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No one has claimed that he could not have declassified the documents – only that he didn’t. No one has charged that he compromised national security by retaining them. Yet. he is being charged under the Federal Espionage Act!
The Iranian drone and missile attacks of 13 April brought less drama for many in Jerusalem than one might have imagined. War brings with it the disappearance of expectations of daily continuity, or of a reasonable and logical sequence of events.
The October 7 massacre drew the PA and Iran closer
By Bassam Tawil
"Yes, Hamas thanked the United States. When a terrorist group is thanking you, you're probably doing something wrong." — Joe Truzman, senior research analyst, X, April 9, 2024.
The universal "optics" are that if America will throw its closest ally, Israel, under the bus, what chance has anyone else got?
"Iran communicated through the Swiss channel that its strike on Israel was complete"
Israel is currently facing a multi-front war for its survival, with Qatar, Iran and Iran's proxies, which are encircling Israel, leading the charge. The gravity of this aggression cannot be overstated: not just for the existence of Israel, but also for that of the US, Europe and the West.
If destroying an embryo is akin to murder, what does that mean for IVF treatment, which involves producing multiple embryos, some of which are implanted, others stored for future use, and still others destroyed?
A second primary argument centers around whether this war is a milchemet mitzvah. The Rambam appears to make it clear that when the Jewish nation is murderously attacked, it is a milchemet mitzvah shel ezrat Yisrael mi’yad tzar (saving the Jewish people from a murderous enemy).
No matter how much Israel tries to do the right thing, it will never be credited for it.
An inspiring answer is that Israel’s definition of happiness is deeply rooted in the Prophet Isaiah’s vision of the Jewish people’s role as an ohr lagoyim, a light unto the nations.
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To be sure, the President didn’t quite accuse Israel of intentionally causing the unnecessary deaths of civilians. But he came awfully close when he said he would hold them responsible for knowingly continuing policies that didn’t minimize civilian harm.
At the outset, we note that the war in Gaza has demonstrated what Israel is capable of bringing to the table. Granted, Hamas is not Iran. But the Gaza experience has to make Iran think long and hard about a direct confrontation with Israel nonetheless.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A language of lies and hate threatens to conquer the mind of the West.
Twice the 20th of Sivan was designated as a day commemorating Jewish tragedies, and twice the observance faded until it is now entirely obsolete. Many observant Jews do not even know it was once a serious day of mourning.
Vandalizing synagogues with swastikas is good, leftists argue.
Victory is going to require more than slogans that “together we will win.”
Everybody knows that the rapidly growing and politically muscular Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel can no longer altogether avoid military and/or national service. But haredi leaders will not relinquish their rigid communal structure of full-time and lifetime-long Torah study. And nobody can draft haredi Israeli Jews against their will – no matter what the Supreme Court rules or the Knesset legislates. So here is my national service plan for haredi men during “bein hazmanim,” their long semester breaks.
The tectonic threat of Iran to Mideast and global stability must be countered head-on.
Sometimes the pen of propaganda is mightier than the sword.
Former IDF Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin: The problem is not Gaza. The problem is Iran.
Israel must resist America’s fantasy framework for a swift, dangerously indecisive, end to the Gaza war.
By hosting Hamas’s leaders, allowing Al Jazeera to spread anti-Israel propaganda and funding U.S. universities in exchange for influence, Qatar has demonstrated clearly it is on the side of evil.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Is Ramadan a holy month, or one of terrorism and warfare? The answer is "both."
Had I had any suspicion that this was a clinic that engaged in affirmative action, I would have wondered about this anesthesiologist: Was she chosen, at least in part, because she was black?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Would you vote to put a proven enemy of Israel in the White House?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The administration, not Israel, must find a “new strategy.”
By Avi Ciment
Hashem wanted someone who was going to reach higher and actively seek out Hashem, and that came in the form of Avraham Avinu. Even when G-d Almighty was visiting him after his bris, when he had every reason to calmly ignore the doorbell, he ignored the pain and received his guests. (Remember, this is pre-Advil and Vicodin.)
We have learned nothing from the causes of the 10/7 pogrom and have returned to the Fall of last year.
