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It would behoove President Biden to reconsider and get in step with Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states and kick the Palestinian can up the road.
By Chaim Silberstein and Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
Today, UNRWA maintains extensive office facilities in Jerusalem, including its local headquarters as well as the UNRWA Microfinance Department on Shlomo Zalman Shragai Street between Ramat Eshkol and Maalot Dafna, even as UNWRA does not recognize this area as Israeli Jerusalem.
It was bad enough when bail reform sent the message to our home-grown wrong-doers that New York’s justice system is of the turnstile variety. It is a worse still message when prosecutors look for ways to avoid bail even when it is authorized by law.
“Whose army is this?” ask Samaria residents, after the IDF rehearses a scenario in which Israeli Jews abduct an Arab from a nearby village.
Binance is alleged to have held itself out as having certain controls in place, while allowing high value traders to circumvent those controls.
Jewish community relations councils often avoid challenging the anti-Zionist and antisemitic ethnic studies curricula that are increasingly being adopted around the nation.
In Kamala’s Jihad, I noted her long history of collaborating with Islamists and her pressure campaign on Biden to take more of an anti-Israel stance. After the Islamic mass murders of over 1,000 Israelis, Kamala returned to pushing “Islamophobia”. In the speech that he delivered three days after the massacres, she urged Biden to include […]
Throughout the Diaspora, Jews are facing the darkest days since the Holocaust. There are serious and real issues facing American Jews.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
25% of those under 45 agreed that kidnapped Israelis were treated kindly.
Culpable Ignorance and the Devil's Spreadsheet
Their unhinged obsession with the “two-state solution” threatens to incentivize Hamas.
The common thread weaving Hamas, Hezbollah and the Shia militias together is the significant funding and support each receives from Iran, which has in turn received it from the Obama and Biden administrations.
"I wish there was as much concern for the victims and survivors of senseless violence in the city"
US eagerness to conclude various agreements has brought the opposite of intended results
By Bassam Tawil
The PA, in its current location in the West Bank, does nothing to stop Hamas and other terrorists from pursuing their activities to murder Jews and obliterate Israel. There is no evidence to assume that it would behave any differently in Gaza.
Netanyahu is trying to defeat Hamas. The administration’s efforts—and its fictional “doctrine”—seek to depose the Israeli prime minister and re-elect the president.
Sometimes, the very thing we want so badly is the same thing we are completely terrified of. We have to learn to hold these two emotions inside, and embrace the journey.
While the depth of a future buffer zone remains unclear, a kilometer appears to be one realistic option for defending the border communities—a kilometer into Gaza in which Israel will have a complete picture of what is occurring overground and underground.
My ennui worsened after October 7. At the time we were learning Koheles, and all I could think about over and over and over again was that indeed everything was futile, everything was hevel, everything was nothing.
By Guest Author
Almost four months following what is arguably the State of Israel’s greatest intelligence and security failure in its history, its citizens are more divided than ever.
By Adam Kredo
Rumored plan to create Palestinian state sets up fresh showdown between Biden and Republicans in Congress
The International Court of Justice in The Hague tried hard to oblige Israel to end the war and withdraw its forces from Gaza, but even after defaming the Jewish State in the first 35 minutes of the decision, in the end the decision failed. During the opening, the president of the International Court of Justice, […]
By Bassam Tawil
An overwhelming majority of the Israeli-Arab public opposed the Hamas attack.
Someone with Ms. Pilip’s background is certainly welcome if only in terms of her policy positions which we share. But this is now even more urgent with the growing influence of the woke, liberal, Squad, wing of the Democratic Party in Congress.
By Bassam Tawil
It is now clear that the UN heads were lying when they said they were unaware of the involvement of their employees with terror groups. In fact, they knew but did their utmost to appease Hamas.
I was very excited to see my name on the certificate attesting to the completion of the studies of Neviim and Ketuvim.
The devil's spreadsheet therefore brings the ethical terms of engagement squarely front and centre. Israel did NOT bring war on 7th October. It has Just Cause, is fighting by just means, and has clear precedent.
It has long seemed to us that the ICJ, like most agencies of the UN, view Israel with a jaundiced eye, perceiving it as a product of detested Western colonialism. But notwithstanding that bias, the obvious lack of evidence was apparently too much to overcome.
Within a day of the UNWRA revelations, the news came that Iran proxy groups have ratcheted up their attacks on Western shipping and targets in the Middle East, which began following Oct. 7, and have now resulted in the deaths of three U.S. service members and the injuring of two dozen more.
The revelation of ties between the U.N. aid agency and Hamas is a small part of the problem. The real issue is the purpose of the institution, which has always been to perpetuate the conflict.
Critics of Israel almost never cite comparable data from other military encounters. This omission creates the false impression that the civilian death tolls in Gaza are among the highest in history, when they are in fact among the lowest.
