יום שישי, א׳ אלול תשפ״וFriday, August 14, 2026
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These visits were not merely symbolic; they were listening tours. I sat down one-on-one with students, hosted roundtable discussions, and bore witness to their personal stories.
Will people who criticize Islam be dragged through the courts by a desperate regime, while those who outspokenly fantasize about murdering Jews are granted a blank check?
By Sara Lehmann
Mamdani’s voters either are unaware or choose to ignore the failure of socialism around the globe for over a century. Worse, they ignore how socialism and communism always morph into the very fascism they decry.
By Ruthie Blum
The claim that the Israeli prime minister crafted the U.S. president’s Truth Social post is as laughable as it is a lie.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
That doesn’t mean we stop caring about other causes. It does mean we stop sacrificing ourselves at the altar of movements that see us as expendable.
My father didn’t strut his rank; he carried it. Quietly, firmly, and with gravity. His leadership taught me that being a leader wasn’t about elevation, but rather it was about bearing the weight of others.
Data shows that physical pain is not the primary motivator for choosing death. Rather, it is loss of autonomy, fear of being a burden, or the inability to engage in enjoyable activities.
It's an act of heroism to go out to essential services, like a doctor's office, the pharmacy, the supermarket. You never know where you will be when the next alert goes off.
Trump's decision to use military force to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program is a historic turning point for world peace and the legacy of a president who has used
This past week feels like more than just a miracle. It feels like a breakthrough moment in Jewish history. It seems as if Hashem hasn’t merely intervened but is actively relandscaping history and redrawing geopolitical realities.
These extremists at both ends of the spectrum ignore that the Iranian regime has been attacking Americans for close to half a century. As Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared in November 2023, the chant Death to America! it is not just a slogan – it is a policy.
Judges look harder to find procedural objections to policies and actions of which they disapprove.
Trump's Churchillian Decision:
By Sara Lehmann
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Israel makes stranger ones
Mockery is not merely humor, harsh criticism or even a personal insult. It represents a cynical form of denigration that attempts to render its target devoid of value.
Miss Thunberg, in the eyes of many, carries moral authority, without any need to actually articulate a moral argument. The mistaken assumption of gravitas and moral wisdom is very dangerous and has real-world consequences.
For buildings like ours, built in the early 1970s, there are no mamad, no individual reinforced safe rooms in each apartment. There is instead a communal bomb shelter in the back of the building on the first floor, a miklat, a place of refuge.
By Nachum Lamm
Calling what we have in our basement a safe room is frankly more than a bit generous, and not nearly large enough for all of the residents even of our small building. But we pile in.
We rely upon emunah to carry us forward, to walk us across the bridge of fear and uncertainty.
The U.S. appeared afraid of escalation. The U.S. seemed to want a deal more than Iran did.
Israel’s enemies still believe it can be broken with rockets or rhetoric. They are wrong.
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Legacy media is complicit, featuring news stories that impugn Israel and whitewash anti-Jewish attacks by radical leftists and Islamists.
Others categorically assert that you can’t pray for any healing that goes against nature. Why not?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is well past time to drop the pretense that antisemitism only comes from those stomping in jackboots.
We must recognize that Jewish history rarely sees the exact same persecution twice.
It is with these vulgarities in mind that the obvious must be stated: The laws of war were fashioned by military strategists who lived in civilized nations, men who believed that even in war there must be rules.
By Ruthie Blum
Through the calm dismantling of a contrived provocation, the Jewish state upheld its dignity while letting its detractors reveal their own absurdity.
By Yonatan Daon
Why Israel’s war cannot be won until it stops lying about who the enemy really is
France and Saudi Arabia are about to throw Hamas a lifeline.
For maximum benefit, meditate twice a day. Most people find that meditating first thing in the morning before breakfast works best.
By Bassam Tawil
By advocating a "two-state solution," France, Canada and Britain are essentially authorizing a genocide.
We often fall into unhealthy religious judgmentalism. We don’t possess a reliable thermometer to measure others’ religious sincerity or depth. Yet we often speak loosely, labeling others as less frum or branding entire communities as less religious.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters seek not only a second Holocaust targeting Israel but the elimination from American society of Jews who believe in its right to exist.
When will Harvard finally acknowledge other racist stains on its record—such as the friendly relations it pursued with Nazi Germany in the 1930s?
