Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer

The servant, the king, the fish, and the ICC

Let Saudi Arabia and Qatar send food and water, and take in emigrants and refugees. Egypt, too.Opinion.

Here we go again- Hezbollah on the Roof- sounds crazy, no?

They always will be back, fortified with better weapons, more tunnels, better strategies learned from the last round’s mistakes. Tradition, Tradition!

US voters have acquired immunity to Trump Derangement Syndrome

The people of America saw through both Trump impeachments as the hoaxes they were and voted for what they want America to be. Opinion.

If Trump is a 'Hitler', how come Orthodox Jews are backing him?

It is hard to find a parallel for such cynical political exploitation of a people’s grief and tragedy. Opinion.

American Jews in Israel: Cast your votes for the GOP- Like Now!

: It is not enough to root for Trump and against Harris. This election is shaping up to be so close that a solid vote of American Jews in Israel just might help make a difference. You absolutely must vote now. Op-ed.

A year as "the nation that stands alone"

A look back from Simchat Torah 5784 to 5785 reveals a pattern of amazing truths.

I see October 7 differently

To me, October 7 is not so much a one-time Arab event but a footnote to a continuing 2,000-year journey. And October 7 is not just a time for mourning but a time for Purim on Steroids. Opinion.

When the world wants a ceasefire, it means Israel is winning

To H*** with them! Our response has to be: “Peace in Five Minutes After Our Hostages Are Returned and All Arms Are Laid Down.”

Trump's biggest mistake

I am publishing only here, on Arutz Sheva, my overriding view on the elections, because it is only here that enough readers will be able to read this and understand what I am saying. Opinion.

Netanyahu, hostages, ceasefires, and Leftists

Yes, the demonstrators are killing their loved ones. If those demonstrators were guided by wisdom, they instead would be marching with signs reading “Flatten Gaza,” “Nuke Hamas,” “Victory,” “No Ceasefire,” and “Make Sinwar into a Real Woman.” Opinion.

Harris, Walz & Shapiro: We dodged a different kind of bullet

The November election will be tight. No matter what happens, the Guardian of Israel will not slumber nor sleep. Opinion.

Millions of Jews agree with Trump's criticism of the 'C***' ones

We just say it in a nicer way, but Rabbis like me have been publishing it for years. Opinion.

Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington and Mr. Biden “comes to --.”

I cannot say why these things are happening or what G-d’s plan is. This sense of miraculous times all began with the unnatural survival of President Trump. But there is more. Op-ed.

Imagine Gaza mass demonstrations

I know it will never happen, but that is not my point. Op-ed.

The Biden-Trump debate - another look

I comment below on matters other than Biden’s bumbling, doddering debate performance. Opinion.

Really, it's so close to treason

If Israelis do not want their murderous Muslim Arab enemies and American benefactors to seem like giants, then Israelis cannot project themselves to the world as disloyal grasshoppers. Opinion.

On L.A. pogroms, scared college Jews, and a Rabbi who led

The violent American encampments and the L.A. riot were not pogroms. So, then, what are they? They are violent attacks that -- very easily — could have been suppressed immediately by real Jews. Op-ed..

Some things about Israel I can never understand

Three things that are so obvious, that they drive me crazy. Opinion.

A chance to take off the gloves

Bibi now is on trial. They no longer are in his way, and he cannot blame them for obstructing him. Opinion.

I support the American President’s ceasefire approach

Read on to understand this surprising statement from an unabashed hawk. Opinion.

A disgusting corruption of American justice

Everything about the case and the way he oversaw it smelled of mendacity and corruption. Opinion.

The message of defeating Hamas in Rafah without Biden

It is time to tell Rich Uncle Joe and Chuck the Schumer to take their money and stuff it. They can go take weapons and stuff it. They just gave us the excuse to flatten Rafah.Opinion.

A Queen, two Bishops, Jews, and Muslim Madmen in turbans

Right now, at this moment, Israel could get away with whatever it wants if it has the capability to go it alone. America now is weak. Israel is strong. Crazy, huh? Opinion.

