Receiving money from Christian organizations
Israel's gov't, the Jewish Agency, and Nefesh B’Nefesh accept large sums of money from Christian organizations to aid aliya. Should they?
Israel's gov't, the Jewish Agency, and Nefesh B’Nefesh accept large sums of money from Christian organizations to aid aliya. Should they?
Of course they do, but do they love them enough to do what is really best for them?
The iconic leader of religious Zionism who was Israel's first Chief Rabbi, was a Torah giant even as a young man.
225 new olim arrived in Israel from North America last week. Now there are only 4,999,775 remaining. What can we do to get them here? Op-ed.
"Let's come together to figure out how we can better work together to help finally end this long and bitter exile” the organizers say.
Straightforward reading of Torah verses makes it clear where Jews are supposed to be, so why were we in Los Angeles?
Surveys reveal that only about 15% of Diaspora Jews have visited Israel. To me, that’s embarrassing.
The Torah wasn’t given to be kept in Sinai, nor in Brooklyn or Beverly Hills. The Torah isn’t a “religion” like Buddhism or Christianity,
The spiritual distance from Hollywood to the Holy Land is the distance from exile to redemption. Tzvi Fishman walked the walk. Review.
From Zion the Torah will go forth.
Interview with the head of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim addresses the hard truth about the smartphone.
In this week’s Torah portion Matot (Israel) we learn that there is a complete way to serve Hashem and an incomplete way.
Based on actual people and events, the story could, unfortunately, really come to pass. Op-ed
Can living in Eretz Yisrael be compared to wearing tzitzit, obligatory only for someone wearing a 4 cornered garment?
Disparaging the State of Israel is a shortcoming that seemingly justifies remaining in the Diaspora today, but it does not hold water.
From the book by Tzvi Glatt, young Torah Scholar from America who studied at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva.and was killed by terrorists in Hevron.
The Talmud says a person should envision that the master of what he is learning stands before him. Rav Soloveitchik describes doing so.
We asked if a Jewish government may surrender parts of Eretz Yisrael, and he said ‘Why ask me a question every child in Heder can answer?'
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could simply talk to God, ask God Himself why the sky is blue or why bad things happen to good people?
June 7, 1967: The saintly Nazir embraced the Kotel stones. HaRav Tzvi Yehuda looked as if he couldn’t comprehend it and began to weep....
There is no incitement in marching through the "Muslim" Quarter where the British census of 1920 counted 1000 Jewish families.
The incredible wonder of Lag Ba’Omer in Israel, where the revival of the Jewish Nation in Israel is a wonder that is impossible to explain.
In 1907, decades before the Holocaust, Rabbi Kook called out to the entire House of Israel with a plea:to come to Eretz Yisrael. Op-ed.
One thing is certain – we have to know who our enemy is and not delude ourselves into believing that he can be a partner for peace.Op-ed
Ben Gurion sent a piper to fly him to Tel Aviv to vote for founding the state. He decided to bless shehecheyanu at the ceremony and did!
“Thank you, G-d, Thank you for taking me out of America. Thank you for making me realize that George Washington isn’t my real forefather.."
Terrorists commited a bestial murder on Friday near Ariel, but they will not affect our love for this country. Op-ed.
'The Survivor':Placing any other historical atrocity on the level of the Holocaust is not only inaccurate, it does a great injustice. Op-ed.
Rabbi Kook: Be strong...concerning the holy ways that our sacred ancestors and rabbis taught us...add to this a connection to the Holy Land.
Only a few decades ago, under the Soviets, Torah learning was banned, Torah scrolls, tefillin, texts were burned, Jews lived in fear.
Our Sages said that every 4 steps in Israel adds merits in the World to Come. In America you can try walking from coast-to-coast.. Op-ed.
Rabbi Kook blamed Christianity's teachings for the Great War and its appalling cruelty and death, but did not advocate combatting it.
I am talking about your average assimilated, Haredi, or Modern Orthodox Jew. Washington D.C. is their capital, America their homeland.Op-ed.
On Seder Night we are to teach are children that their future lies not in New York or Florida, but in our own Jewish Homeland. Op-ed.
'Why move to Israel where the influence of secular Israelis is so pervasive and where our wellbeing will be jeopardized?” she asked. Op-ed.
The greatest Sanctification of Hashem's Name is the return of the Jewish People to Israel, Last Shabbat's Haftorah tells us that succinctly
In the midst of WWI when the nations were engaged in a savage outburst of killing and destruction, Rav Kook penned prophetic words.
Rav Chaim Kanievsky's instructions about moving to Eretz Yisroel.
Brothers and sisters, WAKE UP! The story of the Megillah is being replayed today,
What is it that we are supposed to remember? The real motive for Amalek's attacking the Jews -so as to lure them to sexual transgression.
There is no Noam but it has been admitted that similar things happened to others. Should these confessions be accepted in court? .Op-ed.
Where is the Jewish wisdom in packing our bags only when the tanks of tyrants come rumbling into cities where we never belonged? Op-ed.
A short story by Tzvi Fishman.
Can you guess who the cabinet members in the cast are? Short story.
A short story. It is as if the politicians said: For every Jewish baby you bring into the world, we will make Instant Jews out of 100 goyim.
Jewish Life in the Land of Israel is not the same as Jewish Life in foreign lands.
Like the Jews of Shushan who were aghast at Haman’s decree, the Jews of the Diaspora are dumbfounded. What has changed?
Brave ideologue, poet and warrior, Lehi commander Avraham “Yair” Stern was killed by the British Police in Tel Aviv. Op-ed.
Media and other voices insist that the ‘hilltop youth’ movement is a negative phenomenon. Not true. So what are they?
Today’s post-Zionist orientation is an acceptance and even legitimization of the Exile. We need a new head with "a new head." Op-ed.
It took two strong men to carry a cluster of grapes. Not only was the fruit gigantic, there were also giants in the Land."
There is only one way to stop the liquidation of Diaspora Jewry and it is not the well meant plan of former Minister Yankelevitch. Opinion.
He said that he could see things other people couldn’t see because he didn’t look at things most people gazed at. Like photos on the web...
A semi-humorous, semi-macabre parable about the doomsday future of the Zionist dream. Opinion.
Lighting up the nations. An interview with Rivkah Lambert Adler, Ph.D..
'The reason the Rambam does not list living in Israel as a mitzvah is not that he thinks it less than a mitzvah, but just the opposite.'
A fictional scenario one year to the death of teenager Ahuvia Sandak when a police car chasing the car he was in rammed into it. Op-ed.
A visit with Rav Shlomo Aviner, head of the Ateret Yerushalyim Yeshiva in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.
"The ingathering of the exiles, and Jewish sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael – Medinat Yisrael – are clear steps in the process of Mashiach.".
The trial began on the first day of Hannukah and the accused's imprisonment lasted for years, but a miracle occurred along the way. Excerpt.