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Religious Zionism

The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

IDF Dismantles MK’s Office at Evyatar Outpost in Samaria

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“This is one stone on the way to our complete return to the community, as was agreed and as must be,” said Religious Zionism Party lawmaker Tzvi Sukkot.

Headline / Politics / Government / Elections / The Knesset

Report: Coalition Talks Breakthrough Between Smotrich, Netanyahu and Deri

By Jewish Press News Desk

Dafna Liel is reporting a significant breakthrough in the coalition negotiations between Likud, Religious Zionism and Shas.

Headline / Israel / Politics / Elections

Smotrich Makes Ben-Gvir an Offer He Can't Refuse

By Jewish Press News Desk

Smotrich would give Ben-Gvir the 2, 5, 7, 9 and 10th spots on the united list.

Politics / Government / Left vs. Right / The Knesset / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Sovereignty

Religious Zionist Rabbis Lead Prayers at the Kotel Against the New Israeli Government

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

In Jerusalem’s Old City, prominent religious-Zionist rabbis pray the incoming government won’t “abandon the Land of Israel to the Arab takeover.”

Politics / Government / Left vs. Right / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

11 Leading Nationalist Groups Urge Netanyahu, Sa'ar, and Bennett to Coalesce

By Jewish Press News Desk

Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu that initiated the move, said that the letter was a wake-up call to the heads of the Zionist parties.

Holidays & Observances / Diaspora / Aliyah / Geulah

Tu BiShvat Program Highlights Importance of Jewish Diaspora

By Jewish Press News Desk

The program sends Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist rabbis, and educators to serve in communal and educational leadership positions in Jewish communities around the world.

Diaspora / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Bar-Ilan Befriends Diaspora Jewish Communities Coping with Coronavirus

By Jewish Press News Desk

In the US alone, more than one hundred people from the Halabi Jewish community died in one month.

Headline / Politics / Police and Crime / Left vs. Right / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Bennett Refusing to Address 500-Cop Storming of Yitzhar Homes

By HaKol HaYehudi / Yehuda Pearl

One of the evicted residents was a pregnant woman in her ninth month. Honenu recorded police grabbing her infant girl.

Featured / Politics / Elections / Judea & Samaria

Naftali Bennett Talks English, Finance and Elections in Gush Etzion

By Cali BenEzra

Bennett focused much of his time discussing free markets, deregulation, and the importance of only voting for a party guaranteed to pass the electoral threshold.

Featured / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / Government

Bennett: Instead of Curbing Gaza Fuel Supplies – Kill Terrorists

By JNi.Media

"The big battle is between Habayit Hayehudi, which will be pulling to the right in all areas, versus the center-left, which is Yisrael Beiteinu."

Featured / Politics / Government / The Courts / Religious & Secular in Israel

Attorney Ben-Gvir Advocates Removing Kahane Movement's Terrorist Designation

By JNi.Media

Attorney Ben-Gvir wrote the AG: "It is clear to any knowledgeable person that the government's decision was a political ploy designed to silence the opposition."

Video of the Day

Meet Meir Ettinger - Rabbi Kahane's Grandson

By Video of the Day

Kan-11 interviewed Meir Ettinger (in Hebrew), providing him with a fair, honest and open platform to let the Israeli people see him for who he really is, not how the Shabak and the media have portrayed him.

Rejuvenation with Eve Harow

Rejuvenation: Religious Zionism - Is the Best Yet to Come?

By The Land of Israel

How can we continue Jewish tradition while engaging with the modern world and providing role models for young people exposed to too many alternatives. Rabbi Reuven Taragin joins Eve Harow today on Rejuvenation.

Featured / Politics / Judaism

Tzohar Senior Rabbi Denounces Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu over 'Libel'

By JNi.Media

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu accused a private kashrut organization of ignoring the sale of meat slaughtered in an Arab village to Jerusalem restaurants under their supervision.

Featured / Jewish / Politics / Government / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Man of the Year

Jewish Man and Woman of the Year 5777: Bezalel Smotrich and Ayelet Shaked

By JNi.Media

Both Smotrich and Shaked have shown their ability to mobilize considerable political might in the pursuit of their ideas

Featured / Politics / Government / On Campus / Education

Friday or Not, It's Sept. 1, So 2,272,000 students, 180,000 Teachers Are Off to School

By JNi.Media

"I know that all these involve endless work, after-school and into the night. And for that, I give thanks and appreciation in my name and in the name of Israeli society," Education Minister told Israeli teachers.

Featured / Politics / Palestinian Authority / Media / Islamists / The Temple Mount / Religion

According to Muslim Dignitaries, this Picture Shows Jews 'Storming' Al Aqsa Mosque

By JNi.Media

In the picture there's only one occupying force, way back, behind the nice storming lady in the green shirt. All the other occupying forces were probably having lunch at the time.

