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- [Finding Strength Through Jewish Resilience - Today's Lessons](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/finding-strength-through-jewish-resilience/) - In the shadow of October 7th and with 50 precious souls still held captive in Gaza, the Jewish people once again find themselves tested by circumstances that would break lesser spirits. Yet throughout our long history, Jewish resilience has been our defining characteristic. It has meant not merely surviving, but emerging stronger, more unified, and
- [Upgrade: Israel’s Ashalim Solar Power Plant is More Powerful than Ever](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/upgrade-israels-ashalim-solar-power-plant-is-more-powerful-than-ever/) - American Eric Loyle did Israel a huge favor when he parlayed his engineering expertise into making improvements at the world-famous Ashalim Solar Power Plant in the Negev. A high-ranking member of General Electric’s team of problem-solvers, Eric had conducted a brief assessment of the site in November 2019. He was then invited by Ashalim administrators
- [Whatever you do, don't have fun in the son!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/dont-have-fun-in-the-son/) - "Fun in the son". Isn't that cute? Well, the Chosen People Ministries want to offer you an amazing opportunity. For only $1200 (double occupancy), you can go down to Florida for 6 days and prey on unsuspecting Jews. Now is your chance to "share the Messiah with your Jewish friends." After all, the site tells
- [An Unannounced Hospital Visit](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/an-unannounced-hospital-visit/) - Several years ago, I finally blogged about an encounter that I had with my late father during the shiva mourning period (see "They Never Really Leave - Visits From My Dad Z"L After His Passing" on my blog page). What was so uncanny about it was how a cousin of mine also had a vivid
- [Meditative Moments with Parshat Toldot](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/spirituality/meditative-moments-with-parshat-toldot/) - Meditative Moments commentaries are opportunities to increase your sense of connection with HaShem, to ease your mind and soul while you read and afterward by using classic Jewish meditation skills. Today we’ll look at how to feel safe despite the headlines and something bothering you. Avraham Avinu and his son Yitzhak are role models for
- [Emotions Inspired by a 100-year-old Nazi](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/emotions-inspired-by-a-100-year-old-nazi/) - We are determined never again to be in a position that we have to wait for the delayed justice of an embarrassed nation. Never again will our people be imprisoned through the cold winters of Germany and Poland, treated as outcasts in Yemen and Iraq, starved and beaten in the cities of Austria, the Netherlands, France and Hungary and Belgium. Israel is the answer.
- [Mrs. Hammer and A Reunion 47 Years in the Making!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/mrs-hammer-and-a-reunion-47-years-in-the-making/) - Mrs. Hammer taught me a whole lot more than math. She taught me about me. She opened up a world to me that I did not know existed. And, she ingrained in me the self-confidence I needed to succeed as a student. She taught me about growth and how to deal with failure.
- [The Pride of Israel Arrives in Miami](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/pride_and_tears/) - It wasn’t war that trained our soldiers, it was determination. Determination to fight for every life and honor every death. Somewhere in the heavens, there is an accounting being made and if the world fails to recognize the dangers our forces ignore, the mountains we scale, the lives we save, it is no matter. We don’t do it for anyone other than those who are trapped and waiting rescue.
- [Israel - 70 Years of Rescue and Global Disaster Relief](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/israel-70-years-rescue-relief/) - Israel was established...re-established...70 years ago. Since the day it was created, Israel has dedicated itself to providing a safe haven for Jews from all over the world. Jews came home from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Lebanon. Rescue missions brought Jews from Yemen, Iran, Ethiopia and other countries. Likewise, Jews from Afghanistan and Russia and more
- [A Sad Commentary on the Bennett - Lapid Tango](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/bennett-lapid-tango/) - Ultimately, what you have is a coalition united by and dedicated to one single goal - getting rid of Benjamin Netanyahu. There are really only two questions in Israel today - how long will it last and what will be the final issue that breaks it?
- [Daylight Savings Time - I Hate You](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/dst/) - .Hate is a very strong emotion and so probably not accurate, but I have a strong dislike for how Daylight Savings Time (DST) has become a political tool in Israel. It started as Yair Lapid's "I hate Haredim" weapon and continues to disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of Israelis - religious and secular.
- [Anti-Israel Doesn't Have to Mean Stupid](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/anti-israel-colonization-stupid/) - Being anti-Israel doesn't have to mean you are stupid. But, it does mean, for fairness' sake, that you've evaluated the true situation and decided to be against the Jewish state. As there are no perfect countries in this world, Israel is not perfect either. Clearly, if you are against democracy, Israel should be among the
- [UAE and Israel -- A New Dawn, A New Hope](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/the-united-arab-emirates-and-israel-a-new-dawn-a-new-hope/) - In my entire lifetime, I never dreamed that this would be possible, let alone actually happen. I grew up believing and knowing that these people despise us. The Arab Boycott whether we liked it or not, has been a very large part of our lives in the Middle East, affecting us from many different angles,
- [Oren and Hadar and the Unfinished War](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/oren_and_hadar/) - We all know there will be another war. A year from now? Two years? Five years? What was destroyed will be rebuilt. We’ll all replenish and re-arm. But what of Oren and Hadar?
- [Intensified Bombing - Day 7: The Walls Await Shavuot](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/walls_shavuot/) - So six days have passed. What have they accomplished, what goal have they reached? None. Nothing. Buildings can be rebuilt. Jerusalem stands as glorious as ever. And what have we accomplished in these six days? We have set them back decades.
- [War and Attacks:  Day 3 – Operation Guardian of the Walls](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/attacks/) - Last night saw several huge barrages against Israel. Over 200 missiles were fired against Beersheva in the early morning hours; Tel Aviv was attacked twice. A direct hit on a home in Yehud resulted in utter destruction, the family safe and uninjured because they were in the bomb shelters. During one of the attacks, a
- [The Land Doesn't Lie](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/land_doesnt_lie/) - Fifty-four years ago, Jerusalem was placed back in our hands. It is time, good heavens, it is time for us to make it crystal clear. If Jews are prevented from Har HaBayit, then so too will it be closed to Arabs. If Jews are under attack in this country, the Arabs will also know no rest.
- [Seeing beyond the Colors of Har Meron](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/meron_cheshbon_nefesh/) - Sadly, the blame game for what happened late Thursday evening at Har Meron began almost as early as the first reports hit the news and long before what we pray was the final death toll. Today, days later, it continues. Perhaps mentioning some facts will help. Maybe, an important concept should be considered. Repeatedly people
- [Not Knowing an Alef from a Beis](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/diaspora/not-knowing-an-alef-from-a-beis/) - One of my serious passions in life is genealogy. I've been very interested in family history for most of my 50 plus years and working on my family history and genealogy for well over two decades. Since the advent of the worldwide web, genealogists, like myself have found treasures that would not have been
- [Dr. Seuss and the Fall of America](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/seuss-silence/) - First you silence the President, then you erase history, then you silence Dr. Seuss. That Americans aren't upset and terrified by this is shattering and terrifying.
- [Part 4:  Rules to Remember](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/part-4-rules-to-remember/) - People are not entitled to their own reality. Individuals need to enforce boundaries, including personal boundaries. That stops abusers from causing harm. Sensible people accept unpleasant realities and cope with them. Lockdowns happen. That's a fact of life. You can prepare for them by shopping in person, ahead of time, or online. Grousing to friends
- [Part 3: How to Respond to Conspiracy Theories and the People Spreading Them](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/part-3-how-to-respond-to-conspiracy-theories-and-the-people-spreading-them/) - Here’s how to stop a false narrative aka conspiracy theorist mid-remark: Ask the speaker “And then what?” As the person continues to recite their fantasies, question their inconsistent statements. Patiently wait to let them think of another rationale. Point out that inconsistency once it has been stated. Prevent hostilities by proposing that the person take
- [Part 2: Defining Terms and Issues   ](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/part-2-defining-terms-and-issues/) - Let’s look at some definitions to better understand the challenge of dealing with conspiracy theories and theorists. A conspiracy theory is a set of ideas that support a dangerous conclusion: that a particular influential person or business is behaving covertly in order to cause a purportedly harmful circumstance or event that damages defenseless people or
- [How to Deal with Conspiracy Theories and Theorists - Part 1 of 4](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/how-to-deal-with-conspiracy-theories-and-theorists-part-1-of-4/) - The Coronavirus COVID-19 reality has changed life in too many ways to count. We've been affected by unprecedented situations without having prepared coping mechanisms or expectations about what could, would, or should happen with this medical problem. Responses to brand new complications are unscripted, unpracticed, and ad lib. It's not unlike the experiences of newborns
- [Pollard Receives His Israeli ID Card](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/pollard-id/) - The Pollards have battles yet to fight but they'll never be alone again, never feel abandoned again. This, at least, Israel can give them. Some feared their homecoming, I bless it and them.
- [It Began With a Picture](https://israelblogger.com/politics/non-political/it-began-with-a-picture/) - It's a picture of a young Parisian girl who is roughly 12 or 13 years old. She is standing by a chair in a schoolyard, wearing a nice dress. She has a lovely smile, light olive complexion and has thick just below the shoulder length brown, curly hair. On the back is a note was written
- [Esther - Don't Ever Forget Her](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/esther-dont-ever-forget/) - So what can we do when a woman like Esther Hurgan is butchered not far from her home? When her children are left to mourn, her husband left to finish alone the job he never imagined he wouldn't share in the home he and his beloved wife built?
- [The Menorah as Experienced by Theodore Herzl](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/theodore-herzl-menorah/) - When there is but one light, all is still dark, and the solitary light looks melancholy. Soon, it finds one companion, then another, and another. The darkness must retreat. The light comes first to the young and the poor – then others join them who love Justice, Truth, Liberty, Progress, Humanity, and Beauty. When all the candles burn, then we must all stand and rejoice over the achievements. And no office can be more blessed than that of a Servant of the Light.
- [A Tale Of Two Pictures](https://israelblogger.com/aliyah/tale-of-two-pictures/) - Two pictures of a group of Jews, many who were smiling with joy and pride. Jews who were young and old, males and females, frozen in a moment of time. When I see this, it's hard not to get emotional. It's hard not to feel dread and hope at the same time. It's hard not to feel joy and anger. In one picture I see the past disappear in a dark abyss of hopelessness and deep despair and in the other I see a joyous future so full of unlimited hope and incredible brightness.
- [Seek the Gray; Lose the Black and White](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/gray-life-lose-black-white/) - If you believe that you are right and the Republicans are wrong...let the white and black go, and seek the gray. Your rush to condemn Trump's efforts make others think you are encouraging a crime committed rather than justice sought. No matter where justice can be found, give it enough time, and it will be.
- [A Year of Reflection and Thought Comes to Action](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/reflection-krisstalnach-birthday/) - Reflection. If ever we needed a year of reflection, I think 2020 would quality as the most extreme example. With lockdowns in so many countries, isolation and social distancing, reflection is something we probably should have mastered by now. And yet. And yet. November 9th is a day that always causes me to reflect -
- [As Dust Settles, Israel Contemplates a Biden Presidency](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/dust-settles-joe-biden-presidency/) - As the dust settles, even as many say it is still shifting, Israelis wake up to a new dawn. For many, myself included, the thoughts of what is to come in the next four years is quite unsettling. For four years, we were comforted with the knowledge that we had a friend in the White
- [When an Israeli Goes Abroad](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/when-an-israeli-goes-abroad/) - It’s hard to explain to a non-Jew, perhaps even to a non-Israeli, what it is like once we leave the safety of home. Yes, safety. I know it is hard to believe, but most Israelis feel more comfortable, and safe, at home in Israel. The outside world is large and cold, foreign and, above all
- [And There Arose a New King: An Open Letter to Joe Biden](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/king-open-letter-joe-biden/) - "And a new king arose over the land of Egypt, who knew not Joseph." We are the people of Joseph, Mr. Biden. The descendants of those who left the land of Egypt. Once before, you threatened us and our Prime Minister offered the only answer, the perfect answer. We are not Jews with trembling knees. We are a proud people who have fought for our land; our sons and daughters have died for it.
- [Happy Aliyah Day - Celebrating Coming Home](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/aliyah-day-celebration/) - HAPPY ALIYAH DAY!!! I want to tell you if you aren’t here, don’t worry. We aren’t going anywhere…and we are waiting for you.
- [Friday in Israel - A Dialogue with God before the Shabbat](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/shabbat-friday-israel/) - It's Friday morning again in Israel. Sometimes, I think part of me lives just for this morning, this moment when the soup is cooking and it's quiet. I have so much I could do today...I probably won't. I'm going to take the day off...do very little. But soon, I'll fill the candle holders with oil
- [Lebanon and the Danger of War and Hatred](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/danger-war-hatred/) - There is a danger, being at war for so terribly long. If, as the Palestinians have done in the past, they choose to destroy that we would give, it does not negate our good deed. It would only emphasize their stupidity, their hatred. But never mind. I am hopeful, the Lebanese will take our assistance - they need it.
