יום שלישי, י״ח תשרי תשפ״זTuesday, September 29, 2026
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We often say to ourselves, “If only God, Himself, would tell us what to do.” If we open our ears & hearts to this week’s parsha we will hear God settling one of life’s challenges-where we should live.
This election revealed that there are deep divisions within the American electorate. Some of these divisions are reasonable and others are divisions across impermissible lines. The nation must heal.
J Street's mission has been to bring about creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel. Israelis believe it would be a brutal totalitarian state, the kind that often invades neighboring countries.
No matter your presidential preference Comey’s “never mind” letter to Congress about the discovery of more emails on Weiner’s computer casts doubt on his judgment and the probity of the investigation
By David Mark
The world is about to be thrown into a level of chaos of unknown proportions and none of this depends on the outcome of the elections in America.
By Ben Shapiro
Dems miss the point completely: "The target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us. The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man?”
By Isi Leibler
Despite claiming that he “has Israel’s back,”one should not underestimate Obama’s determination to punish Israel before he retires.
Imagine if the US named a school after a terrorist? Unthinkable, but the PA did and insisted on making a big public show of the fact that it is naming a school after a murderer of Americans.
Open Orthodoxy is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, appealing to unknowing Jewish communities that seek a meaningful and genuine Orthodox religious experience.
Whether in its old or new incarnation, anti-Semitism does not exist because of what Jews do, say, or believe, or because of what the state of Israel does, it exists because of anti-Semites
By Zionist Organization of America
The entire community including public officials should be calling on the Coop to stop indulging a group of Israel-bashers who are obsessed with singling out and discriminating against Israel.
A gov't allowed to play fast and loose with the basic rules of fairness to disadvantage conservatives or friends of Israel could easily be employed by different people to discriminate against others.
Pres. Obama should resist any temptation, during his final weeks in office, to change longstanding American policy: that only direct negotiations between the parties will achieve a lasting peace.
The Obama administration has urged Israel's gov't to flatten Amona effectively leaving the inhabitants homeless because the US State Dep't claims that the 98 homes of Amona are an impediment to peace.
By Noah Rothman
For the offense of notifying Congress of the discovery of new evidence in the Clinton email scandal, Democrats have attacked the FBI director’s credibility, in some cases demanding Comey's resignation
After so many recent votes at UNESCO erasing Judeo-Christian history in favor of Islamist misrepresentation one thing is clear: the sooner democracies leave the UN, the better
By Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon
The American establishment is committed to blocking Trump’s election. Are the 2016 elections rigged? You bet they are.
When UNESCO affirmed the resolution labeling the Temple Mount a Muslim shrine, our Jordanian "pals" hailed the vote as a “victory” and unashamedly claimed credit for drafting the offensive decision.
By Jeff Ballabon and Bruce Abramson
This week’s WikiLeaks dump provided further sordid details about the most corrupt Presidential candidate in living memory, Hillary Clinton.
As the election draws closer, the Obama administration is sending strong signals that it may make a major push to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations
By Ben Cohen
If Hizbullah comes out of the Syrian war with its prestige strengthened and its threat level boosted, there’s every reason to fear the next target will be Israel.
Left-wing viewers simply flag Prager U videos as inappropriate, and YouTube does the rest.
The UNESCO vote indicates that in a morally incoherent world, political expediency will trump reason, truth, and fact.
After UNESCO voted Christian and Jewish heritage off the Temple Mount, the question remains how to convince nations in the West to stand resolute in the face of Islamists committed to replacing them.
What’s truly infuriating and disappointing about the UNESCO vote is the deafening silence of significant Christian figures. specifically the leader of the Catholic world.
By Noah Rothman
The likeliest scenario remains, Clinton taking the White House and Republicans retaining a truncated majority in the House.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While the US State Dept brought thousands of Muslim refugees into the US, the plight of Christians had been disregarded, Of 10000 Syrian refugees permitted into the US, only 56 were Christian
By Edwin Black
Too many Holocaust memorials have lost their original identity and transitioned to an institution which devotes itself to both Holocaust and genocide, or simply to global genocide
There is nothing B’Tselem would like more than a binding Security Council resolution that imposes unfavorable terms on Israel, satisfying B’Tselem’s political vision.
By Atara Beck
Trump has flaws, no doubt, but the vicious campaign against him is so disgusting that I can't stand it, and the mainstream Jewish community is as stupid as ever.
By David Mark
By rejecting Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, UNESCO, as a world body, opened the first shot in the world’s war against Jerusalem, as prophesized ago millennia ago
By Mark Cohen
Trump may be losing America's support, but some of his more ardent followers are already blaming the Jews.
