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Ironically, research suggests that most people, even most kids, don’t even like social media.
A perverse inversion of victim & victimizer
By Alan Zeitlin
Seinfeld gave an anti-cliché, speech, the antithesis of almost every other which tells people to follow their dreams or passions.
Since kabbalah is centered upon the unification of the entire cosmos, it is holistic and integrated. Events and aspects of our own reality which seem unrelated are jointly impacted by upper worlds and are therefore related.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The Day After: Victory or Pushback?
The purest of Anti-Semitism, a boycott of the Jewish state is being proposed from a major NY university.
By Our Readers
While the Saudis early on in the process – which began about two years ago – did not insist on Israeli acceptance of the notion of a Palestinian state as a necessary condition, President Biden did.
Time and again, with dozens of videos as evidence, these campus encampments have not merely been places to advocate for a cause but to limit the advocacy of anyone else’s cause.
Ex-diplomats never have to deal with the consequences of their bad advice.
By prioritizing false concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza, a chance to change Palestinian thinking and end the conflict in a more decisive way was lost.
Abbas' comments at the summit have further deepened the division within Palestinian society.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Bowman’s voting record shows a pattern of no votes on resolutions relating to the security of Israel and Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The axiological framework of each era and its repercussions have shown that the Jewish people can never feel safe.
What happened at Haverford College is a case study in how respected liberal institutions are harming Jewish students. They need to be held accountable.
“It seems like the whole world is talking about the red heifers [Para Aduma] except in Israel,” said Moriyah Shapira, a spokeswoman for Ancient Shiloh.
By Ruthie Blum
Languishing in blissful ignorance is no longer an option—or of any interest.
Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles, Begin said. I’m not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history...
Keen observers such as Alan Dershowitz assert that these protests are being organized from the outside, with Iran, Qatar, and George Soros among the suspects.
By Sara Lehmann
Israel’s version of 9/11 was far greater in terms of deaths per population than America’s tragedy. However, it went completely belly up in garnering the anticipated support.
The behavior I witnessed, as commonplace as it has become, is unacceptable. One can protest legally, one can have an opinion – but showing a lack of basic decorum is wrong, no matter what you believe.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
During war, as during peace, language and terminology create attitudinal truth.
This warped cultural narrative creates the ludicrous scene of gay people supporting Hamas murderers, even though Hamas terrorists would gladly toss them off a roof and drag their bodies through the street. But to people blinded by intersectionality, facts don’t matter.
The Netzach Education Network has been asked by the Ministry of Education to develop an entire curriculum of Civic Studies, customized to include Charedi values, and this will be shared with 74 state-regulated Charedi elementary schools around Israel.
The realization of our ongoing Jewish solitude, or perhaps a more accurate word is isolation, is a hard one for many if not most Jews to accept.
The lesson of Oct 7 is to stop the nation-building and defeat the terrorists.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians actually owe Israel a huge debt of gratitude for finally driving Hamas out of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing.
By Our Readers
If all of this sounds inconsistent and confusing, it was, especially since even the Biden administration freely concedes that Hamas uses human shields for protection.
By Guy Millière
Biden does not appear ever to have issued the slightest threat, warning or ultimatum to the authors of the war: Hamas, Iran or Qatar.
May HaShem watch over Kol Achainu Bais Yisrael, bring home the hostages, console the bereaved and clear the path for a speedy and complete end to the war.
‘Rabbi,’ he said ‘I am a Christian and I feel that I, too, have had a hand in helping to bring the Children of Israel to the Promised Land. I want to tell my children that I helped a people find a homeland.
Don’t expel just Hamas supporters – expel the neo-Nazi Left.
In the year 2024, we must heed the words of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, “We were not created in order to teach morals and manners to our enemies.”
No American should die to protect Hamas or its supporters in Gaza.
Israel has no choice but to stiffen its spine; and in some matters to grow a spine. More than ever before, Israel must reject impossible international dictates and demands.
It is up to our rising to the moment, to be proud, practicing, moral, ethical, Torah Jews, to demonstrate we are indeed the chosen people.