Let’s examine the close, even affirming, relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists
When innocent Jews are murdered for the crime of being Jews, where are the mass rallies? Where are the corporate statements?
By BESA CENTER
Hamas used gender-based violence as a deliberate strategy intended to cause severe harm to Israeli civilians, undermine Israelis’ sense of social security, and sow terror within Israeli society.
Tehran's low-cost, high-volume approach is not about sophistication but about saturation, and is "disturbingly effective," says the former head of the Mossad's Counter-terrorism Division.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The flourishing of human society must be accompanied by the protection of the natural world and accountability to future generations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Since Christians and Muslims acknowledge that the Jews are their elders and their religion’s foundational source, why aren’t Jews and Israel treated with more respect?
By Elie Klein
The tweens who were forced to attend their friends’ bar and bat mitzvah celebrations via Zoom have spent much of the subsequent years missing school to attend the military funerals of family, friends and neighbors.
Despite its internal and external challenges, modern Israel remains stronger than ever
The British government believes that it has the moral authority to dictate where in their ancestral homeland Jewish families can and cannot live.
Having lived in Israel now for almost 20 years, with the daily dramas we endure, the interconnectivity of events become readily more apparent and harder to overlook.
The struggle to settle our sacred homeland continues. Nearly 80 years after the founding of Medinat Yisrael, and despite our yearning to live in peace with our neighbors, many still deny our rightful presence in this land. The Simchat Torah war of the past year and a half is not a new chapter, but […]
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
If we want to win – not just the battles but also the war – we must start by understanding the battlefield we’re actually on.
By Avi Abelow
If there are those who cannot agree that the IDF is a force of good and not cruelty, then we have lost something far greater than a political argument.
Thunderous gaslighting language eventually lit the match that materialized into senseless murder outside a Jewish museum.
Courage, Inspiration, Resilience, and Promise
Those Who Have Worn the Uniform of Our Nation's Military Would Remind Us In the Face of Military Challenges From Nuclear-Armed Foes
It contradicts the intention of the League of Nations and makes no sense in the geopolitical reality.
We must confront antisemitism but not just with stories or tours of Jewish victimhood. Instead of focusing on educating others, educate yourself, your children and Jews all around us to be living richly proud and practicing Jewish lives.
By Avi Ciment
A while back, the first hostages came out, I recall viewing a video with a split-screen down the middle showing Hamas’s insidious reaction on one side juxtaposed with the Israelis on the other side. The difference between good and evil was palpable.
Here’s the truth: I’ve been in the rooms. I’ve seen and heard firsthand the deep concern and genuine solidarity of my colleagues – most of them Christians – who are appalled by the surge in antisemitism.
The term is not in the Torah because it is a modern political invention.
It is the obligation of every state to enforce the law of nations. This means there is a universal legal responsibility to support Israel’s ongoing counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East.
It is too early to decide whether the president’s Mideast trip will bear fruit, but it has already been subjected to the excesses and warping and fakery by the anti-Trump media.
By Ruthie Blum
A spat between two MAGA media personalities reflects the ideological split in the movement—and in the Trump administration.
By Avi Abelow
The two-state paradigm, once widely endorsed, is increasingly viewed as untenable given the persistent threats and failures of past negotiations.
I tried not to cry; I did not feel that I had earned the right to do so.
Once upon a time, in the quiet of small semachot, we heard what mattered most. Have we gone deaf again?
Israel's "deep-state apparatus" is "working to undermine elected officials and actually the public," said Knesset Member Simcha Rothman.
Amidst all the noise and emotion, a different kind of return unfolded – quieter, more subdued, and 43 years in the making. The body of Tzvi Feldman, a missing soldier captured during a brutal battle in Syria in 1983, was finally brought home to Israel for burial.
In the age of rising antisemitism, when many young Jews feel fear, confusion or alienation, there are still those who choose action, belonging and sacrifice.
The only reliable source of strength we can depend upon is ourselves and our faith in HaShem. No other people, country or government.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
The Terrorist Responsible for Daniel Pearl's Monstrous Murder Has Finally Been Eliminated
These three steps will not erase the black cloud of shame that hangs over Amsterdam’s political and legal authorities for their mishandling of the November 2024 attacks.