Headline / IDF & Security / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel

Report: Newly Appointed IDF General Staff a No-Knitted Yarmulke Zone

By JNi.Media

In recent years, the knitted yarmulkes, which fill the junior and middle echelons of the IDF, have not been promoted to the senior command of the army.

Featured / US / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Assimilation

Rabbi Riskin: Reform, Conservative Movements My Partners

By JNi.Media

'What can the Diaspora give us?' Rabbi Riskin asked, and answered: 'First and foremost, the idea of ​​pluralism, that these, and these, too, are the words of the living God.'

Featured / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Assimilation

Survey: Only 46% of Next Generation National Religious Israelis Keep the Faith

By JNi.Media

Meanwhile, the proportion of students attending ultra-Orthodox schools has increased by about 300% since 1992.

Featured / Politics / Government / The Courts / The Knesset / Islamists / Israeli Arabs

Ayelet Shaked Appoints First Female Qadi

By JNi.Media

Many Arab Muslim scholars disagree with women's qualification to be Qadis.

Featured / Headline / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel

Showdown: Poll Shows Shaked Gets 3 Seats More than Bennett

By JNi.Media

Shaked is probably the most popular rightwing minister today, the only politician in her camp who managed to tame the Supreme Court and clip some of its claws.

Featured / Religious & Secular in Israel

Survey: 36% of Secular Jews Want to Leave Israel

By JNi.Media

The highest rate of those who wish to leave was among secular Jews, where 36% said they would have left. Among religious Jews only 7% expressed the same wish.

Featured / IDF & Security / Jewish / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel

Liberal Orthodox Rabbis Object to Co-Ed IDF Service

By JNi.Media

'There are several co-ed combat units in the military where we have been unable to find solutions to the close proximity problem, which is why we rule that [religious Jews] may not serve there.'

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

At Last: Knesset Plenum Begins 3-Day Debate on 'Settlement Regulation' Bill

By JNi.Media

PM Netanyahu has been on both sides of the fence regarding the new bill, but mostly, people in his circle explained, out of fear of retribution from the Obama Administration.

Politics / Settlements / Judea & Samaria / Media / The Knesset / News Briefs / Government

PM Kicks Out Habayit Hayehudi MK for Saying Netanyahu Isn't Rightwing

By JNi.Media

MK Bezalel Smotrich said, 'Apparently, had Netanyahu been in charge instead of Ben Gurion, we would not have had a state. Ben Gurion had courage, he established a state against all odds.'

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Minister Ariel: If AG Can't Defend Law Saving Amona, Let's Get an Attorney Who Can

By JNi.Media

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Habayit Hayehudi) may end up being the politician who broke the iron hold of the judicial civil service on Israel's democracy.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Gloves Are Off as Cabinet Revives Settlement Division

By JNi.Media

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni recommended that the next government (which she expected to head) dismantle the division by blocking its state budget. Without a budget, the division was expected to wither and die.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Bennett: We Must Sacrifice to Preserve Judea and Samaria

By JNi.Media

Habayit Hayehudi is facing an existential dilemma these days, as many of its voters have said they'd rather see their elected representatives leave government than participate in the decision to uproot the Amona residents.

Jewish / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset

Justice Minister Shaked Issues Manifesto on Jewish Democracy, Based on the Teachings of Chief Justice Barak

By JNi.Media

Alongside the need to restrain the legislator, Shaked sees a dire need to restrain Israel's expansionist Judiciary.

Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Woman of the Year 5776: Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked

By JNi.Media

The High Court continues to take notice of Shaked, and has been noticeably mindful of the need to avoid unnecessary friction with a Justice Minister who is probably the most popular minister in Israel.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Religious Zionist Rabbi Offers Homosexuals Alternative Approaches

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Anachnu NGO received many requests from gay men asking to be set up with lesbian women...

Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religion

New Bill Revokes Get-Refusing Inmates' 'Mehadrin' Kosher Food, Boarding Privileges

By JNi.Media

"A man who turns his wife into an aguna and refuses to obey the judges' order to stop abusing her is not truly a man who values halakha and maintaining a Jewish lifestyle."

IDF & Security / Jewish / Politics / News Briefs / Video of the Day / Arts and Entertainment / Jerusalem / Judea & Samaria

Six Days of Miracles - Setting the Record Straight

By JNi.Media

For most Jews, every passing year reveals even more intensely the divine miracles that began with the 1967 war, and are still with us.

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset

Shaked Drops Bomb: Habayit Hayehudi Ready for New Elections

By JNi.Media

A Friday Channel 1 News poll gives Bennett's party 14 seats in a new election, with Likud shrinking from 30 to 27 seats, Labor chopped down from 24 to 11, and Lieberman gaining 2, from 6 to 8 seats.

