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.
Dafna Liel is reporting a significant breakthrough in the coalition negotiations between Likud, Religious Zionism and Shas.
Smotrich would give Ben-Gvir the 2, 5, 7, 9 and 10th spots on the united list.
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.”
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.
The program sends Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist rabbis, and educators to serve in communal and educational leadership positions in Jewish communities around the world.
In the US alone, more than one hundred people from the Halabi Jewish community died in one month.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Both Smotrich and Shaked have shown their ability to mobilize considerable political might in the pursuit of their ideas
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.
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.
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.
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.'
By JNi.Media
Meanwhile, the proportion of students attending ultra-Orthodox schools has increased by about 300% since 1992.
By JNi.Media
Many Arab Muslim scholars disagree with women's qualification to be Qadis.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Alongside the need to restrain the legislator, Shaked sees a dire need to restrain Israel's expansionist Judiciary.
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.
The Anachnu NGO received many requests from gay men asking to be set up with lesbian women...
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."
By JNi.Media
Ahead of coalition reshuffle, Bennett revving up attacks on Netanyahu, Liberman urging calm.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
"It's important that the Justice Minister have political power and political ability."
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.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
It is always easiest to blame the rest of the world and not to make an accounting of your own ideology.
This Pesach, let us take to heart what solidarity means for Am Yisrael and act accordingly.
A new blog about Aliya and living in the land of Israel.
By Batya Medad
Everything Dov Indig, killed in action during the Yom Kippur War, said about the secular kibbutz movement has happened.
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.
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.
By Tzvi Fishman
Like the lions in Rabbi Kook’s poem, may we also find the longing for freedom.
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.
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.
By Tzvi Fishman
Without Eretz Yisrael, the Torah is a shrunken, truncated, mini-version of the complete Torah of Eretz Yisrael.
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.
By Tzvi Fishman
The darkness of materialism is so great, who can fight against it?
By Tzvi Fishman
It’s time for the Jews of America to get out of the country with their money while they can.
My harsh criticism is reserved for extremist behavior that is a result of those Hashkafos – even if it is from my own.
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.
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
This is the Land of Miracles, where our Redemption is unfolding today.
By Tzvi Fishman
We become a “light to the nations” precisely when we are living together in Eretz Yisrael.
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.
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.
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."