יום רביעי, י״ט תשרי תשפ״זWednesday, September 30, 2026
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By Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney
The State Dept’s new Israel-bashing, falsehood-filled “Country Reports on Terrorism 2016” – which blames Israel for Palestinian terrorism against innocent Israelis – has caused us to lose confidence in Tillerson’s ability to promote Trump’s Mideast agenda.
By Bassam Tawil
To clarify: To the Palestinians this crisis is not about a metal detector or a security camera they want dismantled. It is Israel that they want dismantled.
Sinai-stan, Hamas-stan, Hezbollah-stan, and Syria-stan already have emerged on Israel’s southern and northern borders. This is more than enough for Israel to handle. A Pales-stan on Israel’s eastern border would be unbearable. Israel can’t and won’t let it rise.
The reason we’re still banished from the Temple Mount is not because some women want to pray at the Kotel with tefillin and Torah scrolls; it’s not because other Jews, who believe this is prohibited, attempt to block them. But it may well because of the type of rhetoric and methods that both sides use against each other.
After several days of Arab rioting and violence, Trump sent his Jewish emissaries to pressure Netanyahu to remove the metal detectors and other security enhancements, which he and his cabinet agreed to do. Talk about giving into evil…
How can we expect to come before God and ask Him to rebuild our Holy Temple? Before doing so we must at least begin to show Him that we have learned the lesson of its destruction.
Preventing sexual abuse is not only about telling our kids that no one should touch their private parts or ask them to touch theirs. It’s also vital that a child, no matter the age, be heard and validated upon saying “I’m not comfortable.”
By Yossi Baumol
The Temple is an affair of the heart--it's what is missing from our lives. Subconsciously we have begun more and more to feel this great void in our lives.
Lesson #1 of the Halamish slaughter: This is how Palestinian Arabs behave when they have self-rule and kitchen knives. Imagine what they would do if they had a sovereign state and shoulder-launched missiles
The PA “uses the money it receives from, among other sources, US tax payers to handsomely compensate the killers of Jews. Because the payment is commensurate with the length of the terrorist’s jail sentence, and because the sentence grows heftier the more Jews the terrorist kills
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas is still playing his old game. Out of one side of his mouth he claimed a desire for a peaceful solution to the metal detectors crisis, and out of the other side, he egged his people on to murder more and more Israelis.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour took to Facebook Saturday to salute protesters and claim that "Palestine will be free, it's not a question of if, its (sic) when."
Turkey wants a foothold in Jerusalem as part of Erdogan’s dream of rebuilding the Ottoman empire. He has urged thousands of Muslims to descend on the Jerusalem ascent the Temple Mount in order to “protect it.”
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians decided NOT to enter the Temple Mount unless the metal detectors are removed. The Palestinians and the Waqf lie to the world, claiming Israel is denying Muslims access to their holy sites.
Jerusalem is a consensus issue in Israeli politics. The Netanyahu government would enjoy widespread public backing for action to parry Palestinian and Islamic incitement in Jerusalem and to solidify Israel’s rights on Har HaBayit
What is peace to a Muslim? It is submission. To Allah, to jizya, to the sword, to other Muslims. When others submit, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, there is peace and quiet. After all, if you slaughter people, they no longer make noise or fight back. They're DEAD.
By Bennett Ruda
"Activists" under the banner of "human rights" use their halo -- some times as a shield, other times as a hammer -- preaching about commitment to high ideals and human values, while appealing to people's baser instincts.
By Guest Author
Azerbaijan is Israel's key partner in the South Caucasus and Central Asia region. Bilateral relations between the two countries continue to grow steadily with successes in diverse and important areas and military-strategic cooperation.
The NY Times and the Washington Post believe that Israel’s polices are to blame for “provoking” Arab hostility and violence. If you have any doubts, just read their headlines.
Yiddishkeit is indeed the shining key to unlocking the prison holding the addict. The reality is that Judaism is the gateway solution; it helps to transform one’s life by revealing the actual reason why we are here
To free a servant is a difficult transition for both parties. A lifetime of experience and relationship is ending. The shofar is sounded “so that they will realize that this is something standard throughout the land, and that all do so.”
