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Israeli travelers took to focusing on what they do best while out of the country: making themselves and their countrymen look like spoiled, whiny, provincial ingrates.

We find daily excuses to run in to pick up just a loaf of bread, and leave with our hands laden with hot bourekas, pita, and lachmaniyot (rolls).

I believe Kushner more than I believe Bibi.

Arabs often throw stones and Molotov cocktails at our vehicles traveling from Homesh to Shavei Shomron.

In truth, it's been known for a while that Israel and the UAE did things together, quietly. UAE even has a small, but active, Jewish community.

How do we educate parents to take their Judaism more seriously and with more enthusiasm so that they can pass that on to their children?

Though there was still no proof that Jews were responsible for this atrocity, it became part of the accepted narrative in almost all segments of Israeli society.

Of course this is not the first time the Charedi world responded to a crisis in order to benefit all of society. (Not just themselves as is often asserted by Charedi critics.) This also happened in Monsey, New York several months ago.

Israelis care too much about gaining international approval, especially by Arab and Muslim nations. So an official treaty of normalization of relations is almost impossible to resist.

The more Arab states that make peace with Israel, the less support Palestinians will get for holding on to their unrealistic version of a state.

It's A Deal Only Trump Could Have Put Together

Here in Modi’in we have a wonderful Absorption Department, with olim coordinators that go above and beyond to help.

Protestors demanded that we break down the fence surrounding Kfar Maimon.... Yesha leaders and rabbis called for patience. All through the night and the following morning, the tension increased.

It isn't something readily comprehensible when your own Jewish army and Jewish government throw you out of your home in the Jewish homeland.

Hezbollah is doing everything it can to conceal this information. Not since O.J. Simpson has a party appeared more guilty and yet claimed it wasn’t.

The “occupation” is an excuse, not a reason, for rabid anti-Israel hate. And the easiest proof is to look at the anti-Zionists of the 1950s – before “occupation.”

So do I shed a tear when my enemy falls? No, I read the Psalms with joy that praise God for just that.

If the Jews were in charge, don't you think that they would have dominated the news cycle particularly since they control the media, banks, Hollywood, the music industry, and the NFL.

Will the same rules that most Americans have had to live under apply to Sharpton and his Black Lives Matter hate event? Or will the notorious bigot and his racist allies once again be free to do as they please. Are the pandemic rules there for all of us, or are they just intended for ordinary Americans?

Today the USA is a candidate for a radical change away from the republic that was created when its constitution became effective in 1789, and which gradually evolved into what it is today.

“This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”

Even the name Palestine...

The “promised land” is commonly used as a metaphor for a perfect society. Let’s strive for that perfection by acknowledging that its foundation is the Jewish State of Israel.

Get ready for your eyes to roll all the way back into your head with this one. RACIST Oprah Winfrey

Admittedly, the lift included some items we had planned to leave behind and others that we had wanted on flight, but while packing had not gone as planned – a running theme in our aliyah – it would have to do.

Rabbi Elisha Bruck, who works with a group called Kedushat Tzion told me that since Medinat Yisrael is a highly-charged subject for charedim, Kedushat Tzion employs the word “immigration” in its literature and conversations, not “aliyah,” which has a Zionist connotation.

As of now, if a budget of some kind is not passed by the end of August, the government will be dismantled and new elections called for November.

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"

The land belonged to the State of Israel in 1967, and indeed in 1948. It belongs to us today. We are the aboriginal inhabitants of the land, we have never lost our connection to it, we have the imprimatur of international law, and we have (so far) successfully defended it.

In general, there were different reasons for Arab versus Druze opposition to the law.