Inspiration from Zion: This is a Love Story

Keeping it all in perspective

Words shape reality. Using our tongue for bad can create a nightmare. Use words for good.

A Jewish father teaching his kids in this place should be the most natural, obvious image in the world – but it’s not.

It is up to decent people everywhere, Jews and non-Jews, to make it very clear that it is unacceptable to profit from hate against ANY group. So speak out against it on social media

Kite firebombs don’t sound like a real threat. Balloons sound even sillier (especially when the balloons are made from inflated condoms) but this is no game. The kites and balloons have been found up to 25 miles from Gaza,

I am writing you, dear people of Sutherland Springs, to say that your tragedy is also an opportunity. By being who you are, you provide a shining light to the rest of the Nation.

The calendar may have changed but the events are unfortunately familiar--another attack, another ceasefire.

While UK’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn honors terrorists that committed this atrocity, repeated attempts to give the slaughtered Israeli athletes the recognition they are due, have fallen on deaf ears.

We are a stiff-necked people. Our greatest fault, also our saving grace and an example to the nations of the world that anything is possible. Not even the sky can limit us.

And each time she mothers a soldier, she not only takes care of him but she also provides balm for the aching hearts of his worried parents

Holiday greetings?

Am I happy that my friend became Prime Minister? Absolutely--At the same time, I am absolutely horrified by the way it happened and the problems it is and will create in our society for the years to come

This is what a hero looks like - an Israeli teenager, still in 12th grade, not yet 18. Service, putting others first, wanting to protect others. These weren’t dreams for Tzur, they were life-goals which he worked hard to fulfill, which he died fulfilling.

In the middle of the concert Jon rededicated “We Don’t Run” to our People.

While Facebook's founder Zuckerberg talks about “giving people a voice,” he permits posts that direct hate and incite violence against Jews yet deny the voice of people who defend the right of Jews to live and be free in our own land

Taharlev, an astoundingly prolific writer, articulated the primal truths of what it means to be part of the greatest love story ever documented – the love story between this Land and her People, between the People and our Land.

When does the Balfour Declaration matter? The Balfour Declaration is important whenever someone lies, talking about "illegal settlements," "violations of international law," or "occupation"

The brit is the permanent covenant of the bond between God and the Jewish people. A Jewish wedding is also a covenant of our unbreakable connection to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

It is the shackles of the mind that are truly preventing freedom. No matter what Jews of diaspora mentality (or the world powers) say, we will not willingly join them in their bondage but our hands are outstretched to pull them into freedom.

Narrative is a story, it is not facts.

Kind, caring people, genuinely concerned people keep saying to me , Stay Safe!" Why do I find this so annoying?

The sins of the fathers do not stain the children – unless the children deny them.

You need to know that if your country is sending foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, your money, your taxes are blood money for dead Jews. You are funding our murder.

In the fact fight of the films, Exodus is the truth, not Munich. Moral relativism is a lie, the existence of right and wrong, good and evil is the truth.

Purim tells us about the power of one person to change the fate of our people. Esther is not described as particularly brilliant or talented. She is just a woman, with a big heart who, with courage and feminine intuition, changed the world.

It makes me physically ill to see Jews abroad and even my own government in Israel bend over backward to not seem “too aggressive” to the nations of the world who love to condemn Israel for defending her citizens.

The IDF didn’t go on a manhunt because they were ordered to. They certainly didn’t do it because it’s fun. They did it because we are one family

Sometimes, in Israel, the conversations you overhear are extraordinary. Sometimes, they break your heart.

What fuels the violence is European leaders sending the message that Arab violence is only to be expected because Arabs feel wronged by the existence of Israel and her eternal ties to Jerusalem.

Ori’s murder is different because it wasn’t just a horrific attack on her, it was an attack against our nation. It wasn’t an attack on a woman who happened to be a Jew, it was an attack on a Jew who happened to be a woman. It was an attempt to erase the Jew from Israel.