Rabbi Dee is active in a number of projects which give him energy and hope, and he is grateful to his family and friends, and the love and support demonstrated by the Jewish people in the past year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If Biden wants to be re-elected, he’d be smart to stop pandering to a tiny minority of extremist voters who want to see Israel wiped off the map.
As the highest-ranking Torah-observant elected official since Mordechai HaTzaddik, his story is not just remarkable; it's historic.
It was just several weeks ago that Germany intervened in the International Court of Justice in defense of Israel’s conduct of the war against South Africa’s charges of genocide.
Not unlike Julius Caesar, Israel received a number of stabbings over the past few weeks, none of which, fortunately, have been fatal.
Like Joseph in ancient Egypt, as a United States Senator, Joseph Lieberman held high office in a global superpower, succeeding in everything he did, enjoying Divine blessings.
By Avi Abelow
Appeasing terrorists for the sake of political expediency endangers not just Israel but America itself.
While no definitive conclusions have been announced by either – although an extension of the ban by the U.S. would indicate that there is at least some substance to the charges – Israel has already charged that an interim report by the UN was a cover up and a transparent attempt to get the funding resumed.
In the past three years, during the Biden administration, Palestinian privilege has been elevated to new heights. The U.S. State Department, staffed with anti-Zionist activists at the upper levels, has appropriated funds for investigating supposed Israeli misconduct in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank).
Before Oct. 7, rioters demanded the overthrow of Netanyahu’s coalition due to its “anti-democratic” policies and “corruption.” The new rallying cry is to free the hostages.
This is what it takes to keep leftists and Islamists from trashing it.
By Ruthie Blum
Anybody who parrots the slander that Netanyahu doesn’t care about returning the hostages is ruining the chance of a deal Israel can accept.
By Bennett Ruda
From March 2018 to December 2019, the media reported on The Great March of Return. Each Friday, the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza approached the barrier separating Gaza from Israel in "spontaneous," "peaceful" protests, demanding the right to return to their homes in "Palestine." It didn't take long for Hamas to coopt the protests. Soon, amidst the […]
By Bennett Ruda
Biden says he wants stability, but his actions have the opposite effect.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
When at-risk populations are empowered, they can become engines for strengthening families, communities and societies.
The firebombs were “filled with nails,” a police spokesperson revealed. That was a new one for me, and I follow this kind of news closely.
The answer to the Jewish state’s diplomatic dilemma is victory. Heeding the world’s demands to stop the war and let Hamas win will only make it worse.
The absence of genuine Palestine Arab history has not prevented them from inventing their own.
It will turn Gaza right back into a terrorist enclave.
The Jewish state swings in the wind because the genocidal Palestinians are said to have a case.
When Israeli voters next go to the polls, over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumor, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion.
These teeny tiny moments add up, and while he may not know what Havdalah means, there is a feeling associated with the mysterious colorful candle that magically appears once a week and bursts into flame, a feeling that will settle into the part of his heart that requires no words, a feeling so primal, that years later he won’t even understand why he loves Havdalah so much.
By Ben Shapiro
The Biden administration has been champing at the bit to hamstring Israel in its efforts to defend itself
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Radical feminism, as a narrow expression of the original movement, is spectacularly failing to exemplify society's moral and ethical precepts.
By Ruthie Blum
In the Orwellian universe of the U.N., where “Jewish lobby” conspiracy theorists like Francesca Albanese are embraced, good is evi
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Prepare for a Biden-Bibi showdown
We continue to be dismayed that the Biden Administration would countenance the blatant human trafficking implicit in a debate that treats human beings as bargaining chips.
By Ziona Greenwald and Shlomo Greenwald
If anything ever happens to me, if I’m ever assassinated, people should assume that it was likely anti-Zionist activists.
“The Israelis seemed oblivious to the fact that they are facing major, possibly generational damage to their reputation.”
Details of the UN inquiry and review have yet to be made public, but the extension of the ban would seem to indicate that Israel’s charges have been largely confirmed.
Only solidarity can direct us towards achieving our own redemption, and only unity can win over G-d’s favor and divine intervention.
He could still be on the hook for the full amount if he abandons the appeal, or how he wins or loses it.
