יום שבת, כ״ו תמוז תשפ״וSaturday, July 11, 2026
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In our fast moving world, it might seem odd how a leader of such great stature, like Rabbi Shteinman, lived in such great simplicity, without looking for any fame or fortune, and yet had so many followers.
Although this bringing in of light begins at home, it does not stop there. Such is the nature of light that when one lights a light for one’s own benefit, it benefits also all who are in the vicinity.
So the president all but invited the Palestinians to come and negotiate over the issue he ostensibly resolved by recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem.
In fact, the lawsuits that led to the lower court stays is only half of the story. The other half is that the plaintiffs forum-shopped.
Major news outlets reported that Arab leaders said that Mr. Trump informed them as much and were venting their anger.
How many of us think of the heroin Yehudit and the heroic act she did to save all the Jewish people, especially the women? This is the story of Yehudit.
More important – although ignored by the media – is the nature of the Flynn plea deal itself.
The image of the pious, simple and domestically maternal Jewish woman no longer appealed to these secularly educated girls.
As a Jew living in Israel I can express my burning desire that this whole country be united and focused on the same Jewish morals and values.
This is the first time Diaspora Jews will be permitted to vote in an Israeli party primary.
We as Jewish people must remember daily who we are, and who we come from and who our forefathers were.
True there is a lot of wealth within the world of technology that enables us to do so much more than in generations past. However, it has also created a very cold and isolated generation.
Reportedly, the radar can identify a threat from a distance of 1,550 miles, providing Israel a relatively long – approximately eight minutes – response time and enabling the use of various means of interception.
While Mayor de Blasio has dutifully backed the “progressive” agenda, we have yet to hear him decry the left’s growing anti-Zionism.
Everyone wants to feel loved and accepted. Everyone wants to feel respected and honored. But what about the people who are never noticed?
Is it “cynical politics,” as some claimed last week, when a president resolves to attack a palpable problem at its source?
Because of the development of printing, female literacy gained some momentum, and a whole genre of women's Yiddish books was created.
He should clarify how far afield from the basic issue of Russian interference the special prosecutor may roam in the course of trying to prove his case.
With this in mind, the Greater Jerusalem proposal could be the vehicle to turn things around.
Another goal is the establishment of community learning programs to promote regular contact and exchanges among women in their communities.
Each tear of our mother Rachel nurtures in our, her children’s, consciousness the sense of “smallness.” She “nurses” us with her tears.
With no special additions in any of the prayers, after such celebrations one can fall into sadness thinking the next holiday is Chanukah and it’s so far away.
In essence the Israeli position is, and has long been, that Hamas cannot be accepted at the table unless it has renounced violence, recognized the state of Israel, accepted previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinians, and is now committed to peaceful negotiations to resolve the conflict.
There is evidence that learned women were educated by tutors as well, as long as standards of modesty were upheld.
So there was always supposed to be some notion of [Israeli] expansion into the West Bank, but not necessarily expansion into the entire West Bank.
During the subsequent Days of Penitence, we prepared for the awesome and holy day of Yom Kippur, begging our Father and King to grant us a tabula rasa, so that we can begin anew.
G-d is merciful and loves his children more than we can understand. He isn’t interested in punishing just because we did wrong.
The disrespecting of the Star-Spangled Banner (and, by extension, our flag) by athletes who refuse to stand when it is played at sporting events is a broadside against one of the fundamental symbols of America.
Each one of us no matter where we live, our gender, our nationality or the social circles we live in, have worries.
The initial prosecutions were marked by government conduct that should shock the conscience of anyone who believes in fair play.
Doubtless what moved the Democrats was the revelation that intelligence officials reported the antifa threat to the Obama administration some time ago with apparently no response from the president or any key aides.
Why are you running so fast and why are all these people following you?
Hundreds of volunteers were on hand in Passaic and other cities on Sunday night to load trucks with boxes of supplies and food items headed for Texas.
Even Rep. Nancy Pelosi, no fan of Mr. Trump, has now taken to condemning antifa.
We prepared and learned and repented in order to make Hashem very proud of us.
There will be no undermining of the leverage Israel has by virtue of its vast military and economic superiority over the Palestinians.
President Obama plainly wished to avoid noting that the site of the murders was a kosher market or that the targets were Jews, who could be expected to be there, especially on a Friday.
This is the time to stop and see in which direction we are heading in our lives. What type of investments are we making?
Now other than it being very frustrating we must learn to contemplate on those times and see beyond the moment of distress to a higher force.
He is not engaging in moral equivalence between good and evil.
Some attribute the sudden lack of media focus on North Korea to a desire to embarrass Mr. Trump on the one hand and to deny him any credit for apparently defusing such an ominous situation on the other.
We take a back seat to no one in taking seriously the role a national security adviser plays when it comes to U.S. interests and those of Israel.
So it was preordained, so to speak, that whatever he said about as electrifying an issue as Charlottesville would be seized upon by resistance members and turned into grist for their mill.
According to the petition, although Ms. Abeles seems plainly to have followed agency procedures for requesting time off by fully notifying her supervisor via e-mail, the agency...
Living in a carefree mode during bein hazmanim is dangerous and counterproductive to human accomplishment.
A respected Torah scholar, he authored several sefarim and was a mentor to many Jewish education professionals.