Far too many American Jews know little about the Jewish struggle to free Israel from British control in the 1930s and 1940s.
The progressive international public has fervently bought into the red herring of Jewish settlements while hypocritically remaining silent regarding settlement activity in Western Sahara, northern Cyprus, Ceuta and Melilla, Tibet, Kashmir and the Falkland Islands.
Of course, the prophecies of consolation have not yet been fully actualized. Amos speaks of our people being firmly planted on the land – yet entire communities in Israel’s North and South remain displaced, struggling to regain emotional and economic stability.
This year’s fires did more than disrupt celebrations and ceremonies – they scorched the core symbols of our national renewal. It felt as though they reversed the arc of our historical return.
Firstly, he is the democratically elected National Security Minister of the State of Israel. Love him or hate him, the position and title he carries, and representing the Israeli citizens who elected him, I believe make him deserving of an audience and conversation.
Inactivity on our part is not an option. Head-shaking and hand-wringing are not the kinds of options or actions that will help. Communications to President Trump, one way or another – or, better still, in all possible ways – can help.
By Bassam Tawil
Palestinians are far more interested in murdering Jews and setting Israel on fire than they are in "coexisting." They do not want Israel "coexisting" on even one millimeter of the Jews' own historical homeland.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Should the list with the names of the hostages be disposed of like other sacred documents, and ultimately buried in a Jewish cemetery?
Weaponizing ‘Hava Nagila’ and the fires that blaze in Israel
Recognizing and/or creating a Palestinian state is wrong not only because it threatens Israel’s security, but because it would signal a broader victory for international terrorism – particularly Islamic extremist groups.
While his voice was heard, and it is still heard, it was not heard loudly enough; and so, his vision still remains marginal to most discussions, whether between the religious and secular or amongst the religious themselves.
Antisemitism isn’t a historical accident – it’s woven into the fabric of the human story. Though it often cloaks itself in cultural, economic, or ethnic explanations, its roots run deeper.
What is the secret of our redemption? What is necessary to bring it about, and why does the Messiah seem to tarry so long, so eternally long?
Rav Feldman notes that collaboration with the WZO has meant that Orthodox groups are working together with Conservative and Reform ones. This is true, but so what?
By Avi Ciment
All of you, in your own way, came to rallies, visited Israel, sent money, spoke out and endured alienation, hate mail or worse. You did it with the full knowledge that there would be some repercussions, just as many other beautiful souls, like Patricia Heaton, Dr. Phil and Douglas Murray, to name a few, came to the forefront.
By Guy Millière
The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel.
By Bassam Tawil
If anyone is desecrating the mosque, it is those (Palestinian leadership) who exploit it to encourage their people to carry out terrorist attacks.
One would be greatly mistaken to think that she will pause in her efforts to combat Jew-haters and anti-Israel terrorists.
Any presumption that YU had abandoned a commitment to upholding the eternal values of the Torah, in letter or in spirit, in this matter, ignores the reality of the history.
Kids have not changed – parents have. And not all for the better.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Israel, a lot, especially when it comes to Judea and Samaria.
By placing the only democratically elected leader in the Middle East on the same level as Yahya Sinwar, the mass-murdering head of Hamas, the ICC has exposed its own moral and procedural collapse.
All the elements of Sefer Vayikra – from the Temple offerings to the prohibitions of incest, from holiday observance to loving our neighbor – contribute to the tapestry of sacred living the Torah demands of the Jewish people.
Politicians and students merrily dance to a song celebrating their dereliction of duty, and which openly denigrates the country which is paying them to stay in yeshiva. Meanwhile, soldiers risk life and limb, forgoing comfort and exerting themselves physically to an extreme, to protect the lives of those who call them heretics.
The alternative to joining the IDF is certainly an easier option. Instead of fighting to defend the Jewish nation from the ultimate evil, Hamas, one could go to a secular college.
By Bassam Tawil
According to some reports, Hamas members have been spotted leading some of Gaza's demonstrations.
By Ruthie Blum
As veteran Israeli commentator on Arab affairs Zvi Yehezkeli points out, “If those protesting Hamas had a chance, they would commit Oct. 7 again.”
Like the lengthy campaign against Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, this one seeks to politically dismantle the prime minister by painting him as an authoritarian threat to democracy.
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