By Zionist Organization of America
Palestinian Authority (PA) officials deny Judaism’s connection to Jerusalem and uses Jerusalem as a propaganda instrument to incite violence
By Dave Bender
If you're going to remove the metal detectors from the Temple Mount, maybe remove them from a few other inconvenient locations too...
The PA increased spending by 13% for salaries to terrorist prisoners and by 4% for payments to families of terrorist "Martyrs" making their total payout to terrorists $355 million in 2017
Marzel congratulated the Mufti on his principled stance on the metal detectors, and asks that he expand his religious ruling.
Since the primary electorate consisted solely of Labor Party members, one would have expected the candidates to veer left both candidates considered several ideas popular among left-wing journalists and activists toxic
By Alan Bauer
Condemning the murder of the Druse policemen does not inflame his base and helps Abbas with an important minority group in the region. Had those guarding the Temple Mount been Jews, Abbas would almost certainly never have called.
Boycotting a troubled nation which has become a pariah among the hard-left is not the appropriate response to the Israeli government's recent decisions regarding religion. The answer is not disengagement, but rather greater engagement
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
The Muslim Brotherhood called for an "Islamic Intifada" – a violent uprising – against Israel Friday following the day's deadly Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
By Edwin Black
The domestic political importance of CUFI’s zealous members is not lost on anyone in Washington.
The debt-ridden medical center is on the road to financial recovery and renewed medical excellence under the leadership of its tough and trailblazing director, Prof. Zeev Rotstein.
Iran will never abandon its desire for a Shia Crescent from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea because it is needed in order to keep their regime alive
Sarsour is a fraud. She claims to be a civil rights activist but is an anti-Semite. She preaches non-violence but encourages violence against Israelis.
Targeting people for being Jewish is no longer anti-Semitic, but targeting people for being progressive activists is. Thus instead of being a shield to protect Jews, charges of anti-Semitism have become a shield to protect leftists.
A closer and deeper reading will show that what is important is not gender; rather, when it comes to Eretz Israel, the important variable, the fundamental thing, is what makes something “mine.”
Due to the UNESCO decision, the Israeli government has nothing to lose anymore and can simply let the multiple home sales in the ancient part of Hebron go through.
Critics of Israel claim Israel’s security checkpoints “restrict” and “humiliate” Palestinian travelers. While that is open to debate there is one absolute fact: Checkpoints save lives.
By Rabbi Pesach Lerner and Rabbi Yaakov Menken
There is no natural demand for an alternative, mixed space at the Western Wall – from American Jews, much less Israelis. Contrary to the common narrative, it is creating such a space that would divide our nation.
To Jew-haters, any inconsistency is permissible. What makes this hard for many Jews to understand is that it doesn’t conform to their worldview, in which enemies are on the right and allies are on the left.
By Guest Author
There's a LOT to know about the problem with the wild dogs and these crazy animal rights activists don't know the first thing about it!
People should no longer be held hostage to a political plan to destroy Israel or return to homes that haven't existed in decades--if ever.
Apart from prayer rugs, Islam has produced nothing but state-of-the-art terrorism techniques over the centuries.
"The time has come to bring together countries to fight against the enemies of Israel.... Israel never needs to fear that they are only seven or eight million people standing against 150 million Arabs. They have 1.2 billion Indians backing them." Indian parliamentarian.
By Bennett Ruda
Why is the "favorability" level of Israel down, even with the progress made in recognition and alliances with more and more countries?
1% of Israeli synagogues aren't Orthodox. An overwhelming majority of Israelis are either Ultra-Orthodox, Orthodox, or traditional – and the synagogue they go to on occasion is the traditional Orthodox synagogue
According to the Brand Israel Group, only 54% of US. college students lean more toward Israel than the Palestinians, down from 73% in 2010. The decrease was even sharper among Jewish college students, dropping from 84% to 57%
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Students for Justice in Palestine consistently spews anti-Semitic sentiments as well as hatred for the state of Israel, fortunately they have accomplished little.
By Barry Shaw
Linda Sarsour has been hiding her agenda behind the cloak of liberal progressivism but, occasionally, like last week in Chicago while addressing the Islamic Society of North America, her real identity emerges.
Since the Kotel was a rare issue on which Israel could afford to give American Jews something they wanted, it should have seized the opportunity.