To make matters worse for many Jews’ psyches, not only has the institution they most revere turned out to be a moral wasteland and the most congenial place for enemies of the Jewish people – and of the United States (but that is another story) – at the same time, the people whom many Jews have most feared, conservative Christians, have turned out to be the Jews’ most loyal friends.
“The rate of progress of the IDF, above and below the ground, is historically fast."
Along with imposing migration, European politicians have taken other measures to help establish and empower Islam in Europe, to the detriment of the natives.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Friedman's soft jihad against Israel is more subtle and acceptable, making it dangerous precisely because it is entertained by rational people and policymakers, especially Democrats.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
The United Nations is the most egregious proliferator of the idea that Israel is a settler-colonial state that occupies the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
So why does the media describe it as “among the deadliest… in history”?
Israel must immediately end its acceptance of the ICJ's jurisdiction with respect to the Genocide Convention.
By Bassam Tawil
How can Palestinian leaders, who are terrified of Hamas and even more terrified of their own people, be expected to prevent the terrorists from attacking Israel in the event that these leaders were handed a state?
A formerly cooperative relationship now fraught with disagreement
By Ariela Davis
Since our aliyah, my husband, who was a pulpit rabbi in America, gets constant calls from rabbis and principals in America who are considering aliyah. Many have since arrived. Some are still figuring out how to make it work. But it seems there is scarcely a Jewish leader in America who doesn’t have aliyah in the back of his or her mind.
"Any aid to Hamas must be conditioned with disarming its forces and returning all hostages"
The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary” Palestinians is largely spurious.
He taught by example, not by preaching. Though we have differences in our religious and political outlooks, he always treated my 'heresy' with respect and humor...
In a world characterized by rapid change, Rav Matisyahu Salomon remains a steadfast beacon of tradition, guiding with wisdom, love and an unwavering commitment to the values that have sustained us throughout history.
Trees also benefit us by reducing stress, generating a calmness that frequently comes from being around greenery – a mental effect that translates into physical benefits.
The thought of massive numbers of demonstrators marching on America’s streets waving the chilling black flag of Al Qaeda and winning acceptance from the American government and people is beyond insane.
Often the journey itself is more critical than the destination. There is so much to be learned when we journey.
There is no daylight between the Palestinian people and their jihadist organizations.
Certainly there are some ordinary people in the world, mundane events, insignificant episodes? The answer is that greatness is in the eye of the beholder, and to be beheld by Rav Charlop was a tremendous gift.
Hamas has also never indicated that it would accept a Jewish state, not that they could be believed if they did.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
At the forefront of Hamas's propaganda victories are legions of uninformed college students, aided by professional agitators and biased media figures.
Obsessional hostility has even infected counterterrorism experts.
To be sure, Goldman Sachs says it never contributed its own money to The People’s Forum. They claim they just administer a Donor Advised Fund which forwards funds contributed by clients to tax exempt charities at the direction of the donors. Plainly though the problem is a real one that needs to be pursued.
He was a prodigious Torah scholar and teacher with an uncommon sense of noblesse oblige for the welfare of his fellow Jews.
[T]he Palestinian leadership has always been just as deeply and outspokenly committed to the destruction of Israel as Hamas is.
By Bennett Ruda
Concepts are not the same as words. Anybody can look up a word in a dictionary and translate it the way you like. We assume a concept means the same thing in every language. But cultures don't communicate -- they clash.
In 1999, then-U.S. senator from Florida Connie Mack gave a speech describing the PA leadership’s incitement of hatred, terrorism against Jews and Israel.
While U.S. diplomacy is not likely to lead anywhere, giving it a chance (and calling attention to the failure of U.N. Resolution 1701) could be critical for the legitimacy of an Israeli operation against Hezbollah, experts tell JNS
Yahya Sinwar is using hostages to subdue Israel. It is imperative that Israel resists surrender and takes decisive action to eliminate Sinwar and dismantle the military infrastructure of Hamas.
By Bennett Ruda
To the Arabs, there is nothing magical about the lines drawn in the 1948-49 map. Those borders do not matter. The land is completely Muslim.
“Who told you that we do not attack in Iran, ” asked Netanyahu.
UN agencies, government aid programs and NGOs have consistently and willfully aided and abetted Hamas as it built its vast terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
“When I heard the initial reports of Hamas’ attacks on Israel this past Saturday... my first reaction was ‘Good for them.'”
After South Africa filed a lawsuit with the UN's International Court of Justice claiming Israel is violating the UN convention on genocide by "killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction," Israel’s past relationship with South Africa’s Apartheid […]
By Justin Amler
Within weeks, many people completely forgot about October 7, as if it somehow never happened, and began focusing exclusively on the plight of Gazan civilians,
I would also be remiss not giving a shout out to the myriad Jews who are going on missions to Israel, attending rallies, donating funds, advocating on social media, picking vegetables, cleaning hospitals, etc.
