Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer

The blessings of a lower rating in the polls

Recent polls show Likud and Netanyahu's strength decreasing and that may bear the seeds of great fruit. Opinion.

It is heartwarming that the world loves dead Jews so much

This war is not about revenge or justice, but about killing murderers so fewer Jews are killed..Find somewhere else for your wreaths.Opinion

Nothing wrong with a Lapidectomy

The first three months after the extermination may see huge shifts in public support for Gantz and National Union, but not for Lapid. Op-ed.

A ruthless response is absolutely legitimate

I can only add my voice of responsibility to confer legitimacy to as ruthless a military response as Israel can muster. Op-ed.

I knew in 1985, before anyone, that Biden is financially corrupt

I never discussed this with my wife nor revealed this to anyone else until now. Op-ed.

The GOP Debate and Presidential Race: My take

I liked Trump very much at the GOP debate. What are you saying? He wasn’t on the stage? He actually was all over it. Op-ed.

Yom Kippur’s Tel Aviv Jew-haters embody a strange Biblical verse

God allows purveyors of iniquity to bloom in seeming victory, but it is a pyrrhic victory. They have shown their true colors.Op-ed.

Oy vey survey

Another problematic "poll" by a controversial survey outift on Modern Orthodox voting preferences, funded by an anti-Israel.professor.Op-ed.

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"You are so not invited to my Bat Mitzvah"

Netflix's latest “hit” Jewish movie is a vapid, spiritually empty, materialistic and G-dless ghetto of “progressive” Reform Judaism. Op-ed.

They must go

It is not Israel’s obligation to offer itself as a movie stage for Africans to play out their murderous violence against each other. Op-ed

Another murder in Huwara: A song that never ends

Where to begin this discussion? Hard to say. It is easier to know where to end it. Op-ed.

Judea-Samaria Is forever, but Modern Orthodoxy in America is not

While Israel is secure and forever, peril faces American Jewry. The fault lines extend into “Modern Orthodoxy”:Op-ed.

On emotional blackmail, LGBTQ suicides, and actual facts

LG(B)T(QIA)+ propaganda stresses that “discrimination” and “homophobia” cause higher suicide rates among the LG(B)T(QIA)+. Really? Op-ed.

COVID conspiracies, “Holocaust Education,” and “The Jews”

In the life of a Jew who just wants to be left alone to enjoy the summer, there is always something — every day. It really is crazy..Op-ed.

The hypocrisy of Biden’s opposition to Israel’s judicial reform

What does Joe Biden have to do with Israel's court? In a sane world, nothing. Israel does not tell America how its court should work. Op-ed

How Israel’s Jewish and other media lie to you

A reader needs very serious analytic skills to read a news report (Arutz Sheva, which is posting this, is an exception...). Op-ed.

Woke Jew haters Ilhan Omar and Squad expose their inferiority

They dream of Israel’s demise and the rise of a country in its stead built on a foundation of Arab Muslim terrorism. Op-ed.

Pass the Judicial Reform already! Please...

If the government had passed all the Judicial Reform 3 months ago, people by now would know that the hubbub was ridiculous. Op-ed.

LG(B)T(QIA+) tyrants, 303 creative, and a little Kosher Bakery

The US Supreme Court stopped the forcefeeding of LGBTQ lifestyle down the throats of everyday people with wholesome family values. Op-ed.

'Affirmative Action' was racist from day one - and will continue

US Jews are not as smart as the stereotype says. No other group votes more stupidly, but they knew how to work hard to succeed. Op-ed..

When Jews break the law after Arab terror attacks

The government should stop acting as if they are the British in Mandatory Palestine and crush those engaging in violence against Jews.Op-ed.

“Pride Month,” huh? Proud of what?

Pride Month? Take pride that our Torah gave an immoral world a glimpse of morality. LGBT etc. deserve compassion, not a stage Op-ed.

Squaring Pew numbers with Reform leaders' own admissions

No one knows how many self reporting 'Jews' actually are Jews.” And that is my point, exactly the same as Mr. Coopermans! Op-ed.’

Who is a Jew?

Pew Center researcher answers Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer

Director of Religion Research at the Pew Research Center replies to the claim that "Almost Half of American Jews Are Not Actually Jewish"

Almost half of American 'Jews' actually are not Jewish

Reform leader Rick Jacobs travels the USA proudly proclaiming that “interfaith families are now the majority of the movement.” Op-ed.

Joe Biden’s sop to the Jews

Condemning White Supremacist antisemitism has meaning only if it acknowledges the breadth and depth of Black Jew-hatred in America. Op-ed.

It Is a mitzvah to condemn George Soros

I invite Elon Musk to quote me, the next time ADL's Greenblatt says it is “anti-Semitic” to attack that apostate.Op-ed.

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If an Arab terrorist wants to starve to death, respect his wish

Who cares? Those who hate Israel already won’t hate Israel an iota more or less if he kills himself or if Israel force feeds him. Op-ed.

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A time to rally

The blessing behind the treason:The Deep State in Israel has exposed itself just in time. America is already lost, but Israel is not.Op-ed.

