The Oslo Agreement’s Self-Defense Mechanism
By Bassam Tawil
Instead of heeding the calls of young Palestinians to solve the economic crisis, the Palestinian terror groups, with the help of Iran's mullahs, are sending them to attack Israeli soldiers with explosive devices and deadly stones.
The distinction between hating Jews and hating Israel is bogus.
By BESA CENTER
Israel must end the political crisis soon for multiple reasons
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Descendants of conquerors the world over should take a long look in the mirror.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Loss of our path and fear of the Arabs living in our land led us not to go all the way in concluding the Six-Day War, paving the way to the Oslo Accords, for which we paid the price of thousands of victims
By Bassam Tawil
Does HRW really expect Israeli soldiers and policemen to ask someone who shoots or throws a Molotov cocktail at them how old they are before firing back to defend themselves?
Which do you believe?
By Israel Hayom
Israel Hayom correspondent Yoav Limor travels to Saudi Arabia to see how the kingdom has changed a year since his previous visit.
The former president evaded the Nation of Islam leader’s core antisemitic ideology.
There was another side to the man who devoted the best years of his life to educating Torah-observant Jewish youngsters and preparing them for the future. That was his love, his dream, and his deep desire to enter the land of Israel.
By Rabbi Dr. Matisyahu Shulman
A lot of times, we don’t know what our deepest values are. Rosh Hashana is a great opportunity to think about the values that are truly important to us.
By Ariela Davis
Parents have become afraid to say no. And parents have become afraid to parent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish elites must change the terms of the debate.
While no two groups share the exact same persecution, and some people hold multiple identities, there’s a lot that the Jewish community can learn from the Black community when it comes to organizing, educating and eradicating a problematic practice.
By Akiva Bigman
He thought the protests would lead him back to the Prime Ministers office
By Israel Hayom
Properly fixed judicial selection would have addressed most of the current judicial issues.
By Israel Hayom
Women who demand public transportation on Saturday in Tel Aviv, on the grounds that no one will tell them how to behave inside their own home, came in a patronizing and arrogant manner to kindly and slowly explain to the Haredi women how they should live their own lives in Bnei Brak.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The gang wars in Arab towns should have the state authorities rethink their approach, as well as take immediate steps to restore trust and personal safety.
The Declaration of Independence belongs to the entire Israeli public, and besides the thirty-seven actual signatures on it, there are millions more
By Akiva Bigman
Blue and White Future is hiding its original goals. Its current funding of judicial reform protests raises questions whether it has violated Israeli law.
By Karys Rhea
This sordid tale begins with a little-known 2009 document and ends with the illicit Palestinian takeover of hundreds of thousands of dunams of internationally recognized Israeli land, with direct subsidization and encouragement from the European Union.
As you begin this year, remember how much the world needs you
By Bassam Tawil
Nasrallah and his masters in Iran care nothing about the suffering of the Lebanese people. What they care about is power, spreading their control to other Arab countries, and fulfilling their ambition to destroy the only successful and democratic country in the Middle East: Israel.
By Ben Shapiro
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, who is the_____ Prez of them all?"
I experienced the tiniest foreshadowing of my daughter's motherly instincts when that baby bird fell out of the tree so many years ago.
We are currently standing at an important threshold of human innovation and technology. We are not just developing the ability to build taller homes, but are beginning to re-engineer nature herself.
Many so-called progressives have been willing to ignore procedural safeguards and due process in their campaign to get former President Donald Trump — to misuse the law in an effort to prevent the leading Republican candidate from running against the incumbent candidate for president
Where to begin this discussion? Hard to say. It is easier to know where to end it.
By Barry Shaw
They knew the lies of Lew and the Administrations he worked for.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Such a treaty could curtail Israel's freedom of action and signal that it cannot defend itself by itself.
It is safe to say this is more than enough legal jeopardy for a single human being to manage—especially one running for president. The campaign trail will be one long march of legal trials.
After denying the Kohelet Policy Forum its chief donor, far-left activists have trained their sights on the Tikvah Fund.
By Ben Cohen
There was one small yet welcome development on that front when the United States announced sanctions against an ostensible environmentalist NGO (actually, a front for Hezbollah) called “Green Without Borders.”
