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The United States pays about 22% of the UN’s budget, which amounted to almost than $8 billion in 2010.
None of these archaeological relics would have existed if there weren’t an ancient Jewish kingdom within the Land of Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
By Adam Levick
Israeli artist Moshe Ben-Ari writes music with a blend rock, soul, reggae and world music.
By Meir Indor
As time went on, as would be expected of me, I lost more and more of my equipment—but not my gun or my tefillin.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
I agree with Alan Dershowitz that Carter's presence at Carodozo Law School should be used as a positive.
By Batya Medad
The aim of people like Jimmy Carter, who claims to love the Bible is to deny us our God given rights, written clearly in the Bible, to our Land.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
The Jewish lesson of the Holocaust is this: Jew hatred is real, it is dangerous and it is not possible for Jews to depend on others to protect them.
Your children will look back and thank you for moving them to Israel now.
Some hackers are planning an organized cyber-attack against Israel.
By Daniel Pipes
Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.
By Batya Medad
As many new homes as we build, there's still a housing shortage in Shiloh. Jewish families of all ages, from all over the world want to live here.
By Daniel Pipes
This will likely be Obama's most important, most lasting and most constructive contribution to Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
Israel must insist that there can be no negotiations until all parties agree that Israel is the Jewish state of the Jewish people.
By Tzvi Fishman
One late afternoon when Tevye returned to his tent after a back-breaking day in the winery, a letter was waiting from Baylke. Sure enough, she had been in touch with Golda’s distant cousin in Chicago, and he had forwarded Tevye’s letter to her in New York. She had been thrilled […]
No matter how deeply American Zionists yearned for peace their good intentions often went unreciprocated. There was plenty of matzah ball soup and brisket, to be sure. But the dining room was occupied by a makeshift tent, the Passover table was replaced by a pile of sheepskin rugs, and the Lindheim children were dressed in Arab garb.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.
This Pesach, let us take to heart what solidarity means for Am Yisrael and act accordingly.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
A new blog about Aliya and living in the land of Israel.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai presents a portion of the talk he gave at The Shtiebel in Brooklyn during his winter 2013 North American speaking tour where he talks about the mitzvah of Eretz Yisrael
As a teenager growing up in Russia in the late 1800s, Trumpeldor was attracted to Zionism as well as the pacifism and communalism of the philosopher Leo Tolstoy.
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
What was a man, Tevye thought, that one moment he could be so filled with power and seemingly invincible force, and the next moment a motionless pile of flesh?
In an online op-ed for the New York Times, a philosophy professor presumes that democracy precludes national symbols of any specific national group and on that basis argues that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.
Adnan Oktar's on-air comment was answered directly by Turkey's Deputy PM.
Shattering the wall of silence surrounding the Holocaust was the first crucial step in the process of mobilizing the American public against the slaughter.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter in the award winning novel.
Arabs outside of Israel envy Arab citizens of Israel, labeling them "Arab al-Zibda," or "whipped cream Arabs."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply on Thursday condemned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement about Zionism and its comparison to fascism, calling it ”dark and mendacious.” He said it was thought that Erdogan’s type of remark “had passed from the world.” Erdogan spoke at the UN Alliance for Civilizations forum in Vienna on Wednesday […]
“Erdogan the Intelligent” calls Israel and Islamophobia crimes against humanity. The same wise man was a friend of Israel, ditched it, ran to Ahmadinejad and Assad, and dumped them also. Who’s next?
Arab MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) doesn’t allow us to flee from ourselves. She holds an intelligent, scathing and vital mirror to our faces.
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
Overnight, Tevye's new cottage became a warm, haimisher home...
By Tzvi Fishman
Both of Elisha's two grown daughters were golden-skinned, beautiful, devoutly religious, and nearly half Tevye's age. The eldest daughter, Carmel, was naturally the first choice of the parents, but Elisha told Tevye he could marry whomever he picked. Embarrassed by the whole distressing business, and wanting the matter to be concluded as discreetly as […]
As citizens of Israel these ‘Palestinians’ enjoy the highest standard of living of any Arabs in the Middle East, as well as more personal and political freedom.
By Batya Medad
Israel needs to become more confident in the justice of its cause.
By Tzvi Fishman
An excerpt from this week's chapter of Tevye in the Promised Land.
By Tzvi Fishman
Like the lions in Rabbi Kook’s poem, may we also find the longing for freedom.
By Tzvi Fishman
On the arranged date, the Jews set out to survey the land which their Arab neighbors wanted to sell. The Muktar Abdulla graciously sent them a guide who showed them the way through the mountains to his village. Traveling on horseback, the journey up and down the hillsides and valleys took them two […]
By Tzvi Fishman
If we can’t forcibly draft Diaspora Jews, then it’s up to them to enlist on their own.