"I’ve heard from a LOT of reliably anti-Trump people - I mean really, really, anti-Trump people - who have had it with Biden tonight."
Our greatest nightmares as Jews are coming true. It is happening again.
Though Israel in the 1980s was a bit primitive in some ways, I was filled with idealism for the orange groves, and Israeli music, the tourist venues and holy sites that I celebrated every Yom Ha’Atzmaut at school. The transition was pretty seamless, in ways, at the time, I took for granted.
Is the enemy, already inside Israel's gates, also inside the US?
We must not allow our mourning and pain to overshadow the process we are privileged to be part of.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Jews vote in exceedingly high numbers. In several critical states, the “Jewish vote” might be particularly significant in determining the outcomes.
Surely, they must all understand the reality of the Hamas dynamic, that Hamas (literally) cannot live with anything less than a permanent ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal for the same reason Israel cannot permit it.
By Alan Zeitlin
There is a video of a UCLA student Eli Tsives who questions a woman who claims to be a professor at UCLA. He does know how to ask, and the woman is so flummoxed she asks for help.
By Our Readers
A No-Brainer-No On Presidential Immunity In your editorial last week (“SCOTUS and Trump Immunity,” May 3), you characterize the issue of whether a former United States president should be immune from criminal prosecution for alleged crimes committed while in office as “momentous.” While the fact that this issue is being accepted for consideration by the […]
I remembered the tragic incidents of mothers accidentally suffocating their young so the rest of the family wouldn’t be discovered. That’s when I realized how lucky we are to have babies crying at semachot all over the Jewish state and beyond.
Needless to say, Schumer created a firestorm and he was roundly criticized for abandoning ship during a crisis and for his unprecedented intrusion into the political affairs of another country, especially with that country being our closest ally in the world.
The New York law is nominally enforced by the NYS Division of Human Rights and the NYS Attorney General and both are authorized to mount investigations and seek preliminary injunctive relief from the courts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Universities and their students once cared about “light and truth”; they don’t anymore.
A generation of young Americans was taught to universalize the Nazi war on the Jews, leaving them vulnerable to being seduced by antisemitism and woke lies about Israel.
We have severely compromised our autonomy and mobility due to our longtime dependence on others.
By Moshe Dann
As Jews are fighting a war of self-defense against Hamas, the PLO, and other terrorist organizations, Israel is accused of genocide, war crimes, and perpetrating a Holocaust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
We are losing America to radicals who hate the West and everything we stand for.
By Ruthie Blum
The obligatory Holocaust Remembrance Day mantra rings hollow in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Jews came to represent everything men feared
The White House and its supporters are using Muslims in Michigan to justify a slew of deeply hostile policies against Israel. Will that matter come fall?
By dvora
The columnist is a master of the journalistic technique of interviewing people who agree with him and then quoting them to “prove” his views are correct.
Surely it is well past the time when the illogic of his position needs any further elucidation.
The Hamas attack and subsequent war have generated two military needs. In the immediate short term, the army must replace thousands of soldiers. In addition, the military needs to increase the size of its forces.
We have said over and over, that Donald Trump was not the issue, but that it behooved all of us, even the most diehard anti-Trumpers, to be concerned about the blatant targeting of predecessor political enemies by those who succeeded them in office.
After the attack, the police packed the contents of their car into boxes and delivered them to our home. This included the girls’ phones, jewelry, luggage, and other items that were in the glove compartment or trunk of the vehicle. One such item was a small book of Tehillim that belonged to Rina. This would not have been remarkable except for one thing. It seemed to want me to open it at a particular page, because it was slightly propped open.
Israel had shared its intentions with the Biden team so when the muted strike came it was fully expected and quickly acknowledged. In quick succession, the U.S. vetoed a United Nations Security Council Resolution that would have recognized Palestinian statehood within the pre-197 border with no revisions.
By Bassam Tawil
If the US and other Western countries do not wake up to the fact that Jihad has come to their universities, they will wake up to October 7-style massacres on the streets of New York, London, and Paris.