What is truly eternal?
By Avi Ciment
Having grown up in a political family, I can understand avoiding conflict, and avoiding any position that polarizes. But in certain cases, a man’s got to take a stand.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Is Judaism only a religion or is it also a nationality?
By Bassam Tawil
Shtayyeh lied both when he claimed that Israel was responsible for obstructing Palestinian elections and that Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip enjoy democracy.
We all know about the technique of deep breathing when angry. G-d hints at this frequently in the Torah when His anger is mentioned, describing something we can do to abate our own.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
We must not allow our political differences to hand our enemies the advantage.
By Ben Shapiro
The Georgia case is both wide-ranging and state-based: if convicted, Trump would go to state prison, and would have NO ability to pardon himself
It now seems that Zionism’s ultimate goal of acceptance by the Arab world is possible.
Now, wouldn’t you suppose that those who are concerned about teenage Arab terrorists would be at least equally concerned about teenage Jewish victims of Arab terrorism? After all, caring about children from just one ethnic group and not another would be, well, racist.
By Israel Hayom
The change has to come from those who have created this madness: the Israeli government. If it does not stop, the catastrophe will arrive.
According to the Hindu American Foundation, "India is one of the few countries in the world where Baha'is and Jews have never faced religious persecution."
There is a big carrot for everyone, yet the question remains if such carrots will manage to carry through the three parties through a very complex negotiation process.
Although the U.S. administration has abandoned the idea of disabusing Iran of its nuclear ambitions, Israel will pursue its national interest in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
By Eyal Zisser
There is no doubt that the PA is under duress, prompting President Mahmoud Abbas to go to meet with a Hamas delegation in the desert under Egyptian auspices.
By Ben Shapiro
The entire press apparatus has been dedicated, since at least 2008, to the proposition that Obama had to be protected from all possible damage.
We have the brainpower; and, we have the resources. Needed is a sense of urgency that places this challenge at the very top of our communal agenda.
One must accept that Palestinian Arab leaders are engaged in "a zero-sum game" in which
The narrative that therapy inherently fosters alienation is largely a misconception.
Whereas, in past generations kashrut adherence was a bold sacrifice which defined Jewish identity, keeping kosher in the modern world is more seamless and therefore less identity-shaping.
A New World Order Dominated by China, Russia and the Iranian Regime, with North Korea Heading Up the Rear
By Israel Hayom
I understand that Israel now seems more divided than ever, but there are plenty of alternatives to dividing it into two states.
By Bassam Tawil
The voices of those who regularly rush to condemn Israel for seeking to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism go silent when it really comes to protecting Palestinians.
As if the atomic bomb and its potential to destroy the world wasn’t enough tension, Nolan introduces another Jewish character, Lewis Strauss—the opportunist to Oppenheimer’s moral idealist.
What should happen... when it is virtually impossible for the defendant to get an impartial jury in that state or district?
Today, we have no extreme right or far-right parties in Europe; we only have "populist" parties that have established themselves as parties of government in more than half of the European Union.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Biden pursues peace between Israel and Saudia Arabia as he prepares to betray both.
If these changes are made, the sky will not fall.
A Ukrainian victory would not only inflict a devastating defeat on Putin and his authoritarian regime, it would send a signal to other autocratic regimes that they threaten the West and allies, such as Taiwan, at their peril.
Apparently, all a judge needs to rule the way he or she wants is to place themselves above the Knesset, the laws it passes and the government charged with executing them.
What it all comes down to is that one party seemingly decided that Obama's promise to radically transform America was too important to trust to the electorate.
The halo effect also distorts how we view people. People who are dressed nicely or more put together will be viewed more positively than those who aren’t.
Can Israel really rely on subjective reasonableness when many of the advocates of rule by subjective reasonableness now regularly block roads in mass demonstrations?
Three horrible disasters forever ruined everything with the American left:
At the beginning of his career, Rabbi Sacks himself wrote ingenious, highly specialized academic articles, first on economics and later on topics such as the thought of Rabbi Soloveitchik. Yet over time, he made a point of developing his writing style, ultimately mastering the craft.
