יום רביעי, כ״ט אב תשפ״וWednesday, August 12, 2026
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The U.S. appeared afraid of escalation. The U.S. seemed to want a deal more than Iran did.
Israel’s enemies still believe it can be broken with rockets or rhetoric. They are wrong.
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Legacy media is complicit, featuring news stories that impugn Israel and whitewash anti-Jewish attacks by radical leftists and Islamists.
Others categorically assert that you can’t pray for any healing that goes against nature. Why not?
Hamas leaders are leading safe, often resplendent lives in Qatar, Lebanon, Algeria, Turkey and other comfortable countries.
It seems to us that the Democrats have not yet learned the lesson of the spectacular failure of lawfare to bring Donald Trump down.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is well past time to drop the pretense that antisemitism only comes from those stomping in jackboots.
By Aryeh Werth
We can't remain silent in a city where the Jewish community makes up 10 percent yet comprises 57 percent of the hate crimes in our city, Adams said
We must recognize that Jewish history rarely sees the exact same persecution twice.
It is with these vulgarities in mind that the obvious must be stated: The laws of war were fashioned by military strategists who lived in civilized nations, men who believed that even in war there must be rules.
We wonder if Iran be required to ship its existing uranium stock piles and nuclear plant infrastructure to countries outside its borders?
By Ruthie Blum
Through the calm dismantling of a contrived provocation, the Jewish state upheld its dignity while letting its detractors reveal their own absurdity.
Hamas leaders are in no rush to accept any deal because, unlike most of the residents of the Gaza Strip, they do not have to stand in line and risk being shot by Hamas terrorists for trying to receive food from a humanitarian organization.
By Yonatan Daon
Why Israel’s war cannot be won until it stops lying about who the enemy really is
France and Saudi Arabia are about to throw Hamas a lifeline.
The only way to prevent a civil war in Israel is to acknowledge its impending outbreak, so that steps can be taken to forestall it.
For maximum benefit, meditate twice a day. Most people find that meditating first thing in the morning before breakfast works best.
By Marc Gronich
First Sephardic Jew elected to NYS legislature.
By Bassam Tawil
By advocating a "two-state solution," France, Canada and Britain are essentially authorizing a genocide.
While the perpetrators were bound by a desire to protest, surely they all shared a desire to see Israel disappear – and obviously, they also turned to violence.
Colleges and universities are surely among the most important venues for the organization and refinement of ideas and opinions.
We often fall into unhealthy religious judgmentalism. We don’t possess a reliable thermometer to measure others’ religious sincerity or depth. Yet we often speak loosely, labeling others as less frum or branding entire communities as less religious.
We find it hard to believe President Trump would really be upset with the Israeli threats to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. In fact, to paraphrase an old adage, if Netanyahu did not so threaten, Trump would ask him to.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters seek not only a second Holocaust targeting Israel but the elimination from American society of Jews who believe in its right to exist.
When will Harvard finally acknowledge other racist stains on its record—such as the friendly relations it pursued with Nazi Germany in the 1930s?
Let’s examine the close, even affirming, relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists
When innocent Jews are murdered for the crime of being Jews, where are the mass rallies? Where are the corporate statements?
By BESA CENTER
Hamas used gender-based violence as a deliberate strategy intended to cause severe harm to Israeli civilians, undermine Israelis’ sense of social security, and sow terror within Israeli society.
Tehran's low-cost, high-volume approach is not about sophistication but about saturation, and is "disturbingly effective," says the former head of the Mossad's Counter-terrorism Division.
If something could possibly go wrong, unfortunately it will -- leaving Trump with the legacy of delivering yet another laughably fake peace deal and of his presidency being that of another failed Barack Obama.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The flourishing of human society must be accompanied by the protection of the natural world and accountability to future generations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Since Christians and Muslims acknowledge that the Jews are their elders and their religion’s foundational source, why aren’t Jews and Israel treated with more respect?