Something has gone terribly wrong when kids, raised the world over on Sesame Street, have forsaken Bert and Ernie, and their colorful Muppet cohorts, for murderous jihadis far grouchier than Oscar.
Students are afraid to express these contrary views for fear of reprisals.
The Hamas Nazi Ivy League
The more obvious interpretation is that these were events in which the laws of nature were suspended, as exemplified by the parted waters standing on end on either side like a wall. On the other hand, we could also say that the events were miraculous not because the laws of nature were suspended, but because these were natural occurrences happening exactly at the time they were needed.
What is really going on is that hateful speech against Jews has not just been accepted but glamorized by intellectuals who have been indoctrinated in ideas like critical race theory and intersectionality, which grant a permission slip for antisemitism.
Don’t underestimate the impact of a crumb. One mashehu, a drop of ink, is the difference between a hei of matzah and a ches of chametz. Don’t let the yetzer hara convince you not to care about the mashehu.
The Haggadah teaches that “in every generation, there are those who rise against us.” It has never been more relevant.
What is important now is for all of us, all of us who … cherish our values and our civilization to stand up together and to say: Enough is enough,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In addition to the merits of our monotheistic legacy, modern-day Jews possess an additional merit which includes them in redemption.
Who indeed is to blame for the wave of hatred toward Jews that is roiling Canadian workplaces, universities, unions, social media postings, even our streets and neighbourhoods? Who are the purveyors of antisemitism?
It isn’t the benefit of hindsight that make Chamberlain’s claims so risible. Plenty of his contemporaries saw exactly how ridiculous their Prime Minister’s confidence was and how catastrophic his appeasement of Germany had been. An empty black taxi indeed.
Extreme political NGOs and rights organizations often falsely accuse Israel of committing human rights abuses.
It’s noteworthy that within hours of the toned-down Israeli action against Iran, the U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have recognized a Palestinian state as a full member of the UN.
At Columbia University, Yale and other schools we see scenes which we haven’t seen since the days of the Holocaust. Its not just the celebration of people, it’s the universities permitting it. Its professors encouraging it.
She also carefully avoided coming out with words to the effect that the task at hand is not to tout Columbia’s commitment to free speech but rather to maximize the ability of Jewish students to freely express their views about Israel and Judaism without fear of intimidation or retribution from faculty or fellow students.
For those who still believe that these violent student actions are a spontaneous response to Israel's military action: this is the weaponization of "woke
By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom
With the help of Iran and North Korea, the terrorist organization has been working for 18 years on attack, strategic and booby-trapped tunnels.
The argument that once the settlements issue is resolved, a peaceful resolution of the conflict could be concluded is groundless
Fatah TV anchor: Hamas attacked and killed aid workers; it has persecuted them since the start of the war
By Sara Lehmann
Israel needs to be less concerned about being liked than about being feared.
These are the latest incidents in the undeclared conflict taking place between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel since October 8, 2023. This conflict, which began, of course, in the wake of Hamas's October 7 attacks, is of major dimensions and involves near-daily clashes.
11. Jerusalem is mentioned three times in the annual story of Passover (Haggadah), which is concluded by the vow: "Next Year in the reconstructed Jerusalem!"
Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties and use them as a propaganda tool.
Most civil rights organizations are also essentially left-wing groups. They use alleged concern for black people to attain and retain power, but they harm blacks considerably more than they help them.
Let’s face it, if the topic of the Seder was actually the Exodus from Egypt, then we would just need to read the relevant Torah portions – Vaeira, Bo and Beshalach – which narrate the story of the ten plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, and then we could get down to the real business of eating a delicious meal!
Israel has not yet been, and still is not, the safest place in the world for Jews. But not everyone has the option to live in the safest place in the world – many people just need somewhere that is safer than where they currently live.
In every generation a different Pharaoh-type enemy of the Jewish people emerges. The 20th century has been no exception.
By Our Readers
Would Israel get U.S. support if, as part of its defense, it included the usually no-brainer components of trying to bring the fight to the enemy’s home front. Or would that be deemed too close to a frowned upon retaliation?
July 24, 2026 