When it comes to Israel, we know the majority of American Jews are not one-issue voters. But the assumption is that Israelis view American elections solely through the prism of their own security
“Interesting” in my book means profound, provocative and positive. Here's my top 20 list of this year's "Interesting Jews"
ALL God-fearing people have a religious obligation to consider a leader's most important qualification to be trustworthiness, in all realms of life.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
The heart of Sukkot is to know that life is full of risk and yet to affirm it, to sense the full insecurity of the human situation and yet to rejoice in it. Chag Sameach!
Have you noticed that Israel has barely been mentioned in the current presidential campaign? Here are ten questions that I think the candidates need to address.
It is the end of an era with Arthur’s passing and with him, the last of the old guard of The Jewish Press.
By Ben Cohen
What is worrying is that measures to protect the Yazidis from future brutalities have been set back by the Iraqi parliament decision.
Obama plans to dish out tough love to Israel while citing Peres as cover; brandishing Peres’ peace bequest as a battering ram
"... there needs to be consequences ..."
In these days, there is a need for an economic accounting of the soul, to weigh the balance-sheet of our personal and national economic condition, our soul and our nation's.
That many who condemned the impact of the death of outrage regarding Clinton are now willing to rationalize Trump’s egregious behavior makes their hypocrisy even worse than their liberal counterparts.
The friendship between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the State of Israel stands in sharp contrast to the geopolitical and sectarian tensions that plague so much of the world.
By Yaffa Ganz
The one thing we realize we cannot control is time. We cannot make time move more slowly. But we can change its composition and create a different kind of time.
“The world loved Shimon Peres because they thought he was the best chance they had at getting rid of or weakening the Jewish presence in Israel. And they are truly sad because that hope just died.”
The sight of all these world leaders flocking to Jerusalem – sovereign capital of the Jewish people, makes Peres’ funeral an incredible Kiddush shem Shamayim, sanctification of God’s name.
I met with the “devout atheist” several more times. One day he asked me the mother of all theological questions: “Why do you believe the Torah is true?” A satisfied smile stretched across my face.
The major issue the nation of Israel faces today is the wide gap that exists between institutionalized religious bodies and their influence on individual citizens in Israel.
Every Jew has his own letter in the Torah. As a person grows and develops, that letter grows and develops too, changing the whole dynamic of the Torah, which becomes a 600,000-word developing document
Orthodoxy should celebrate the instinctive liberalism of non-Orthodox Jews as a profound religious fulfillment of their human and Jewish nature without endorsing the policies of American liberalism
The sounds of the shofar bring us back to our encounter with our Creator and with ourselves. And they are the sounds that remind us of our holiness and our spiritual goals.
Some on the left have become confused, absorbing the false Arab narrative about "Palestinian lands," though never in history has there existed either a Palestinian people or an Arab Palestinian state
FIFA’s recognition of teams has never been understood as taking any position on the status of the territory where the team plays
It might be one of the few things on which Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agree: President Obama was wrong Friday when he vetoed the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act."
By Sean Savage
The Obama administration has taken a policy of accommodation towards the Baghdad government that has reaped negative consequences, thereby fostering ISIS
By Jeff Dunetz
Conservative principals-- limited government, individual responsibility, and traditional morals--are all deeply rooted in Jewish tradition and served as inspiration for the US 'Founding Fathers'
By Abed AlMaala
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace must take a stance, and clearly and utterly distancing itself from their VP’s statements against Israel, made in support of BDS.
The Hamas bombing in Jerusalem which killed four, is remembered by residents of San Francisco because it shattered one of the city’s most prominent Jewish families.
By Matan Peleg
At the same time that MK Livni condemns those who seek to convict her and other Israeli officials while abroad — she does the exact opposite in Israel.
Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem by Arabs? How on Earth could Bibi make such a pernicious accusation? Perhaps, because it’s already happened back in 1948 when the Jordanians "purged" the Old City of JEWS
People resort to drugs, including alcohol, for a variety of reasons, among them a simplistic or reflexive approach to coping with pain, an attempt to hide anxieties, or for random recreational reasons
Certainly, even someone in a spiritual coma on Rosh Hashanah can be awakened by the sound of the shofar.
We Jews are a people of many voices but we are one family, wanting only to live in peace and to be friend and ally to those who accept us and to help make the world a better place.
The course reading materials do not even attempt to present contrary readings and source material from historians and other scholars who do not condemn Zionism.
What I am calling the "Movement for Jewish Freedom" is an attempt to reengage Zionism as a political movement grounded in solidarity with other groups who share common interests.
Painting Israel as tarnished by racism, especially when done by so-called Jewish leaders, alienates young American Jews who care strongly about racial justice.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I want to say to all the people of Samaria that they are beloved by the American people, and we believe that Judea and Samaria are not the ‘West Bank’ but part of the state of Israel”
By Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney
Throughout her speech on anti-Semitism, whenever Powers described attacks on Jews, she never mentioned that the perpetrators were virtually always Muslims.