Ridiculous polls and similarities between the left everywhere

There’s nothing like Israeli polls They keep churning them out and are proved wrong every time, because the left cannot win anymore.Op-ed.

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The message Netanyahu might love to send to Joe Biden

If only he could have responded to Biden by saying what he really might be thinking, he might have said what I wrote below. Op-ed.

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A Trump arrest imperils the American Idea

An oral compact has been breached. And Republicans will have Biden & Son arrested soon enough while Hillary may yet pay for her emails.Op-ed

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Oy! But this, too, is for the best

The legitimacy born of a readiness to explore compromise will help with “swing voters” in the next elections.Op-ed.

Of course there Is no 'Palestinian' People or Arab “Palestine.”

The dizzying repetition of that Big Lie for so many decades causes people who should know better to speak of a “Two-State Solution.” Op-ed.

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The price of Likud not running serious presidential candidates

Now we have a guy who literally was the head of the Left-wing Labor Party for years and years, now posing as a political neutral. Op-ed.

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You see, here's the new problem

If the coalition capitulates on judicial reform now, other than cosmetic compromises, the putsch will not stop with judicial reform. Op-ed.

A reasonable solution to the Judicial Reform debate

I do not compromise on any matter of principle ever, no matter the personal cost, but I do on non-principle matters for practicality. Op-ed.

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The real ones to blame for the rioting in Huwara

The ones who must do a severe cheshbon hanefesh — introspection — are those in Likud. They wring their hands and do nothing. Op-ed.

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My past pulpit taught me about judicial reform and sovereignty

Once the changes are implemented and prove worthwhile, no one will be able to0 imagine living without them. Op-ed.

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Ilhan Omar, Chair of House Marital Affairs Committee

She is a disgrace to America, even if one Congressional district is populated by a majority of Jew haters who can overlook in-breeding.Op-ed

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Brazen hypocrisy in our politics corrodes the national soul

The risk is when corruption and brazen hypocrisy aggregate to supersede right and wrong. That is happening in the US and Israel. Op-ed.

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Death penalty, expel family, build 'settlements', destroy houses

We all know the background issues, so let’s just get to some "reasonable" (that word is meant for the Supreme Court) ideas.Op-ed.

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The Left’s brazen hypocrisy, from the Courts to free elections

Israel’s system is more like that of the democratic UK than that of America because the UK was the guide for Israel's statehood.Op-ed.

Hmm. A Conservative Temple stopped saying the Prayer for Israel

It really is insane.They cannot stand that Israel’s voters opted for a Jewish government with Jewish values, abandoning wokeism. Op-ed.

A Hanukkah Carol

From the ghost of Hanukkah past all the way to the ghost of Hanukkah future, an American Jew has a look at American Jewry today Story.

On Hanukkah, my 2006 appendix, and the High Kohen

This hilarious story took place "in the days of Matisyahu..." - but which one? Op-ed.

Hanukkah and Judea-Samaria: On goggles and thumbprints

The miracles with His thumbprint are there to see; you just need the goggles. Op-ed.

Brittney Griner represents the "Best of America"?

If Biden et al regard Griner as among the best of them, they demonstrate that they view their constituency with the utmost contempt. Op-ed.

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On Trump, Kanye, Biscuit, Jews and dinners

Trump is a true philo-semite, as proven below, but he runs into trouble because of behvioral flaws he must, correct. Op-ed

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On Kanye West: Ehr Iz Meshiggeh

How respond to someone who insults you? It depends. How deep was the insult? How dangerous? Will it cause a conflict you don't need? Op-ed.

Who is the real threat to democracy?

Remembering the days when the Left ran Israel with a strong arm 1948-1977. Not exactly democracy as we define it. Op-ed.

Israel's Dreidl-Amoeba-Stones election

Amoeba's multiply by dividing. The Israeli left and Arab parties seem not to be amoebas. Let that be a lesson.Op-ed.

The Real Israelis who elected Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben-Gvir is a perfectly worthy MK, and he is as qualified to be a cabinet minister as is any other party head or co-head. Op-ed.

How can a caring Israeli Jew not vote at all on November 1?

For centuries Jews were denied the right to vote. In Israel today the power to decide Jewish fate lies primarily in Jewish hands.Vote!Op-ed.

In support of Smotrich and Ben Gvir

Are you as sick-and-tired as I am about how the Left smears MK Itamar Ben Gvir? Op-ed.

Living with a lung transplant

For me, I now am on borrowed time, enabled to serve G-d longer, to fulfill more Torah commandments, to teach Torah. Op-ed

What the letter B says on Woke "Compassion" and “Open Orthodoxy”

Arrogantly advocates expect to change 3,300 years of Judaism to accommodate a generation of brazen immorality and virtue signalers. Op-ed.

Lapid's foolish but irrelevant UN speech

More than 60 percent of Israelis now oppose a “two-state solution” and Lapid is an interim PM. Op-ed

The Matan Kahana miracle

Authoritative rabbinic leaders and Chief Rabbis from everywhere asked him to drop the conversion reforms, but he refused. Op-ed..