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The National Security Council warned Israelis not to try to reach Israel by land through Jordan or Egypt.
By Noa Aidan
Jews lived in Syria for 2,500 years, with the primary communities being in Damascus and Aleppo.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to Perez-Shakdam, the only thing Khamenei fears is an Israeli attack.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The unique Jewish supermarket, spanning over 130 square meters in the center of Dubai, offers quality kosher produce imported especially from Israel, Europe and the U.S.,” says UAE-based Rabbi Levi Duchman
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
There are 14,410,700 million Jews in the world, the Knesset’s Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora Committee revealed on Monday, and 45% or 6,740,000 of them live in Israel, 6,088,000 in North America, 1,072,400 in Europe, 324,000 in South America, 300,000 in Asia, 120,000 in Australia and New Zealand and 74,000 in Africa.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
People from around the world were invited to send their names for prayers.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel is reaching out to the Jews of the Diaspora and has initiated a roundtable of global and regional Jewish organizations to assess the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Jewish communities and prepare a plan for their rehabilitation.
“My hospital is still the best in Venezuela, but I don’t know for how long, we don’t have medicines anymore, even antibiotics.”
Ronald Lauder’s position is stale, irrelevant, and not reflective of today’s reality.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PM Netanyahu leveled criticism at Culture Minister Miri Regev, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked for refusing to support expansion of an egalitarian prayer space at the holy site, said “I'll handle this” • Dozens of rabbis urge ministers to oppose “desecration” of Kotel.
Many American Jews are motivated more by their overwhelmingly liberal politics than by the Torah. Why?
Without the existence of Israel, the Jewish diaspora would disappear.
The Diaspora's relationship with Israel does not bode well.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chief Rabbi Lau responded on Tuesday that the best way to battle anti-Semitism is to immigrate to Israel, but that all Jews in Germany and throughout the Diaspora must continue to wear the kippah and other Jewish symbols.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Prior to the murder of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, some 16,600,000 were spread throughout the world. Today’s data indicates that there are currently 14,511,000 Jews on Earth, a number similar to that in 1922.
The report suggests creating a legal framework for these descendants of Jews to visit Israel in order to learn about Judaism and Israel.
But some Diaspora Jewish groups, particularly in North America, say ... they have no intention of lobbying on behalf of the Netanyahu government.
Is it OK for Jews in America to lobby for the establishment of a PLO state?
My family was very much involved with Eretz Yisrael. During the 1940s when the Underground was trying to throw out the British, my father was one of the heads of the Revisionists.
By JNi.Media
Canada's former Justice Minister, said the current level of anti-Semitism 'is the highest in 40 years, and includes the rejection of Israel's right to exist at all, and the portrayal of Israel as a monster and enemy of mankind.'
By JNi.Media
The fact that the first two of these organizations is completely Orthodox, while the third varies from one campus to another has irked many, in Israel and abroad.
By Tzvi Fishman
We can disagree with a reform Jew and even despise his opinions, but we should love him for his connection to the Jewish Nation.
The Minister of Education told Jewish legislators from around the world and visiting in Jerusalem that assimilation "keeps me up at night."
By JNi.Media
Rabbi David Lau’s cousin, the Jerusalem Ramban Synagogue’s spiritual leader Rabbi Benny Lau criticized the Chief Rabbi’s attack on Bennett.
The Ravens' Ray Lewis screamed that violence is never the answer." Unfortunately, he is wrong.
The modern state of Israel is 67 years old. We, the People of Israel, celebrate our 3,327th birthday tonight.
Should Jerusalem schools boycott Tel Aviv because of the danger from underworld killings?
By JTA
The “second Exodus” from Egypt is almost complete.
By JTA
If you are worried about your child marrying a non-Jew, and you should be, then move to Israel.
By JTA
If “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Diaspora Jews are in big trouble.
Important message for Jews in the Diaspora: In times of need run to Israel rather than from Israel.
When will Jews come to the conclusion that they can live as non-Jews in the Diaspora or as Jews in Israel?
It is not an easy fact to swallow, but the real demographic problem for Jews is in the Diaspora and not in Israel.
The Israeli government is inviting Jews from around the world to participate in a 72-hour online conversation next week to help formulate strategies for strengthening the Jewish People and bolstering Diaspora-Israel ties The three-day event starts Sunday and will open the floor to all Jews to help formulate strategies for strengthening both Jewish identity and […]
An Israel Knesset Member got a whack on his tongue for angering the Diaspora.