By Elie Klein
The tweens who were forced to attend their friends’ bar and bat mitzvah celebrations via Zoom have spent much of the subsequent years missing school to attend the military funerals of family, friends and neighbors.
Despite its internal and external challenges, modern Israel remains stronger than ever
The British government believes that it has the moral authority to dictate where in their ancestral homeland Jewish families can and cannot live.
Having lived in Israel now for almost 20 years, with the daily dramas we endure, the interconnectivity of events become readily more apparent and harder to overlook.
While, Donald Trump is not, by any stretch, Barack Obama when it comes to Israel, the emerging Trump Middle East doctrine is eerily reminiscent of the Obama New Beginning speech at Cairo University at the beginning of his first term.
The struggle to settle our sacred homeland continues. Nearly 80 years after the founding of Medinat Yisrael, and despite our yearning to live in peace with our neighbors, many still deny our rightful presence in this land. The Simchat Torah war of the past year and a half is not a new chapter, but […]
It is doubtful that the decision will have any significant impact on the issue of the constitutionality of public tuition assistance to yeshiva parents.
By Aryeh Werth
There’s criminal aspects of anti-Jewish hate crimes, and I think those are the most chilling because everyone understands that someone’s being attacked because they’re Jewish. The other aspects are bias incidents, discrimination, and subversive antisemitism that exists in language, exists in education, exists in different ways – and that’s a very large focus of the office.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
If we want to win – not just the battles but also the war – we must start by understanding the battlefield we’re actually on.
By Avi Abelow
If there are those who cannot agree that the IDF is a force of good and not cruelty, then we have lost something far greater than a political argument.
By Forest Rain
As we mourn the destruction of the Temple, we should learn some often overlooked facts about the site.
Thunderous gaslighting language eventually lit the match that materialized into senseless murder outside a Jewish museum.
Courage, Inspiration, Resilience, and Promise
Those Who Have Worn the Uniform of Our Nation's Military Would Remind Us In the Face of Military Challenges From Nuclear-Armed Foes
By Bennett Ruda
I think the question that should be asked all the time is 'Why the Jews?' Why is it that the world, particularly the left, has turned so ferociously against the Jews? You can't blame Israel because it happened before Israel. It's going to happen again.
It contradicts the intention of the League of Nations and makes no sense in the geopolitical reality.
We must confront antisemitism but not just with stories or tours of Jewish victimhood. Instead of focusing on educating others, educate yourself, your children and Jews all around us to be living richly proud and practicing Jewish lives.
By Avi Ciment
A while back, the first hostages came out, I recall viewing a video with a split-screen down the middle showing Hamas’s insidious reaction on one side juxtaposed with the Israelis on the other side. The difference between good and evil was palpable.
Posted on FB page of Former Jordanian Minister of Interior mere hours after the assassination
Hamas is the Brotherhood and they're still here.
Can the knowing establishment of a center for terrorism ever be morally correct?
Most Israelis I have ever told this story to, finish the ending for me. Honestly, Israel and aliyah can drive you crazy…
Here’s the truth: I’ve been in the rooms. I’ve seen and heard firsthand the deep concern and genuine solidarity of my colleagues – most of them Christians – who are appalled by the surge in antisemitism.
The rationale for Arab states joining the Abraham Accords during the first Trump term was that they were desperate for ways to deter Iranian aggression and, seeing the handwriting on the wall for economies based on oil revenues, to end their dependence on them.
The term is not in the Torah because it is a modern political invention.
Trump and his special envoy Steve Witkoff are being played and appear not even to know it.
It is the obligation of every state to enforce the law of nations. This means there is a universal legal responsibility to support Israel’s ongoing counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East.
It is too early to decide whether the president’s Mideast trip will bear fruit, but it has already been subjected to the excesses and warping and fakery by the anti-Trump media.
By Sara Lehmann
I’ve spent so much time in yeshivas and shuls. The Rabbis joke with me on a Sunday, ‘Be careful when you leave the shul that you don’t walk into your Mass with a kippah on.’”