- [Our IN Shabbat](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/our-in-shabbat/) - I do have a confession to make. At the risk of sounding terribly corny, I really do love my family. Really. I do. That shouldn't come as quite a shock because, well, my wife and I have been married for 29 years and we have 4 adult sons together that we raised. Each boy is
- [Social Distancing as Spirituality](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/social-distancing-as-spirituality/) - I believe in MIRACLES and that HKBH wants a happy ending to the story even for Jews outside Israel.
- [Beer Sheva’s Students with Autism Face a New Academic Year with Reasons to Smile](https://israelblogger.com/aliyah/beer-shevas-students-with-autism-face-a-new-academic-year-with-reasons-to-smile/) - Dr. Elissa Freedman made aliya from Connecticut in 2016 with her husband and three young children. Prior to her aliya she served in several communities as a board-certified family physician, and teaching medical students and residents. A family doctor with Clalit Health Services in Beer Sheva, she was granted tenure after only one year in
- [Doing Something Crazy is Sometimes Sane](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/doingsomething_crazy/) - Long after I'm gone, ad 120, they'll remember last night. Or maybe, if I'm blessed enough to do this again and again, maybe they'll just remember how sometimes when you do the most insane crazy thing in the world, it feels like it was the sanest of all decisions.
- [Pandemic..and  We All Thought That This Could Never Happen](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/pandemic-and-we-all-thought-that-this-could-never-happen/) - Looking around at everyone, from spending about 95% of my day at home, or going out in a mask with latex gloves in my pockets to do daily errands, I cannot help but feel that we're all living in an exceedingly long episode of either "Black Mirror" or "The Twilight Zone". I know that people
- [Geula Cohen and Her Advice on Love](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/geula-cohen-advice-love/) - Geula Cohen, has passed away at the age of 94. Geula was a feminist in the truest, truest sense of what a feminist should be, She was a lot of things to a lot of people - and she has a special place in my life.
- [They Really Never Leave - Visits From My Dad Z"L After His Passing](https://israelblogger.com/other/they-really-never-leave-visits-from-my-dad-zl-after-his-passing/) - The week of Yom Ha'atzmaut, on 6 Iyyar marked 23 years since my father died. His death was "all of a sudden"and quick. Although he had a long cardiac history, it was something very unexpected. The medics at the scene told me that even had he been in a good hospital and this heart attack occurred,
- [Upon the Death of My Father--Part II (The Hand of G-d)](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/upon-the-death-of-my-father-part-ii-the-hand-of-g-d/) - In my last post I wrote about the death of my father and wrote that I would have a follow-up post about how I saw the hand of G-d on the way home from Chicago to Israel. Because I was still in the middle of shiva, when I left my parents' home to go back
- [Upon the Death of My Father](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/upon-the-death-of-my-father/) - The feelings one has upon the death of a father is not something that can be encapsulated in a single blog post. My dad, Rabbi Benjamin Shandalov (A"h), passed away on early Shabbat morning, November 23, 2019 (25 MarCheshvan 5780) in a quiet hospice room in Chicago. The purpose of this post is NOT to
- [Bring them Home - Aliya NOW!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/bring-them-home/) - ... despite yeshiva or Hebrew school educations, 20th and 21st century Jews chose to remain in communities outside Israel. Though they studied Torah and celebrated the end of Pesakh seder with the call to return to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, they hadn’t lived up to the words that they mouthed.
- [Kristallnacht Birthday](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/kristallnacht-birthdays-warnings-holocaust/) - Yearly, as my birthday approaches, so does the weight of the day. It isn't an easy birthday to have and sometimes it's overwhelming to be told that you are your parents' "answer to Hitler." For us, each day, each hour, each breath, each story, shouts our triumph.
- [An Alternate View on Women Dancing with the Torah](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/alternate-view-women-dancing-with-torah/) - If you are praying to God, do you believe He is more on the men's side than on the women's side?
- [War on Religion in Maale Adumim](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/war-religion-maale-adumim-benny-kashriel/) - Wars are waged for many reasons. Sometimes for power and money. Often hatred or religion are at the core. And sometimes, as is often the case in the Middle East, it could be hatred OF religion. Ultimately, war is a harsh word and should be used with caution. Not every "battle" or conflict is a
- [The Last Soldier Returns Home](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/the-last-soldier-returns-home/) - Months ago, the youngest soldier in our family told me he was going to go abroad for the summer. He would work in a camp do some traveling and then come home before the New Year (Rosh Hashana). Regularly, we spoke on the phone but all I really wanted to ask was "when are you
- [Watching a Grandson Suffer - Maale Adumim Update](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/watching-a-grandson-suffer-maale-adumim-update/) - What lessons do the the children learn? The mayor hates them, despises all that they represent. He doesn't want them. He cares more for the flowers.
- [Benny Kashriel Demands an Apology from the Children](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/benny-kashriel-demands-an-apology-from-the-children/) - UPDATE ON DAY 24: I have heard that the Mayor of Maale Adumim wants an apology from the children, the parents and those who are demanding that he fulfill the requirements of the Ministry of Education to provide a legally recognized school to over 100 children who remain, more than three weeks into the school
- [The Moral Duty Of All Jews](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/the-moral-duty-of-all-jews/) - Let me be clear about something If you hear me talking about the occupation, I'm talking about the occupation of Jewish land by Arab invaders. I'm talking about the occupation of Jewish holy sites by people so infused in antisemitism they deny the very existence of anything Jewish. I’m talking about sites steeped in thousands
- [I Am Israel and Israel Is Me](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/i-am-israel-and-israel-is-me/) - Do you know why I always write or speak in support of Israel and Jews? It's not simply because Israel is a perfect country - it isn't. It's not because I agree with every decision they make - I don't. It's not because every Jew is wonderful - we're not. It's not because everything about
- [An Interview with Rav Zev Shandalov](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/diaspora/an-interview-with-rav-zev-shandalov/) - Following is an interview I held yesterday with Rav Zev Shandalov of Maale Adumim. I decided to interview him due to the fact that he has some things he wished to share with his "audience" and asked me, Zev Shandalov, to interview him. (We have known each other all of our lives!) ZS: Good Morning!
- [Danger in the Air for American Jewry?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/danger-in-the-air-for-american-jewry/) - It's been so long since I've been to the States - over 20 years. I was never one of those fly-there-every-summer types - even before my mother and father (z"l) moved here almost 18 years ago. It's been so long, I can't tell you if the feeling Jews have in America is that of constant
- [A Terrible Wrong Made Right](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/terrible-wrong-right-jerusalem/) - On Yom Yerushalayim, the city fills with people wearing blue and white; flags are fluttering in the soft breeze. We celebrate many things - but most of all, we celebrate a wrong made right.
- [Of Jew Hatred and Revisionist History](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/of-jew-hatred-and-revisionist-history/) - I have a lot of patience in life and am very tolerant of others, but not of hatred. While I may completely disagree with someone, he or she has the right, in my opinion, to say what they want. However, there are obvious exceptions to that idea, including hate speech and revisionist history. The classic
- [Meeting the Neighbors Before Getting Dressed and Under Duress](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/meeting-the-neighbors-before-getting-dressed-and-under-duress/) - It was Shabbat and I'd expected to relax. I had just moved to a different address that week and I didn't want to meet my new-to-me local neighbors until I'd rested a bit. Then I made havdala and headed to bed. BOOM!!!!!!!!! Sirens wailed their rising and falling RED ALERT warning. Rest time ended as
- [The Story of One Haggadah](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/haggadah-shel-pesach/) - This Guest Post was written by Dr. Afshine Emrani on his Facebook feed about a Haggadah that has been a part of his life for the last half a century. In his own words, Dr. Emrani, shared the essence of Passover. Fifty-five years ago, my father worked with Russian engineers to perfect the science of mining in
- [Trying to Be Normal](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/trying-normal/) - First written after a terror attack in Israel in December, 2002, this article was reprinted in 2012 and is posted again now after the Sri Lanka attacks on Easter day. It is an article about the human need to find normal. And it's about how no matter how bad the attack, somehow normal keeps coming
- [Pesach...The Holiday of the Spring](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/pesach-the-holiday-of-the-spring/) - Pesach. Passover. The Holiday of the Spring. What is this thing all about? We were slaves in ancient Egypt. God took us out. He split the sea. We were born as a nation. So many monumental events surrounding this holiday, and what do we remember? What do we call it? Passover. Because he passed over
- [How NOT to Welcome George](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/how-not-to-welcome-george/) - With all the anglos in the city, no one thought it important enough to say, "hey, George is coming to the city. We really want to make sign welcoming him. Any chance we could run the text by you?"
- [Beresheet: Israel's Way of Laughing its Way to the Moon](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/beresheet-israeli-landing-moon/) - Israel laughed and celebrated tonight, minutes after Beresheet crash landed on the moon. Take a minute to read some of the jokes that flooded in the Israel cyber world. We'll go to sleep celebrating the victory rather than mourning the loss. And that is so typical of Israelis.
- [Election Results: The Same Idiots?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/election-results-the-same-idiots/) - Moments after the polls closed: the pollsters did it yet again. They made their calculations and then made the results known. To be honest, all the votes have still not come in but a general direction is there. And...well, the pollsters only made a tiny error. Most said that Kachol Lavan would get 37 seats
- [A Message for Americans and Israelis On Election Day](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/election-day-israel-message/) - For those who are disappointed by the results, they will go to work and wonder when the next election will be. And, for those who are happy with the results, they too will go to work and wonder when the next election will be.
- [A Man and His Caddy](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/a-man-and-his-caddy/) - We saw this post about a man and his caddy and received permission to share it here on Israel Blogger. Guest Blogger: Andy Monfried "Beware of this guy, something ain't right about him." We were walking up the Fairway at hole #4. I was walking next to him when he uttered those words to
- [Clarity Comes With the Dawn](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/clarity-comes-with-the-dawn/) - In truth, there is evil in this world. In many forms. With many agendas. Worse, in some ways, are those who partner with evil. Even worse, in some ways, are those who are silent in the face of evil. Tomorrow, we go to the polls to vote for the path Israel will take in the next few years. Among the candidates are those who I believe to be evil, those to who I believe partner with evil and those who are silent or have been silent.
- [Reflections: Finding Ways to Fight Negativity and Betrayal](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/reflections-finding-ways-to-fight-negativity-and-betrayal/) - There are days when your mind is filled with reflections on all there is around you. Today was such a day. Once again, I find myself struggling not to respond to certain posts by certain people on certain topics that certainly are offensive and wrong. Fighting inner feelings that don't need to be aired and
- [My Decision - My Vote in Israel's Elections Tomorrow](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/my-decision-my-vote-in-israels-elections-tomorrow/) - So, tomorrow I'll go vote knowing that above all that any of these politicians will do in the coming years, our Leader, the True Leader of Israel remains. May the God of Israel find favor in our new leaders and bless them with wisdom. Here's my decision on who I will vote for tomorrow...
- [Two Terrorist Attacks With Two Very Different Outcomes](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/two-terrorist-attacks-with-two-very-different-outcomes/) - One cannot pretend to fight terrorism if you limit it to white supremacists while ignoring the threat and hatred and incitement that comes out of the Islamic world too.
- [A Picture of What Will Never Be Mine](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/a-picture-of-what-will-never-be-mine/) - An isolated space such as this would seem ideal. Pristine. Deserted. Peaceful. Green and filled with growth. But as I painted it, my mind shifted to a second set of descriptive words. Private. Alone. Solitary. And in this post, I explain why all of that is the polar opposite of Israel.
- [Purim and the Nuremberg Trials](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/purim-and-the-nuremberg-trials/) - Saw this come across my Facebook feed and I have to be honest. I thought to myself. Enough. What connection could the story of Purim, that happened well around the year 357 BCE (i.e. well over 2,000 years ago) have with the Nuremberg trials that took place in 1946. Well, apparently, I'm wrong. Amazingly enough,
- [Barrett Outdoor Communications: A Lesson in Truth from Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/barrett-outdoor-communications-lesson-truth-israel/) - Introducing, Barrett Outdoor Communications, a company located in Connecticut that leases advertising space. Apparently, Barrett's owner deems himself something of an expert in what is happening here in this part of the world. Enough of an expert, is the owner of Barrett Outdoor Communications, that he feels it acceptable to promote Palestinian First Responders. As you
- [Time to Speak Out](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/time-to-speak-out/) - Indeed it is time to speak out. While I regularly post on Facebook, I have not written a blog post in (literally) months. It is not for lack of desire. The problem has been that with so much going on, there was too much (is too much) to write about, and I was having a
- ["Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Antisemitic of them All"?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-most-antisemitic-of-them-all/) - Very recently, a dear friend of mine directed me to an interview on "60 Minutes" between Michael Wallace and self-proclaimed messiah of the black peoples on a global scale, Louis Farrakhan. Taking into consideration that this was screened about 23 years ago, I have always known that Farrakhan was one of the most narcissistic people
- [The Fundamental Answer for the Jewish People](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/the-fundamental-answer-for-the-jewish-people/) - For some reason as I read this post over and over, the word that comes to mind is fundamental. Obviously, we must not ignore the fundamental facts in Jewish history. Each day, almost every day, the media reports a new incident, a new attack, a new desecration. Listen, my heart cries, listen. Think. React. Act.
