Haredim and the Living Torah
In a perfect world, in my view, every Jew would spend time as a soldier and every soldier would spend time learning in a yeshiva – the former to teach us how to fight, the latter to teach us what we are fighting for.
In a perfect world, in my view, every Jew would spend time as a soldier and every soldier would spend time learning in a yeshiva – the former to teach us how to fight, the latter to teach us what we are fighting for.
Something about him exuded the Israeli spirit of confidence and vigor. People like this pushed back six Arab armies. People like that are today’s IDF, on the air, land and sea. Opinion.
It may well change its name, as the NYT brings Hamas' casualty figures unchecked, uses words as weapons to help Hamas, and prints fake news as long as it is anti-Israel. Op-ed.
it is important that the theme of the present war be emphasized as a struggle that is not merely political but a struggle of Good vs. Evil. Opinion
Demographic reality contradicts conventional wisdom and unaudited fitures..In 2024, in contrast to conventional demographic wisdom, Israel’s Jewish majority in the combined areas of Judea and Samaria (the 'West Bank') and the pre-1967 Israel is not threatened by a potential “Arab demographic time bomb.” Op-ed.
Most important is the question of why UNRWA exists at all instead of its joining the UNHRC and IOM which work to resettle refugees instead of perpetuating them. Op-ed.
Don’t expect any action to follow the UN report admitting Hamas committed mass rape on October 7. The UN is so anti-Israel that it is more likely to pass a resolution endorsing the mass rape of Jewish women than condemning it.
It is a case of predator and prey right before the jump. From the Arabs' point of view, their time has come. Opinion.
Annexation of both Gaza and the Territories will provide us with a secure homeland from the river to the sea; the sooner we embrace this concept, the sooner our future, with G-D’s help, will be assured. Op-ed.
Gazans, show us that you are not all Hamas. denounce and hand over the fiends. Tell us where the hostages are. Opinion.
A ceasefire should not become an end in itself. The goal needs to be the security of civilians on both sides of the border. That is not what the leaked proposed agreement provides.
These intellectually vacant useful idiots, along with Muslims who support anti-Semitic hatred, are not espousing or supporting democratic values. Their slogans fit the legal definition of ‘incitement to violence.’ Op-ed.
Baptism and devotion provided no refuge for Roma and Sinti from the racial hatred and cruelty of fellow Christians. Opinion.
Delightful multiculturalism! Note the the mayors of Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Oldham and Rochdale.
Few of them are really refugees, most of them left their homes voluntarily, and no "Palestinian" has a right to claim anything in Israel. Opinion.
Gazans appear ready to rebuke the terrorists and work with Israel to create a new governing body. The proposal envisages a decent Gaza run by decent Gazans. Op-ed.
Democratic movers and shakers are grafting antisemitism onto the party’s DNA. Op-ed.
An insidious smog of diseased discourse is spreading worldwide and infecting large swathes of humanity. One of its manifestations is a hallucinogenic effect causing many to embrace beliefs hitherto consigned to the realms of science fiction. Op-ed.
It's out there in the open for all to see. Americans are overwhelmingly pro-Israel but their leadership is now aligned with the terrorists in Gaza. Op-ed.
Israel has to be allowed to win the war against Hamas. The American People are fully engaged in the effort. Op-ed.
Rabbi Doniel Kirsch said goodbye to his friend Yitzhak Zeiger, murdered last Thursday in the Eli terror. attack. Translation of a eulogy.
Bushnell was an Antifa supporter who supported kiling Jews, but his case case is also a wake-up call about actual extremism. Someone recruited him and someone encouraged him to kill himself. Op-ed.
If the Hamas chief believes that condemnation of IDF actions in Gaza is going to end the war and leave him in power, he’s existing in a pre-Oct. 7 universe. Op-ed.
Perhaps the suffering of their families will be an incentive for Palestinian Arabs to end the indiscriminate killing of Israeli civilians. I would like to believe that. Opinion.
How to get UNRWA to conform to the values of peace and reconciliation that characterize UN values. Op-ed.
What a difference a decade can make. Op-ed.
The Oct. 7 atrocities produced a profound sense of disorientation for progressives because the Palestinian Arabs whose cause they had promoted as the acme of conscience and enlightenment turned out to be savages. Op-ed.
Israel must not assume the world sees things as it does, because that is absolutely not the case. Op-ed.
According to Prof. Eugene Rostow, the co-author of the November 22, 1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242: “Jews have the same right to settle in the 'West Bank' as they have in Haifa.” Op-ed.
