יום שני, כ״ט חשוון תשפ״זMonday, November 9, 2026
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LeAdam Maarechei Lev, UMeiHashem Maaneh Lashon – The thoughts of the heart are man’s, but from G-d comes the utterance of the tongue (Mishlei 16:1). I barely know what I am feeling yet I trust Hashem to give me the words.
Since 1994, Israeli governments have supported the PA The “Palestinian Authority” as one unified body has ceased to exist.
By Sydell Stern
As I watch the Western and European news, which at first was so supportive, I knew that it would be only a matter of time before the support for Israel started to be challenged.
They are scared. They are dealing with emotions adults struggle to deal with. Breathe, I say to my youngest son. Breathe and know we have each other.
By Shui Haber
Our world seemed to shift overnight. Flights canceled, a family bar mitzvah postponed, the resurgence of online school – we were thrust back into a lifestyle reminiscent of the covid era.
Everyone has a husband/son/brother/nephew/cousin who has been called up, and ten days in, already everyone knows of someone who won’t be coming home.
As the days of this war proceed, possibly well-meaning people ask us to care for those who may be collateral damage. The actions of Hamas have made that quite impossible. The responsibility lies exclusively on their shoulders.
By Ariela Davis
The fear and stress are very real and while we are mostly managing now, the questions about how bad it could get are a place where our minds don’t want to go.
By Avi Ganz
We have all fallen into a sort of lull wherein this is the new normal, but it is not the new normal and it is not any normal, and guess what? Not everything needs to be normal.
By Naami Ganz
We are all being called up. None of us are untouched by this war. It may be different for you or for me, but at the end of the day, as Jewish people, we are all connected.
One thing of which we are certain, and something that provides moments of not just comfort, but of hope, is the response of the ordinary people of Israel to the difficult times in which we find ourselves.
We are a resilient people. We have survived thousands of years with a lot of hatred and evil directed at us over the generations. All we can do is trust that as a nation we will get through this. By hook or by crook.
Each circle is crucial. Each circle reinforces and enables the others, and each contributes to the extraordinary effort that we must collectively make.
I can handle navigating a slew of complicated existential questions from my kids, but when my sweet, caring eight-year-old daughter turned to me one night and asked the simplest question of all, But why? Why do they hate us so much? I have no answer for her.
How can anyone lay that savagery at the doorstep of the victims? How can such depravity be cast in a positive light?
An attack that no one saw coming.
Israel has a right under international law to prefer preventing the deaths of its own civilians over inadvertently causing the deaths of enemy civilians.
Sadly, however, to the Biden administration, the glaringly central role of Iran, without which Hamas would be able to do nothing, remains nowhere in sight.
Either Moral Confusion or Hatred of Israel
If Netanyahu fails to stand up to the United States, if he buckles, the pressure from Washington won’t stop
Sadly, however, to the Biden administration, the glaringly central role of Iran, without which Hamas would be able to do nothing, remains nowhere in sight.
The Israelis have dropped thousands of leaflets over northern Gaza telling the people immediately to go to southern Gaza; Hamas instantly announced that the leaflets were merely propaganda, ordered its citizens not to move, and reportedly is now blocking their passage there.
By BESA CENTER
Hamas made a strategic mistake: It should have calculated that there was a possibility that the State of Israel would respond by acting to eliminate its physical existence. The most important thing in the coming weeks is to focus on achieving this goal.
Israeli leaders tried to apply to Hamas the strategy they had used against hostile Arab neighbors since 1948: "Taking them to the dentist every 10 years to defang them."
By BESA CENTER
Hamas is still sending attack units into Israel, though these are being defeated.
By Naomi Kahn
Hamas official tells Sky News that no Israeli civilians have been killed by Hamas.
The political rationale of the Gaza conflict can be mirrored in the inexorable logic of an almost mathematical algorithm—studiously ignored by Israel's policy-making echelons
By Guest Author
The blood libel du jour took presented itself in the form of publications from several major Western media outlets, including CNN and the AP
By Gregg Roman
Congress should go even further than this and pass a resolution calling for the dismantlement of Hamas.
