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The folks at Haaretz needed a poll showing that the public supports a peace agreement but they had a problem.

"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?"

פְּעִילוּת  listen and repeat Some of us like grammar, and some of us don't. The word verb excites some of us, while daunting others or making...

How manipulating shadchanim and even offering financial "incentives" to marry men off to older women is ethically sound or halachically permissible has yet to be explained.

A rabbi who writes controversial things becomes international news.

He who gets to write the questions, wins the referendum.

Have you never bought the wrong clothing just because it was on sale?

The EU Boycott of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is expected to adversely affect Palestinians.

The only real things keeping American cities from going bankrupt are inertia and some fancy cultural footwork.

Why does a opinion in the Talmud say the last verses in Devarim were not written by Moses? Was it the easiest solution to a very obvious problem?

Everyone in the streets and the windows said, "Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don't they fit him to perfection?

מוּטָב מְאֻחָר מֵאֲשֶׁר לְעוֹלָם לֹא  listen and repeat Yesterday my great-uncle had his בַּר מִצְוָה ( listen and repeat) - Bar Mitzvah. Yes, my great uncle. He's 82....

Get out the lollipops: Nefesh B’Nefesh reports today’s El Al Flight LY 3004 has more children aboard than any previous group flight.

R’ Yaakov’s experiences once he left the cocoon of the Lakewood environment provided him with an entirely different perspective on what non Jews are really like.

Netanyahu: "The release of prisoners before the conference is not the path to peace, it is the path to terror."

בְּיַחַד  listen and repeat Today is ט"וּ בְּאָב ( listen and repeat) - the 15th of the Jewish month of Av - which is the Jewish day of...

According to Arab media reports, the show "focuses on the social, economic, and religious lives of the Jews, including ... the way they managed and controlled the [Arab] tribes."

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

Jewish sympathy for the African American struggle dates back to the abolitionist movement.

No one who was born after 1935 has walked on the moon. That period is swiftly becoming a historical relic.

The current peace talks raise some obvious questions, the answers are a little less obvious.

Categorizing all black people as one large group where the acts of one black person in Florida somehow tell us something about a different black person in Seattle is racist.

I get so worked up when one of us, especially one who is observant, somehow misbehaves in any way.

"My father kicked me out when he discovered I enlisted," said Ibrahim. But this Bedouin soldier’s dedication to the IDF eventually changed his father’s mind.

“The bones of Joseph which the Children of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried in Shechem in the portion of the field that had been purchased by Jacob.”

מִסְפָּר  listen and repeat [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZ13K9HqT0?rel=0] Visit Ktzat Ivrit .

"I have a right to design my restaurant with anything that attracts people to come."

Turkey became home to Jews expelled from Hungary in 1376, from France in 1394, and from Sicily in the early 15th century.

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s real goal is to delegitimize Israel through slander and attacks on its cultural, economic, and academic relations.

Every year, one of the greatest challenges going into Tisha B'Av is the statement of the Gemara Yerusalmi “A generation in which the Temple is not built is considered to be one in which it was destroyed"