It’s incumbent on parents and educators to take a more proactive approach in shielding children from triggering images and educating them about responsible media consumption.
I offered to coach her through her fear, if she wanted, but she declined. I shook my head in disbelief. I have managed very well without waterskiing for the last 52 years, but how on earth do you live without going on elevators?
There are two that would seem to me to be exactly on point, that should be better known. I hope that you will consider adding them to your daily tefillah, and perhaps suggest them for the congregation with whom you daven.
By Sara Lehmann
ZAKA volunteers are all too familiar with the aftermath of violent death, but even their familiarity with raw tragedy could not brace them for the scale and savagery of the Hamas attack.
By Hillel Fuld
10:00 a.m.: You try to use your USB thumb drive on your computer. No go. Thumb drives (a.k.a. flash drives or memory sticks) were invented by Dov Moran at Msystems, and acquired by SanDisk.
Along with the initial, existential shock, a miracle occurred: The vicious and vociferous arguments were seemingly set aside. The mutual hostility and suspicion seemingly disappeared.
By Bassam Tawil
By ignoring the profound suffering of the Palestinians in Syria and Lebanon, these self-proclaimed "pro-Palestinian" activists and groups are once again proving that their goal is not to help Palestinians, but only to make Israel into a pariah state.
Pro-Hamas = Pro-Cancer.
We don’t intend to go through the South African charges of genocidal intent at any length, but a reading of its presentation shows them to be based substantively on vague and taken out of context comments of Israeli officials.
Hizbullah ties its attacks on Israel with the Gaza war
Despite a unique environment – top heavy on terrorism and war, but low on natural resources and rainfall - Israel has bolstered its do-or-die state of mind, with defiance of odds, risk-taking, frontier, pioneering, optimism, patriotism, can-do and out-of-the-box mentality. This has yielded a robust flow of game-changing commercial, defense and dual-use technologies.
In the broader sense, how can it be that while he has supported Israel against Hamas and taken direct action against Hezbollah and more recently, the Houthis, he has largely ignored Iran despite its being their sponsor and enabler and with a history of provocations all is own?
I am grateful to have the privilege of watching my talmidim morph from thoughtful and sensitive Torah students into courageous and brave soldiers. Sadly, there is a steep price to pay for this historical privilege.
By MARTIN SHERMAN The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a Pax Israeliana (an Israel induced peace) between Israel and its Arab adversaries.
Few know his name, but John Dalberg-Acton, otherwise known as Lord Acton, gave us insight and a warning that millions of people recite, perhaps now than ever. A British historian, politician, and writer from the 1800s, he told posterity, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Today we are faced with centers of […]
Recent developments indicate a significant departure from Hamas's previous policy of restricting its actions to "occupied Palestine."
This leads us to consider a military solution to the problem with Hezbollah. Simply put, the IDF will have to fight and defeat them
"The Secret Service made no arrests associated with the march"
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As we wonder how so many western liberals have been drafted into the patently un-liberal cause of Hamas, we must recognize that a significant part of the problem is that Jews and our allies have been too passive.
The international press in Israel had become less an observer of the conflict than a player in it. It had moved away from careful explanation and toward a kind of political character assassination on behalf of the side it identified as being right
The storms of change are raging around us. The current is getting stronger and stronger and sweeping more and more people away. The only way to stay safe, and remain true to our values, our traditions and our obligations, is to make a commitment to not only hold on to Torah, but to demonstrate a willingness to swim upstream at times, to go against the tide, to dare to be different and to be willing to stand out.
What is the International Court of Justice? ... It is the United Nations' court, and that tells you all you need to know about it.
The existence of Klal Yisrael is dependent on us all banding together in unity, as one cohesive nation. Then with Hashem’s help we can stand up to any power in this world.
Moments before the third brother arrived, the baby’s grandmother mentioned that this would be the first time the three boys would be together since the war broke out.
I don’t want to stick around to see what happens. But I also don’t want to feel like I’m escaping to Israel.
Armenian nationalism is rising, with government and groups in Armenia glorifying Nazi collaborator and promoting antisemitism; neo-Nazi march in Yerevan signals a serious warning for Israel.
The French writer Emile Zola penned a newspaper article in 1898 in which he called out his government for its mishandling of the Dreyfus Affair. The article, entitled “J'Accuse!” (I accuse!), served as a wake-up call for people to see the blatant anti-Semitism that was masquerading as a military trial. Today too we see Anti-Semitism […]
President Donald Trump, and more importantly, American democracy, will now get its day in court.
July 3, 2026 