Haim denied that any Israeli children had been kidnapped or any Israeli civilians were killed by Hamas! The interviewer was flabbergasted.
if a club were formed at any of these universities that advocated rape or the lynching of African Americans, the newspapers would most assuredly publish the names of everyone associated with such a despicable group. Why is this different?
Monday we had sirens in Jerusalem. It's very frightening. It's hard for me to rush anywhere, and the only place I can go is into the hallway – and then comes the loud boom, thank G-d.
By Hillel Fuld
We are in this together and we will win this, no matter how long it takes. We have no choice. As a nation, we’ve gotten through much harder times. They hurt. We lost so many. But we are here and we are not going anywhere.
He could be hit by a bus in Toronto, or die because he is a Jew in Israel. One death is meaningless; the other has infinite meaning.
But we citizens, especially religious citizens, must take this terrible debacle as a severe wake-up call to unite again as a people.
Can there be a better name for this child born on the brink of one of Israel’s worst wars than one that means – Hashem, listen to our hearts!
By Ben Waxman
If there is one thing that I can take comfort in, it is that the Arabs misunderstand us just as badly as we misunderstand them. If they thought that surprising Israel would bring us to our knees, then maybe they should have checked with Nassrallah about that assumption.
I don’t get it. What cruel version of humanity kidnaps a Filipino caretaker and her Alzheimer’s patient? For what purpose?
There is hardly a home in Israel that has not been touched. But the People of Israel are the eternal people – and we will prevail.
Hamas will ask for a lot for the hostages. Hamas will rightly believe that there will be intense political pressure to rescue the captives at almost any price. Although we think that no price is too high for the return of Jewish hostages, there may be some prices that are too high.
When several large banks went under a few months ago, horror stories began surfacing as to how they and other sectors in the economy had been held hostage to the woke agenda.
There are good people in the world. There were many non-Jews during the Holocaust who risked their lives to save Jews. Evil is real, and we have very real enemies. But not every Muslim, Arab, or Palestinian is our enemy.
By Avi Robinson
I hope you will decide that encouraging your children to experience Israeli solidarity, in the way that we have, is a worthy educational goal.
Given the scale of the tragedy and the weight of the fear we all feel, our societal divisions that are normally so acute – the religious secular divide, the huge arguments between right and left – seem to have evaporated completely.
There is one difference, though, between 1905 and 2023. We have our land and we have our army, and despite whatever shortcomings were exposed, our army, with Hashem’s help will punish the murders and continue to protect us.
By Bassam Tawil
If the Democratic senators have it their way, the future Palestinian state will also be controlled by Hamas and PIJ.
People will always want to censor but not be censored. — Dershowitz.
The fanatical anti-Israeli legacy of Erdoğan has "successfully" poisoned an already xenophobic society; it will probably take generations to clean up.
U.S. Policy Options in Light of Hamas's Invasion of Israel
By Gregg Roman
The current situation is not just an act of terrorism: it is an invasion, an orchestrated massacre gleaming with the sinister glare of genocidal intent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Which is to say proportionally more than 6X the loss of 9/11
IDF readies for a Gaza ground operation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The responses to Hamas barbarism must include Jewish unity; an end to biased media coverage of Palestinian terrorism; and a refusal to let these murderers profit from their crimes.
The IDF study is being administered by a number of branches, including intelligence, strategic planning, the Iran department and the Air Force.
Let's not be fooled. Extolling "ironclad friendship" between America are simply meaningless and phony words
Now is the time for the State of Israel and Diaspora Jewry to step up and invest in our heritage sites in Judea and Samaria.
PA: “Special Israeli forces from the army’s undercover brigades” are killing Israeli Arabs
Rather than imploring President Biden to at least close the borders, Adams has throughout focused on asking him for additional funding – unsuccessfully.
With every passing year, there are fewer old timers who remember the old times, the old melodies, and the other traditions.
By Eve Glover
They talked about how there are only 14 million Jews, and Musk said he always tells his Jewish friends to have more kids.
One day you realize that it is quite possible that your grown children are wiser and kinder and more resilient than you are.