By Jason Maoz
For decades as a journalist Fallaci's worldview was decidedly left wing and shot through with an abiding cynicism toward the US, but her thinking underwent a swift evolution with the rise of jihadism.
Greenblatt re-positioning the ADL from a centrist position for pro-Israel activism to one openly opposing the democratically-elected government of Israel is a sea change of enormous importance.
Students seeking an "Open Hillel" want to use the organization in their quest to separate Jews from identifying with Israel - at least an Israel with a Jewish soul.
With so much power residing in one individual, a president’s health, let alone illness, is no small matter.
Many Swedes are in shock after the Swedish opposition leader Anna Kinberg Batra so offended Israel during her recent four-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Since the Twin Towers collapsed, the modern nation state has been collapsing, as well. The values built by the nation-states are not capable of dealing with the challenge of Islam.
In the wake of 9-11, almost the entire nation felt a sense of unity, an overwhelming gratefulness to firefighters and police who risked and in many cases lost their lives. Where has all this gone?
Bitachon is trust in God – a trust that He will make things end up all right. It is more than faith and belief that God is able to extricate an individual or a community from a difficult situation.
Today I got up from sitting shiva for my beloved mother, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. I looked for her but her chair was empty. The pain is raw. Where is my beautiful Ema?
Peace is actually hampered by the lack of Jewish sovereignty over YESHA, the cradle of the Jewish people. This is true regarding peace in Israel as well as the world in general.
The Flotilla's message: Israel is to blame for everything and should embrace national suicide by ending the Gaza naval blockade that stops Hamas from importing weapons. Its message for Hamas? Nothing.
"Political correctness in prisons is allowing extremism to flourish because guards are too afraid of confronting Muslims." Extremists "exploiting... staff fear of being labelled racist." The Telegraph
Israel may feel it is in its best interest to placate the court, but the ICC as an arm of Western ambitions throughout the region and the developing world does not have Israel’s interest in mind.
Rosh Hashanah is just 4 weeks away so get ready, Come to Israel and join the weight of the nation (approximately 6,000,000 Jews in Israel @ an average weight of 150 lbs, that’s 900 million lbs)
By Barry Shaw
Sporadic violence has broken out in recent days against the Palestinian Authority by individuals, tribal groups and clans at odds with the increasingly unpopular rule by the PA's corrupt leaders.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The Holy Day vs. the Tel Aviv Railway Construction - Can both sides win, or must both sides lose?
By Andrea Levin
Though the New York Times’ has a new Jerusalem bureau chief in Peter Baker, it remains the same-- anti-Israel, anti-Orthodox, anti-right wing--New York Times.
With the Obama administration handing over $400 million to the Iranian government it has turned its back on American victims of Iranian terrorism.
For social justice warriors, to know one victim group is to know any victim group – with Israel being a tempting and habitual target of their condemnation
The 'burkini ban' was enacted in response to Islamist terror attacks in France and concerns about the integration of France’s Muslim minority, France’s highest court just deemed it unconstitutional
Since 1967, Arab reconciliation with Israel has been frustrated by Palestinian rejectionism, a luxury Cairo and Riyadh can no longer afford because of the nuclear deal and rise of Islamist terrorism
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Real religious leaders should not be “honored,” “valued,” or “well respected.
Controversial and compelling. the discussion touched on essential issues concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, RESPECTFULLY.
Jews constitute an insignificant portion of the world’s population, 0.2% Considering the minuscule number. why is there such disproportionate coverage of Jews and Israel?
Drug abuse can be cured, the toll of an overdose reversed. But suicide is irrevocable.
When one can truly appreciate his uniqueness, he will be able to ascribe value to himself and to others, laying the groundwork for healthier and more fulfilling relationships.
The admonition not to mistreat gerim in this week's parsha is not limited to converts. Anyone in any social situation can feel like a ger, it’s just the inevitability of social dynamics
By Jeff Ballabon and Bruce Abramson
The chasm between how the parties view Israel is clear: Democrats, at best, see moral equivalence between Israel and the PA; Republicans see Israel as a close and valued ally under unprecedented attack
Applying "intersectionality"—a pseudo-academic theory asserting all social justice movements are inexorably linked, anti-Israel activists have made opposition to Israel and support for BDS a litmus test
By Noah Rothman
Objective jurisprudential standards have come to be seen by the activist left on campus as tantamount to victim-blaming.
By Ben Shapiro
Hillary Clinton can sleep well at night. She knows that no matter what she does, her defenders at the Department of Justice will shield her from harm.
September 25, 2026 
