jews, but also against Christians, all "infidels," Europe, the United States and the West.
Student groups that literally call for terrorism should not be supplied anything by their universities. They should not be provided a faculty advisor, use of campus space, or subsidy for their activities.
"It took only 19 terrorists to carry out 9/11," Humire points out. "America is likely heading toward an era of increased terrorist attacks in the homeland."
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The relatively small civilian collateral damage is the result of Israel’s strict adherence to the international laws of war and the utmost efforts made by the IDF to convince the Gaza civilian population to evacuate battle zones
By Bassam Tawil
Any "humanitarian pause" should start only after all the hostages have been released...
The idea that the State of Israel has reduced antisemitism is mistaken. Antisemitism has intensified.
It took 30 years, billions in petrodollars and billions more from cultural Marxists to develop a language of lies and manipulation that placed Jews in Israel and the Diaspora in the oppressor column.
By Noah Beck
The “PR cost” of the war is, in many ways, the most consequential, because it can force Israel into yet another inconclusive “ceasefire” that allows Hamas to recover and prepare for the next massacre.
Gays for Gay-Killers, Jews for Jew-Killers, Feminists for Wife-Beating, Progressives for Fascists
Never again, must be our clarion call for never ever again
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
We must show the world that we are strong and united with a common message.
Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history at Harvard, recently signed a petition that slandered Israel as a country of “apartheid” and “Jewish supremacism.”
American Jews, politicians and federal agencies must come together to counter a wave of racism.
By Noah Beck
When covering the latest round of violence sparked by the massacre that Hamas committed against Israeli civilians on October 7th, reporters often fail to remind readers of several crucial facts relevant to the reliability of information sourced from Hamas:
Blaming Hamas for 1,400 cold-blooded murders is not complicated
He would continue to ignore the fact that even the “moderate” Palestinians of the Fatah Party that ran the Palestinian Authority refused to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state, no matter where its borders would be drawn.
By Noah Beck
The harms of unethical journalism inflicted upon Israel, a tiny, embattled democracy, persist long after the conflict being reported on has ended.
By Evan Nierman
Nothing is allowed to penetrate the alternative reality of this dogmatic ideology, which is why posters depicting kidnapped Israelis must be ripped down. Israelis are demons, you see, even the babies.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Fifty-seven percent of Muslims living in America believe Hamas’s massacre was justified.
Whether we take greater human initiative or completely rely upon miracles, we always trace success back to Hashem.
By Bassam Tawil
A pause or a ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup and prepare new attacks against Israelis.
At present, it appears that Hamas regards the presence of the hostages as a tool by which it can itself place pressure on Israel to limit the scope and timing of the offensive.
September 11, 2026 
