יום שישי, ג׳ אב תשפ״וFriday, July 17, 2026
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The UN must recognize Israelis murdered by Palestinians as victims of religious violence
Charging a fee for absence from shul likely strikes many of us as unusual. A desire to avoid financial loss (about $260, when adjusted for inflation) feels like the wrong reason to pray.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinian list of demands for refraining from condemning a Saudi-Israeli peace accord can be seen as tantamount to blackmail. The Palestinian leadership is telling the Saudis and Americans that if they want to avoid Palestinian condemnation, they must pay the price -- with money and territory.
Every shul should do what they can to bring in children.
Remember: Until the seventh century there were not even any Muslims in the world, let alone Palestinians.
I authentically played the role of the 'Chutzie' and gently asked him if he did not feel any sympathy for international critics who pointed to the Supreme Court’s partiality and liberal activism?
Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis.
Perhaps most importantly, it should not be lost on Israel’s Arab neighbors that Abbas has plainly acted against their direct interests, whatever the reason.
Arafat: “You will see the Jews fleeing from Palestine like mice fleeing from a sinking ship”
I started the journaling project with the anticipation that it would bring focus and accountability to the month of Elul. I didn't anticipate, however, that my definition of teshuva would change.
I always found it quite incredible that the first mitzvah that we are called upon to do as Jews at the beginning of the year is to listen. To pay attention to exactly what it is that Jewish destiny is about.
We rather think that most people really don’t care whether or not Hunter Biden violated the handgun application law – except, of course, if he got favorable treatment.
The second reason is most liberals have chosen to believe that the Democratic Party is still the party of John F. Kennedy. They are fooling themselves
Congress Must Block Funding, Biden Should Reconsider His Decision to Join
Western colonialists are somehow more evil than others.
The “Rabbi” is G-dless, essentially a circus clown in a yarmulka. She — of course a woman “rabbi” — is so G-dless that she teaches a class session proclaiming to the young pre-BM kids: “God is random.”
By Ruthie Blum
A short memory may be helpful as a coping mechanism, but it is deadly in matters of foreign policy.
By Ben Shapiro
On 9/11, we learned that we have more in common than we do that separates us. One generation later, the president of the United States speaks about his fellow citizens as threats to democracy and declares that those who don't deal with him are existential problems for the republic.
Oslo is the root cause of today’s terrible epidemic of terrorist and crime shootings.
“Terrorism is a form of theater,”
By Justin Amler
UNESCO is supposed to be a body that preserves the cultural history of the world. Yet it is failing in its mission
The Palestinian Peace Process was meant to increase terrorism
By Howard Zik
Philosophy is a veritable ally of Jewish thought but should never be deployed to replace it
The Israeli left, the European Union and the Biden administration have a shared interest in repressing the Nazi roots of Palestinian nationalism.
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. None spoke a word to him for they saw how very great was his suffering. (Job 2:13)
It is an article of faith with us: in the deepest levels of the self there is a core of purity, of goodness. Beneath the cynicism lies an uncorrupted idealism; beneath the layer of envy, gems of generosity; beneath the crude will for power, the noble desire to serve.
As a result of a small thought experiment, I find myself less plagued by the idea that I may not “see” the Palestinians.
Viewing singles exclusively through a we-must-get-you-married prism has terrible ramifications.
Gentrification is a word Rabbi Overlander clearly dislikes, and when probed, both he and Rabbi Vogel say “no,” it’s not happening in Brownsville. A small percentage of homes are being sold to Orthodox Jews. Word of mouth spreads, and families, who come to see the homes, the parks, and other resources, decide to buy.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The unmaking of the American Jewish experience
By Hillel Fuld
There’s only one difference between leaving Egypt, jumping into the sea, entering the land, and today - today, coming to the modern state of Israel is a whole lot more fun.
Clearly the Democratic mantra that Trump is the quintessential criminal has not made significant inroads in Republican ranks.
The Oslo Agreement’s Self-Defense Mechanism
By Bassam Tawil
Instead of heeding the calls of young Palestinians to solve the economic crisis, the Palestinian terror groups, with the help of Iran's mullahs, are sending them to attack Israeli soldiers with explosive devices and deadly stones.
The religious leaders who supported me recognized, understood, and valued my emphasis on following the law while remaining committed to my religious values and chasidic tradition.
The obvious question raised by Dheibah’s rant was whether it reflected the broad sentiment in the region about whether there could be Arab peace with Israel without Israel agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The distinction between hating Jews and hating Israel is bogus.
By BESA CENTER
Israel must end the political crisis soon for multiple reasons
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Descendants of conquerors the world over should take a long look in the mirror.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Loss of our path and fear of the Arabs living in our land led us not to go all the way in concluding the Six-Day War, paving the way to the Oslo Accords, for which we paid the price of thousands of victims
Israel is now home to some 60,000 migrants from Africa,
By Bassam Tawil
Does HRW really expect Israeli soldiers and policemen to ask someone who shoots or throws a Molotov cocktail at them how old they are before firing back to defend themselves?
A year and a half ago, Tehran took the strategic decision to significantly step up attacks on Israel using proxies and partners located within and around the Jewish state.
Which do you believe?
The Oslo Accords were viewed by the Palestinian Arabs as the first stage in Israel’s total defeat
By Israel Hayom
Israel Hayom correspondent Yoav Limor travels to Saudi Arabia to see how the kingdom has changed a year since his previous visit.
The former president evaded the Nation of Islam leader’s core antisemitic ideology.
It is almost certain that the great majority of American high school and college students could not name five of the Ten Commandments (presuming they know what those are) or the names of two Shakespeare plays.