By JTA
New York Rep. Eliot L. Engel sent a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu to express his concern over the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s decision to reject Jewish status letters written by Rabbi Avi Weiss. Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote in the letter to Israel’s prime minister dated Jan. 10 that: […]
Sharansky says the Western Wall is long enough for women to have their own minyan and Torah reading. The Women of the Wall leader accepts the compromise. Will the Rabbinate big enough to agree?
A new blog about Aliya and living in the land of Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
After all, who has time to sit in the dark and watch narishkeit? We have a country to build.
By Tzvi Fishman
The meaning of the Exodus is that Hashem chose the Jewish people to be His special Holy nation.
By Tzvi Fishman
The darkness of materialism is so great, who can fight against it?
I said I am proud of the President for choosing the best man for the job at Treasury even though he is Jewish.
By Tzvi Fishman
It’s time for the Jews of America to get out of the country with their money while they can.
By Tzvi Fishman
The history of January 1st should make Jews think twice before they celebrate New Year’s and take part in its heathen festivities.
By Tzvi Fishman
In galut, wee become possessed by the foreign lands and cultures where we live.
By Tzvi Fishman
Each individual Jew should put his life in line with the goal of Clal Israel and not just live a private, ritual Judaism, practicing personal precepts, stripped of our national essence.
By Tzvi Fishman
Jewish life changes when we are in Galut. Not only does our Clalli soul disappear, but every detail of our life is affected.
By Tzvi Fishman
Thriving and prospering, materially and even spiritually in galut, with an abundance of Torah learning and observance, is nevertheless defined by the Torah, our Prophets and Sages, as death.
By Tzvi Fishman
By and large, American Jews are not really waiting for Mashiach to come.
By Tzvi Fishman
During the night, the Holy One Blessed Be He sits and roars like a lion, saying, “Woe to the children who I have exiled among the nations of the world” (Berachot 3A). It’s like a King who builds a beautiful palace for his children, but they don’t want to live there. They prefer to hang out with the harlots.
By Tzvi Fishman
We mustn't forget that the gentile nations do us a favor by allowing us to stay in their lands - until they expel us. One must realize that we are on foreign soil there. It is not our society, nor government, nor culture. Nothing is ours. Only in Israel are we at home with family, living according to our customs, and our uniquely Jewish year, living in the one place designed for our holiness, for our psychological health, even for our physical wellbeing.
By Tzvi Fishman
Rabbi Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal was one of the respected leaders of Orthodox European Jewry before World War II, the head of the Beit Din in Budapest. Witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust, he discarded his fierce anti-Zionist ideology, and wrote a brilliant scholarly treatise on the vital necessity for Aliyah, titled "Eim HaBanim Semeichah."
For any reader who may be confused about the obligation to live in the Land of Israel, this sweeping halachic and Talmudic overview of Rabbi Kahane will surely put all uncertainty to rest. Because of its vital importance to each and every Jew, we will be presenting it in two installments.
By Tzvi Fishman
When a Jew makes Aliyah to Eretz Yisrael, the letters of his soul shift into high gear and multiply in size. All of his being gets bigger. He grows closer to God. Compared to the person he was in Galut, he becomes larger than life. He transforms into a giant, filled with greater valor, greater holiness, greater happiness and wisdom.
By Tzvi Fishman
Those of you who can come, and there are millions out there, we are waiting to welcome you. And those of you who would like to come, but just can’t seem to put the right pieces together, then you can get involved, in every way that you are able, by encouraging others to come, by coming on frequent visits, by donating money, and by volunteering your time at organizations that have Israel at the top of their programs and agenda.
By Tzvi Fishman
Yes, the Ribono Shel Olam, the Master of the World is a Zionist. So was Avraham Avinu, Moshe Rabeinu, Yehoshua, King David, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the Macabbees, all the Prophets of Israel, including Ezra and Nechemia who led a seemingly motley crowd of sinners back to the Land of Israel from Babylon to rebuild the Holy Temple.
By Tzvi Fishman
One of the questions a person is asked when he reaches his Heavenly rest is, "Did you yearn for Salvation?" If a Jew does not long for the Redemption, for Salvation from the exile, then something is wrong. If he is happy in the Diaspora, then his Judaism is out of focus, and he is out of touch with his soul's deepest yearnings. As The Kuzari poignantly declares, his prayers for Jerusalem and Zion are like the chatterings of a nightingale, melodious but empty of meaning.
By Tzvi Fishman
It is no secret that American Jewry is being decimated by assimilation. The longer the Jewish community remains in America the more the assimilation will grow. So I ask – what’s the point in working to strengthen something that is destined to dwindle out and end? The exile is a curse which is not supposed to continue forever.
August 7, 2026 