- [Israel on the Moon #IsraelOnTheMoon](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/israel-moon/) - Last week, Israel joined yet another tiny family. Only three other nations have landed on the moon. Israel is filled with jokes right now. Some reflect pride, others reflect a sense of irony and what is often termed "black humor." Will we be accused of a new occupation? Will the Palestinians now claim that they
- [The United Right](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/united-right/) - Israel is once again facing elections. And once again, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu timed the elections to fit his hopes and dreams. I had hopes and dreams once of a united Israel that would stand strong. I voted for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because my Hebrew wasn't very good and life seemed to be simple.
- [An Open Letter to Oshrat Kotler](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/an-open-letter-to-oshrat-kotler/) - Go to the homes of the murderers of the Fogel family. Of Ori Ansbacher. Ari Fuld. Koby Mandell, and so many others. That's where the animals are, Ms Kotler.
- [The Gift](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/giving-father-gift/) - Imagine if your grandfather gave you something precious, a legacy from his father. Imagine as well, that before giving it to you, he asked each of your cousins if they wanted it. Almost immediately, each in turn informed your grandfather that they most certainly did not. When your grandfather turned to you, as once he
- [Defining Pathetic](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/defining-pathetic/) - We all have within us the power to declare ourselves or our lives as "pathetic" or to overcome each challenge and to find the blessing in it. Perhaps the first step in avoiding the tag of "pathetic" is to recognize that whatever your situation, there is always (and I mean always) someone who is in
- [The Pluralism of Jews in Mourning](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/the-pluralism-of-jews-in-mourning/) - Like many Jewish communities around the world, in death, my community mobilizes to help someone in mourning. Several people volunteer for this and handle it year-round. Plus, the community quickly jumps in to provide food for the mourning family. I've written about much of this already so now I'd like to write about the pluralism
- [And the Candle Went Out...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/and-the-candle-went-out/) - Last night, the candle I lit after my father's funeral finally burned down. Grief is an unpredictable thing. Twice now, I've known that my responses are based more on grief than on logic. The first time was when discussing my father's tombstone and what would be written there. Does it really matter? Probably not and
- [Boomerang4Israel News Update - Terror and Triumph](https://israelblogger.com/authors/boomerang4israel/boomerang4israel-news-update-terror-and-triumph/) - From January 10th to January 17, there were 34 terror attacks in Israel. In this latest update by Boomerang, you can learn what happened in the last few days and weeks. But there's something even more special that they offer beyond the news. There are the people. One of the amazing things about Israel is
- [Agriculture in Israel - a Wondrous Thing to See](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/agriculture-israel-wondrous-thing-to-see/) - Tu b'Shevat is a holiday that really only makes sense in Israel. It's considered the "new year's day" of the trees. We have one, why shouldn't they. And so, in honor of this wonderful yearly event, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released this amazing video of some of the agriculture technologies coming out of Israel. These
- [Understanding the World Around You](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/understanding-world-around/) - Is the world round or flat? Round would imply that everything is, ultimately, connected. At the same time, flat would imply that distance between locations and both physical and cultural. Maybe, the truth is somewhere in between. Did you know that you can measure "as the crow flies" distances on the internet? Well, you can.
- [#LetDavidMakeAliyah](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/letdavidmakealiyah/) - December 11, 2018 was an emotionally laden day for a recently married couple, especially the husband. After a five-year conversion process, David Bonett converted to Judaism. Orthodox Rabbi Etan Mintz in Baltimore, Maryland supervised the completely kosher effort. However, a glitch in the man's efforts to become an Israeli citizen has haunted his aliya process. In 2017,
- [Shiva - How Jews Mourn](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/shiva-how-jews-mourn/) - Last Thursday, my father passed away. He was buried on Sunday, and thus began the shiva, the 7 day mourning period. I sat with my mother and siblings for 2.5 days, feeling the call to come back to Maale Adumim, to a city and community that I love. Once I was home, you could say I
- [The False Prophets of Judaism](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/false-prophets-judaism/) - Ultimately, the hardest battles are not those we fight against our enemies - they never have been. Without question, the hardest ones we fight are often against those who mean the most to you and more, have good intentions. But if wrongs are being committed to make something right, it's time to review and question whether in your dedication and desperation, that turn you took down the road leads you afar from the truth.
- [Six Million Jews...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/six-million-jews/) - There just seem to be numbers that trigger responses automatically. Say six million and I guarantee you most people (certainly most Jews) will think about the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The truth is, the six million is only an estimate. It's probably more. A lot more. Whole towns and families erased. Yad
- [When a Community CELEBRATES a Pedophile / Rapist](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/when-a-community-celebrates-a-pedophile-rapist/) - Imagine being invited to a party thrown by a community to celebrate a pedophile and child rapist. No need to imagine that scenario. Thanks to the good people at Jewish Community Watch and, specifically, thanks to Shana Aaronson (from JCW), we have the pictures to prove it. Before going off to prison after having been
- [The Rabbi Way or the Foolish Way](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-rabbi-way-or-the-foolish-way/) - Sometimes a title comes to me and sometimes I come to the title. Let's see now if they come together, where my brain will take me. First, I'll write about the Rabbi way, then, the foolish way. Everyone knows what a Rabbi is but having lived in Israel so long, I've become more comfortable with
- [Help IDF Soldier Netanel Felber and His Family - URGENT](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/idf-soldier-family-netanel/) - On December 13th, there was a terrible attack against three soldiers who were guarding a civilian bus stop near the Givat Asaf intersection. During the attack, two soldiers - Yuval Mor Yosef of Ashkelon and Yosef Cohen of Beit Shemesh died immediately. Also, a third soldier, Netanel Felber, was critically injured with multiple gunshot wounds
- [News in 300 - Elections, New Parties and More Tunnels](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/elections-new-parties-tunnels/) - Well, the latest from Israel includes elections. Really, elections. Can you believe it? Much of Israel is coming to terms with it and, on the bright side, many will tell you - is a day off work and school! Mostly, it's hard to tell whether the bigger news is the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin
- [In The End, Israel Will Still Be Here](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/in-the-end-israel-will-still-be-here/) - The world should hang its head in shame. Deep shame. Embarrassing shame. Penetrating shame. Here is the kind of shame that should cause them to have sleepless nights, as they try to explain to their kids about the day they supported evil. Because when the UN failed to pass a resolution that was so simple, so
- [Fight or Flight - Time for Jews to Decide](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/fight-of-flight-time-for-jews-to-decide/) - There comes a moment when a person has to make a stand. Fight or flight. That simple. Do you fight to remain where you are, or do you surrender to the situation and leave? Have you ever faced a choice like that? On a personal level? National? Religious? Employment? For me, I can tell you
- [There Is Not A Single Day I Am Not Grateful For Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/there-is-not-a-single-day-i-am-not-grateful-for-israel/) - There is not a single day in the year, or a single hour in the day or even a single moment in time that I am not grateful that the Jews have restored sovereignty in their ancient land of Israel. Because there is not a single day in the year, or a single hour in
- [Airbnb is no longer for me - my response to Airbnb - as a so-called "Super Host"](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/airbnb-is-no-longer-for-me-my-response-to-airbnb-as-a-so-called-super-host/) - We write to you as long time Airbnb “super hosts” and guests. We have always greatly enjoyed working with Airbnb, both as hosts and guests. But after your blatantly antisemitic and discriminatory decision to delist only Jewish homes in the disputed territories in Judea and Samaria, we are afraid that we will no longer be
- [Regarding the Airbnb Decree](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/regarding-the-airbnb-decree/) - The internet is ablaze with views, both pro and con, about the decision (decree) yesterday by Airbnb. According to various websites, Airbnb's business is characterized as "... an online marketplace which lets people rent out their properties or spare rooms to guests. Airbnb takes 3% commission of every booking from hosts, and between 6% and 12%
- [The Sounds of Silence](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/diaspora/the-sounds-of-silence/) - Over the past few weeks, I have had numerous people ask me about my silence in the blogosphere. While I have posted much (too much?) via Facebook and Twitter (if you are not following me you can check out @ravzev1 on twitter), as far as writing a blog, well, it has fallen silent. And there
- [It’s the Jews' Fault – When Others Murder Us](https://israelblogger.com/politics/left/its-the-jews-fault-when-others-murder-us/) - It didn't take long. First, before we even knew the name of the suspect, there were many people in America blaming Trump for the massacre of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. And while I did not vote for Trump and find much of his rhetoric distasteful, blaming Trump, for a
- [Good Guys And Bad Guys](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/good-guys-and-bad-guys/) - There are good guys and bad guys in the Middle East. Actually, there's only ONE good guy. Israel is that good guy - a country that values human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and a country that helps out the world constantly with humanitarianism missions sent around the world that saves human lives.
- [How Do You Get Past the Rage?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/how-do-you-get-passed-the-rage/) - I have been asking some of my Facebook friends this questions today: How do you get past the rage? Rage.... Because today, four children from two families became orphans, when their mother/father were savagely murdered by yet another "freedom fighter." According to published reports, the murderer (I will not give one millimeter to his name)
- [The Peace Process Illusion](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/the-peace-process-illusion/) - Peace with the palestinians is an illusion. The goal is noble, but it's not based in any kind of reality that exists in the real world. While Israel buries its dead - soldiers and citizens murdered while going about their normal lives, the palestinians will celebrate these "operations" by handing out lollies and naming town
- [Ari Fuld in His Own Words](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/ari-fuld-in-his-own-words/) - Many are speaking about Ari Fuld and his murder - here is a video that was posted allowing Ari to speak for himself. This is who he was. This is what he did, and more, this is why he did what he did. In the simplest of ways and the simplest of words, Ari sums
- [Boomerang4Israel on Ari Fuld's Murder](https://israelblogger.com/authors/boomerang4israel/boomerang4israel-fulds-murder/) - Latest video from Boomerang4Israel just published and the topic is the murder of Ari Fuld. For two days now, our Facebook feeds have been full of tributes and tears as we remember, as we mourn. Here is the truth as Boomerang4Israel knows so well how to present. Ari Fuld was murdered in cold blood by
- [Saying Goodbye to Ari Fuld](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/saying-goodbye-to-ari-fuld/) - This is a goodbye letter written by Jane Kiel to her friend, Ari Fuld! Dear Ari, Tonight you made it into all the big news casts and your face is all over the media. You are being called a hero and a lion by everyone and that’s truly what you were. But you didn’t make it
- [A Yom Kippur Message: The Day I Decided to Die for Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/a-yom-kippur-message-the-day-i-decided-to-die-for-israel/) - A beautiful article written by Boris Grosman, Deputy Mayor of Maale Adumim and a message to all of us before Yom Kippur. Guest Blog by: Boris Grosman I’d like to tell you about a moment in my life that happened 45 years ago. That moment changed my life because in that moment, I decided I would
- [And On The Podium - Clinton & Farrakhan?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/and-on-the-podium-clinton-farrakhan/) - Over a fortnight ago, on 31 August 2018 the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin was given an elaborate, star-studded funeral. From what I read, her coffin was made of gold and her body was dressed in a red gown with matching red shoes. It's something any lady could wear at a party or wedding hosted
- [My Land is STILL Burning](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/land-still-burning/) - The summer's war hasn't ended, even if we are going back to work and school. The damage continues. The fires are STILL burning and our land is STILL under attack. We may not have had the war we expected after the rockets slammed into the ground, but we are very much still a nation at war.
- [Latest Update: Israel in the News - in 300 Words](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/latest-update-israel-in-the-news-in-300-words/) - What's New in Israel Today? Well, here's the latest news from ILTV and my own personal roundup in 300 words includes:
- [Painting the Bible...One Week at a Time](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/painting-bible-week-yoram-raanan/) - Tragically, the arson attack on Beit Meir resulted in the loss of over 2,000 works of art over a span of 40 years. How do you cope with such a devastating blow? Yoram and Meira Raanan found one way. While the paintings were forever lost, we are all blessed that photos of many of the paintings remain.
- [High Court in Israel: Are you out of your ****** mind?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/high-court-in-israel-are-you-out-of-your-mind/) - The High Court of Israel ordered the government to offer immediate medical treatment for five women from Gaza. Relatives of Hamas leaders...in what world, in what country, would that its leaders extend such kindness to the families of murderers, terrorists and killers?