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Justice Minister Commits to Enforcing Sovereignty in Area C

By JNi.Media

"It's important that the Justice Minister have political power and political ability."

Focus on Israel/Dov Gilor

Fifty Years In Israel

By Dov Gilor

We created an organization of former Bnei Akiva of North America members who have fulfilled the dream of living in Eretz Yisrael.

Moshe Feiglin

What Are They Crying About? (Conclusion)

By Moshe Feiglin

It is always easiest to blame the rest of the world and not to make an accounting of your own ideology.

Guest Blog

Pesach and Solidarity

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

This Pesach, let us take to heart what solidarity means for Am Yisrael and act accordingly.

Living in the Land

Aliya: What's it All About?

By David Ha'ivri

A new blog about Aliya and living in the land of Israel.

Shiloh Musings

A Soldier Remembered in His 'Letters to Talia'

By Batya Medad

Everything Dov Indig, killed in action during the Yom Kippur War, said about the secular kibbutz movement has happened.

Op-Eds

Rabbi Menachem Froman: Not What You Thought

By Meir Indor

Remembering a great man whose love for his fellow human beings knew neither religious nor political bounds, and was happily reciprocated by all.

Tevye in the Promised Land

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Eight: Waiting for the Baron

By Tzvi Fishman

When word arrived that Baron Edmond Rothschild was coming for a visit, with none other than the famous Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the colony turned into a frantic beehive of activity.

Felafel on Rye

Rav Kook's 'The Caged Lion'

By Tzvi Fishman

Like the lions in Rabbi Kook’s poem, may we also find the longing for freedom.

Felafel on Rye

The Complainers are Alive and Well in America

By Tzvi Fishman

To all my blogger colleagues in America: if you want to complain about things in Israel, at least come live here, and play your part in the building.

Op-Eds

Remembering Ron Nachman, the Lonely Man of Faith

By Avi Zimmerman

When Ron Nachman set out to found the city of Ariel, he was not interested in just another community of tens to hundreds of families to the east of the Green Line.

Felafel on Rye

What's the Point of Celebrating Tu B’Shvat in Exile?

By Tzvi Fishman

Without Eretz Yisrael, the Torah is a shrunken, truncated, mini-version of the complete Torah of Eretz Yisrael.

Felafel on Rye

I’m Not Voting for Obama, that’s for Sure

By Tzvi Fishman

“How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” King David asks. The answer is that we can’t.

Felafel on Rye

Would American Jews Have Told Moses to Get Lost?

By Tzvi Fishman

The darkness of materialism is so great, who can fight against it?

Felafel on Rye

Get Out While You Can!

By Tzvi Fishman

It’s time for the Jews of America to get out of the country with their money while they can.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Religious Pluralism Within Orthodoxy

By Harry Maryles

My harsh criticism is reserved for extremist behavior that is a result of those Hashkafos – even if it is from my own.

Felafel on Rye

Warning! Xmas!

By Tzvi Fishman

If you think that living in a Xtrian land doesn’t affect you at all, it’s because your brain has been so saturated with dreams of white Christmases.

Felafel on Rye

Why Should I Move to Israel?

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.

Felafel on Rye

We Ain’t Got a Soul in America

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.

Felafel on Rye

A Great Miracle is Happening Here Again!

By Tzvi Fishman

This is the Land of Miracles, where our Redemption is unfolding today.

Felafel on Rye

The Biggest Menorah in the World

By Tzvi Fishman

We become a “light to the nations” precisely when we are living together in Eretz Yisrael.

Felafel on Rye

TORAH, TORAH, TORAH

By Tzvi Fishman

During the reign of King Solomon, the Nation of Israel was at its prime. We lived in peace in our own homeland. A Jewish government ruled over the country from the majestic city of Jerusalem. All of the people gathered for the Festivals at the Temple three times a year. Jewish law went forth from the Sanhedrin. Prophets communicated the word of the Lord to the Nation and the world. A powerful Jewish army guarded the country’s borders. Torah was studied in great academies of learning. Hebrew was spoken on the street. The leaders of foreign nations flocked to Jerusalem to pay tribute to the Jews.

Felafel on Rye

Zionism is T'shuva Too!

By Tzvi Fishman

To rectify the blemish caused by galut, the Diaspora Jew has to stop being in exile and join the ingathered. He has to actualize the words of his daily prayers, “And gather us together from the four corners of the earth” by getting on a plane.

Felafel on Rye

Gentlemen, To the Land of Israel!

By Tzvi Fishman

One of Rav Kook's public proclamations, sent out all over the Diaspora, years before the Holocaust, was entitled, “The Great Call”: "To the Land of Israel, gentlemen, to the Land of Israel! Let us utter this appeal in one voice, in a great and never-ending cry."

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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