יום שלישי, ד׳ תשרי תשפ״זTuesday, September 15, 2026
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The modern Orthodox world (Yeshiva University, Touro, Skokie and other institutions) has long ago made its peace with secular learning. Even Ner Yisrael offers a program with Loyola University. But most of the yeshivish veldt is still wrestling with this issue.
Instead of fixating on a ketz hageulah (end of redemption), which places the burden on G-d to act, we should embrace the approach of being metzapeh l’yeshua and mechakeh lo, never despairing and continuing our mission with hope and purpose.
It wasn’t the he said-she said exchanges that were most troubling, although we think Ms. Harris was more forthcoming on the embargo issue than she is now willing to let on.
It bears repeating: a small group of political operators arbitrarily chose someone who had never gotten even one vote in support of her being president from Democrats over someone who was twice the overwhelming choice of Democratic presidential primary voters.
Radical Islam vandalizes the image of G-d, creates a cult of death and tramples the notion of divine image.
If Goldenberg was still a voting Israeli – he renounced his citizenship – he’d vote on the far left of the Israeli political spectrum and he represents the radical left of the American Jewish community.
By Avi Ciment
Koheles had it right when he wrote, To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
What the police did not do was arrest the gangs of armed Muslim men who took to the streets across British cities.
By Gregg Roman
In the annals of Israeli military history, a persistent myth has long influenced strategic thinking: the notion that the Israeli public is hypersensitive to military casualties. This misconception, deeply ingrained in the psyche of Israel's political and military leadership, has often led to overly cautious military strategies, potentially prolonging conflicts and, paradoxically, increasing the overall […]
[T]he likelihood of Iran launching another attack against Israel in retaliation for Haniyeh's assassination appears to be receding, not least because Tehran is well aware that, in any major military confrontation with Israel, it will inevitably be the loser.
What better moment than the eve of Tisha Be’Av – ten months distance from Israel’s contemporary national catastrophe of Tisha Be’Av magnitude – to remind oneself of the Biblical warnings against the politics of defamation?
By Dan Diker
Israel’s enemies must perceive the loss and despair of a long war against Israel. Elimination of Hamas and Hizbullah leaders are perception changers
While the former is doubtless hard for liberal Jews to absorb, with regard to Israel and the Jews, the latter are much worse.
As China and Russia watche American democracy in turmoil, they are placing bets on whether they will confront a strong, resolute president in 2025 or one that has neither the skill nor the will to retain our nation's global leadership.
By Ruthie Blum
The precision strike on Hamas and Islamic Jihad officers embedded in a mosque within a school compound is being falsely depicted as a mass-casualty incident.
The chief of the Air Force's Air Mobility Command, predicted in a memorandum to his command leaked in January of last year that America would be in a war with China "in 2025."
By Bassam Tawil
Abbas and the PA have also once again served as a reminder that they share the same goal as Hamas: glorify terrorism and destroy Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Post-Judaism leads in the end to a rejection of democracy, which means, a rejection of Zionism too.
Justified hate, even hate we hide from ourselves, is still hate.
By Gregg Roman
UNRWA rot is so deep that reform no longer may be possible.
By Ruthie Blum
The only “leak” worthy of praise rather than censure this week was made inadvertently by an IDF fighter in Gaza.
Papua New Guinea (PNG), located in the southwestern Pacific, opened its Jerusalem embassy in 2023. With 95% of the population Christian, Prime Minister James Marape explained that Jerusalem has been the universal capital of the nation and people of Israel.
Iran now knows that its nuclear facilities are vulnerable should Israel be determined to finally take them out now that Iran is reportedly close to building a nuclear weapon, with President Biden’s promise to not let that happen no longer operative.
When Kamala Harris took up the mantle of the Democratic Party’s nominee for President, she lost no time in reinforcing doubts Jews have about her.
If the policies fairly reek of success, why are the Democrats and their media amen corner doing somersaults to discredit the notion that Ms. Harris was the appointed“border czar, that is, in charge of the Biden Administrations’ efforts to control our borders?
After October 7 everything changed, and suddenly Tisha B’Av feels more real and more relevant than ever. Darkness has once again cast its shadow over Jewish history.