To anyone who scratches even an inch below the surface, the fight was not about the merits of Judicial reform.
By Dror Eydar
Defining who we are has always been part of our history. In our contemporary era, it has become a judicial matter where the court seeks to decide on our eternal issues.
By Eyal Zisser
Israel should choose the timing and theater of the conflagration, rather than let Nasrallah and his partners drag it once ...
Bipartisan support is seeing some erosion, but not as much as some might gleefully celebrate.
By Ariel Kahana
Amid reports on Saudi demands that Israel make "significant concessions" to the Palestinians before official ties are announced, Israel is signaling that the formula that worked for the Abraham Accords could work now too.
Connect all the dots and you will get an Israel-Saudi peace ceremony on the White House lawn, But getting there won't be easy.
In the 18 years since the withdrawal, Gaza has been transformed from a tactical nuisance into a strategic threat. Their range covers most of Israel.
A message that needs to be heard
By Israel Hayom
The distrust each side of the political divide has toward the other has naturally trickled into our daily interaction between groups and even individuals – and that is what's most concerning. Ugliness has taken over our collective national judgment.
Protest leaders in Israel are revving up mobs by convincing them that the elected leadership of the country is a group of fascistic thugs that will turn the country into Iran or Nazi Germany.
Learn how to read the news.
By Ben Shapiro
Israel will not collapse. It will not break into civil war.
The "reasonableness standard" was abusive, violated democratically-passed laws; was used to oust a democratically elected minister; and was subjective: What's unreasonable to one person is reasonable to another.
By Dror Eydar
The constant mourning over the destruction of the land on Tisha B'Av, year after year, promised hope for a better future. When the Zionist movement arose towards the end of 19th Century, there was no need to explain what the return to Zion meant.
Can we teach AI to knit? Absolutely. But why would we want to? Why would I forfeit the pleasure of scouring the internet for a new and challenging pattern and then hunting for the perfect yarn and buttons to go with it?
The Jewish women I know are amazing. They have so much going on, and yet they manage to fit it all in… and more. They are the shining example of the phrase, If you want something done, ask a busy person.
At the turn of the century, Hunter was the place to be for many of the elite traditional Jews of New York every summer.
Because the right never threatens to turn over the board and walk away from the game.
In public, US President Joe Biden is keen to give the impression that he is fully committed to backing Ukraine's battle for survival. But it is a different story behind-the-scenes, where Biden and his senior officials are more interested in ending the war in good time for next year's US presidential election contest.
Not every Senator and Congressman was present. A group of radical leftists, who misidentify themselves as "progressives", boycotted Herzog because he is president of the nation-state of the Jewish people... It was not the current Israeli government that they were boycotting. It was the symbol of the entire nation of Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
The camps also provide military training, such as practice with knives and firearms; hand-to-hand combat, and marching and foot drills. The children also stage plays and enact scenes of fighting and capturing Israeli soldiers or firing rockets at Israel.
Your kids won’t be imbued with decent values from our era’s public schools. They won’t be taught to respect authority or to love their country and flag. They will learn about condoms and LGBTQIA+, but there are no guarantees that they will learn about history, math, science, and English literary excellence. They won’t start the […]
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Im eshkachech Yerushalayim, tishkach yemini..
Dismissing Bobby Brown, the University's senior vice president, has donors and friends of the embattled institution up in arms.
Big Tech companies are deliberately manipulating the outcomes of our elections and the thinking and beliefs of our children. And they are having an enormous impact.
By Ayoob Kara
The entire free world should unite against the Iranian regime.
And that leaves me with a proposal to break the deadlock, an idea that seems so obvious and sensible to me that I am sure no one will think of it,
Protest leaders in Israel are revving up mobs by convincing them that the elected leadership of the country is a group of fascistic thugs that will turn the country into Iran or Nazi Germany.
By Ben Shapiro
Our economy has degraded. The suicide rate has jumped. Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.
Far from de-emphasizing the Temple, the Sages demonstrated how to live in a keen, spiritual awareness and tangibly realistic experience of the Temple and the avodah (largely through study and prayer), even as the Jews waited for its reappearance at the chosen time.