President Trump and his UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, may be slowly moving the UN in a different direction, but the problem still looms.
Why would the Palestinians not believe that the U.S. would forever pressure Israel to meet escalating Palestinians demands?
Then there's the theory that Tu B’Av marks the day on which the generation sentenced to die in the desert for the sin of the Golden Calf stopped dying.
He told a German TV station that his appearance was in part to provide an opposing position to President Trump’s worldview.
Financial packages? Reintegrating cold-blooded murderers into society? And so the report went, simply glossing over the damning evidence of Palestinian malevolence.
Many books and commentaries have been written on the reasons we have not merited redemption. All agree that the main reason is the lack of love between us.
The ninth of Av became a harbinger of the numerous tragedies we would suffer throughout the exile.
No one knows how many years he is given on this earth. If a person were to know when their time is up they would live differently.
No longer would religious motivation entitle one to a constitutionally required exemption from a law of general applicability.
Indeed, religious buildings in major Muslim religious centers such as Mecca and Medina are protected by the devices, as is the Vatican.
Indeed, the presiding judge in the Silver trial admonished Mr. Bharara for his verbal excesses.
Jewish law stipulates that a Jewish divorce can only be initiated by the husband in an exercise of his free will.
The older and wiser that we get the more we realize that those prehistoric parents and grandparents are not as out of date as we thought.
Throughout the years that I lived in America I would meet lots of Jews with the same love and burning desire to live in Israel. I was not alone.
It seems the Resistance is rooted in the notion that Mr. Trump is hopelessly out of sync with American values and American voters.
The generation of Jews who left Egypt and received the Torah on Mount Sinai, dreamed of entering the promised land and settling in it.
Aside from the inconsiderate people there are the people who stare at those who look different, or even strange, depending on the disability.
Even the greatest of people must be wary of the dangers of their own passions and pursuits.
Often we feel that the days just pass by and we are missing our purpose in life.
And therein lies a cautionary tale that should cause skeptics of Mr. Trump’s “fake news” mantra to seriously reconsider.
That this lesson in Palestinian credibility – or, more precisely, lack of same – will seriously inform future U.S. Mideast policy is perhaps too much to hope for.
Living In Jerusalem isn’t so easy. People with different religions and different views want this city to belong only to them.
As we grow up and become more independent, we tend to think that we are in charge and that everything is in our hands.
One who teaches his friend's son Torah is analogous to the father himself.
Many of us, though, were certain that after a relatively short hiatus, Iran’s pursuit of regional hegemony supported by a nuclear arsenal would resume, and inexorably so.
In any event, applying the waiver provision to the law’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital makes no sense.
Deal-breaking demands may emerge, but it is rare that anyone goes into a negotiation with the intent of insisting on concessions that can in no way be made by the other side.
Israel has developed into a world-class military, economic, agricultural, and technological power.
A Torah scholar in his own right... he was also steeped in the ways of the gedolim who were contemporaries and colleagues of his legendary father, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky.
Rabbi Wolpin was a gifted editor, which, combined with his thorough grounding in Torah sources and regular contact with the Torah personalities associated with Agudah...
It was not enough for the Kohen to offer his ruling; he also had to instruct and guide.
Certainly they were encouraged in that view by the hostile attitude of the Obama administration toward the Netanyahu government.
Indeed, while Mr. Barghouti did note in passing that he is serving several life sentences, he failed to mention that they were imposed for his notorious acts of murder and destruction.
Yet within a few years Syria was able to employ chemical weapons to horrible result.
In fact, since the construction of the barrier, suicide attacks against Israelis from over the Green Line have become almost non-existent.
What leaps out is that students are presented with a neutral framework in which no distinction is drawn between approving and disapproving of the Final Solution.
It turns out, of course, that the widely reported anti-Jewish threats – and bear in mind that all along they were, thankfully, just that – threats...
It almost seems that President Trump, the highly touted leader and dealmaker extraordinaire, is getting something of a pass despite his not being able to do what had to be done to get the deal through.
Of course, the situation in the West Bank is more complicated, if only because of the constant threat of Arab violence and the need to impose restrictions to contain that violence.
The Red Cow which was completely burnes symbolizes the eradication of one's past.
As for Mr. Bharara himself, he is reputed to have designs on running for elective office in New York which has an overwhelmingly liberal, anti-Trump voter base.
Given the unanimous vote by the Republicans on the committee in support of Mr. Friedman, it’s highly likely that the Republican-controlled Senate will confirm him as well.
This, even though BMG otherwise qualified for the grant at least as much as other grantees that had no religious affiliation.
It is hard to miss the sharp difference between the politics of the post-2016 presidential election and what followed earlier national elections.
It seems absurd to suggest that Mr. Trump was somehow part of the problem.
No civilized person should shed a tear for the terrorist al-Sharif.
That approach invokes the novel concept that aliens enjoy the same constitutional rights as do American citizens.
The Airports Authority claimed the employee did not follow procedures for requesting annual leave, which include accounting for absences due to religious observance.
If the administration is indeed thinking along the lines of region-wide approach as opposed to a two state solution, it will be a breath of fresh air...
And the frustrated voices of those unable to find suitable outlets for their talents were growing louder and louder.
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