The slaughter of 1,200 Israeli innocents is old news, off the radar, and a time to slurp ice cream when discussing the hostages. And then there is "60 Minutes." Op-ed.
At some point, a nuclear war involving Israel may become more imaginable. Israel’s corresponding responsibility should be to prepare prudently and systematically for all contingencies, as outlined below. Op-ed.
For someone who served as ambassador to Israel and Ass't Secretary of State, Martin Indyk is either ignorant or careless about his area of presumed expertise. Either possibility is alarming. Op-ed.
It was not by accident that Palestinian Hamas called their genocidal massacre of Jews on 7 October the Al Aqsa Flood. Op-ed.
Israel must recalibrate its military strategy to prioritize lethal efficiency over the pursuit of artificial moral superiority. It is not more moral to endanger IDF soldiers or prolong the war. Op-ed.
Entire worlds lie behind the terse words Israelis pray not to hear when they turn on the news each morning since the start of the Swords of Iron War: “The IDF has cleared for publication …” This time it was at the end of Shabbat.
Perhaps good Muslims should use this Ramadan for soul searching on how best to uproot savage evil from their midst. And we should show as much concern for Ramadan as our enemies showed for our Simchat Torah. Opinion.
Any use of the word "genocide" should be directed to the United Nations, which, under Guterres' watch, has not seen to the removal of civilian Gazans from the war zone. Op-ed.
The characters and details in these letters are a fictional parable about the relationship between American Jewry and the Jews living in the land of Israel. Op-ed.
Mahmoud al Zahar, the “surgeon of Hamas", explained that the destruction of Israel is only the first objective of the Islamic Ummah. Europe comes after and during. Op-ed.
For quite some time now, Religious Zionists have woven themselves into the very fabric of Israel’s security apparatus and have become a central part of it. Many of them hail from the Jerusalem College of Technology.
Past and present connections to Merchant of Venice.
What's happened with the rise of the web censorship industry is a total inversion of the idea of democracy itself, backed covertly by the US State Department. It can happen here. Op-ed.
I once read that Jews excel in every field but politics. There could be some truth to that. Israel must stop compromising and utter a firm and definitive 'No!' to a Palestani State. Op-ed.
It may be tempting to try to force the creation of a Palestinian state now because of the US presidential elections, but the only path to peace requires years of hard work, not easy ‘solutions’ that will only lead to more violence if implemented now. Op-ed.
It would be a terrible mistake to confuse compassion for the Gazans with mercy for Hamas and its ilk. True compassion dictates the eradication of the latter in order to salvage the former. Op-ed.
There is ultimately only one way to prevent the massive destruction of areas of major Lebanese cities, and that is for Hezbollah to remove the rockets and missiles embedded in those areas. Op-ed.
The international community, through UNRWA, funded a vast portion of Hamas' operations by freeing it to focus on terrorism rather than health and education. Op-ed.
JVP and INN should forever be contextualized properly and referred to for what they are – useful jesters for Jew haters around the globe. Op-ed.
Depends whether decapitated and burned Jewish babies are worth it to you if they help you get closer to your goal. Opinion.
Diaspora Jews must make a choice between living in countries that will no longer protect them from discrimination and coming home to live amongst their people as valued and respected citizens. Video interview: A warning to American Jewry. Op-ed.
The October 7th massacre and its antisemitic aftermath have awakened a good many Jews and recalibrated their priorities. Op-ed.
The supposition that Israelis are simply acting out of pain or suffering trauma is deliberately manipulative. Opinion.
Over the past 15 years a quarter of a million young Palestinians left for abroad. Op-ed.
Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed for domestic ones. Opinion.
If recklessly endangering Jews is necessary to solidify Biden's left-flank before the election, there’s more than enough room under there right next to the US agents at the Mexican border. Read on. Op-ed.
That President Biden and his fumbling foreign policy team led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken can make this type of declaration is consistent with the way the administration and its policies have been run over the last three years. Opinion.
Not loudly condemning the rapes of October 7 — or any rapes — is a massive step backward for the women — and men — of the world….Op-ed.
Islamic terrorists create famines to profit from US Foreign Aid - and America falls for it. Op-ed.
Democratic procedures are being destroyed by anti-Israel mob intimidation. Those who attempt to destroy the Jews invariably destroy themselves. We are watching it happen to the West in real time. Op-ed.
Marwan Barghouti is serving five consecutive sentences of life imprisonment. In Barghouti’s view, murdering Jews is right and proper. Op-ed.