Please read this article and take note: Over the past week several more young men and women from the greater community have died of suspected overdoses. They are lost forever to their families, to the community, to the world.
Whether we are Israeli or American, let us give thanks for the freedoms we enjoy, and work every day to free others around the world from the chains of anti-Semitism, persecution, and violence.
Merriam-Webster defines “refugee” as “one who flees; especially a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.” But shouldn’t the definition be broadened to someone seeking refuge – period?
Bilam, accepting Balak’s invitation, became the model for all those who would rise after him. No need to mine history, fwe have contemporary examples of this strategy everywhere we turn. We live in an “age of Bilam.”
If Sarah Halimi is to receive justice, then her murder must be tried as a hate crime. Anything else would be a mockery.
Rajoub must be expelled from FIFA. Swift action needs to be taken to oust Rajoub, and pressure should be put on the PA to replace him with a chairman whose passion for sports and sportsmanship is greater than his thirst for blood.
Sisi’s meeting with Hamas leadership was not intended to be about saving the movement, but rather preventing an armed conflict between Hamas and Israel.
By Josh Hasten
Regavim seeks to safeguard Israel's national lands, restore law and order to the Negev, and give the Bedouin community hope for a brighter tomorrow.
As American Jews are struggling with unprecedented levels of assimilation and intermarriage, threatening our very future in this country, is anyone in America really in a position to withdraw support of Israel?
By Paula Stern
Happy birthday, America - and thank you for sharing this day with us. Entebbe was set to be a mass-massacre and instead it was turned into a great victory that will always be remembered.
By Isi Leibler
Israel can be proud of an excellent relationship with India – a country with a population of 1.3 billion and with one of the world’s fastest expanding economies and which will inevitably become a superpower
Netanyahu did it. It’s not because he doesn’t care about the diaspora. Rather, it’s a result of a cynical political struggle in which one side has power and the other does not
By Guest Author
Hindus and Jews have shared a history which goes back 2500 years. The first group of Jewish sailors, came to India as traders in around 562 BCE and settled in India.
If Israel is to fight the BDS movement effectively, anti-Israel activists must be called out as publicly as possible instead of being allowed to pose as objective researchers and should be denied entry to Israel
American Jews feel insulted and abandoned by Bibi's "ruling coalition?" because they haven't a clue Bibi had no choice. He can't have his government fall for some American whim which essentially has no impact on egalitarian prayer
A collection of fun and fascinating facts about the national anthems of the US and of Israel-The Star Spangled Banner and Hatikvah
American Jews are no longer a bastion of support for Israel. And if they still believe they have a familial relationship with Israelis, it increasingly feels like an abusive one
A haredi middle class is rising, one which has dispensable income and is developing wider lifestyle horizons. Perhaps it offers new pathways of navigating modernity for haredi and secular Israeli society.
I was in New York during the last months of my father’s life. During that time, my father, z”l, stayed with my brother and sister-in-law in Toronto where they watched over and cared for him. I, of course, came in to visit as often as I could. No sooner had I returned home from one […]
By Ted Roberts
But above all, boasted the new Americans, here was a nation that was governed by law. This law protected all, even a poor Jew who could speak only Yiddish
I would have a lot more respect for diaspora Jewish leaders if, in addition to launching a “campaign” over prayer regulations at the Western Wall, they would also launch campaigns against the other issues confronting Israel as well
The Oslo accords failed and there is no peace between Israelis and Palestinians today because the Palestinian leadership never accepted Israel nor rejected terrorism. The Oslo accords were a sham
By Ben Shapiro
Trump’s travel ban has been vindicated in the main, since the vast majority of those seeking to enter the country have no specific relationship with an American citizen who has standing to sue
By Bennett Ruda
The Iranian missile display really wasn't all that crushing. In fact most of the Iranian ballistic missiles failed to reach their intended targets
By Noah Rothman
Under Trump, as opposed to during Obama's tenure, the US will act aggressively to maintain a global prohibition on the use of weapons of mass destruction.
Conference speaker Charles Small stated the majority of religiously motivated hate crimes in the US target the Jewish community and there has been a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the New York area
By Bassam Tawil
Considering lavish payments from the PA to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prison, why should any Palestinian go to university and search for a job when he can make a "decent living" murdering Jews?
