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Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Menachem Ben-Mordechai has written for numerous publications on subjects ranging from Israel and Latin America to the sport of powerlifting and life insurance. He has also coached elite powerlifters as well as beginners. Menachem's other writing can be found under the name Myles Kantor.

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Halacha & Hashkafa / Op-Eds / Holidays

Chanukah and Our Current Darkness

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Israel projects global material illumination not always the light of "morality" meant by the Navi

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The Shame Continues

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

None of the attacks on Jewish & property should come as a surprise in light of the Temple Mount.

Op-Eds

Rabbi Kahane Warned against Trusting Sharon

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

He described Sharon as “the latest darling of the donkey-nationalists.”

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The Belated Conscience of Miri Regev

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Regev is part of the reason why numerous Israelis have suffered so many aerial acts of attempted murder from that region.

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Like It or Not, the Seven Noachide Laws Are Still Pending

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

There are many good, solid reasons to support applying the death penalty to a variety of crimes.

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'You Murder the Children': Rav Soloveitchik on Abortion

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Rav Soloveitchik stated that "to me it is something vulgar, this clamor of the liberals that abortion be permitted."

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Torah Is the Highest Value

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

That there is even a debate in the religious sector about obeying eviction orders reflects a warping of core values.

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Raise the Banner in 5774

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

When a Jew is shot to death in Eretz Yisrael and the murderer plea bargains to a twelve-year sentence, Israel’s banner is low.

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Israel Corners Itself

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

The awful truth is that Israel invites foreign contempt because it shows contempt for itself.

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Yesh Atid, Revise Your Platform

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

"We believe that every person in Israel must have their fundamental rights met..." Not applicable to terror victims and their families' fundamental right to justice.

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Enough with 'Bibi'

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

A mother doesn’t tend to call the man who freed the murderer of her child "Bibi."

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The Invisible Israelis

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

"The victims of his crime were not even notified of his appeal… Where was IDF Central Command head General Nitzan Alon when all this happened?"

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Hear these Voices

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

To pardon terrorists mocks our love and our pain...

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Neo-Nazism on the Temple Mount

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Likewise, thousands in Kafr Kanna demonstrated this month in support of Morsi. Arabs near Hevron raised the swastika outright in May.

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In Sderot: 'We Can’t Sleep'

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

It has been noted that every rocket attack is attempted murder.

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Sleep for a Healthy Jewish Life

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

By not making sleep a priority, we are literally making ourselves sick.

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Ramle: City of Coexistence or Murder?

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Add George Sa’ado to the list of cheap Jewish blood in Israel.

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Our Cheap Blood in Israel

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Two accomplices in last year’s murder of Lior Farhi Hy"d received sentences of eight months each.

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No More Capuccis

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

A new bill restricts the president's power to pardon terrorists except on humanitarian grounds.

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What Would Rabbi Kahane Say Now?

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

In 1985, he described programs of "secular Zionist gentilization" designed by the Ministry of Education.

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Open Season on Jews in the Jewish State

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

We're probably more scared to shoot someone and kill someone than we are to get hurt ourselves...

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What's Going On with the IDF?

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

This disgraceful reality didn't happen overnight.

Op-Eds

Buses on Shabbat: What Would Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Say?

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

"The Lord conferred statehood upon His people so that they might defend the enforcement of justice and preserve the truth contained in our Law as handed down by transmission."

Guest Blog

Pain and Sacrifice: Yours, Not Mine

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

In reality, Lipman and his ilk have learned nothing from the destruction of Gush Katif.

Op-Eds

A State of Chaos

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

A society where anarcho-tyranny exists is a society without fundamental justice.

Guest Blog

Rav Soloveitchik's Clear Stand on Homosexuality

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

What Rav Soloveitchik said in 1974 is truer than ever: normative Judaism is on the defensive in the modern world.

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Self-Respect: the Antidote to Foreign Pressure

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Blaming foreigners, however hostile they may be, yields only further self-delusion and suffering.

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Pesach and Solidarity

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

This Pesach, let us take to heart what solidarity means for Am Yisrael and act accordingly.

Guest Blog

Anti-Semitism as 'Civil Rights'

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Civil rights has become a mechanism by which the government tramples on property rights to further assorted ideological ends.

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Purim and the Right to Bear Arms

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Four Jews who will not celebrate Purim this year are Yitzhak Ames, Talia Ames, Kochava Even-Haim, and Avishai Schindler - all murdered by Hamas.

Guest Blog

Haredim, Wake Up and Toughen Up

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

When Jews are attacked in broad daylight in the world's holiest city, something is horrifically wrong in Israel.

Guest Blog

Shas Gonna Shas

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

Statements from various rabbis about the complicity of Haredi parties in the dangerous policies of left-wing governments in Israel.

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