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Biden Admin Reportedly Halted Arms Shipment to Israel
The Biden administration opposes an IDF incursion into Rafah which would finish off Hamas.
Israel Strikes Hamas Facility Located Inside UNRWA Complex
Three IDF soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack that preceded the Israeli retaliation.
LIVE: Official State Opening Ceremony at Yad Vashem for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day is observed this year starting Sunday evening (May 5) and continuing through Monday (May 6).
Hamas Health Ministry Can’t Find 10,000 Names of Those it Claims Died
"This is the first admission that it lacks an essential data point necessary to establish these deaths have even taken place."
Kerem Shalom Closed to Humanitarian Aid as At Least 7 Wounded in Hamas Rocket Barrage
Rafah, on Gaza’s border with Egypt, is the last stronghold of Hamas.
Israel’s Cabinet Approves Immediate Closure of Al Jazeera
The directive allows authorities to revoke the Al Jazeera’s press credentials and confiscate its transmitters.
Hezbollah Rocket Barrage Wounds Kiryat Shmona Man, Damages Ambulance
The Lebanese projectiles struck across the largely evacuated city, with hits on residential buildings and parked vehicles.
Three Killed, Eleven Wounded as Hamas Terrorists Fire Rockets, Mortar Shells from Rafah
Helicopters evacuated the wounded to hospitals.
Arabs Pushing for Roadmap Leading to ‘Palestinian’ State Within Three Years
Mahmoud Abbas boycotted Antony Blinken on Friday.
Netanyahu: Israel will Not Agree to Demands that Spell Its Surrender
We are not ready to accept a situation in which the Hamas battalions would leave their tunnels, and retake Gaza.
Druze Woman Who Interrogated Hamas Terrorists Declines State Honor after Threats to her Life
She endured harassment from hostile Arabs who recognized her on the street, tore her Star of David chain, and threatened to kill her.
France Bars Entry of Shifa Surgeon following Germany’s Ban over his ‘Hatred for Israel’
Abu-Sitta used his 43 days in Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals to issue "eyewitness reports” of what he claimed was a “massacre unfolding” in Gaza.
The Fight for Israel IS a Fight for American Values
We are losing America to radicals who hate the West and everything we stand for.
Never Again?
The obligatory Holocaust Remembrance Day mantra rings hollow in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Germany’s Obsession with the Jews
Jews came to represent everything men feared
The Jewish Vote is up for Grabs, and it May Decide the Election
The White House and its supporters are using Muslims in Michigan to justify a slew of deeply hostile policies against Israel. Will that matter come fall?
Thomas Friedman’s Misguided Trade of Crushing Hamas for Saudi relations
The columnist is a master of the journalistic technique of interviewing people who agree with him and then quoting them to “prove” his views are correct.
The Charedi Draft Crisis: How To Move Things Forward
The Hamas attack and subsequent war have generated two military needs. In the immediate short term, the army must replace thousands of soldiers. In addition, the military needs to increase the size of its forces.
Illuminating Tragedy: Speaking to Rabbi Leo Dee a Year After Losing his Wife &...
Rabbi Dee is active in a number of projects which give him energy and hope, and he is grateful to his family and friends, and the love and support demonstrated by the Jewish people in the past year.
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Yishai and Malkah Fleisher return to discuss post-Pesach and the pro-Hamas protests on the Columbia campus. Then, Yishai speaks with the father of Omer Wenkert, one of the October 7th abductees. Also, Yishai does a deep dive on how the Narrative War on Twitter (X) is fought. And finally, Ben Bresky on Pinhas Rutenberg and the founding of the Israel Electric Corporation.
Fight for Jewish Survival – The Jay Shapiro Show [audio]
US campuses are now the front-line in the fight for Jewish survival in Western society
Columbia University in Love With Hamas – Returning Home [audio]
Natalie interviews Shira Dicker, a Writer and New Yorker who lives near Columbia University and walks daily through the campus. Shira gives us a description of what's been going on there since before Pesach.
We Will Survive This War – The Jay Shapiro Show [audio]
The Jewish people will survive the present difficult situation as it has done so for more than 3000 years
The Foundation(s) Of Our World
Torah is not the only pillar. Avodah is also important. Study alone is not enough to sustain the world and our existence.
Business And Shlichus In Dallas, Texas
I am back at my showroom working my appointments, it is now 3.00 p.m. and I still have not met anyone whom I could give these publications to. I am now walking the halls for about 5 or 6 minutes and lo and behold I see two women walking towards me.
Q & A: Shir HaShirim on Pesach
Question: Why do we read Shir HaShirim on Passover and more specifically the Sabbath of Passover? Also, being that it is one of the five Megillot, why don’t we recite a blessing over the reading of Shir HaShirim as we do for Megillat Esther?
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Stories About The Siyum HaRambam (Part I)
I was a bit involved in the first siyum. I had a connection with the New York Hilton, where the siyum was held. So I had a little, but not much, involvement.
Ambiguous Loss – A Lesson From Yaakov And Yosef
We might ask, why are these two things – giving up hope and aveilus – connected? After all, the likelihood of whether the loved one has died, which may be the more intuitive factor for beginning aveilus, does not change based on the subjective metric of losing hope, so why should this determine the threshold for commencing aveilus?
Time And Its Transcendent Connection To Pesach
In order to live a spiritual life, one must escape the physical, completely rejecting their physical nature. Therefore, spiritual systems such as Buddhism prescribe meditation, abstinence, and the suppression of physical desire. In such a system, the ideal is to sit isolated on a mountaintop and meditate on our navel.
Linen and Gold – Parshat Acharei Mot
On Yom Kippur, the Cohen Gadol wears linen.
Protected By A Mitzvah
The nurse became very frustrated and told him in no uncertain terms that as long as he continued to wear the tzitzis he would not be taken in for his surgery.
A Share Of The World To Come
All of this ultimately flows from Hashem. Hashem created Adam and Chava in the Garden of Eden, and He placed them there with the serpent so they could resist its charms. Only in that moment and in that place Adam and Chava failed.
Shall These Bones Live?
Hashem tells Yechezkel to inform the bones that they are the house of Israel, fallen so far in exile it is as if they have been dead for untold eons. What seems beyond hope of recognition, let alone of restoration, is not beyond the power of Hashem to redeem.