- [Put on the Damn Coat](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/put-on-the-damn-coat/) - It's summer and so this post may not make sense, but what better time to begin to fight a national tradition than before it becomes necessary. So, here goes. As a former "soldier's mother", I'm making a request to all soldiers to put on your coat this winter. Before you say anything, let me explain. I
- [The Eternal Message of Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/the-eternal-message-of-jerusalem/) - Stanley Goldfoot is often credited with writing an iconic article entitled "A Letter to the World from Jerusalem". Sometimes, it is called, "An Open Letter to the World from Jerusalem". Goldfoot was the founding editor of the Times of Israel - no, not the website that exists today (and leans so far to the left
- [Has the Two-State Solution Gone Bust?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/two-state-solution-gone-bust/) - According to a recent survey, "support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the lowest point in two decades. Less than half the Israeli population supports the concept (49%), and amazingly enough, support for it is even lower among Palestinians (43%). One of the questions that was of interest for each population
- [The Woman Hates the Very Air I Breathe](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-woman-hates-the-very-air-i-breathe/) - Today, I met a Jewish woman who had nothing good to say about Israel, about Jerusalem, about Israelis, even about the very air we breathe. Okay, I'll admit, I shmooze with strangers all the time. It's one of the things I love about Israel - pretty much, most of us are shmoozers. This morning on
- [Pat Condell on Why He Supports Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/pat-condell-why-supports-israel/) - Some people hate Pat Condell. Others, sit there and smile as he speaks. "All anyone needs to know about the Middle East conflict is that the Jews want peace, and the Arabs don't." Really, he said that! Watch this video and you'll hear the rest!
- [Why Have We Never Defeated the Palestinians](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/why-have-we-never-defeated-the-palestinians/) - Like most Israelis, I have dear friends living very close to the Gaza border. Some have, yet again, been forced to spend nights in bomb shelters with their children; others don't have a shelter in their apartments and so rush to safety at the sound of a siren. We have lived on this roller coaster
- [The Wisdom of a Edinburgh Professor and A Hatred that Permeates Borders](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/edinburgh-professor/) - There is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side. Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties.
- [Living without Daniel Tragerman](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/living-without-daniel-tragerman/) - What can you say about a child killed so suddenly, so brutally? What words of comfort could you possibly offer his parents? Really, all we can do is say that three years later, we still remember Daniel and more importantly, we will never forget him.
- [What is War? Seriously? And If Not Now, When?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/what-war-seriously/) - The big debate in Israel today is a rather silly one. It's seriously a serious topic but the silly part is thinking that any of us have a say in whether or not there will be a war. I'm not even convinced the Israeli government has a say in it, never mind the Israeli people.
- [Anti-Semitism of the BBC](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/anti-semitism-of-the-bbc/) - Perhaps it is time to properly identify the very essence of the problem - both in terms of the Middle East AND in terms of BBC's so-called reporting. It's time to call BBC's reporting what it is - anti-Semitism.
- [What Women are Allowed to Do in Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/women-allowed-israel/) - Sadly, women are raised differently from men all the world over. From a very young age, most girls are not given the same rights, the same freedom as their young counterparts. No country is perfect when it comes to how women are treated. Not a one. Somewhere, somehow, there is a gender gap caused more
- [The Time Has Come for War](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-time-has-come-for-war/) - It is always time for peace, but when do you know when it is time for war? That is the question Israel has been facing for the last few months. And, it would seem, tonight we have the answer. We could have been friends. Gaza and Israel. Neighbors certainly. When I first moved to Israel,
- [Israel Under Fire - Bombs on Cities](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israel-bombed-moments-ago/) - Tonight, Israel was bombed moments ago and moments after that. Seconds ago, and seconds before that. In each case, they are targeting civilians, cities, people. Are missiles bombs? No, I don't know in the technical sense, but in the human sense, they explode and terrify. The destruction and terror caused are now being assessed as
- [Ever Wonder What a Day in the IDF Is Like?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/ever-wonder-day-idf-like/) - Have you ever wondered what 24 hours - an around-the-clock full day would be like in the IDF? Well, now you don't have to worry. This is SO cool. You can see, from early in the morning, through the day...what a few soldiers are doing, thanks to the IDF. Sit back. Get some popcorn. And
- [The Rhythm of Israel As July Slips into August](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/the-rhythm-of-israel-as-july-slips-into-august/) - Oh yes, that's where Israel is right now. Slipping from July into August, we are grinding to a halt, surrendering to the heat. Clearly, vacation is on our minds and September and the holidays is a million miles (and days) away. Happy Summer, Israel!
- [In the Realm of "I Can't Imagine"](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/in-the-realm-of-i-cant-imagine/) - You know how you read a story and it touches your heart and how the one thought that keeps going through your mind is, "I can't imagine." That was my reaction when I read the words of Tal Ovadia.
- [The Two State Solution Was Never Alive](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-two-state-solution-was-never-alive/) - The PLO Secretary General, Saeb Erekat, said Israel's nation state law destroys the two state solution. He's wrong, because you can't destroy something that never even existed anyway. The two state solution is not dead, because it was never alive in the first place. For too long, the whole conflict between Israel and the palestinians has
- [Weekend in the Gaza Envelope, The True Story](https://israelblogger.com/authors/dave-bender/weekend-in-the-gaza-envelope-the-true-story/) - Like Shay Koplovich's experience with his and several other visiting families below, wife Miri and I also spent a wonderful, relaxing Shabbat at Kibbutz Alumim, alongside Gaza. His measured and heartfelt words echo my thoughts and feelings almost exactly (any errors in the text are mine, as is the translation). We did not think for
- [Well, the Palestinians Have a New Plan](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/well-palestinians-new-plan/) - The Palestinian Authority has come up with their next plan of action at the United Nations. They want...breathe, don't laugh...to ask the United Nations to oust Israel. According to a recent article in the Jerusalem Post, "Palestinian Authority is weighing a UN General Assembly Resolution to rescind Israeli membership in the international body." No, really.
- [The Truth According to Sarah Tuttle-Singer](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/truth-according-sarah-tuttle-singer/) - Truth is something very precious and it is also one of the first victims used and abused by journalists with an agenda.
- [Bending the News - BBC and CNN](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/bending-news-bbc-cnn/) - .I noticed the wording of a report that appeared on CNN and the BBC last evening. It was a news article about a teen boy from Gaza who died of his wounds -- and what a good boy he was according to his father, and how he was unarmed and shot by an Israeli soldier.
- [For Once, I Agree With Bibi - Stop Apologizing!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/for-once-i-agree-with-bibi-stop-apologizing/) - R ecently, Likud did an amazing thing. They stated the obvious. Israel is the home of the Jews. More, it is the land of the Jews, the country of the Jews. In short, Israel is the Jewish homeland.
- [In the Heavens Today](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/in-the-heavens-today/) - In the heavens today, there are two men that weren't there yesterday and by all rights, shouldn't be there today. Actually, to say they are in the heavens is incorrect. One is in heaven. Now we know, his name is Yotam Ovadia. And that he was only 31 years old, a husband, and a father of
- [White Helmets the White Knights of Syria](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/white-helmets-the-white-knights-of-syria/) - For years now, Syria's White Helmets have been working to rescue civilians in the path of deadly battles. So, what they do, as civilians, is wait to see where they are needed and then rush in to help save lives by getting them out of the battle area. Sometimes using their bare hands, they do
- [Confessions of a Common Reader of Confessions of a Common Reader](https://israelblogger.com/authors/chava-pinchuck/confessions-of-a-common-reader-of-confessions-of-a-common-reader/) - As a book reviewer, I often read books that are not of my own choosing. Even when I have a choice, and I am intrigued by a title, author, or description, I am often disappointed. So imagine my delight when I chose a book that I am thoroughly enjoying: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1998).
- [Board of Deputies of British Jews - Who the hell are you?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/board-of-deputies-of-british-jews-who-the-hell-are-you/) - Friday is a wonderful day in Israel. Like weekends all over the world, it is a time of freedom. Away from work, our brains are free to think, to fly, to dream. In Israel, though, for Orthodox Jews (and yes, still women especially), while our minds are free, our hands are usually very busy. With
- [Yes, Mark, the Holocaust Cannot Be Denied](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/holocaust/mark-holocaust-cannot-denied/) - Every time I think it can't get worse on Facebook, Mark Zuckeberg proves me wrong. To start with the obvious, there are, for Jews and ideally for the world, two words in the English language that carry special and tragic meaning. The word, holocaust, with a lowercase "h" refers to a massive, disastrous, even barbaric
- [I Seem to Have Misplaced My Assault Rifle](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/i-seem-to-have-misplaced-my-assault-rifle/) - No, I don't actually own an assault rifle, but read on! When a person posts on Facebook as often as I do, and when a person writes a blog, he or she is also hoping for any feedback. That feedback can be positive or negative, but feedback and comments, "likes" and "shares" are always a
- [When a Camel and a Falcon Die, What Hope is Left for Us?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/when-camels-falcons-die-hope/) - Strange title, no? What do camels and falcons have to do with anything? If you are listening to international media channels, I don't blame you for not understanding the connection. And, I won't show you the picture...I wish I'd never seen it. In the south, the Bedouins and Arabs that live there allow their livestock
- [Guest Blog Post: Stop Looking to the World](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/stop-looking-world/) - A lot of my beautiful friends are decrying the world for not condemning Hamas for attacking Israeli civilian centers on the border. They're like "it's so horrible that the world has nothing to say when synagogues and Israeli playgrounds are hit with rockets, but they'll be all upset when Israel retaliates!". My dearest, sweetest friends. Establishing
- [Gadi Eisenkot -  You're Fired](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/gadi-eisenkot-youre-fired/) - Gadi Eizenkot became the Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces on February 16, 2015. For over 100 days, Palestinians have been launching incendiary bombs against Israel. We have lost over 35,000 dunams of land. Fields decimated, crops destroyed. Orchards that took decades to grow are gone. The tool that the Palestinians have used
- [This Morning Israel Woke Up in Fear](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/this-morning-israel-woke-up-in-fear/) - Fear is a terrible thing. It's not something you can control and it's often something that you can't reason away. Many in Israel feel angry today. I can understand that. I'm angry too. But what I also am is realistic. We are probably heading for yet another war. And that thought is what terrifies me.
- [This Morning, Israel Stands on its Faith](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/this-morning-israel-stands-faith/) - Some people woke up this morning feeling angry. Yes, I was among them, as well. Some people woke up in fear. However, this morning, I woke up with a different sense altogether: Faith. There is another aspect to who we are as Jews that also must come into play. We are a People of faith.
- [This is My Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/this-is-my-israel/) - This is my Israel. Yesterday, Israelis were outside enjoying the peaceful Sabbath. Or, at least what should have been the peaceful Sabbath. While many of us were unaware what was happening, a massive missile barrage from Gaza was launched by the Palestinians. Mid-afternoon as I went to lie down for our once-a-week afternoon nap, my
- [Israel Woke Up Angry This Morning](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/israel-woke-up-angry/) - This morning, Israel woke up angry. We have every right to be angry. Over our short weekend, our country was hit by nearly 200 rockets, missiles and mortars. Four people were injured; three of them in their own home. A playground was filled with the black smoke of an explosion. Really, a playground. And, a
- [Advice from a Jewish Mother](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/advice-from-a-jewish-mother/) - What advice would you give you children? So many things that I want to write about, so many things I learned from my mother and my mother-in-law, and even from my grandmothers. Being a Jewish mother is complicated for so many reasons. You have that angle of being Jewish. You might ask if it is
- [One Man Who Changed the World](https://israelblogger.com/politics/non-political/one-man-who-changed-the-world/) - The dream of UNESCO, the Arab world and all those others to destroy the Jewish people will fail. For the covenant made by Abraham is eternal and still very much intact.