The delegation was led by Wafiq Safa, who is regarded as Hezbollah’s chief negotiator on issues of prisoner exchanges and hostages, and also included a brother-in-law of Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
By Guy Millière
It appears that the Biden administration would like to trade Netanyahu in for a doormat who would agree to a terrorist Palestinian state next door, a Hamas victory in Gaza and Iran having nuclear weapons.
The only real beneficiary of the Biden administration's ill-considered plan to build a floating pier to deliver US aid to Gaza will be the Hamas terrorist organisation that provoked the Gaza conflict in the first place. Under plans drawn up by the Pentagon, an estimated 1,000 US military personnel are to be deployed to construct […]
The Germans had not expected the Jews to resist, which is why they were surprised by the fierce opposition.
By Ruthie Blum
Putin decries the Moscow massacre, while siding with the genocidal butchers of Oct. 7.
If it is so hard to leave each time we come, why not stay, why not finally move? That question plagues me regularly and nobody asks it more forcefully than I do to myself.
They have developed a lifestyle that costs one third of a secular household...They share their childcare between aunts and grandmothers, and the men teach Torah to the boys.
Had Mr. Schumer told the truth, he would have said this: Israel’s being a pariah among the world’s nations tells us much more about the world’s nations than about Israel. Just as it did a mere two generations ago.
If anyone is making Israel into a pariah, it is not Netanyahu, but Schumer.
In tens of such cases, get refusers entering Israel as tourists were hauled in front of the Rabbinical Court. When comprehending the sanctions that may be levied against them while maintaining their position of get refusal, these men arranged the get through the good services of the Israeli Rabbinical Court.
News of Eylon’s suspension comes on the same day that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bemoaned the fact that Israel had a dearth of spokespeople who could “string two words together” in English.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Biden is the bridge to war
Since its establishment, the World Zionist Organization has been working tirelessly to strengthen the strength and unity of the Jewish people.
In seeking to dictate to Israel, a fellow democracy, as to the leadership it had duly chosen, the Schumer speech and the Biden amen were much more than just unseemly and unwarranted insults to its sovereignty.
The involvement of these three groups also puts to rest the erroneous claim that the State’s regulations of private schools are benign and acceptable to all but a small fringe group.
Human rights culture has mainstreamed Hamas lies.
When you turn the Holocaust into a generic moral lesson you rob it of its particular evil and you rob the victims of their own narratives.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Israel should apply sovereignty to the entire Land of Israel and change the rules of the game.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Allowing Hamas to survive will kill the dream of peace.
Dalia Mogahed, who holds the title of “antibigotry fellow” at Boston University, has defended the mass murder and rapes by Hamas on Oct. 7 as “lawful resistance.”
Sinwar and Arafat’s militant endeavors dragged Israel into bloody conflicts, exacting a heavy toll on lives lost on both sides.
If the government remains politically stable, if the military continues its brilliant fight in Gaza and if U.S. opinion remains supportive, Jerusalem can flip Hamas’s machinations on its head.
"This was not a State of the Union address, it was a fascistic campaign rally."
Schumer's 'Rabbi' is a J Street activist affiliated with anti-Israel groups
The Oct. 7 atrocities produced a profound sense of disorientation for progressives because the Palestinian people whose cause they had promoted as the acme of conscience and enlightenment turned out to be savages.
The most powerful moment was hearing the baby’s name: Amatzyah. The word amatz has two meanings. In Tanach, it means strength and courage. Adding Hashem’s name (Kah) to the word implies that Hashem will give the baby strength.
The administration’s efforts to spin attacks on Jerusalem that validate Hamas propaganda as a critique of the prime minister and his policies are an effort to appease the left.
He is now a president that now freely embraces Hamas’ numbers of deaths and casualties, despite their notorious history of lying, lack of transparency and a morbid, vested interest in claiming ever higher numbers.
We can’t rely on anyone else; we never could. Whatever we can do to create shalom and unity within our people, is what we have to do.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett summed it up by pointing out in her concurring opinion that I agree that states lack the power to enforce Section 3 against presidential candidates.... But she went on to add, That principle is sufficient to resolve this case, and I would decide no more than that.
What is crucial for us to consider is why so many otherwise reasonable fellow Jews harbor such resentment against the charedi community.
July 24, 2026 
