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With his decision to unite with Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas has thrown away diplomacy and chose terrorism instead.
If we can learn to fear the surveillance of the Internet, we can learn to fear God's constant watching.
Differences in the civil status of citizens exist in many Western countries; only Israel is labeled an apartheid state.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The Arab world is simply not built to accept the existence of Israel in its midst.
Of particular interest to us is the friend-of- the-court brief submitted by the noted constitutional lawyer Nathan Lewin in support of allowing the opening prayers.
Since its founding in 2008, J Street has consistently argued that Israel’s failure to make ever greater concessions to the Palestinians is responsible for the failure of negotiations with the Palestinians.
J Street has no interest in working with rivals or allies, its purpose is the defeat of consensus.
There is a spiritual malady causing our people to turn against each other.
By dvora
First, we want to be sure that the company is answering a real need; that the company is solving a real big problem.
By Jeff Dunetz
While the Obama administration has moaned about Palestinians taking “unhelpful” steps, their “scolding” has not approached the criticism that has been leveled at the Jewish State.
We must return to the values of Jewish morality, and the ability to distinguish between friend and foe.
By Anat Berko
Prisoners who smuggled sperm out of jail knew it was the only stage of the process they could monitor.
Proponents of the new Basic Law proposal view it not as a threat to democracy but as essential to Israeli democracy.
Abbas – an ally of Saddam Hussein, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela - provides Hamas with a vital tailwind.
Some 22,000 Israeli soldiers have died since the establishment of the Jewish state, including 40 soldiers between March 2013 and March 2014, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
J Street is like the kid in the schoolyard who makes the rules in his favor, but when he loses, claims it was unfair.
Dear Abir I read with interest your blogpost objecting to having been included in Haaretz’s list of 66 Israeli Women You Should Know, published by that newspaper ahead of Yom HaAtzma’ut. Of course, respect your right to self-definition, and your desire to be known as a Palestinian, not as an Israeli (although I would point […]
The Arab Bank had to admit that it serviced accounts of terror-associated organizations marked as such by the US government.
Each one of us can and should contribute to the community.
We continue to live by the mantra that the G-d who split the sea, enabling 600,000 Jews to escape the shackles of the slavery, can most certainly opt to spare the life of a single terminally ill 3-year-old child, if He so desires.
If annexation of territory without affording full voting rights means apartheid, then the USA has been –and continues to be- an apartheid state for over 100 years.
The Holocaust and the rise of Israel occupy no space or time in many Orthodox schools.
Israeli biomedical firms look back on a successful year on Wall Street. Are we bearing witness to “the new tech”?
Birnbaum was unyielding, uncompromising, relentless, stubborn, steadfast and tenacious.
Rather than pushing the parties toward an agreement, Kerry has sabotaged the process.
By Dov Hikind
The cold fact is that kids go off the derech and end up in the most dire situations.
By dvora
Now that he's free, it's time to counteract Ostrovsky's many inaccuracies and innuendos.
To be sure, we have been troubled over the years by some policies adopted by Israeli governments, but we do not deem them as defining.
We can only wonder why Mr. Kerry would seek to embed the notion of Israel as potentially an apartheid state in the thinking of a group of international opinion makers.
Israel, the U.S. and the European Union all maintain that Hamas cannot be part of any negotiations unless it changes its fundamental opposition to the existence of Israel.
“Fulfill my requests for good, grant my request, be mindful of us for deliverance and compassion...remember us for a good, long life…give us bread to eat, clothes to wear...”
Unfortunately, my idea that Israel is a country that fights for Jewish values, and would do anything for Jewish citizens, was shattered just one month after coming back from a trip to Poland.
By Professor Elihu D. Richter MD MPH
J Street's leadership is silent on the real issues of concern for liberals and progressives.
Jerusalem? No way. Its out of central casting for It's A Small World.
By Shalom Bear
With all due respect to President Obama, he's got nothing, and I mean nothing, on Secretary of State John Kerry.
By Matan Peleg
The New Israel Fund presents itself as supporters of Israel, while its actions prove the opposite to be true.
By dvora
Ettinger discussed two misconceptions: the belief that the Iranian nuclear threat is directed toward Israel rather than the U.S., and the notion that Palestinian demographics ensure a Jewish minority in the near future unless Israel surrenders Judea and Samaria.
It is in our best interest to find new ways to infuse life and vitality into observant life.
There are also 4,000 or so members of smaller well-armed Gazan terror groups, not just Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The question of Jewish identity, for example, has been greatly affected by the legacy of the Holocaust.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
When Cantor Glick is not on stage performing with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra or singing before international audiences, he is on lifesaving his ambucycle responding to emergency calls in Israel.
If a child is seldom required to yield his desires and needs to those of others, surely doing so as an adult will not come naturally to him.
Day schools can have boys and girls participate in the same online class but they don't meet or interact in "real time."
By Bruce Bawer
Jews so hostile to their own people they’ve spun out into the orbit of rabid anti-Israeli and pro-Islamic radicalism.