Jewish Outreach founder Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald and Birthright’s co-founder, self-declared atheist Michael Steinhardt have agreed “to wrestle out” their beliefs in a debate.
Sweden is now a country where orthodox Jews are afraid to wear a skullcap.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Rabbis of the religious Zionist community serve in the army; why shouldn’t Haredi Rabbis also be brave examples for their students?
By Tzvi Fishman
The Jewish Colony Association had chosen the mountainous location not for its suitability as farmland, but because of its price. When more and more Jews began immigrating to Palestine, the Turkish government began doubling and tripling the cost of the land until parcels were often ten times more expensive than farmland in Europe. The Baron […]
By Tzvi Fishman
Without Eretz Yisrael, the Torah is a shrunken, truncated, mini-version of the complete Torah of Eretz Yisrael.
By Tzvi Fishman
The previous two redemptions began when the Jews were very deficient in mitzvah observance.
By Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes: I predicted that 'Israel's troubles will really begin' should Obama win a second term. These have begun; Jerusalem, brace for a rough four years.
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.
A Hebrew University professor suggests that the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheik Jarrah is actually the Biblical town of Nob, where David fled from Saul.
By Tzvi Fishman
All of Tevye's life, it seemed like he was always saying good-bye. Back in the old country, what now seemed like lifetimes ago, his Hodel had left him for Perchik. Then Hava had run off with her gentile, and Shprintza had drowned. Then the heart and soul of his being, his devoted wife, Golda, had […]
By Tzvi Fishman
The novel, Tevye in the Promised Land, won the Israel Ministry of Education Award for Creativity and Jewish Culture.
65 years ago this week, 35 student soldiers set out from Jerusalem to bring much needed supplies to the kibbutzim in the besieged Etzion Bloc south of the city.
By Tzvi Fishman
Not only was Tevye's family going to be together, they were going to be rich! The Baron's gift of 5000 francs would make them the new aristocrats of Palestine. But Tevye's daydreaming didn't last long. When he heard that Nachman was planning on returning the money, Tevye nearly fell out of the wagon. "I […]
By Tzvi Fishman
The meaning of the Exodus is that Hashem chose the Jewish people to be His special Holy nation.
The ideal is a tolerant Jewish state which is nevertheless fully Jewish. This isn’t an easy sell to secular Israelis.
By Hadar Sela
The site of Tel Lachish shows evidence of human habitation in Israel spanning many different historic periods over thousands of years.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai interviews Vice Prime Minister Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon to discuss Zionism and feeling Jewish in the Land of 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.
By Tzvi Fishman
By and large, American Jews are not really waiting for Mashiach to come.
By Tzvi Fishman
This is the Land of Miracles, where our Redemption is unfolding today.
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."
By Tzvi Fishman
As a sign of his grief over Tzeitl, Tevye tore his shirt and sat on a low stool in Hodel's house in the traditional custom of mourners. He maintained a stalwart expression to disguise the hole he felt in his heart. His strength came from Golda. She appeared to him in a dream and told him not to worry.
A senior member of President Harry Truman's own administration secretly gave American Zionist lobbyists advice in 1946 on how to pressure Truman to support creating a Jewish state.
The first step to remaking Zionism in the future is learning what Zionism meant in the past.
The Jewish Federations of North America last week rejected the inclusion of the term "Zionism" in a major system-wide planning document.
For many Tel Avivians, this past Shavuot seemed different. More than just another day to hit the beaches, and maybe indulge in some cheesecake, Israel's "White City" was dotted with groups celebrating the religious and spiritual aspect of the seminal holiday.
The streets of Jerusalem on the special day commemorating the city's reunification. A celebration of youthful energy, enthusiasm, and love of the Jewish homeland. Everyone is included and dancing together from all backgrounds in an overflowing expression of unity. Original footage 2012 shot by JewishPress.com's Jerusalem based videographer Natan Epstein. Music by Shlomo Katz, "There […]
By Jack Berger
The arrogant peace mongers, the ignorant purveyors of perversity, those that refused to acknowledge they were wrong refused to see that this was a war not peace – they, the disgusting peace pimps – shrouded in shame refused to admit they were wrong.
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.
Whatever the different formulations of Zionism, all proponents share the view that the area is the birthplace and the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people, linked by historical ties and by religious and cultural traditions.
Seeing the dire necessity on the ground, a few young men have gotten together and established "Ha'Shomer Ha'Chadash," -"The New Guardian" - with the same objectives as the original. Maintaining a continuous physical presence, 700 volunteers at 21 locations help farmers secure their lands and property. Areas patrolled by the volunteers have experienced a significant drop in violent actions against farmers.
I would like to see the vandals who desecrated Ammunition Hill and thereby spat on Jewish sovereignty banished to a place where it doesn’t exist. They have made their statement, let them live by it.
Campus watchdog organizations Im Tirtzu, IsraCampus, and Israel Academia Monitor performed the survey.
July 10, 2026 
