יום שישי, י״א תמוז תשפ״וFriday, June 26, 2026
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These policies have prolonged the war.
We have no illusions that the president-elect will be able to simply pick up from where he left off four years ago. But we are convinced that he is determined to, at the least, provide an off-ramp from the calamitous direction in which the Biden Administration was taking us.
While the Biden administration never misses an opportunity to state that it will not allow Iran to become a nuclear power and that a preventative military option is on the table, it has long been apparent that imposing economic sanctions is as far as they are prepared to go.
By Max Wisotsky
Besides the learning, there was also another, unforeseen but extraordinary benefit which turned out to be not just a life-changing experience, but literally, a life-saving experience. Going to the Siyum HaShas in 2020 initiated a sequence of medically related developments that can only be called nissim, or miracles.
For Jewish students across American campuses today, joining the new student uprising and belonging to the DEI community requires denying and denouncing your people and your peoplehood. Sadly many young U.S. Jews have done so.
Being Jewish is not merely about culture, religion, or ethnicity; it’s about being a nation – the Am Hanivchar – the chosen nation.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
After Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, Israel, by necessity, has become the Middle East’s strong horse in its ongoing battle against the Iranian regime and its terror proxies.
Israel is not the only US ally that the Washington Post loves to attack.
Over the past year, the bow and arrow have become inverted gain, evolving into a shield of protection. We have felt the presence of a protective dome suspended above us, sheltering our skies and instilling a sense of security and hope.
If we don’t want to end up like the Third World, it’s time for us to stop being ruled by it.
By Ruthie Blum
While threatening a severe retaliatory blow to the Jewish state, Tehran appears to be pausing for the result of the U.S. election—and praying for Harris to win.
His private advice to Columbia University that only the GOP cared about campus antisemitism illustrates the Democratic establishment’s abandonment of the Jews.
Harris supporters are coming at me hard. The Democratic Party liberals harass, hector, bully, and try to shame me--ceaselessly. Their behavior reminds me of vampiric-like cult members who are hellbent on converting everyone to their point of view. They live on converts.
This year’s election cycle promises to be very close and yet very pivotal, especially in regards to the presidency and the choices of which party will control the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
What the absence of an incumbent meant was that any accounting for Biden’s policies – and any possible course corrections – would come only as a result of how effectively the Trump campaign would be able to tie VP Harris to failed Biden decision-making.
The strength of the American system lies in the fact that the structures of the republic set limits to democratic waywardness caused by momentary changes of public mood and cultural-ideological fashions such as wokeism.
A bad legacy that will hopefully end this week
Even with a supposed "ceasefire deal," Sinwar's successor will no doubt release the hostages as slowly as possible to allow more time for the Palestinians to rearm.
The more you look, the more you see the connections.
In its dying days the Biden-Harris administration will be chomping at the bit to act on its most “progressive” impulses: To clobber insolent Israel and to reset US Mideast policy away from Israel.
By Sara Lehmann
Israel is getting back its mojo. Stunning military successes against Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran, have emboldened Israel’s leaders to act, despite worldwide pressure for restraint. Victories in Rafah and Lebanon, especially the obliteration of enemy chiefs and operatives, have encouraged Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli leaders to thumb their noses at detractors in the U.S. […]
Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what former president Trump accomplished during his four years in office?
Certain details around the incident are not being shared or reported with the public, Soroka said. There’s a feeling that if this happened to a different community, it would be covered differently.
Members of both American political parties and other concerned observers have been asking for a while now, "Who's actually running the country?"
By Marc Gronich
All of the above contested races are likely to be decided by one or two percentage points. A victory will depend upon which candidate does the better job of getting out the vote.
Sadly, the media's dangerous cooperation with terrorists tells us more about them than about the war about which they purport to be "reporting."
By Ariel Kogan
Macron advocates for arms embargo on Israel due to civilian casualties in Gaza and Lebanon while French-made weaponry linked to rights abuses in Myanmar, Yemen, Iran and worldwide
France has been content to ignore the hazards of its decisions in a haughty and neocolonialist pursuit of influence.
By Ariel Kogan
Iran sees Azerbaijan first and foremost as a friend of its archenemy — Israel.
