I Love the Smell of Missiles in the Morning
Some people like the smell of napalm in the morning, but I love the smell of missiles.
The Family Rapaport: On The Nationalist Front Lines
Amongst secular Jews, our rightful attachment to the full borders of Eretz Yisrael is a political bargaining chip, not an iron-clad covenant from Sinai.
Rabbi Kahane’s Tells AIPAC Where To Go
Come Home!
Letter to Our Son, the Soldier
In a world that lives by the sword, Israel must take up the sword too, not sit and pray for miracles
The Silence Will Not Be Broken
The phenomena of Jewish writers condemning their Jewishness, or vilifying the State of Israel, is a very different kind of 'worminess'
Chofetz Chaim – Join the Army and Go on Aliyah!
In spite of the fact that the Chofetz Chaim was vehemently opposed to the non-religious spirit of the secular Zionists, he encouraged the aliyah of God-fearing Jews. He saw the surge of mass aliyah from Russia as “the footsteps of the Mashiach,” and the beginning of the ingathering of the exiles which precedes the Mashiach’s coming.
Will Me’arat Hamachpelah Get An Elevator?
Ten years ago, Bibi promised he would get it done. Nu? Where's the elevator?
Palestinians, Progressives, Peace Now, Must Unite to Ban Chanukah
“It wasn’t the Greeks whom the Israelis conquered. They were Palestine refugees from Syria."
Lone Soldiers Who Aren’t Alone
We also prepare the guys physically and spiritually for the army along with teaching them the tools needed to deal with the often frustrating bureaucracy in Israel.
Israeli Chief Rabbi Rav Avraham Shapira – On His 12th Yahrzeit
He replied in a loud, irritated voice, "Why do they ask me a question that every child in cheder can answer?!"
Married? Still Single? Divorced? This is for You!
Our Sages tell us that HaKodesh Baruch Hu, the Holy One Blessed Be He, weeps when a Jewish home is torn apart by of divorce. Unfortunately, He must be crying quite a lot these days, judging from the vast number of divorcees you discover on the pages of Facebook.
MK Meir Porush Meets With Aliyah Activists
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.
“Why Should I Live in Israel? America Has Everything I Need”
One of the questions a person is asked when he reaches his Heavenly rest is, "Did you yearn for Salvation?" If a Jew does not long for the Redemption, for Salvation from the exile, then something is wrong. If he is happy in the Diaspora, then his Judaism is out of focus, and he is out of touch with his soul's deepest yearnings. As The Kuzari poignantly declares, his prayers for Jerusalem and Zion are like the chatterings of a nightingale, melodious but empty of meaning.
Don’t Confuse Torah with Buddhism, My Friends
The roots for the Destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem were planted long before the Destruction itself, on the night the Spies in the Wilderness returned from their ill-fated mission and convinced the Jewish People not to journey on to live in the Promised Land. That night was the 9th of Av. Their rejection of the Land of Israel was the rotten foundation which brought about our later National Destruction as an independent Nation in our own Land.
Why Aren’t Jews Worldwide Moving To Israel? The Jewish Press Investigates
Every Jew who speaks Hebrew and who is willing to take any job to survive is promised that he won’t go without bread.
A World of Screens
Rebbe Nachman's stories awaken the sleeping; our film of his stories has the power to wake the world
Why Mourn about Exile?
All of our life changes when we are in Galut. Not only does our Clalli soul disappear, but every detail of our life is affected. In exile, Emunah appears in an incomplete form
Bye Bye, Dubai – On the Prohibition of Leaving Eretz Yisrael
According to the Rambam, it is forbidden to leave the Land of Israel, even temporarily, except for three reasons: to study Torah, to find a wife, and to do business.
Graveyard USA
Even before the Beit HaMikdash is rebuilt, the return to the Land and Nation rebuilding, even in its outwardly secular stages, revives the dry bones of the Jewish People
IDF Drops Rosh Yeshiva For Opposing Female Combat Roles
The Jewish Press asked Rav Kustiner if the IDF command has responded to the storm of protest. “Not that I am aware of,” he replied. “I am only a very tiny screw in the system. They don’t ask my opinion.”
Is Mashiach Around The Corner?
If you want to build a skyscraper, then the one-story building can no longer remain. You have to destroy it.
Two Settler Leaders React To Israel-UAE Deal
I believe Kushner more than I believe Bibi.
I’m Not Voting for Obama, that’s for Sure
“How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” King David asks. The answer is that we can’t.
Madonna and Kabbalah Don’t Mix
The more you learn Torah, the more t’shuva you will be inspired to do — and the more t’shuva you do, the more Torah you are able to learn.
Where Are The Real Maccabees Buried?
We know, however, that the open graves off of Highway 443 opposite Modi'in are certainly not from the time of the Maccabees.
Letter to Our Son After Shabbat
So know that I am with you. So is your mother. The whole Shabbat, she waited for the moment she could turn on the radio to learn what was happening.
The Falconi Effect
Still time to add a great read to your summer list.
Detention Camps for American Jews?
Detention Camps for US Jews? Sounds farfetched but it did to Japanese-Americans during WW II as well
Rashi Was a Zionist Racist
Almost everyone is familiar with the famous first Rashi on the Torah. He asks why does the Torah begin with the account of Creation? After all, since the Torah contains the commandments which Hashem gave to Am Yisrael, it should have begun the precept concerning Rosh Chodesh - the first commandment given to the Israelite Nation.
Here, It’s Not Xmas At All
How can the Jews of the Diaspora put up with it?