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(July 22, 2026 / TPS-IL) An Israeli emergency response delegation has completed its mission in earthquake-stricken Venezuela after spending several weeks assisting local authorities with recovery efforts.The delegation was notable because Israel and Venezuela have had no diplomatic relations since Caracas severed ties with Jerusalem in 2009. Despite the absence of formal relations, Venezuelan authorities […]
(July 15, 2026 / JNS) Former Israeli intelligence officers and an American defense expert are expressing deep skepticism regarding a July 13 New York Times report alleging that the Mossad attempted to recruit former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as part of a regime-change operation. The article claimed that Israeli intelligence built a years-long operation to groom the […]
Rabbi Wein instilled within his students and myriad admirers an appreciation of the fact that there are lessons to be gleaned from every occurrence in life if your eyes are trained to see them.
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Our core identity must be rooted in the awareness that we are a neshama – a soul experiencing life through a body, not a body that happens to house a soul.
Meteorologists would have you believe that spring starts on March 20 but they’re wrong, spring starts on the day that the Dairy Deluxe opens.
One Gemara says life, children, and parnassah are locked in by mazalot. Another says ein mazel l’Yisrael – Jews don’t do mazel. Which one is it?
The October 7th massacre has changed the thinking of a number of Israelis about the existential danger the Arab terrorist organizations pose to the Jewish State.
When the 89-year-old Palestinian Authority chief looks around him, he must be astonished at how the international community has acquiesced in his brutal dictatorship.
By Matt Solomon
Carter was not simply a modern-day anti-Zionist—an ignorant idealogue who wrongly believed that Israeli counter-terrorism policies harmed the “human rights” of the Palestinian people. Carter was, in fact, a traditional, old-fashioned Christian Antisemite.
It is when I look out the window at all of the other menorahs do I find comfort that Judaism is alive, well, and flourishing and that our pride does not need to be hidden but rather, celebrated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Many Jews and Israel supporters believe U.N. resolutions hold no real power over the city; they believe Divine sovereignty supersedes human governance.
The first one who did Jewish song parodies was Mickey Katz. He was a vaudeville player who would sing in Yinglish. Sometimes Yiddish and sometimes English, but always with an accent.
Ben said the protestors marched out of Hunter and around the Upper East Side in a snaky path…probably trying to avoid the police.
Since Oct. 7, woke ideology brought together a diverse coalition of advocacy groups eager to stop the war on Hamas. The Democratic Party will never be the same.
Every soldier and civilian is precious, and each death and funeral is painful, but Daniel’s hit home harder. He and his family, like me and mine, are olim. They made aliyah ten years ago from South Africa in order to join the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael. Their connection now runs deeper. They join the many families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our people and our land.
Annuities have a bad reputation, and rightfully so. In my opinion, they are a jungle of high fees, moving parts, and lack of transparency. In short, they are not usually the best choice.
Hamas used hospitals and ambulances to hide operatives, launch military activity, transport members of terror squads and even a deliver a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
et now, in an America whose culture and morality have decayed and rotted even further in so many once-unimaginable ways, we behold the paradox that the Court that Trump and Mitch McConnell helped solidify today stands as the bulwark protecting what is left of our national core
Israel is no more ‘racist’ than a refuge for women is ‘sexist’.
Anything for a sale?
EVERYTHING that we see in Gaza today is a result of Israel ‘playing nice’ and doing whatever it could to make peace.
JA beautiful and easy local journey in Jerusalem
By Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman
Leah feigned tossing a coffee cup at him. Yankel was concerned that people should see this kallus rosh, this sweet lightheadedness between them. It wasn’t proper to be standing in front of the yeshiva talking in this way with Leah.
Imagine that your mother-in-law is putting you down. You, in turn, find something to compliment her on and change the topic. There is a very good chance that your positivity, in response to your mother-in-law’s negativity, will completely surprise her and render her mute.
The US has sacrificed Middle East reality on the altar of wishful thinking
We are witnessing a concentrated rewrite of history.
What is the likelihood of an outburst of Palestinian violence on the scale of the Second Intifada, with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad joining forces against Israel and possible intervention from Hizbullah in Israel’s northern border?
Jews are facing Orwellian inversions of history.