While France is the origin of the principles of modern democracy, it has also shown a disturbing affinity for tyranny.
By Naomi Kahn
While the perpetrators and proponents of the lie of Palestinian moderation - a veritable Who’s Who of Israeli has-beens, wash-outs, and wannabes - continue to peddle their wares to the US government and other deep-pocketed international concerns, the Israeli public isn’t buying it anymore
Iran (good), Israel (bad), Trump (worse)--read all about it in NYT
Which of the following Mideast-related events can be expected this coming year? Take this quiz and calculate the 5785 future you need to be prepared for. (My answers are at the bottom of the article.)
When one's enemy has no war aim other than genocide, and has said so consistently for 90 years, there is most likely zero probability of a diplomatic route to peace.
If this year of beheadings and ballistic missiles has taught us anything, it is that Islamic trash talk is real. American platitudes are mere sound bites.
By Gadi Taub
Israel must resist U.S., U.N. and E.U. pressure and outlaw any dealings with this handmaid of Hamas.
Light is good, and if one can get into the group of ro’ei hashemesh, seeing the sun but not being captive to it, life can be good and enjoyable. The way to escape from the sun’s domination is by imbuing one’s life with yiras Hashem.
Were it not for the Jews and their Bible, there would be no Christianity – and therefore no Western civilization. The abolition of slavery was led by Bible-believing Christians. The Bible, not Aristotle, was their moral inspiration.
Even as world opinion has turned on Israel and antisemitism has been on a terrifying rise, the Christian community has stood steadfastly by Israel and the Jewish people, refusing to abandon us, despite the terrifying trend to do so.
You can reach your own judgment whether Kamala Harris is honest. What is less a matter of personal opinion is her intellect.
A number of Western leaders seem to think they know what is best for the State of Israel, and frequently admonish and attempt to bully the Israeli government to follow their dictates.
Nowhere is there an acknowledgement by the Biden team that what is driving the Hamas-Hezbollah problem is an Iran that is bent on Israel’s destruction and which uses both terror organizations as local surrogates.
The Biden-Harris White House Owes Bibi an Apology
This year, the Torah will feel different in my arms. Not lighter, not heavier, but full of stories we know too well – the stories of exile and return, of brokenness and healing, of joy and tragedy walking side by side.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
What sets this year apart is not only the physical trauma of a seven-front war facing Israel but the ripple effect this has had on Jews worldwide.
Friedman lives in his own diabolical dream world
Obama has been the "Chamberlain" in this 21st-century version of Great Britain's and France's appeasement of an evil and dangerous regime.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The status of the Temple Mount and the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem has become a destabilizing issue in Israel and the Middle East. The demand for the “liberation” of al-Aqsa has become the battle cry for extremists including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Iran, and Turkey. Al-Aqsa’s “occupation” provided Hamas with a pretext to launch its terror […]
Alone, small nation champions a catatonically suicidal West
A sukkah is a symbol of G-d’s protection in the wilderness and the ability to bring Hashem with you everywhere.
By Guy Millière
Sinwar wants everyone to be a martyr—except for him." Now he appears to want to have discussions again on the condition that the Israelis will not try to kill him during the negotiations on a deal
According to the report, this has led to tension between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterparts over the scope, magnitude and characteristic “close to the vest” approach of the Israeli operations against Iran and its proxies.
The profound German influence on Arab antisemitism can be seen in a number of areas
There is an important principle of common sense. If a wise person, who wants the best for you, suggests you do something, you should probably heed her advice. Conversely, if a psychotic person who wishes for your demise suggests you do something, you should probably do the opposite!
Back then there was no unanimity of perspective: the English Department boasted structuralists, deconstructionists, post-structuralists, and psychoanalytic and feminist cultural theorists. I took courses with all of them. But today, their toxic amalgam – ensuring the critical nuance of each is lost – is the only thing on the menu.
It should not be lost on the threatened Arab Gulf states that Iran is flexing its military muscles against them in exactly the way that prompted their openness to the formation of the Abraham Accords to serve as a counterweight to a predatory Iran in the first place.
We could hear the muted sound of sirens and explosions above us. Israel was clearly under attack, but I felt comforted and protected in this spiritual cocoon of unity and prayer.
