Recommended Reading
It’s 5708-09 All Over Again: KKL Archive Releases Images from Israel’s Formative Years
The KKK-JNF archive offered a collection of rare archival photos from Israel's formative years.
Direct Polls: Most Israelis Prefer Ofer Winter as Defense Minister over Yoav Gallant
81% of respondents believe that political considerations motivate Biden’s pushing Israel to a bad ceasefire deal in Gaza with the Hamas terrorists.
Slovenia to Recognize Palestinian Authority as Sovereign Nation
"The most important thing is that we have addressed a whole series of questions - when, not if, but when is the best moment to recognize Palestine."
Years Overdue: Israel Removes Bedouin Squatters to Build Negev Fast Highway
“Development of the Negev has been held up for too many years by construction offenders."
Israel: EU Chief Legitimizes Terror, Spews ‘Dangerous Mix of Ignorance, Hostility’
EU: "Israel's evacuation orders to civilians in Rafah portend the worst: more war and famine. It is unacceptable."
South African Jewish Student to American Jews: Join the Club
This young Jewish woman might as well have been channeling a Hasidic Rebbe.
Berkeley Law Professor in Hot Water for Grabbing the Mic of a Muslim Who Invaded her Home
“I never thought I would see such blatant antisemitism, with an image that invokes the horrible antisemitic trope of blood libel and that attacks me for no apparent reason other than I am Jewish."
IDF Returns to Gaza City’s Zeitoun Neighborhood to Clear Out Hamas
The IDF has been forced to return several times to the sector.
New Specialized IDF Units and Pre-Military Schools Meet Greatly Increased Haredi Recruitment
"More Haredim can be recruited into the IDF, the state just has to decide that it wants to."
Palestinian Authority Arabs Torch Joshua’s Tomb
During the visit, the attackers dumped a burning tire onto the tomb while the Jews were praying inside.
European Jewry Fears for Jewish University Students Across the Continent
Freedom of speech on Europe’s university campuses is a misnomer “if it champions violence and intimidation of Jewish students.”
Israel, Germany Meet on Arrow 3 Sale
The system operated this year with great success against the barrage of Iranian missiles during its April 14 attack on Israel.
Israel’s Newest Security Threat – Is the US Next?
Is the enemy, already inside Israel's gates, also inside the US?
Yom Ha’atzmaut After October 7: How We Should Celebrate This Year
We must not allow our mourning and pain to overshadow the process we are privileged to be part of.
6 Months Out: U.S. Presidential Election and America’s Jews
Jews vote in exceedingly high numbers. In several critical states, the “Jewish vote” might be particularly significant in determining the outcomes.
Why Jewish Schools Must Have A Class On The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
There is a video of a UCLA student Eli Tsives who questions a woman who claims to be a professor at UCLA. He does know how to ask, and the woman is so flummoxed she asks for help.
A Bris On Yom HaZikaron
I remembered the tragic incidents of mothers accidentally suffocating their young so the rest of the family wouldn’t be discovered. That’s when I realized how lucky we are to have babies crying at semachot all over the Jewish state and beyond.
The Death of Light and Truth on the American Campus
Universities and their students once cared about “light and truth”; they don’t anymore.
Illuminating Tragedy: Speaking to Rabbi Leo Dee a Year After Losing his Wife &...
Rabbi Dee is active in a number of projects which give him energy and hope, and he is grateful to his family and friends, and the love and support demonstrated by the Jewish people in the past year.
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Yishai and Malkah Fleisher return to discuss post-Pesach and the pro-Hamas protests on the Columbia campus. Then, Yishai speaks with the father of Omer Wenkert, one of the October 7th abductees. Also, Yishai does a deep dive on how the Narrative War on Twitter (X) is fought. And finally, Ben Bresky on Pinhas Rutenberg and the founding of the Israel Electric Corporation.
Fight for Jewish Survival – The Jay Shapiro Show [audio]
US campuses are now the front-line in the fight for Jewish survival in Western society
Columbia University in Love With Hamas – Returning Home [audio]
Natalie interviews Shira Dicker, a Writer and New Yorker who lives near Columbia University and walks daily through the campus. Shira gives us a description of what's been going on there since before Pesach.
We Will Survive This War – The Jay Shapiro Show [audio]
The Jewish people will survive the present difficult situation as it has done so for more than 3000 years
Judaism’s Three Voices
There are holy times and holy places, and each time and place has its own integrity, its own setting in the total scheme of things.
The Foundation(s) Of Our World
Torah is not the only pillar. Avodah is also important. Study alone is not enough to sustain the world and our existence.
Business And Shlichus In Dallas, Texas
I am back at my showroom working my appointments, it is now 3.00 p.m. and I still have not met anyone whom I could give these publications to. I am now walking the halls for about 5 or 6 minutes and lo and behold I see two women walking towards me.
Q & A: Shir HaShirim on Pesach
Question: Why do we read Shir HaShirim on Passover and more specifically the Sabbath of Passover? Also, being that it is one of the five Megillot, why don’t we recite a blessing over the reading of Shir HaShirim as we do for Megillat Esther?
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Stories About The Siyum HaRambam (Part I)
I was a bit involved in the first siyum. I had a connection with the New York Hilton, where the siyum was held. So I had a little, but not much, involvement.
Ambiguous Loss – A Lesson From Yaakov And Yosef
We might ask, why are these two things – giving up hope and aveilus – connected? After all, the likelihood of whether the loved one has died, which may be the more intuitive factor for beginning aveilus, does not change based on the subjective metric of losing hope, so why should this determine the threshold for commencing aveilus?
TORAH SHORTS: Parshat Kedoshim: The Power of Ten
An individual can make a difference, but a team can make a miracle. -Doug Pederson
Linen and Gold – Parshat Acharei Mot
On Yom Kippur, the Cohen Gadol wears linen.
Protected By A Mitzvah
The nurse became very frustrated and told him in no uncertain terms that as long as he continued to wear the tzitzis he would not be taken in for his surgery.
A Share Of The World To Come
All of this ultimately flows from Hashem. Hashem created Adam and Chava in the Garden of Eden, and He placed them there with the serpent so they could resist its charms. Only in that moment and in that place Adam and Chava failed.