Rather, for every women’s sport, every school will be forced to demonstrate, in each case, the risk of a ‘sports-related injury’ in order to prevent the participation of males. Plainly, the mountain of resulting bureaucratic paperwork for each and every school undermined the possibility of the overall winnowing plan working.
It’s time for those who run for political office to realize that there is a price to be paid for their actions and that our community is serious about promoting support for the only Jewish state in the world and the closest U.S. ally in the world.
Weakness kills Americans
By David Suissa
Even as a college student, Shapiro was able to see what most diplomats, politicians, pundits and peace processors could not: Arafat was a phony.
And so, Ismael Haniyeh wished to wipe Israel off the face of the map. Yet, thank G-d, someone out there did not cooperate. How should we feel following the death of this Hamas leader?
The targeting of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran has triggered a battle for succession within the organization.
Despite Israel picking off senior Hamas leaders and destroying much of its infrastructure, Sinwar still lives, and he controls the fate of dozens of hostages still alive in Gaza.
"Harris hires Obama campaign veterans to join 2024 effort, replacing Biden loyalists"
In sharp contrast to the Arabs, the Jewish community of Palestine actively supported the Allied cause in both World War I and World War II.
By J. E. Dyer
To re-seize the initiative and get deterrence going
Israel's ability to take advantage of Haniyeh's visit to Iran is a clear message, not only to Hamas leaders, but to the Iranian regime itself.
By Aliza Abrams Konig and Rabbi Ezra Schwartz
Beyond a greater pool to choose from, there are a few reasons for the preference of a non-Jewish surrogate. There is a well-known dispute about whom halacha considers the true mother.
If only he had also been an austere religious scholar too.
While we are not unmindful that a New York State Supreme Court Justice has ruled against Mr. Trump in a civil fraud case brought by Ms. James, we have also been told by legal experts that the coming appeal of the verdict will be a defense lawyer’s dream.
By Robert Isler
Most troubling is that Harris doesn’t need prodding to reveal a hostility toward the Jewish state not found in Biden, as both the tone and content of her nearly six-minute statement last Thursday to the media following her private talks with Netanyahu revealed.
Her penchant for collecting runs in the family; my personal weaknesses are books and yarn. The word hoarder has been mumbled in my presence, but I like to refer to myself as a curator.
The modern world has profoundly disrupted the meaning of language. The philosophy of post-structuralism asserts that meaning is not fixed but fluid and unstable.
With Democrats apoplectic over recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly on abortion and presidential immunity, President Biden has proposed measures that would weaken the Court’s independence and role as a co-equal branch of the federal government together with the Congress and the President.
We will leave it to our readers to decide which side has the better of the argument. But, with our tongues planted firmly in our cheeks, we suggest that Ms. Harris and the anti-czar, pro-Harris side just calm down.
By Bassam Tawil
Destroying Hamas's military capabilities and removing it from power is the only realistic option.
Israeli "settlers" are NOT like Australian settlers
Birthright citizenship and treason citizenship remain major obstacles to securing the nation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The PM reminded the administration that appeasing Iran will suck the U.S. into another Middle East war.
As bad as you think the media is, it always manages to be worse.
Israel must not opt for "more of the same" in the aftermath of Hezbollah's deadly attack on Majdal Shams,
The PA’s silence in the face of the murder of 12 children tells us more about its values and support for terror than Abbas' condemnation in response to the Russian attack.
“Muslims who support terrorism and trust Osama bin Laden favor personal liberty.”
Setting the record straight on the Arab propaganda war because the unending war between the Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews is fought on a number of levels. One on the military front; another in the propaganda arena.
The former Israeli ambassador to the United States described what it would take to restore security for the tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from the Lebanese border.
You can truly be unburdened by the past when it’s being rewritten for you.
But what makes Mount Herzl a holy mountain stems from the thousands of soldiers who are buried in the military section. Here are the gravestones that testify to the supreme sacrifice that each of them made for the sake of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.
Sadly, the charedi leadership sees it as a religious imperative of the highest order to resist any change regarding national service, even for those (estimated at 35%) who are not in yeshiva and not learning.
The bottom line for the U.S. thus became a Hamas-manipulated limit on how Israel could fight its war with Hamas, thereby encouraging Hamas’s recalcitrance and terrorism. But the problem didn’t end there.