Sacrilege: Biden’s Catholicism and Schumer and Bernie's Judaism

If I were an American Catholic leader, I suppose I would declare Monday a day of national fasting and mourning after the sacrilege of Easter Sunday. But that is not my place. Instead, I address the matter of my own community’s apostates. Op-ed.

Was Israel permitted to free the Entebbe hostages?

Or for that matter, did Israel get permission to declare independence or bomb Saddam’s reactor? Op-ed.

Lots of quick thoughts

There is never going to be an Arab country west of the Jordan River. And more. Op-ed.

Cut off the UNRWA

UNRWA education is singularly responsible for the Gazan Arab effort in perpetuity to destroy Israel. The great crime of conservative leadership in Israel and America is that they allowed the Left to seize control of schools for half a century. Opinion.

Trump, Obama, Iowa, New Hampshire, Europe, and Exile

American Jews must understand that, even as one or another local or national politician is the one to back now, the enthusiasm should be muted by recognizing that America is Exile. Opinion.

S. Africa hates Israel, but it has G-d's protection

Antisemitism is so incomprehensible that many of us Orthodox Jewish theologians believe that antisemitism is G-d’s way of “mowing the lawn”- while making sure we survive. Op-ed.

Women and children, feminists and misandry

As with almost everything in our Western culture — or what once could be called “culture” — the cause of women’s rights has gone berserk. Also hypocritical. Op-ed.

Claudine Gay: Another DEI success story

The first hint that Claudine Gay was a plagiarist came when she copied 2,000 years of anti-Semites and their enablers. Two down, one to go. Opinion.

Gutless cowards hiding behind robes like thieves in the night

Courts cannot do that. They do not have standing to do that. Every reasonable legal system precludes judges from judging themselves.Op-ed.

Israel's ground incursion won't look pretty, but let it be

This is an article I wrote two months ago, shortly after the Oct 7th massacre, and it is more true today than ever. Opinion.

A 10-part series on Israel that needed to be posted on YouTube

Watch this series to educate your family and friends, and then share it with your friend’s college kid or niece/nephew.

The “innocent” civilians of Gaza

Gimme a break. There would be no Hamas in Gaza without the “innocent” citizens of Gaza. Where were their Maccabee rebels? Op-ed.

Arab, Muslim foreigners and illegals stoke Campus Antisemitism

Look at the 30 odd Harvard groups who backed Hamas and see the cause of the antisemitism permeating US universities. Op-ed.

Why I am not moved emotionally by Gazan deaths

Dresden Gaza until Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders. Gaza civilians are no more innocent than Germans who elected Hitler. Opinion.

Guess the antisemite - are they or aren't they?

Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk are right. We all know it: Too many Jews give liberal and woke money and influence liberl and woke policy. Op-ed.

Israel must remember that America has not won a war in 80 years

It is evil to sacrifice our boys’ lives to a fake morality that does not exist, “global morality” that is neither global nor moral. Op-ed.

Exasperated

I oppose any pause. Hamas will use the pause to resupply tunnels with food, water, and fuel. Op-ed.

An Open Letter to Ms. Candace Owens

Though it is not the only Jewish home, America uniquely has been a haven in the Exile for Jews. Op-ed/

From the River to the Sea, Palestine indeed will be free

Only one polity has an interest in assuring the region is quiet, Israel. Then From the River to the Sea, Palestine indeed will be free.Op-ed

On Dresdening Gaza and being vaccinated against antisemitism

I am vaccinated. My reaction is: “Israel: keep bombing. Keep crushing Hamas. All hostages not freed? Keep bombing their tunnels..." Op-ed.

Anatomy of a college brainwashing

How UCI brainwashes students to empathize with Hamas and hate Israel. You may never get your college age children back. Opinion.

The Brooklyn College Black-Jewish Jukebox Riot of 1970

It turned into a wild melee.But no Black student ever again told a Jew not to play that song. Op-ed.

American Jewish college students - stop whining and fight back!

No one loves cowardly whining American Jewish college students.Grow up. You have to save yourselves, There are more of you than them.Op-ed.

Biden loves Israel to death

Biden knows better than Israel what Israel needs — like, yeah, a “two-state solution.” That is just what Israel needs:Opinion,

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.