The judicial reforms being discussed in Israel do not change or impact the independence and willingness of the Israeli investigative and prosecutorial bodies to investigate and prosecute potential offenders.
There was another side to the man who devoted the best years of his life to educating Torah-observant Jewish youngsters and preparing them for the future. That was his love, his dream, and his deep desire to enter the land of Israel.
By Rabbi Dr. Matisyahu Shulman
A lot of times, we don’t know what our deepest values are. Rosh Hashana is a great opportunity to think about the values that are truly important to us.
By Ariela Davis
Parents have become afraid to say no. And parents have become afraid to parent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish elites must change the terms of the debate.
While no two groups share the exact same persecution, and some people hold multiple identities, there’s a lot that the Jewish community can learn from the Black community when it comes to organizing, educating and eradicating a problematic practice.
It was often said that for Rav Aharon, everything was about his talmidim, and for them everything was about him.
An introspective and humble man, word of his erudition and his reputation as a fount of Torah-based wisdom soon spread; people flocked to him for advice and counsel, both from within the ranks of his chassidim and the general public. His role in the community became legend.
I’ll have my foot in the door. When the approach is collaborative and not oppositional, that’s when you can talk to people, talk to colleagues, and work things out.
We should back Democrats who may think like we do and who are also able to forge a working relationship with the Democratic leadership on key issues.
It should also not be forgotten that there is little likelihood that Donald Trump can get a fair trial in the liberal jurisdictions in which he is being prosecuted – something we believe the prosecutors have been counting on all along.
By Akiva Bigman
He thought the protests would lead him back to the Prime Ministers office
Terror deaths fell every year under Trump and rose every year under Biden.
By Israel Hayom
Properly fixed judicial selection would have addressed most of the current judicial issues.
By Israel Hayom
Women who demand public transportation on Saturday in Tel Aviv, on the grounds that no one will tell them how to behave inside their own home, came in a patronizing and arrogant manner to kindly and slowly explain to the Haredi women how they should live their own lives in Bnei Brak.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The gang wars in Arab towns should have the state authorities rethink their approach, as well as take immediate steps to restore trust and personal safety.
There’s money for transgender hormones, not cancer treatments.
The Declaration of Independence belongs to the entire Israeli public, and besides the thirty-seven actual signatures on it, there are millions more
By Akiva Bigman
Blue and White Future is hiding its original goals. Its current funding of judicial reform protests raises questions whether it has violated Israeli law.
Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion
I was there! I was in Bnei Brak. Not on Thursday evening, not at the raucous, red-shirted, “progressive” women’s demonstration. I was in Bnei Brak on the Sunday before...
By Karys Rhea
This sordid tale begins with a little-known 2009 document and ends with the illicit Palestinian takeover of hundreds of thousands of dunams of internationally recognized Israeli land, with direct subsidization and encouragement from the European Union.
“The importance of the weapon of such martyrs is no less than the importance of nuclear weapons.”
As you begin this year, remember how much the world needs you
The U.S. State Department condemned recent comments by Itamar Ben-Gvir. But the real problem is not what the controversial cabinet member said; it’s support for a Palestinian right to terror.
By Bassam Tawil
Nasrallah and his masters in Iran care nothing about the suffering of the Lebanese people. What they care about is power, spreading their control to other Arab countries, and fulfilling their ambition to destroy the only successful and democratic country in the Middle East: Israel.
By Ben Shapiro
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, who is the_____ Prez of them all?"
The last time I saw so few cars on a Los Angeles freeway was in the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Apparently, many people were just as spooked as they were in 2020.
I experienced the tiniest foreshadowing of my daughter's motherly instincts when that baby bird fell out of the tree so many years ago.
We are currently standing at an important threshold of human innovation and technology. We are not just developing the ability to build taller homes, but are beginning to re-engineer nature herself.
The authors of a disingenuous appeal to Diaspora Jews to intervene in the Jewish state’s divisive culture war are oblivious to the damage they are doing.
The clearance process is mandatory for former CIA officials seeking to go public about intelligence-related matters and it usually takes several weeks, if not months; yet in this case, somehow, it was conveniently completed within five hours...
It’s as if terrorism were someone else’s problem with no relationship to anything that happened to America.
All that was over forty years ago in 1980. We were unaware that protecting our children then was an infinitely simpler task than it would be when they occupied the same roll for their four children in 2023.
Many so-called progressives have been willing to ignore procedural safeguards and due process in their campaign to get former President Donald Trump — to misuse the law in an effort to prevent the leading Republican candidate from running against the incumbent candidate for president
Not surprisingly, people focused on his status as President Joe Biden’s son, and rightly so. Attorney General Merrick Garland and David Weiss would have to explain why this sort of thing happened on their watch.
The West Maui Land Company, which operated three water providers on the island, claimed that Manuel would not approve its request to divert streams to fill reservoirs until they consulted with a local farmer about the impacts of diverting.
Where to begin this discussion? Hard to say. It is easier to know where to end it.
By Ariel Kogan
The war in Ukraine has shifted the global balance, leading not only to the creation of previously improbable alliances, but also to the mixing and merging of long-standing conflicts in other regions.
By Barry Shaw
They knew the lies of Lew and the Administrations he worked for.
The struggle isn't over issues or even values. It's a century-old rivalry and it's over regime hegemony.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Such a treaty could curtail Israel's freedom of action and signal that it cannot defend itself by itself.
It is safe to say this is more than enough legal jeopardy for a single human being to manage—especially one running for president. The campaign trail will be one long march of legal trials.
July 10, 2026 