By Ruthie Blum
A spat between two MAGA media personalities reflects the ideological split in the movement—and in the Trump administration.
By Avi Abelow
The two-state paradigm, once widely endorsed, is increasingly viewed as untenable given the persistent threats and failures of past negotiations.
I tried not to cry; I did not feel that I had earned the right to do so.
Once upon a time, in the quiet of small semachot, we heard what mattered most. Have we gone deaf again?
Israel's "deep-state apparatus" is "working to undermine elected officials and actually the public," said Knesset Member Simcha Rothman.
So we rather think that the president’s new unfavorable stance towards Israel was likely fueled by a fear that an alienated Arab world would come to thwart his ability to proceed, full bore, to follow through on his America First agenda in the Middle East – think, expansion of the Abraham Accords – and not any animus towards Israel or its prime minister, per se, as some are suggesting.
Amidst all the noise and emotion, a different kind of return unfolded – quieter, more subdued, and 43 years in the making. The body of Tzvi Feldman, a missing soldier captured during a brutal battle in Syria in 1983, was finally brought home to Israel for burial.
For far too long, we have been told that some of our parents may not continue their religious traditions as to how to educate their children. If nothing else, this would seem to run afoul of our constitutional freedom of religion rights.
In the age of rising antisemitism, when many young Jews feel fear, confusion or alienation, there are still those who choose action, belonging and sacrifice.
Out-of-control spending on steroids
The only reliable source of strength we can depend upon is ourselves and our faith in HaShem. No other people, country or government.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
The Terrorist Responsible for Daniel Pearl's Monstrous Murder Has Finally Been Eliminated
Palestinians... say that if anyone is stealing the humanitarian aid and food, it is Hamas.
These three steps will not erase the black cloud of shame that hangs over Amsterdam’s political and legal authorities for their mishandling of the November 2024 attacks.
Reject false equations and partisan lenses, do not hide or hide behind free speech, embrace Israeli strength, and more.
Far too many American Jews know little about the Jewish struggle to free Israel from British control in the 1930s and 1940s.
The progressive international public has fervently bought into the red herring of Jewish settlements while hypocritically remaining silent regarding settlement activity in Western Sahara, northern Cyprus, Ceuta and Melilla, Tibet, Kashmir and the Falkland Islands.
Of course, the prophecies of consolation have not yet been fully actualized. Amos speaks of our people being firmly planted on the land – yet entire communities in Israel’s North and South remain displaced, struggling to regain emotional and economic stability.
Iran of course, remains a major factor in the Gulf and its labyrinthian politics continue to loom large in the region, even if somewhat diminished.
This year’s fires did more than disrupt celebrations and ceremonies – they scorched the core symbols of our national renewal. It felt as though they reversed the arc of our historical return.
Firstly, he is the democratically elected National Security Minister of the State of Israel. Love him or hate him, the position and title he carries, and representing the Israeli citizens who elected him, I believe make him deserving of an audience and conversation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lacking any evidence of Palestinian peoplehood earlier than the 20th century, they resort to falsifying history using outright lies.
Inactivity on our part is not an option. Head-shaking and hand-wringing are not the kinds of options or actions that will help. Communications to President Trump, one way or another – or, better still, in all possible ways – can help.
While Ms. James and her cohort have taken some care to package their arguments in legalese, they are at base actually the stuff of traditional political campaigning.
"Unlike in the past, the IDF will remain in every area that is conquered in Gaza, to prevent the return of terrorism," a security source says.
By Bassam Tawil
Palestinians are far more interested in murdering Jews and setting Israel on fire than they are in "coexisting." They do not want Israel "coexisting" on even one millimeter of the Jews' own historical homeland.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Should the list with the names of the hostages be disposed of like other sacred documents, and ultimately buried in a Jewish cemetery?
The scent coming from these old-guard European and American denizens is antipathy toward Israel. They simply cannot stomach a strong Israel.
August 7, 2026 