BDS once again shows that it is little more than a Jew hating lynch mob, that everyone with a conscience should refuse to engage with.
Worst of all, however, if jailing and killing activists provoke no more outrage than imposing financial reporting requirements on NGOs, brutal dictatorships have no reason not to go straight to the torturing and killing.
By Ben Kurtzer
I recently switched from a smartphone to a flip phone. I was spending too much time looking at the phone blurring the boundaries between work and personal time, tuning out my family. I became enslaved to my phone. The smarter the phone, the dumber I got.
After decades of ominous demographic statistics, the American Jewish community faces a stark choice about its future. Can Israeli culture offer a way out?
By Jason Maoz
Liberals have a long history of mercilessly castigating Republican presidents including the popular, and successful Ronald Reagan. But if you want to know about psychopathic-level demonization of a president, consider what George W. Bush endured.
If God had opted not to constantly re-create but to have His creation continue on its own by virtue of the original energy He invested in it, it wouldn't be a dwelling in the full sense of the word. God prefers to remain constantly involved within His world through re-creation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With big name rock concerts coming this summer--and the future-- to Israel, BDS movement’s cultural boycott of the Jewish state appears to be waning. Thanks Wonder Woman!
No government will be more pro-Israel than Israel’s own, so if even Netanyahu doesn’t really want Jerusalem to be treated as Israel’s capital, what foreign government would?
Whether one regards Ivanka as a role model or a false front for a president you consider unfit for office, Jewish groups using her religion or her role as the most influential woman in the WH against her on this issue is unfortunate.
The Palestinian Authority has proven to be not much different than most of the Arab dictatorships, where democracy and freedom of expression and the media are non-existent.
By Noah Rothman
Otto Warmbier was released just last week by North Korea after they beat him near to death inperhaps the most vicious crime directed against an American citizen by DPRK. He has died this week, days after being returned to his home and family.
Gaza's power shortage is creating a worse humanitarian crisis than Israel’s partial blockade ever did, yet neither Amnesty nor Human Rights Watch has published a single press release about the electricity crisis
By Zionist Organization of America
London would never name a public square to “honor” a vicious terrorist. So why does the world remain silent as the PA continues to name public squares after vicious murderers of innocent Jews?
Europeans should learn from Israel’s vast experience in confronting vehicular terror attacks. ‘Run, hide and tell’ is not a strategic concept that will discourage further attacks or limit their damage. We will have to be more robust than this.
In-depth 2013 study: “Israeli academics have been free to engage in ‘nazification’ of Israel”
Why was it so important for the US Ambassador to the United Nations – in her second official trip - to visit Israel? Why didn’t she visit Finland, for example? I mean, who wouldn’t want to visit Finland?
Naturally, the boycotters plan to continue the struggle. They are not deterred that their attempt to pass a pro-BDS resolution has resulted instead in an anti-BDS resolution.
J Street’s “solution” to the Gaza“crisis”? Give more American taxpayers’ money to Gaza, promote the Palestinian Authority and PUSH for the implementation of the 2-State Solution, regardless of the consequences to Israel.
Parshat Shelach begins and ends with seeing. It opens with the meraglim and closes with the commandment to look at tzizis. The lesson of the two? That it is not enough to simply look. We must also SEE.
Zuckerberg’s closing words at Harvard's commencement: I am reminded of a prayer, Mi Shebeirach, that I say whenever I face a challenge, that I sing to my daughter thinking about her future...
By Isi Leibler
The recent waves of anti-Semitism emanating from a combination of Left wing, liberal, Moslem and traditional anti-Semites, and the indifference of a substantial proportion of the electorate who voted for an overtly anti-Semitic leader, must surely switch on a clear red light for British Jews.
By Paula Stern
How could some lunatic walk up to someone and say - are you a democrat or a republican and then shoot them....what the hell have you done to yourself, America. Is this really what you want?
This confidence to play hardball with the West undoubtedly stems in part from Israel’s growing diplomatic strength outside the West, as highlighted most recently by Netanyahu’s address to the recent summit of the ECOWAS
It is no surprise for Israel to be vilified by the followers of Islam, because Islam, like Nazism, is the antithesis of Judaism. But when the Council of churches joins the accusers, it is the unkindest cut of all
September 25, 2026 