- [A Dark Cloud With A Silver Jewish Lining](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/a-dark-cloud-with-a-silver-jewish-lining/) - There’s a cloud that hangs over the Jewish world. It’s not the cloud of ever increasing anti-Semitism found throughout the world. It’s not the cloud of terrorism our Arab neighbours insist on continuing to pursue. It’s not the cloud of those international bodies in their desperate attempts to deny our legitimacy. It’s a different kind
- [Syria Says Air Force Base Went BOOM...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/syria-says-air-force-base-went-boom/) - The news from Syria is quite tense right now. There is a growing surge of refugees trying to get out of the way and tragic bloodshed being reported. Of course, sadly, the United Nations is too busy to take up the cause of Syria because apparently, an Israeli added on a closet to his house
- [When Your Prayer for Sense is Senseless: You Accuse the Jews of Genocide](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/when-your-prayer-for-sense-is-senseless-you-accuse-the-jews-of-genocide/) - In the fifth and final article in this Continuing the Dialog – Take 2 Series, we conclude this second part of the response to the "hate-mailer series." In this post, I respond to the claim that it is the Jews who need to come to their senses for the conflict to end, as well as to the
- [Continuing the Dialog and Fighting the Hate (Mailer) - Take 2](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/continuing-dialog-fighting-hate-mailer/) - On June 9, 2018 I began a dialog with a hate-mailer. He wrote to me in response to one of my videos on YouTube regarding the Hamas-led violent protests and attempts to breach Israel’s border. This fantastic piece of “hate mail” in this electronic age was in the form of an anonymous post. In any
- [Life in Israel isn't Something You Can Imagine](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/life-israel-imagine/) - Imagine for a moment, what you feel after a long day of work, family and activity. You've been dreaming of bed for the last two hours but you need to get things ready for tomorrow. Perhaps you have children and you are picking out their clothes, putting away endless loads of laundry and you've finally
- [Insanity, They Name is Cooking for Shabbat](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/insanity-they-name-is-cooking-for-shabbat/) - I'm cooked out. But really. What did you make for Shabbat? How do you cook when you have guests with varying tastes? I'm insane. Certifiable. But really....you probably don't believe me. I mean, who c ooks enough to drive themselves insane, right? So, before I show you what I cooked, I'll let you in on
- [A Watch, Too Many Fires, A Murderer, and Five Earthquakes - In the News](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/fires-murderer-earthquakes-watch/) - Today's 300 word news update is going to be challenging. A lot going on...so let's begin. First up, the story of a watch which is really more of a reminder about a man. Eli Cohen was an Israeli spy in the early 1960s. He managed to get to the highest levels of the Syrian government.
- [When an earthquake is really just an earthquake...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/earth-shake-under-feet/) - Israel has experienced several earthquakes in the last few days. Without question, an earthquake is nothing to ignore or become complacent about. On a scale of one to catastrophic, our recent earthquakes rate around a 4 (at least according to the Richter scale). In fact, even Richter terms these as "light". Still, it's less than
- [Israelis Rush to Save Lives in Thailand](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israelis-rush-to-save-lives-in-thailand/) - You'll probably hear that we are violent (ask Ariel Gold, idiot that she is, and ask Nina too). They're so busy worrying about the occupation, neither bothered to do anything about another issue that is happening in a far off land. What do they care? If it isn't a chance to bash Israel, why bother,
- [The Most Beautiful Birthday Party I Have Ever Attended--Didn't Even Know the Boy!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/the-most-beautiful-birthday-party-i-have-ever-attended-didnt-even-know-the-boy/) - Attending a birthday party in and of itself is not something remarkable. However, this party, this communal "event" was something altogether different...and inspirational! A few weeks ago, there was a small, innocuous Facebook post by a mother here in Maale Adumim. Her son, Matanel, was about to celebrate his 6th birthday. But, due to his
- [A Brainless British Fool's Bloody Betrayal](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/british-brainless-betrayal/) - Brainless idiots who parade themselves around trying to gain attention mean nothing to an eternal nation that has survived every enemy to come our way.
- [When Fiction is Your Only Recourse - Then it's the Jews Destroying Holy Sites](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/when-fictiono-nly-recourse-jews-destroying-holy-sites/) - In this fourth article in the Continuing the Dialog – Take 2 Series, I am dealing with my hate-mailer's decision - to respond to the assertion that he is apparently mainly a stereotypical Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. His method this time is to resort to the common tactic of the Israel-hater - fiction. Here, he makes the fictional
- [Today, Israel Pulled A Hillel!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/today-israel-pulled-a-hillel/) - she is. Ariel Gold believes in boycotting Israel and today, Israel answered her back. Straight from Hillel - a voice from 2,000 years ago warning Israel that we must take care of ourselves, even as we take care of others.
- [The Very Best Of Us And The Very Worst](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/the-very-best-of-us-and-the-very-worst/) - I take no joy in writing what I’m about to write. I take no pleasure in saying what I’m about to say. I take no satisfaction, no pride and no honour either, and yet I feel I have to say it anyway. Because today I read a story that will disgust you and will repulse you and
- [Gatestone Institute: Britain Deradicalization Programs Are Failing](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/gatestone-institute-britain-deradicalization-programs-are-failing/) - The Gatestone Institute published an article, "Why Britain's Deradicatlization Programs Are Failing". More good news coming out of the UK. In the article, the author (A.Z. Mohamed), writes that the vast majority of the UK's deradicalization programs are :at best ineffecive and at worst counter-productive". OK, this news is neither good nor surprising. One wonders
- [Reminder of the Path from Slavery to Freedom](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/reminder-slavery-freedom/) - We need reminders. In Judaism we have many ceremonies, but they are not empty rituals, they are reminders. Constantly, we are reminded to remember the period of slavery and the exodus from Egypt. And constantly, we are reminded why we were freed and what kind of lives should we live. Today, this makes all the
- [Israeli Defense Know How](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israeli-defense-know-how/) - They come from all over the world; police experts, military leaders, high tech experts and weapons experts. They come to learn. You have a problem with tunnels being dug into your country and drugs and humans being sold? We have a solution. Rockets, chemical warfare? We have a solution. You name it we have a
- [If You Want to Talk History...OMG, Bring it On!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/if-you-want-to-talk-history-omg-bring-it-on/) - In the third article in this Continuing the Dialog – Take 2 Series, we delve once again into history. Specifically, I am responding to my "hate-mailer" doubling down on his claim that the number of Jews living under colonial occupation in the Holy Land under either Ottoman or British rule somehow means that Jews are not entitled
- [Woman to Woman - A Call for Peace](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/woman-call-for-peace/) - Woman to woman. Here's a different kind of video. This woman is a mother, a daughter, a wife. She's a daughter-in-law, an Israeli, a Jew. I've often wondered if we appealed to Palestinian women - mother to mother, daughter to daughter, etc. if that would somehow help the situation. There are times I wonder how
- [Mossad and What It's Actually There For...](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/mossad-and-what-its-there-for/) - Part two of the Continuing the Dialog - Take 2 Series responds to: What i mentioned about the mossad and cia being the ones responsible for terrorism, that's what the mossad is there for isnt it? ********************** As I referenced in my previous response to you on the Mossad, the Mossad was only created in 1949,
- [What Can you Learn from a Tree?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/what-can-you-learn-from-a-tree/) - The Torah and our tradition is compared to a tree of life, we are taught. A tree of life to those who hold tightly to our way of life, our laws, our religion. But more, in holding to our religion and our tradition, this tree of life ties us to this land and to this
- [A Quick Note to the Syrian Government and Rebels](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/a-quick-note-to-the-syrian-government-and-rebels/) - This morning, a Syrian warplane approached the Israeli border. Obviously under surveillance the entire time, as it approached, Israel fired a Patriot missile from a base located "in northern Israel." The missile did not hit the aircraft. Instead; the Syrian plane turned and retreated from the border. To say that the missile did not hit
- [The Antidote to All of the Israel Hatred in the World](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/the-antidote-to-all-of-the-israel-hatred-in-the-world/) - I'll be the first to admit, I am a news junkie. I have mentioned this in the past, and it is still a fact. I have always, since 8th grade, loved to know what is going on in my immediate area and in the world, at large. However, being a news junkie has its downside,
- [Micha, I'm Not an Anti-Semite and the Torah is Not About Land](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/anti-semite/) - Part 1 of the Continuing the Dialog - Take 2 Series begins with me responding to: Micha, i am not an anti-Semite, i just feel sorry for the Jews who got their religion painted and turned into this. just as i feel bad and sorry for Muslims who turned to terrorism because they've been lied
- [Language and Krav Maga](https://israelblogger.com/authors/moshe-katz/language-krav-maga/) - If we look at all the possible violent and dangerous situations we might face, it is like looking at the text book of hundreds of pages, still unwrapped the night before the test; there is no possible way we can cover it all.
- [Myth #6: Zionism Versus Nazism or Hamas - They're [Somehow] Really the Same](https://israelblogger.com/authors/micha-danzig/zionism-versus-hamas/) - This article is part VI of the Response to “Hate Mail” from an Israel-Hating Conspiracy Theorist series dealing with many of the biased and incorrect claims made against Israel in its fight against Hamas. This one responds to the following: “Wake up and realise that you are selling yourself short, to a cause that is built on hate
- [What You Are Proud of...Says Volumes](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/proud-volumes-culture-gaza/) - For much of my life in Israel, I have had the same feeling. I watch what they are proud of and what we are proud of. Long ago, I wrote that I'd rather be crying and live in land like mine than be celebrating and living there. Two cultures are proud today...but their pride comes
- [The Fields Are Afire and Nature Devastated](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/the-fields-are-afire-and-nature-devastated/) - Today's News in 300 is about a video I've just seen. The video shows nature and cultivated fields that have been destroyed by arson attacks in the form of flaming kites. Sadly, they have not translated it and so I will. I hope they do translate it, but for now, please share this post so
- [Exodus: This land is mine, God gave this land to me](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/exodus-this-land-is-mine-god-gave-this-land-to-me/) - The story of Exodus - not the Biblical one, but the one written by Leon Uris based on the story of the refugee ship, featured a song that is quite beautiful. The music, the singing, but even the words. Exodus was about leaving one land for another. The lands in which we were persecuted, for
- [Gonen Segev and the Banality of Treason](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/banality-treason-gonen-segev/) - Well, Eichmann was the first person that Israel charged, convicted, sentenced and executed. With any luck, Gonen Segev will be the next.
- [Response to "Hate Mail" from an Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theorist](https://israelblogger.com/authors/micha-danzig/response-to-hate-mail-from-an-israel-hating-conspiracy-theorist/) - As a result of my relatively frequent articles and appearances on cable TV and radio where I express my strong support and love for Israel; and do my best to dispel the lies and libels of the Anti-Semitic BDS campaign as well the true cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict, I get my fair share of
- [The Nightmare That Ripped Out Our Hearts](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/nightmare-our-hearts/) - Four years ago, every parents greatest nightmare became a reality for three families. Now, four years later, we know that Eyal, Gilad and Naftali saved countless lives and protected the entire nation. In the heavens above us, they have become our advocates. Three special boys, now our angels.
- [Arson - Sometimes No Other Word is Needed](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/arson-sometimes-no-other-word-is-needed/) - Really, if you needed more confirmation that the land of Israel really belongs to the Jews, there it is. Almost daily, the Palestinians are committing agricultural terrorism but really, in its most honest and simplest form, the Palestinians are committing arson.
- [Heat and Violence Marks Today's News in 300](https://israelblogger.com/news-in-300/heat-and-violence-marks-todays-news-in-300/) - Remember those news shows that give you a quick round up of what's happening? Well, that's what I'm after. A few paragraphs to tell you what Israel looks like from this side of the water. Sadly once again too much heat and violence. First, we'll start with some miracles - always a good place to
- [Confrontation Before the Fight](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/confrontation-before-the-fight/) - I am a born fighter. I will fight for my rights, I will fight for what is right. As my father and my grandfather before me I stand for what is right. But sometimes we are nervous. The moment before the fight is the worst. I have fought many full contact fights, I have been
- [Grabbing Too Much](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/grabbing-krav-maga/) - We are born grabbing. We find it adorable when we put out our finger and the baby grabs our finger with his little fist. Soon the baby is grabbing everything and putting it into his mouth. This can be dangerous. Too much grabbing is dangerous. As we get older one of the most difficult things
- [Joy of Teaching](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/joy-of-teaching/) - I recall my dear friend Rabbi Mordechai Ganzweig, may the memory of the righteous be a blessing. I was a young man when we had this conversation. He warned me about the problems associated with teaching, of being a teacher, the dangers, the economic hardships, the lack of recognition and appreciation. I was a young
- [Gratitude for a Miracle and the Grace that is Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/gratitude-for-a-miracle-and-the-grace-that-is-israel/) - "I thank God," says Shula Malka - the 18 year old who was stabbed repeatedly in the chest by a Palestinian terrorist last week. "I thank God, who made a miracle and I'm still alive." She thanked the doctors, the wonderful medical staff who are taking care of her, she thanked her friends and all
- [They Say it Takes Two to Tango](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/two-tango-israel-alone/) - Two to tango - that may work in dancing but we aren't dancing here.
