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Go to Maale Adumim to get the flavor of Israel-and a bit of Venice, Italy in the process

The beginning of the month of Iyar saw us build the state and the end of the month saw us liberate the Temple Mount.

Jameel discusses the origins of the minhag of Shlissel Challah.

"A Yid has hope. This Yarmulke gave me hope during the Holocaust.”

A black hole of knowledge

Many years ago, a major debate erupted in the new and young State of Israel...

Our ancestor would be perplexed by a third commonwealth of the Jewish people in control of Jerusalem but who refuse, on their own accord, to rebuild the Temple.

11 gates are guarded and reserved only for Muslims. Guess which gate was blocked? Yes, it was the one for non-Muslims

The BIG lie

"Good evening to the thousands of you who are joining us from around the country," Doug Emhoff, the Hollywood lawyer serving as Kamala's husband, intoned.

Hazor, one of the premier archeological sites in Israel,  is the site to some of the most epic events of the Bible

God versus gods

The Islamist scars in the holy land have left Jewish sites destroyed

A HOME-ileticPurim Torah for Pesach

But I am just tired of all the Jewish blood being shed and the attendant suffering of their loved ones. 

I would have been much happier if had chosen her on the basis of her qualifications, judicial temperament, and pristine character. Which she clearly has in spades.

No matter your faith or how you celebrate, may you be blessed, and may you have a blessed holy season, Chag Pesach Samayach-Happy Passover .

My mother was a teacher in the New York City Public School system, which at the time was heavily populated with Jewish teachers. She worked as a teacher for many years in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, one of the toughest and crime-ridden areas of the city, working through the race riots of 1967 and 1968. The only trait that my mother conveyed in the house was total care, compassion, and dedication toward her students, NEVER ONCE can I recall her ever saying one negative word about any person of color.

In every generation...

Israel cannot endure as a satellite of a country whose regime opposes our survival as a Jewish state. Biden’s policies are no different than those we struggled against during the Obama presidency.

After each attack the Palestinian street has come out to celebrate, handing out candies, marching in angry parades, and firing off fireworks.

Is this the kind of sick society that deserves a state?

Were the ancient Hebrews of Hebron to suddenly appear, they would find their descendants living in their neighborhood, speaking the same language, connected to the same values.

When multiple antisemitic riots were raging across Europe in the summer of 2014, three articles by different Times writers described the mayhem as having an “anti-Semitic tinge,” in a disgusting attempt to minimize the blatant Jew-hatred.

Rather than hiding our flag away from sight for fear that it might incite some to violence, we should be unabashedly flying it throughout this amazing country of Israel

Along with the heat and the haze come incitement and terrorism, which will very likely develop – as it did last year at this time – into war and insurrection.

So first we had “Just not Bibi” and now we have “Just not this coalition” or “Just not Bennett.”

A city with something for absolutely everyone--

Qatar has been giving 30 million dollars to the Gaza Strip every month, but is Hamas getting paid?

The point here is that both of these 2 major Jewish denominations do not resemble anything close to how our forefathers lived even as recently as a couple of hundred years ago. Whereas Orthodoxy has been far more of a continuum.