In that moment of reflection, I once again was poignantly reminded that, despite his flaws, Trump had genuinely cared about America. He had fought for what he believed was best for our great country, often facing immense opposition and criticism. His resilience and determination were undeniable.
By Hillel Fuld
Surely, all these years later, you’ve heard that Israel is The Startup Nation, but perhaps it’s time to retire that title and change it to something more along the lines of Scale up Nation.
Once you throw your lot in with the State of Israel, there’s an implicit understanding that one day you may be called on to protect those around you. This reality accentuates the contrast between Israel and America.
A person of his sadly apparent diminished capacity should certainly not be entrusted with the responsibilities of so high an office as President of the United States.
In fact, the ICJ is hardly a court. Its judges are merely political appointees acting upon instructions from their respective governments, presided over by a Lebanese judge with a record of hostile, anti-Israel political statements.
By Alan Zeitlin
Let’s elect a president who recognizes that although Harvard and the Ivy Leagues have long abandoned the United States of America, the Jewish people never will, because Jewish values are American values and American values are Jewish values, he said in his speech.
“The leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”
The jihad conquest of Palestine was not a "liberation," and most assuredly did not "reinstate Judaism and Jewishness to Jerusalem."
Donors decided Biden should step out. Now donors will pick Kamala’s VP.
If Biden is unfit to run, he must step down or be impeached.
12,000 Palestinian Arabs and 30,000 Palestinian Jews volunteered for the British Army.
It is easy to denounce violence by one's opponents. It is far more difficult, but more important, to denounce violence by one's allies.
I believe that the Rabbi's concern for “educational purity” (preserving the sanctity of Torah studies) also reveals a deep fear of change
The reversion to Obama’s foreign policy and appeasement of Iran spawned an escalation of terrorism that endangers the West while killing Israelis.
The ICJ's "advisory opinion" on Israeli "settlements" in Jerusalem and the West Bank is an injustice that gives evidence of considerable bias against the Jewish State.
By J. E. Dyer
This fight must be to win.
By Bassam Tawil
Since the October 7 attack, satisfaction among the Palestinians in the West Bank with the "performance" of Hamas murderers and rapists has risen to 82%.
By Avi Ciment
I love the closeness Jews instinctively have towards one another during tough times like shiva, illnesses, and tragedies, and I love the joy we share celebrating in each other’s semachot.
It is time to raid the high schools, university campuses, and senior citizen homes for manpower; to press the entire Israeli public, young and old of all hues and stripes, into industrial and emergency service.
The number of incidents is way too long to cite in this article. But there is little doubt that the world of medicine has become sick.
By Sara Lehmann
We need to take advantage of this moment of conciliation, sincere or not, that has resulted from the terrible event of July 13. Then we wait for November 5
By BESA CENTER
Israel is facing difficult years of a prolonged existential struggle. To this end, it is imperative for Israel to be led by a leadership that enjoys the broad trust of the public.
For numerous reasons our mesorah intentionally avoids excessive scrutiny of Yemot HaMashiach (Messianic matters). Too much focus on the future can lead to runaway messianic fervor, raising unrealistic expectations which, when unfulfilled, can be dispiriting.
We had rather thought that Secret Service protocol required a sweep of areas surrounding where the person to be protected was scheduled to be and from where he or she would be in sniper range. Yet the Trump shooter was armed with a rifle and perched on a roof top within 300 feet of the former president.
By Justin Amler
The consequence of all this misinformation is that Israel, not Hamas, is mostly blamed and held responsible for the misery of this war.
Vance has also said that Israel is key to the economic development of the Middle East and to the creation of a military bulwark against Iran. He emphasized his belief that the best vehicle for bringing all of this about are the Abraham Accords.
The charedi opposition to army service often stems from the belief that Torah study protects the country as much as, if not more than, military service – a debatable point.
In truth, reasonable arguments can be made for both positions which is why appeals court were created – to choose between and among different approaches. And thereby hangs a tale.
Israel must act to halt Palestinian destruction of Jewish archaeological sites in Judea & Samaria.
The assassination attempt was the one thing that could save his candidacy
Escalating Palestinian terrorism, surging illegal Palestinian construction in zones of strategic importance to Israel, and wildly out-of-control arson attacks must be stopped.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The actor's attack on Joe Biden was all about personal revenge.
September 11, 2026 