- [Myth #4: Peaceful Arabs vs. Violent Nazi-Like Zionists?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/peaceful-islam-violent-nazi-zionists/) - This post is part IV of the Response to “Hate Mail” from an Israel-Hating Conspiracy Theorist series dealing with many of the biased and incorrect claims made against Israel. In this post, I address the suggestion that Arabs are somehow inherently peaceful without interference from evil third-party bogeyman (like the CIA or Mossad) and that it is
- [Myth #5: Conspiracy Theory: ISIS Doing Israel's Work?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/myth-5-conspiracy-theory-isis-doing-israels-work/) - This post is part V of the Response to “Hate Mail” from an Israel-Hating Conspiracy Theorist series dealing with biased and incorrect claims often made against Israel. ********************************* Sadly, your next claim (if it can be called that) is just another crazy conspiracy theories, which, unfortunately, are the province of many Jew-haters, including Nazis, the KKK, White
- [Myth #2: The Idea of a Jewish State Started with the Balfour Declaration](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/jewish-state-balfour-declaration/) - You claim that the Jewish state started with the Balfour Declaration, and only after WWII did Jews started migrating to Palestine. Micha Danzig answers this absurd claim with facts...including real numbers showing how false this claim is!
- [Myth #3: Sabra and Shatila and Deir Yassin & EVEN IF Jews Lived Here at Some Point](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/sabra-shatila-deir-yassin/) - This post is part of the Response to “Hate Mail” from an Israel-Hating Conspiracy Theorist series dealing with many of the biased, misleading and/or flat-out wrong claims made against Israel. Now, on to Claim #3, which, in the "hate mail" I recently received was a combination of denying the Jewish connection to the land of Israel while at
- [Myth/Libel #1: Before 1948, Muslims, Christians and Jews Lived in Palestine in Harmony](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/muslims-christians-jews-palestine-harmony/) - This post is part of the Response to "Hate Mail" from an Israel-Hating Conspiracy Theorist series dealing with biased and incorrect claims made against Israel. The first claim you often hear from Israel naysayers is one of the easiest to debunk. They love to claim that “before 1948 Muslims Christians and a minority of Jews lived in Palestine in harmony”.
- [A World Devoid of ... of Everything](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/a-world-devoid-of-of-everything/) - There are moments when a word can truly describe the world. Today is one of them. Hours ago, I heard that the United Nations had, yet again, voted to condemn Israel. As I listened to the vote tallies, a single word came to mind, "devoid". That's it. The world is devoid of truth, of honor,
- [Cyber Security Leaders of the World](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/techy-talk/cyber-security-leaders-of-the-world/) - What will tomorrow bring in relation to cyber security? If there is anyone in the world who knows the answer to this question, it is Israel's cyber security experts.
- [Saying Kaddish for Those Who Recited Kaddish](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/saying-kaddish-recited-kaddish/) - On May 16th, a group of approximately 50 British "with a variety of political beliefs – gathered in Parliament Square to mourn the deaths of the Palestinians killed by the Israeli army." (See I'm proud to have led Kaddish by the leader.) Currently, Leah Jordan serves as the Progressive Chaplain for Students for Liberal Judaism. As such,
- [Another Survivor Dies and Anne Frank Slips Further Away](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/anne-frank-survivor-turgel/) - The survivors are dying...so few are left. They leave behind unquestionable evidence of the horrors committed by Nazi Germany. Unquestionable because there is so much. No other mass slaughter in history was ever so well documented...often by the very people who were committing the genocide. Germans were meticulous in documenting, filming, accounting. When it was
- [Jerusalem Academy Welcomes Birthright Visitors](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/jerusalem-academy-birthright-visitors/) - Birthright Israel is an amazing program that brings, according to their website, brings more than 48,000 young Jewish adults to Israel to share in an unforgettable and often life-changing 10 day trip. Then there is the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. which has over 1,600 young people walk through their doors every day to "learn, create
- [Gazans - Before you Approach the Border Today, Read This](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/gazans-before-you-approach-the-border-today-read-this/) - It's Friday again, when tens of thousands of Gazans do something really stupid. They approach an international border of a sovereign nation...and then they get stupider. They attack the border and attempt to break through. They bring knives, tires to burn, and clippers to cut the border fence. And today, as the violence is about
- [Prayer at Kotel, Not Very PC](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/prayer-at-kotel-not-very-pc/) - When a group brazenly breaks the status quo, like the Women of the Wall, demanding that everyone kowtow to their way of thinking, they are the ones who are going against this basic "Love your neighbor as yourself" principle.
- [On the Bright Side - You're Never TOO Old](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/on-the-bright-side-youre-never-too-old/) - Every day of our lives, we have a choice - we can choose bright or we can choose dark. When things get depressing, I do two things. I shut out the news and only listen to silly programs on television. I can't, simply can't handle an endless run of sad stories, scary news, and depressing
- [Micha Danzig Setting the Record Straight on Tamika Mallory](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/mallory-micha-danzig-record-straight/) - Micha Danzig responds to the ridiculous comments of Tamika Mallory. Who is this woman? Well, as Micha points out, she clearly doesn't know much about history and seems to have learned the little that she knows straight from a Hamas playbook. According to Wikipedia, Tamika Mallory is "an activist and the national co-chair for the Women's March. In
- [Days of Anger and Days of Sorrow](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/days-anger-sorrow/) - If you live somewhere long enough, you'll eventually learn the lay of the land. Belonging somewhere means sharing in the national moments as well as the personal ones. As individuals, and as a nation, we go through a wide range of experiences and emotions - love and hate, anger and sorrow. Today is a day
- [Ever wonder what it's like to be a soldier in Israel?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/ever-wonder-what-its-like-to-be-a-soldier-in-israel/) - The Israel Defense Forces is an army unlike any other in the world. A soldier in Israel is treated...well, differently than most soldiers in other armies. This is true for many reasons. Our soldiers train like any other army, wear uniforms, have roll call. They eat, sleep on base, do patrols. But what changes them
- [Did you sleep last night? I didn't](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/did-you-sleep-last-night-i-didnt/) - At the best of times, falling asleep Saturday night is a chore for me. I've tried everything - taking a nap on Shabbat afternoon and not taking a nap. Drinking a ton of water before going to sleep; not drinking from the early evening onward. I have to admit I've never counted sheep, but I
- [Nikki Haley Redefines the UN Security Council](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/nikki-haley-security-council/) - Nikki Haley is fast becoming my hero. I love her accent and I love her heels. But more, I love the sound of her telling the United Nations what we've all whispered to each other. You are a bunch of biased, anti-Semites. No, those weren't Haley's exact words, but they're pretty close. "Because this attack
- [Rocket Fire Demands Immediate Response](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/rocket-fire-demands-response/) - When you break the ceasefire and fire rockets at us, we're going to fire back. Big time. You started it. We WILL finish it. Every. Damn. Time. Rocket fire demands an immediate response.
- [Where are the innocent Palestinian Protesters?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/boomerang4israel/innocent-palestinian-protesters/) - Politically correct responses notwithstanding, those who burn tires are not innocent. Those who attack the border fence of a foreign nation are not innocent. When you go to a "peaceful" protest, you don't bring knives and explosives. You don't attack property and attempt to storm a border. Watch the video - it's great!
- [Barghouti Style Hunger Strike? Here We Go Again](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/barghouti-hunger-strike/) - The Palestinians are in trouble. They know it; and so does the world. The latest - a Barghouti style hunger strike has been declared next week. The world is supposed to scream at Israel because it has driven the Palestinians to the desperate move of declaring a hunger strike. In recent weeks, Palestinians have set
- [Counting the rockets - Don't apologize for Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/counting-rockets-dont-apologize-israel/) - Guest Post by Dave Bender How many incoming alerts, mortar shells, and possibly larger rockets were intentionally fired towards Israeli civilians, towns, villages, and farms so far, today alone? Counting just today? This many. And the evening is still young... When the caterwauling begins about "disproportionate response," remember that Every. Single. Rocket. Is. A. Geneva. Convention.
- [An Open Letter to the Wife of a Reserve Soldier](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/open-letter-wife-reserve-soldier/) - I promise you, I'm terrified too...but I'm also angry and I'm going to make fun...and joke because at the worst moments in our lives...all we have is each other and our ability to comfort each other.
- [Palestinian Propaganda - Medieval “Blood Libel” Meets the Nazi “Big Lie”](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/gaza/palestinian-propaganda-the-medieval-blood-libel-meets-the-nazi-big-lie/) - Why after being repeatedly duped by Palestinian representatives with lie after crazy lie is the media so willing to continue to report their crazy claims as if they are factual?
- [A Joke of the World - Flavors of Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/joke-world-international/) - And sometimes, the humor becomes a bit sour, a bit too close to reality.
- [In the Hard Times - Remember - We ARE a Miracle](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/hard-times-remember-miracle/) - Sometimes, when you become overwhelmed, the best solution is to stop and go back to the basics of the situation. Basically, the fact that we live in this land is a miracle. Really, it is that simple, that obvious, and little else. Nearly forever, we have been breaking the odds...well, at least for thousands of
- [Examining the Message of Netta at Eurovision](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/examining-the-message-of-netta-at-eurovision/) - By her own admission, Netta is on a mission with messages for many - for all women, for "well-endowed" women, and for men.
- [My Day Just Got Bombed - How's Yours?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/day-got-bombed/) - Having a nice breakfast? Looking forward to all you have to do today? Or maybe it's late at night where you are and you're relaxing in bed? Did you know Israel just got bombed? Never mind. Relax. Unwind. You probably had a hard day and your mind is exploding with details. In Israel, things are
- [Bringing a Small Measure of Comfort to Victims of Terror](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/solomon-comfort-victims-terror/) - The greatest revenge against the tragic attack in Neve Tsuf is that we, as a Jewish family, move on and attempt to bring joy and light into the world.
- [Agricultural Terrorism - Nothing Less](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/agricultural-terrorism-nothing-less/) - Agricultural Terrorism Recognize this attack for what it was. Condemn it for the violence it represents. And as you would demand justice for a terror attack directed at humans, demand the same for the land. If you burn the land, you prove, yet again, that you do not love it and that it isn't yours.
- [Hidden Costs](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/hidden-costs/) - In life we rarely see the hidden costs of the work of others, only our own. Years ago I was a youth counselor for seriously disturbed children from broken homes and dangerous neighborhoods. One of my tasks was called "Travel Training", I was to take these young people and teach them the basics of travel
- [Jets, Buildings and Hamburgers - In the News](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/jets-buildings-and-hamburgers-in-the-news/) - As we come to the close of another work week in Israel, here's a quick round-up of what's been happening here. Today can be summed up in fighter jets, buildings, and hamburgers on the bright side, and a wounded soldier on the other. We'll start with some sad news first. Today, an IDF soldier was
- [Gal Gadot and Conan - On Screen in Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/gal-gadot-conan-israel/) - Like all of his video clips in Israel, you can't help but laugh. Conan and Gadot...amazing!
- [Linda Sarsour is the Essence of the Banality of Evil](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/linda-sarsour-banality-evil/) - She fights for the rights of women. Marches for those rights. And yet supports Sharia law which limits women's rights and allows men to treat women as objects to be collected, abused, and disposed of. Honor killings.
- [Demanding Recognition of the Armenian Genocide is Insane](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/demanding-recognition-of-the-armenian-genocide-is-insane/) - One hundred years ago, the Turks committed genocide. They murdered over one million Armenians, barbarically raped countless women. They rampaged and destroyed whole communities. We don't need the world to recognize the Armenian genocide. It happened.
- [Stories and Values and a Lesson from a Survivor](https://israelblogger.com/authors/moshe-katz/stories-values-survivor/) - In this day and age of social media people have few secrets. If you go out for a steak dinner, we all know about it. If you spend lots of money it is there for all to see. Even if you are not doing anything wrong it is important that you not make an impression of doing wrong. Appearances matter as it leads to discontent.
- [Fire fights, Red Lights, and Flaming Kites - In the News](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/fire-fights-red-lights-and-flaming-kites-in-the-news/) - So what do fighting fire, kite flying and red lights have in common. Well, they are all in the news today. So here's a quick update.
- [Oops There Goes Another Syrian Target](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/oops-another-syrian-target-kerplop/) - Each time a new report comes in, the same thought goes through my mind. Oops, there goes another Syrian target. Kerplop!
- [Dead Sea and Conan - Can it be?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/dead-sea-conan/) - In this latest Conan video, he visits the Dead Sea. He explains that geographically, the Dead Sea is the lowest place on earth. As he floats, he begins to sing Hava Nagila. The problem is, he only knows two words of the song - Hava and Nagila. Leave it to Conan to get a whole
- [More Laughs and Smiles - Conan in Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/videos/conan-jerusalem-laughs-smiles/) - Conan's visit to Israel produced some amazing videos. In each one, he gets personal with the people he meets. Laughs, but also truths. In this visit, he comes to Jerusalem, Israel's eternal capital.
- [It’s [Not] the Economy, Stupid; It’s the [Arab & Islamist Supremacist] Ideology](https://israelblogger.com/authors/micha-danzig/its-not-the-economy-stupid-its-the-arab-islamist-supremacist-ideology/) - If we want to stop the violence, then making Hamas and its acolytes richer and enabling them to import more weapons will not serve that purpose. No more so than making the Nazis and their supporters in Germany richer would have made Germany less violent. The core of this conflict is, and has always been, ideological.