Rav Pam said we must realize that God has no pleasure from such negative speech.
NIF support for BDS groups, writes Black, also included acting as a “go between for other donors….
Brandeis, which had to have known about her record of criticism of Islam, pulled the honor after pressure from a Muslim advocacy group and a number of faculty members and students.
Wherever I was invited around the world, I always met with people and let them know that I wanted to hear great stories.
R. Hadaya strongly argues in favor of establishing a festive day in commemoration of the establishment of the state of Israel.
The Palestinian Authority has jailed more than 350 Arabs for "security" reasons in just 2014.
Since Torah is the great equalizer, the great reconciler of divergent but valid opinions, this is also the place where common ground is reached.
By Edwin Black
Some American Jews feel their community has been hijacked from within by groups waging war against Israel seemingly in the name of the Jewish people.
By Eli Hertz
Jerusalem only seems important in the Islamic world when non-Muslims control or capture the city.
By Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov
At Brandeis, much of what counts as Western civilization got cold feet and won’t stand with Hirsi Ali.
But the lesson from this meditation is that hidden behind the anti-semitic act is the greatest light.
As support of their messianic dream, Halevi and Antepli approve dishonoring Hirsi Ali as a 'renegade.'
If itis a mitzva to eat matza all Pesach, then why is there no berakha attached to it?
When we are united with unconditional love, no stone will be raised against us by our enemies.
The reporter simply reports the news, but it is greater to be inspired to better the situation.
The Big Bang theory marked the scientific community's first sense of the universe having a beginning.
Freeing convicted murderers returns the status of Jewish existence to something less than sanctified.
By Dov Shurin
“The bigger they are the harder they fall” describes what God had in mind for Olmert.
We, soldiers of the IDF, who stand guard over the people and the land, fulfill the hopes of the millions of Jewish people across the generations who sought freedom.
How much is the human mind able to grasp of the Divine?
Jews have brought the baggage of the galut (exile) mentality to the modern state of Israel.
By Moshe Dann
The Haggadah is an instruction manual on how to survive as strangers in strange lands.
It’s finally happened. New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan reported on her blog that “many readers...wrote to object to an [April 2] article…on the breakdown in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians,” claiming “[they] found the headline misleading and the article itself lacking in context.” Ms. Sullivan provided one such letter, quoted the […]
Nor did it seem relevant that according to widely circulated media reports, Rev. Sharpton was caught on an FBI surveillance video discussing possible drug sales with an FBI agent.
Jewish soldiers in the Polish forces often encountered anti-Semitic prejudice.
When the state was established, gedolim went to Ben-Gurion and asked him not to draft women and, later, yeshiva bachrim.
Perhaps worse than all the above is the acute lack of unity among Jews
At our seder we emulate the way it was celebrated in Temple times, as if the Temple still stood.
By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
Not one world leader holds Abbas accountable for his part in the breakdown of negotiations.
The 1948 re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty was a modern day Exodus and Parting of the Sea.
By Dov Gilor
Spies who caused American deaths and worked for enemy states received lighter sentences than Pollard.
Christie's "good friend" is an Imam who supports murderers of Jews and defames Israel and Christians.
By Steven Plaut
One grey night it happened, Bibi caved no more & Poof that Foggy Bottomer, he vanished from our sight
What won’t we do for the privilege of chatting with Mahmoud Abbas for another half year?
By Nathan Lewin
Federal and local laws protect your right to workplace accommodations for your religious observance.
Rebbeim are consulted on all of life’s major decisions and a fair number of minor ones.
Do you value popular opinion over the freedom and sanctity that every woman deserves?
AJC, the Federations and others seek to undermine the Chief Rabbinate in Israel.
I was warned not to pray or make any trouble.
By Sara Lehmann
Despite the exodus thousands of years ago and our break from the ghettos hundreds of years ago, the slave mentality follows us like a long shadow.
By Janet Levy
Truth is a casualty in these anti-Israel tourism narratives so popular with colleges and church/shul groups.
To be sure, American policy had long opposed the growth of Israeli settlements, but at the same time U.S. policymakers acknowledged that in any negotiated agreement there would be land swaps between Israel and the Palestinians to accommodate the large numbers of Israelis living in the settlements.
The issue of affordable infertility treatment has long been one of particular importance to the Orthodox Jewish community and we support the leadership of New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who again successfully championed this significant cause.
Providing New York-area hockey fans with a bird’s-eye view and expert analysis is what Fischler, 81, has done on broadcasts of Islanders, Rangers and Devils games. He's had a love affair with the sport since he was introduced to it quite by accident as a 7-year-old growing up in Brooklyn.
Too often, as parents and teachers, we think it means talking at our children, delivering to them good and worthy content that they should simply hear and assimilate into their minds and hearts.
By Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes's websites cannot be accessed through the British Library's system. Why? Intolerance.
November 13, 2026 