The reality of where the Saudi national interest lay – that is, in rapprochement with Israel – has not and will not substantively change as the result of the Hamas attack and Israel’s military response.
The Yom Kippur War demonstrated that even when disadvantaged by a surprise attack, we could not be dislodged from Israel.
None of the countries in the Middle East cares about a Palestinian state. The US would do well to learn from them.
Religious coercion in Israel is simply a delusion.
By turning every single act into a mitzvah, we live with the sense that G-d is above us, and that every action in our lives can and should be done l’shem shamayim, for the sake of Heaven.
Stop basing your worth on the data from something as made up and inconsistent as your clothing size.
This focus on vulnerability and reliance on the Almighty does not translate to everyone being required to squeeze into small sukkahs in the name of humility.
Raisi’s triumphalism at the U.N. is a result of the West’s surrender
Israel can choose to join the woke army, erasing our heritage and identity in the name of so called “democracy” or we can remember and cherish our traditions while respecting others.
It will be recalled that when President Trump tied the COVID-19 outbreak to a leak from a toxic substance experimental lab in Wuhan China and began talking about a “Chinese Virus,” his critics called him a racist.
He has now set Israel’s recognition of a Palestinian state as a condition for US brokering of a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The judge who was supposed to approve the deal refused to do so, noting that she had never before seen one containing these kind of leniencies – and in answer to her question, the government’s lawyers said he hadn’t either.
It is like the street demonstrations in Israel. One side gets a zillion people in the streets 38 weeks in a row, while the other side holds only two large rallies during that same time. Does that mean one side is stronger by 19 times (i.e., 38-2)? Or does it reflect that one side has enormous leftist-zillionaire funding from America that the other side does not? And that one side uses such street tactics while the other side, uh, votes instead?
For giving the world the existential threat of a New Axis of Evil – Russia, China, North Korea, Iran
By Sarah Stern
I hope that we, as a people, wake up and see the big picture, and understand that the evil intentions of our enemies are much more lethal to our existence than anything that can divide us.
At the U.N., the prime minister described an extraordinary vision of peace for the region and the world.
By Bassam Tawil
The Biden administration and other international parties that continue to promote the idea of a "two-state solution" are simply empowering Iran's Palestinian proxies and encouraging them to pursue their "phased plan" to increase terrorism, destroy Israel and replace it with yet another Islamist state.
Those of the American Jewish left who join protests at the United Nations have never stood outside of the UN to protest a terrorist attack in Israel.
Both sides need to decide on their own now that there will be no more victories of one side over the other and that from now on, key decisions on the country's future will have to be made by consensus.
What crime did these non-Muslim cities, nations, and continents commit against Muslims to deserve being targeted for violent conquest?
In the spirit of Yom Kippur, I publicly apologized to this person as I realized my words had obviously caused him pain. This interaction seems simple yet it wasn’t.
By Bassam Tawil
Gazans can no longer tolerate life under the Islamist movement of Hamas. They are not fleeing because of Israel.
A Palestinian event featuring Jew-haters at the University of Pennsylvania shows that in the age of DEI loyalty pledges, some forms of prejudice are tolerated on campuses.
Every sin is rooted in a deep-seated character flaw. Ignoring these flaws and focusing our teshuva solely upon actions or behavior increases the likelihood of recidivism.
By Alan Zeitlin
Obviously I’m against antisemitism, Musk told Netanyahu, adding that he’s against anything that promotes hate and conflict.
To be sure, the Biden Administration is seeking Supreme Court review. But isn’t it about time they gave democracy a chance? You know, the kind of government based upon things like the free market place of ideas.
Since the beginning of the so-called peace process, thousands of Israelis have been killed, wounded and maimed by Palestinians based in Palestinian controlled areas.
What is the current Israeli interest in Syria, and what should Israel be seeking from allies and partners in terms of the diplomacy on Syria?
Take this Rosh Hashanah political-security quiz and prognosticate on the future for the Jewish new year. (My predictions are recorded at the bottom of the article.)
The UN must recognize Israelis murdered by Palestinians as victims of religious violence
November 6, 2026 