- [Nas Daily – Pick a Side – It Should Not Be That Hard!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/nas-daily-hamas-israel-gaza-march-of-return/) - Nas Daily, choosing between Hamas and Israel should not be very difficult.
- [Mahmoud Abbas and Shavuot - In the News](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/mahmoud-abbas-abu-mazen-news/) - Over the long and enjoyable weekend here in Israel, most Israelis were celebrating the holiday of Shavuot. Oh, and Abu Mazen, also known as Mahmoud Abbas, was rushed to the hospital. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis flocked to enjoy the vacation. Few Israelis really care what happens to a corrupt old man who has never
- [Getting Past the Offensive in the Offensive Questions](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/offensive-questions/) - We've all been asked a question that sets our nerves ablaze. It's a question that shouldn't have been asked but more, it is a question that should not HAVE to be asked. The answer is obvious, isn't it? We each have our own "offensive" question. Offensive in quotes because perhaps, though it is hard to
- [Good Morning, Paraguay - In the News](https://israelblogger.com/authors/reuven-levy/morning-paraguay-news/) - Following on the heels of the US Embassy move to Jerusalem, today Paraguay joined Guatemala in opening its embassy in Israel's capital as well.
- [Offering Some Perspective: Morality, Facts and a Bit of History](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/perspective-morality-history/) - The hypocrisy we are witnessing today from the press, the global community, and worst of all, from in-house, is confusing and infuriating. My conclusion when nothing adds up? Someone else is running the show and pulling the strings, because with the flawed logic and lack of a moral compass that humanity is displaying today, it sure is not us running the show.
- [Is Conan Thinking of Enlisting in the Israeli Army?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/conan-enlisting-israeli-army/) - What I love about this clip is that not only is Conan having fun, not only are the young women having fun, but those who watch it get to smile. In a crazy world where rockets are fired at our citizens; where international celebrities determine guilt by the body count and not the right of it all, this is a welcome opportunity to laugh.
- [Who loves the land of Israel most?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/who-loves-israel-land-most/) - Do you love your country, your land? There is a parable told about King Solomon, who is remembered as an exceptionally wise man. Two women came to him, both claiming to be the mother of the infant they brought with them. The king listened to each woman and then instructed them to cut the baby
- [Morally Challenged - American Jews Acting as Tuesday Morning Quarterbacks](https://israelblogger.com/authors/micha-danzig/jews-tuesday-morning-quarterbacks/) - I just returned from Israel. I returned after watching my son and numerous other brave young men and women who volunteered and were accepted into Israel’s Magav (Border Police) swear an oath to defend the land of Israel and its citizens from all threats both foreign and domestic (of which sadly, there are many). In
- [Conan in Israel - Laughs and Truth](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/conan-israel/) - Almost a year ago, Conan O'Brien came to Israel to...well...I'm not sure what he came for. Without doubt, what he left in his wake were some really funny videos and a lot of people who laughed and smiled. Below is the first video presents a history of Israel dating back thousands of years. It's fast.
- [Flavor of Israel - Train Schedules](https://israelblogger.com/authors/leah-katzenel/flavor-of-israel-train-schedules/) - Israel is very different from most, if not all, other countries. There are things that are uniquely Israel and I think it's important to share these so, here goes. This is the first in what I hope will be many posts about the Israeli side of Israel. This notice about the train schedules for the
- [WJC Asks Who are the Gaza Protesters?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/wjc-gaza-protesters/) - The World Jewish Congress has created a video entitled, "Who are the Gaza protesters? The answer may surprise you (or not)". We wonder whether Bette Midler knows these important facts?
- [Question for the World - If Gaza Was On YOUR Border](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/question-world-gaza-border/) - Here's a short video that poses a simple question to the world. Actually, it poses several questions that need to be answered. What would you do if it was your border? What would you do if tens of thousands of people were coming to your border with the goal of attempting to get inside your
- [Time to Bring the Ethiopian Jews Home](https://israelblogger.com/authors/boomerang4israel/time-bring-ethiopian-jews-home/) - Boomerang4Israel brings you another set of amazing videos. These are on the remaining Jews of Ethiopia. As crazy as it sounds, the Jewish people lost touch with the Jewish community in Ethiopia more than centuries ago. They were cut of from us, from so much of what happened to us. When the Ethiopian Jewish community
- [Nikki Haley - It's Not About the US Embassy in Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/authors/amy-stein/nikki-haley-not-about-embassy/) - Nikki Haley has one of the most difficult jobs in the world. She has to speak reason in a place where reason rarely matters. Calmly and logically, Nikki Haley addresses the UN Security Council and explains that the violence of the last few days and weeks has nothing to do with the Embassy move, and
- [IDF Officer on the Front Lines - Truth Behind the Gaza "Slaughter"](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/front-lines-gaza/) - I’m writing because I am one of the few who was there – in uniform, in the reserves, but I was there. Yes, right there on the fence where the demonstrations are happening. It was last Friday – but I saw it with my own eyes; I was on our side but I could see and hear and understand everything. I want to testify from my firsthand knowledge, not a theoretical point of view. Because I was there.
- [Jerusalem Day Unites All Israelis Eternally](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/jerusalem-day-unites-israelis/) - Jerusalem Day each year reminds us of a war that took place 51 years ago. It was a war, like most of our wars, that began with the aggression of our enemies. They massed on our borders and shouted for our death...then as they do today. It was 1967 and the world stood back to
- [Netta Barzalai and the Israeli Psyche](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/netta-barzalai-and-the-israeli-psyche/) - Netta Barzalai is an unlikely hero of Israel. Most of our heroes are male, though we do have a fair share of female role models. Most of our heroes are older than this young singer's 25 years in our world. Also, a fair share are heroes as a result of their actions on the battlefields
- [Is Israel on the brink of war again?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israel-brink-war/) - Last night, Iran committed an act of war. It fired 20 missiles at Israel (towards the Golan Heights). This act of war was not committed in the name of self-defense. It was not firing at rockets that were aimed towards their people. Rather, it was fired at people (Israelis) whom they have threatened repeatedly and
- [Time to Change the Rules of Engagement](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/change-rules-engagement/) - Approaching our borders means you want to kill us. Our laws, the Torah, the Ten Commandments, all that Judaism and Christianity are based on, demands that we protect ourselves. That we kill in order to stop them from murdering us. Change the rules of engagement now.
- [Lag B'Omer Starts Tonight - But Why?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/lag-bomer-starts-tonight-but-why/) - For the last 32 days, Jews the world over have been counting the "Omer" - the days between the 2nd day of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot. During this period, thousands of years ago, a plague raged among the students of the great Rabbi Akiva. Because so many died, this period is viewed as
- [Christianity and Judaism are Diametrically Opposite](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/christianity-judaism-diametrically-opposite/) - I wanted the group to understand the very basis of Judaism and to stress that we do not accept their premise that the person they worship was a god who brought a new/revised message.
- [In Light of Iran's Threats, What Israelis Think...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/in-light-of-irans-threats-what-israelis-think/) - Israelis are not normal people. There's just no getting around that fact. Normal people react differently than we do. If someone hurts you, insults you, threatens you, and then have the nerve to ask for help? Well, normal people look at them a bit surprised. "Are you kidding me? Why the hell would I help
- [Calling On the Jerusalem Post to Do the Right Thing](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/calling-on-the-jerusalem-post-to-do-the-right-thing/) - It is not a good time to be an employee of the Jerusalem Post. They are bleeding out in terms of their staff, as they are letting many staffers go. There are even senior staffers that appear to be getting the boot after decades of service. But that is merely half the problem. The
- [Netanyahu Speech Offers Good News to the Iranians](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/iranians-get-good-news-from-netanyahu/) - Bibi Netanyahu took to the airwaves a short time ago with promises that he would deliver "dramatic" new evidence about the Iranian nuclear program. I'm sure the Iranians turned out in huge numbers to hear Bibi's speech; I know that Israelis did. Because so much of the speech was in English, I'm relatively sure that
- [The Asymmetry of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict.](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/asymmetry-israel-palestinian-conflict/) - The position of many world leaders, and much of the international diplomatic community, to the Israeli-Palestinian problem is that everything can be solved with a Two-State solution based on 1967 borders. This is lazy and shallow-minded knee-jerk diplomacy. It is devoid of any original or alternative thinking to a policy that has patently failed. The
- [Milestones and Roadblocks](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/milestones-and-roadblocks/) - In the summer of 1986, my mother turned seventy years old. She had been a widow then for the same amount of time as she had been married. To mark the milestone, my brother, my then husband, and I held a surprise birthday party for her. The pictures that sit in an envelope in my
- [Guide to Israeli Banking](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/guide-israeli-banking/) - Smarter Israeli Banking by Rifka Lebowitz is a wonderful gift for any newcomer to Israel... and to anyone who is new to handling his/her banking and finances, whether young adults or the recently widowed or divorced.
- [The Paper for “Thinking People”](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/the-paper-for-thinking-people/) - Guest Blogger: Yisrael Medad Haaretz, the left-leaning, sorry, make that tumbling over, newspaper founded in 1919 is notorious for blatantly biased coverage of traditional Judaism, normative Zionism and anything that does not promote an extreme progressive, humanitarian and liberal outlook. Here are CAMERA’s examples of what they found wrong in the pages and website of
- [The Night the “Light” Went Out in Maale Adumim](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/night-light-maale-adumim-ella/) - Ever since this horrible tragedy began to unfold yesterday afternoon, I have had this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. As the news began to filter in from the area of the Dead Sea that there was a terrible series of events playing out, I was confused along with millions of others. Reports
- [Does insanity reign or does sanity rain?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/does-insanity-reign-or-does-sanity-rain/) - Weather in Israel is generally one of the most boring topics imaginable. For months and months of every year, our weather doesn't change. Hot and dry today...and hot and dry tomorrow. From March to November, it rarely rains. The "absolute" cut off in the Spring is usually the holiday of Passover. And if by chance
- [Israel In the Eye of the Storm](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israel-iran-sandstorms/) - The last time Persia/Iran set a deadline for when it planned to kill the Jews, the leader of the plot was left hanging from a tree. As I sat on the beach watching the planes, surrounded by hundreds of people, I knew that Israelis were anything but afraid.
- [Being Jewish is awesome now that I’m a mom](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rachelavraham/being-jewish-is-awesome-now-that-im-a-mom/) - Heather Stoltz recently published an article titled “Being Jewish kind of sucks now that I’m a mom.” In the article, she claims that she is increasingly becoming detached from her synagogue due to the fact that her children make too much noise in order to remain in services. As a mother to 3 small children,
- [Natalie Portman and the Concept of Marit Ayin](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/natalie-portman-marit-ayin/) - The bottom line is, Portman can justify her refusal to come to Israel (but keep the money from the award. Ya know, so her hypocrisy is to the max!) by saying she doesn’t want to support Bibi or any other ridiculous reason. At the end of the day, she is giving the declared enemies of the Jewish state more ammunition to target and attack us.
- [Only an Insane World Can Deny Objective Undeniable Truths](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/un-palestinians-undeniable-truths/) - Guest Post by Hillel Fuld I want to thank the international community, the UN, Bernie Sanders, France, our very own Meretz party, and the bulk of my gratitude, I’d like to dedicate to our friends, the people who call themselves Palestinians. Self doubt, it’s a dangerous thing. When all day, every day, all you hear,
- [A Father's Message: Never again - Because of us](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/six-million/) - We mourn the lives of the 6 million, we share their stories, and we recognize that no one else will stand up for us, so we need to stand up for us. The world doesn’t have to like it.
- [Tell Me, Is He a Zionist?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/tell-zionist/) - By all appearances, the answer that most people might give to the man in this video would be, "no, he is not a Zionist." There are many things that he doesn't do that Zionists firmly believe he should. There are things that he does, that many Zionists do not do. By all appearances, one's first
- [The Cries Of My People Will No Longer Be Ignored](https://israelblogger.com/authors/the-cries-of-my-people-will-no-longer-be-ignored/) - Our greatest victory will always be that despite the disaster that befell us, we rose again.
- [Hodaya Asulin - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/hodaya-asulin-one-of-israels-fallen-faces/) - For six years, I was in a coma at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. Until November 22, 2017, when I died. My name is Hodaya Nechama. I am 21 years old. And I am one of #TheFallenFaces.