Some highlights from the speech from Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, at today's rally, which marks 35 years since the founding of the terror organization.
Question: We see numerous instances in Scripture where a person’s name was changed. Some people are then always referred to by their new name, while others are not. A case in point is the way we refer to our Patriarchs in the daily Shemoneh Esreh. Why is that so? Abraham Goldman Jerusalem
Antisemitism in the United States is Back in Style
Members of the South Yamas special forces counter-terrorist unit seen during a military training operation
THE REMARKABLE STORY OF TWINS SEPARATED AT 6-MONTHS OLD
Carlson told his audience Ye is “worth listening to.” Really?
Think of a classical music concert. While an orchestra can seem crowded and overwhelming to some, even a novice can enjoy the actual music. However, after a while, if you actually listen to the music, study it, and make it part of your daily routine, your appreciation of it will grow exponentially.
By Ruthie Blum
Just as worrisome as his ignorance of rudimentary Judaism is the fact that Israel’s interim prime minister isn’t even capable of pulling off the rabbinic pretense. One can hardly wait to hear what cringe-worthy pearls he’s prepared for Sukkot.
As we start a new year and face Yom Kippur join us to discuss how we can make this year more peaceful, successful and beautiful by leaving all of the baggage behind us.
By Israel Hayom
Despite what it would have you believe, the Israeli military’s intelligence analysts put the Syrian nuclear issue on the back burner until the nuclear reactor was discovered almost by happenstance.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Greco-Roman wrestling champion Mohammad Ali Geraei called Hitler an inspirational leader in a recent interview with a sports news outlet.
The State of Israel was created fifty years after the first Zionist Congress. This was an unprecedented success of historical magnitude
Beautiful leaves and reaching limbs without a strong foundation will simply cause the tree to fall, just as vanity rather than wisdom can bring down a man, a country, a people.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The fighter planes underwent extensive checks to eliminate the possibility of a malfunction in the plane’s ejector seat,
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
While still holding right-wing sources more responsible for antisemitism, there is a perceptible increase in sentiment among Americans, especially Jewish Americans, of antisemitism emanating from left-wing or “woke,” progressive sources.
By Daniel Pipes
INSTEAD OF LECTURING ISRAELIS, SAUDIS, AND OTHERS, KNOW-IT-ALL U.S. POLICYMAKERS SHOULD START LEARNING FROM THEM.
As soon as an Einsatzgruppe unit entered a town, it began “a deadly stranglehold” on the Jewish residents murdering thousands of them “...no brutality was too base, no trick to mean, no barbarity too disgusting, if it allowed them to raise their grim tally.”
Natalie spends this episode sharing parts of her week with us....
This week Steve and Matt talk about the slap heard round the world, unforeseen challenges of obeying a particular commandment from G-d, the Israeli Women's Ice Hockey team, movies banned in Lebanon, and much more.
Many of last year’s incredible finds revolutionized our understanding of Israel’s rich past (including the Biblical era).
Go out and see Israel (OK, when it stops raining) Happy Tu B'Shvat!
In the fantasy world of toxic anti-Israel activists, they are always the victim.
So if Israel has successfully integrated its Arab population, why is there an assumption that it has a malevolent attitude towards the Palestinians living in self-governing areas?
By Ariel Kahana
The unprecedented uptick in antisemitism in the United States is forcing even the most ardent American Jews to reconsider whether the future that awaits them is as prosperous and safe as they thought it would be.
By Israel Hayom
A Bennett-Lapid-Abbas government in no way reflects the will of the voters as it was expressed on March 23, but we have no choice other than to hope for an orderly transfer of power.
As Rav Kahane always said, "the Arabs understand him and he them, but both don't understand the Leftist.
By Zionist Organization of America
{Reposted from the ZOA website} Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein blasted the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFA) as well as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Friday, after tweeting out messages on Holocaust Remembrance Day viewed as “reprehensible,” “hateful” and “antisemitic.” In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, ZOA head Morton Klein expressed his […]
A binational state in which one group wants democracy and the other rejects democracy is untenable
There is no indication that the U.S. and Europe understand what they are facing
I want to focus on the end of the exile in this week’s parsha, and how similar it is to the end of Ya’akov’s exile in the house of Lavan
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The United States announced a grand-jury indictment against Omar Sheikh for acts of terrorism.
he article tries to make BDS appear to be only against "settlements" and not Israel's existence as a whole. BDS has nothing at all to do with the ICJ opinion.