Chief among the questions, of course, were why she would attach herself to a president who has had historically low approval rating and whose policies on such things as inflation, Afghanistan withdrawal, illegal immigration, the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, etc., has drawn near universal criticism.
Instead, the US State Department has embraced the diplomatic option, which has generated hundreds of billions of dollars to the Ayatollahs -
By BESA CENTER
NY Times is considered the “newspaper of record” and a reliable source of information, and is read by leaders and elites around the world. The paper has nevertheless committed a series of repeated errors about the war, invariably at Israel’s expense, despite editorial promises to apply extra scrutiny.
Like its Obama predecessor, becoming a lame-duck administration frees Biden-Harris personnel to live out their dreams of going after Israel in the remaining months.
To see freedoms perverted and attacked by would-be assassins embracing an ideology repugnant to most Americans is a reminder that their actions can only be described as a capital crime against our democracy.
Unlike Russiagate, Irangate is real and has been taking place out in the open for us to see.
The message being sent is that allies will be left to fend for themselves, and enemies of freedom and democracy can go ahead and demolish them with impunity.
On October 7, every act of Israeli resistance shifted the narrative arc from millennia of Jewish suffering to another chapter in the Zionist quest to build and defend a Jewish homeland.
Teshuvah isn’t something we do, it’s something we live.
It is said that while the other holy days on our calendar will disappear into obsolescence after Mashiach comes, these two holidays will endure forever. Yet at that time, according to the Zohar, Yom Kippur will shed its restrictive nature and indeed become like Purim.
“The Lord said to Moses, that the tenth day of this seventh month [Tishrei] is the Day of Atonement…. Do not do any work on that day…. This is a lasting ordinance for generations to come….”
As we stand before G-d this Yom Kippur with the memory of October 7 fresh in our hearts, we must recognize our responsibility to actively shape how this chapter will be remembered.
By Sara Lehmann
Israel has turned a military corner with the approach of this yahrtzeit.
Israel scores a military victory by dismantling Hezbollah – and U.S. credit agencies respond by plunging its credit rating!
Hashem prefers the imperfect prayer of imperfect humans over the celestial perfection of angels.
By Gadi Taub
In this clash between politicians and jurists, between woke moralism and real morality, lies a question with global historical implications.
By Bassam Tawil
There is no excuse for celebrating murder. A society that celebrates murder will never be a partner for peace. True peace will only come when Palestinian leaders values their people's lives more than celebrating the murder of Jews.
Some of Kamala Harris’s supporters constitute yet another ominous omen in the perturbing accumulation that the prospect of her victory portends.
Because of my early preoccupation with good and evil, already in high school, I hated Communism. How could one not, I wondered.
When he sat down, he opened the machzor and realized that he could not read even one word of Hebrew.
It would seem that our side should be thinking about how to exploit Iranian weakness and not how to rescue them. Nor can there be any doubt that this is a period of serious exposure for Iran.
Has October 7, 2023, awakened Western policymakers to the realization that they are driven by a screensaver - rather than Middle East reality?
Hezbollah has emerged as the great energizer of the Israeli spirit—not by design but by the impact our soldiers have been able to inflict upon them.
What really happened then and what is really happening now.
By Ben Cohen
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy captures the essence of the Jewish people—and their intense love for a tiny strip of land—in his latest book, in which he deconstructs the significance of Oct. 7.
When someone criticizes Israel, we need only ask: “Are they OK with killing Jews?”
Many of the Palestinian Authority’s most sophisticated officials, stationed around the world, have lauded the mass murder, gang rapes and baby-burnings of Oct. 7.
Israel will need to find the best way of communicating a credible threat of limited nuclear war such that Iran and its proxies are deterred from continuing to escalate their aggression.
Some 200 cyclists gathered in southern Israel to honor the victims of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre.
The targeted maneuvers follow months of special forces ops that uncovered staggering quantities of weapons meant for an invasion of the Galilee.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
This year it would be wise for even those outside of the synagogue’s walls to accept the shofar’s invitation to wake up and reassess.
Irving Bunim, a key leader and builder of the Young Israel movement
June 26, 2026 