What level of priority should a frum Jew give to studying sefarim like Koheles, Shir HaShirim, and Iyov?
By Baruch Lytle
“In the beginning it was very inspiring and moving,” said panelist Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz, associate principal at SAR High School in Riverdale. “But that was then, and you know what? Now it just feels like a really long grind.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Perhaps one of his favorite ideas emerges from neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, whose work helped shift the way we view the relationship between intellect and emotion, and also serves as a paradigm to help us better understand an important part of Rabbi Sacks’ legacy.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are not afraid of being returned. We hope the agreement with Israel points to the current situation in Sudan,” says Sudanese asylum seeker.
The chapters on education and socio-mystical justice, humanism, and ecology were, in my view, particularly salient and timely...
If parents disagree with something their child learned in school, should they say something? Or is it better for them to bite their lip and say nothing?
On Today’s Leap of Faith Penina speaks with Chaya Parkoff who shares her journey from a secular Jewish upbringing to a life devoted to Torah. Chaya is a licensed clinical social worker, life coach, motivational speaker, Jewish educator, marathon runner and most recently a kidney donor. Another inspiring episode you don’t want to miss!
By Risa Rotman
After telling the rabbi about myself and why I was there, he told me that they usually only offered scholarships to people who were just beginning to learn Torah and keep mitzvos.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The European countries are helping the Iranian regime exactly when the regime is murdering its own citizens.
Consumer goods may enter the coastal territory, but only through Israel via the Kerem Shalom facility or through Egypt via the Rafah crossing.
By Steve
Synagogue board member Zev Opos said there have been “small graffiti incidents in the past” at Baba Sale, but never anything large like this.
Months after intentionally plunging the Palestinian economy into financial crisis, the Palestinian Authority has finally agreed to accept two billion shekels from Israel." We owe a great big "Thank You'" to the PA for accepting this "gift"
Similarly, Yithro could have chosen differently; if he had, we would have had a verse that began, “And Yithro sent messengers to Balaam to curse Israel.”
By Pnina Baim
I will not lie, I was very nervous before we began the journey, but the trip was so successful, we plan on doing it again!
'Palestinianism' isn't about Palestinians, it is about Jews and Israel. Zina is just an example of a far bigger problem. One that holds people captive, trapped in a conflict and with no permission to escape. Palestinianism has even held millions of people in refugee camps for three generations.
By Moshe Herman
Join Rabbi Yishai for a FULL - beginning to end - study of the Book of Ruth with commentary on the beauty and drama that leads to the birth of King David.
Ask any believing Jew these basic questions: Do you believe in Hashem? Do you believe everything that happens comes from His hands? Do you believe that all Hashem does is for our own good?
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. -R. Turnbull
You have to be blind, or acting with deliberate sinister intent not to see it.
Question: When a son recites Kaddish for his parents, can they hear it? Also are their souls elevated to a higher place thereby? Ben Glassman
An Argument With Karaites ‘A Fetus That Partially Left The Womb’ (Chullin 69a)
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Some performers won’t “cave-in” to Walter Rogers’ demands.
By Moshe Herman
The son's of Jacob are united in the land of Israel - should be a great time, no? However, there are fractures in the family of Israel and they come out in this weeks Torah portion. Rav Mike joins Rabbi Yishai to talk about the sale of Joseph and his descent into imprisonment through the false allegations of Mrs. Potifar. And his dream interpretations there, plus Judah consorts with his daughter-in-law to protect the seed of Messiah? Finally, Malkah Fleisher joins the show to talk about her incredible trip to the Ukraine and to the Tomb of the Baal Shem Tov.
The Women's March is paying an antisemitic, anti-gay, anti-white, misogynist hate group - while at the same time pretending to adhere to Unity Principles that are against everything Nation of Islam stands for.
What motivated 40,000 Jews to go to Hevron for Shabbat? The annual, Shabbat Hevron! Jews came to connect to their forefathers and foremothers, their roots and the roots of the Davidic kingdom.
Likud Culture Minister Miri Regev said, however, that Katz made the right decision.
July 24, 2026 