- [Osama Najar- One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/osama-najar-israels-fallen-faces/) - My name is Osama Najar. I am 28 years old, a proud Catholic-Israeli, and I live in Haifa with my wife Carol and daughter Natalie. My parents and siblings love to dote on Natalie. How I like to play poker with my brother Youssuf. But I mostly have a passion for food and I am
- [Naftali Dean - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/naftali-dean-one-of-israels-fallen-faces/) - My name is Naftali Dean. And I am 85 years old. I was born in Romania in 1916 but I have lived in Israel since 1935. At the time, I was a journalist covering the Maccabiah Games. Afterwords, I could never bring myself to leave. In 1939, I married my wife Penina and we are
- [Daniel Treggerman- One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/2680/) - My name is Daniel Treggerman. And I am four years old. I live in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the Sha’ar Hanegev Region of Israel, close to the border with Gaza, with my dad Doron, my mom Gila, my sister Yuval and baby brother Uri. I love to build with blocks, learn the alphabet, and paint.
- [Israel's Boys of Summer](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/israels-boys-of-summer/) - Tomorrow, or perhaps even sooner, they will be back in uniform, back on our borders. But today, glorious today, they are free.
- [The Upcoming Gaza Tire-Burning and the Hand of G-d](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/the-upcoming-gaza-tire-burning-and-the-hand-of-g-d/) - The plan is to burn tens of thousands of tires, creating a huge smoke screen to enable them to attack us without our being able to see them. They plan on crossing a line that will permit them to harm Israel.
- [Who Are My Heroes?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/my-heroes/) - Who are my heroes? Well, I can tell you easily who they are not. The politicians who worry about votes are not heroes to me. A Chief of Staff who abandons a soldier in trouble is not a hero to me. Journalists who use the power of words and popularity to hurt a boy, a
- [Reuven Shmerling - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/reuven-shmerling-fallen-faces/) - My name is Reuven Shmerling. And I am 70 years old. I come from a proud heritage – and am a direct descendant of the great Alter Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi! I live with my wife Chana and operate a business with my son. Chana and I have four beautiful children and 19 gorgeous
- [Remembering our Fallen Israelis - One Face at a Time](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/remembering-our-fallen-israelis-one-face-at-a-time/) - Please join us on this journey - share it with others so that together these "Fallen Faces" will never become forgotten faces.
- [David ‘Diego’ Ladowski - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/david-diego-ladowski-one-of-israels-fallen-faces/) - My name is David ‘Diego’ Ladowski. I am 29 years old and I was born in Argentina to my parents, Avraham and Sarah in 1973. I also have a sister, Roxanna, and a brother, Gabriel. In 1992, I made aliyah to Israel. My parents and sister live here now too, though my brother moved to
- [Avraham Moses - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/avraham-moses-one-of-israels-fallen-faces/) - My name is Avraham David Moses. I am 16 years old. I was born in Efrat, to Nafatali and Rivkah, who are both from the United States. And although my parents divorced, we all live near each other and both remarried to people who love me like their own. Now I am have blessed with
- [Bat-Chen Shahak](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/bat-chen-shahak/) - My name is Bat-Chen Shahak. And I am 15 years old. I was born in Ra’nana on Purim, a joyous festival for the Jewish people. I am passionate about writing and, “even in sad moments when I am angry and nervous, the diary makes my life much more beautiful.” I believe that we can all
- [Efrat Ungar - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/efrat-ungar-one-of-israels-fallen-faces/) - They buried Yaron and me in the Kfar Etzion cemetery. Thousands came to our funeral.
- [Alan Beer - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/authors/fallen-faces-project/alan-beer-one-of-israels-fallen-faces/) - My nephew, an emergency worker, raced to the scene of the latest terror attack in Jerusalem, and found me dead in the rubble but said I had the same smile I always had on my face.
- [Koby Mandell - One of Israel's Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/koby-mandell-one-of-israels-fallen-faces/) - My name is Yaakov Mandell. But my friends call me Koby. I am 13 years old. I was born in the United States and lived in College Park, Maryland. In 1996 my parents, Sheeri and Seth, decided we should make aliyah to Israel, taking along myself and my siblings Daniel, Eiliana and Gavi. We live
- [Being an Actor and Being Religious in Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/actor-religious-israel/) - When I worked with Israel Musical Theatre's production of "Man of La Mancha", at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem, we gave a matinee and evening performances. In between performances, with actors and tech crew, we had full minyanim for mincha and ma'ariv – talk about an "only in Israel" moment.
- [A Letter from Golda Meir on the Palestinians](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/letter-golda-meir/) - Golda Meir sent a letter to the New York Time which was published on January 14, 1976, exactly 42 years ago.It makes for fascinating reading today“Golda Meir, on the Palestinians” By Golda Meir The New York Times January 14, 1976 To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my
- [Pessach (Passover) – Judaism Encapsulated](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/pessach-judaism-encapsulated/) - B”H The core and essence of Judaism is Am Yisrael’s exodus from the galut in the Land of Egypt. And Pessach is the holiday that celebrates and prepares us for just that, the exodus. That is, The Exodus is THE paradigm journey. It is a concept and reality at the same time, existing on many
- [These Blokes think Holocaust Jokes are Funny?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/bloke-holocaust-jokes-funny/) - Is it funny that some "bloke" trained his pug to give the Nazi salute to the words, "Gas the Jews"? Apparently these radio talk show people think it is...
- [Sarah's Story. A Tale of Love and Destiny.](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/sarahs-story-tale-love-destiny/) - 'Sarah's Story. A Tale of Love and Destiny.' A failed love affair, a self imposed exile in an unhappy marriage, a determination to help her people, a witness to genocide, the only woman to head a major espionage network under the noses of the enemy in wartime. A page-turning saga based on a real person
- [What Leon Uris Would Have Said About the Polish Amendment Issue](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/leon-uris-said-polish-amendment-issue/) - Actually, it’s not what Uris “would have said” but what he actually did write. The recent pending amendment to the Polish act on the Institute of National Remembrance by law by the Parliament of Poland, should the President of Poland sign it into law, would bring with it the possibility of a government-imposed fine or
- [This is Am Yisrael & Eretz Yisrael](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/yisrael-eretz-yisrael/) - So, I had to get my daughter’s gift-given mirror repaired, and I found a fix-it guy at the edge of downtown Tiberias. He’s got work clothes on, and me, sneakers. He asks me where I’m from, and I say Yavniel, which is just outside Tiberias. ‘Breslev?’ he asks ‘Jewish,’ I reply, and he smiles. ‘Baruch Hashem,’
- [So, Is Abbas an Infidel Canaanite or a Muslim?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/abbas-infidel-canaanite-muslim/) - Quran 5.21: “[Moses said]: O my people! Enter the Holy Land which God has written for you, and do not turn tail, otherwise you will be losers.”
- [Media Bias Against Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/media-bias-israel/) - This clip is a parody about media bias against Israel which is unfortunately still relevant today.
- [Why Are People Against Israel?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/why-are-people-against-israel/) - So a friend of mine was part of a Facebook group that was made up of people who were involved with all kinds of what is termed "lightworkers" - people who work in the less mainstream side of healing, such as empaths, clairvoyants, spirituals healers and others. More importantly, it was a group that had
- [We Are a People that Understands Freedom](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/freedom/) - For the first time in 2,000 years, we are free. Join us in our freedom. Let the ghetto go and with it, let the ghetto mentality go.
- [A Mother's Prayer - Pray for Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/jerusalemprays/) - Please God, whatever their insanity, their hatred, their violence, please protect our sons and daughters today.
- [Lessons Not Learned; Inequalities Not Righted](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/lessons-not-learned/) - When lessons aren't learned, they continue to hurt people (and causes). When you need an inequality to justify and explain, there is something wrong with that cause, that justification. In July, 2017, three Israelis were brutally murdered. In the aftermath of those murders, Palestinians took to the fields protesting violently. Remember, it was during those
- [The "Core No - War No" Response Was Arizona](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/core-no-war-no-response-arizona/) - If you are confused by the title "Core No - War No" and Arizona, here's a brief explanation. In September, 2007, I was awakened in the middle of the night by my son, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. At that time, my son was stationed in the Golan Heights and he was calling
- [Reprehensible Comparisons on the Left](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/reprehensiblecomparisons/) - Making hideous comparisons serves only to muddle the facts, deny the truth, and prolong the conflict.
- [Resources for Pesach Re: Products, Kashering, and Haggada Divrei Torah](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/resources-pesach-re-products-kashering-haggada-divrei-torah/) - In just under two weeks, Jews around the world will sit down to the Pesach Seder night and spend hours discussing the topic of the Exodus from Egypt. Prior to that evening, there is much to be done, including cleaning, shopping, cooking, prepping for things to say at the Seder, etc. Each one of these
- [Plinko Guida Completa: Regole, Strategie e Consigli per Vincere](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/plinko-guida-completa-regole-strategie-e-consigli-per-vincere/) - ContentPrima di iniziare: modalità demo e altre opzioniIl concetto di plinko casino officialQual è la vincita più alta mai ottenuta a Plinko?Strategie leggere per divertirsi di più È caratterizzato da un tabellone a forma di piramide con dei pioli e una pallina viene lasciata cadere sul tabellone, rimbalzando sui pioli fino a quando non atterra
- [Who are Israel's Best Friends?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/friends/) - If you've ever wondered who Israel's best friends are, then the answers you read below might surprise you. I can't offer any concrete proof, any nationals surveys or studies on economic or political support. Honestly, I can only offer you the opinion of one Israeli. Albeit, someone who has spent weeks at a time, traveling
- [Zionism And The Jews](https://israelblogger.com/authors/zionism-and-the-jews/) - Most of Israel’s harshest critics today go to great lengths to point out they are only against Israel and not against Jews. They reject the label of anti-Semites, because in their eyes they see no connection between Zionism and the Jews. To them, they are completely separate elements, often rolling out fanatical anti-Israel Jews such
- [European Union!  Hezbollah, all of Hezbollah, is an Islamic terror organization.](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/european-union-hezbollah-hezbollah-islamic-terror-organization/) - The Israel Institute for Strategic Studies joins members of the European Parliament, the AJC, Bnai B'rith, and other global organizations is calling on Federica Mogherini, the EU foreign policy head, to rectify the decades old mistake and designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Danish MEP, Anders Vistisen, said, "It's outrageous that the European
- [Rabbi Auerbach and the True Judge of Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/rabbi-auerbach-true-judge-israel/) - Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach leader of the Jerusalem Faction died last night...at the age of 86. Tens of thousands rallied at Rabbi Auerbach's funeral. I can only hope in the last moments of his life, he was blessed with enough clarity of mind to do tshuva [repentance]. His followers, numbering in the tens of thousands. Perhaps, they even
- [Deportations - just another excuse to bash Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/deportations-just-another-excuse-bash-israel/) - As Israel is preparing to deport an initial 20000 illegal African infiltrators, one can almost sense the excitement in the air, as many around the world have found another excuse to attack the Jewish state. Demonstrations have been held around the world accusing Israel of being racist and cruel and asking the question how Israel -
- [Boomerang Intro to Football Stars Come to Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/boomerang4israel/football-stars-israel-boomerang/) - How often do people come to discover the truth? The answer is clearly not often enough so it's really great that NFL football mega-stars have come to explore.
- [Reflections on the Birth of a Grandchild](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/reflections-birth-grandchild/) - When you have a child, the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Amid the physical issues of labor, exhaustion, learning the child and so much more, is the awesome responsibility of the first few days. You will be making a decision that will effect that child's life, every single day. They will carry
- [Why Ultra-Orthodox Jews Should be Drafted](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/ultra-orthodox-jews-drafted/) - . Two months ago, I began a post called Yesterday's Anger. As part of that article, I uploaded a picture of a Haredi man who did a despicable thing - he is guilty of sinat chinam (which is translated as "baseless hatred"). There are those who condemn the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community for all manner of
- [Rockets Red Glare and Why I Didn't Sleep Last Night](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/rockets-red-glare-didnt-sleep-last-night/) - Did you sleep last night? I didn't. My phone kept beeping. A unique tone that I use to tell me one thing has happened - Gaza has launched rockets; people in Israel are running for their lives. Last night, I didn't sleep.
- [Israel's Prime Minister: We Must Love All Children](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/israels-prime-minister-must-love-children/) - Iranian athlete banned for 6 months; coach banned for 2 years for throwing match rather than compete against an Israeli. Israel's Prime Minister nailed the true issue in this video.
- [Terror and the Tale of Two Widows](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/terror-tale-two-widows/) - Love will surround these women, these families. This is a love that the terrorist, Abed al-Karim Adel Assi, will never know.
- [The BDS are bringing death to your doorstep](https://israelblogger.com/authors/bds-bringing-death-doorstep/) - In the end Israel will survive, as it always has. But South Africa... I'm not so sure
- [Israel’s Unique Export](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/israels-unique-export/) - We are not there yet, as we are still in spiritual galut. But we can still visualize all this to help perceive it as our up-coming reality.
- [The Obama Administration Collusion with Russia and Iran.](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/obama-administration-collusion-russia-iran/) - In the United States, as layers are peeled off disclosures of gross government abuses that are becoming criminal in nature, the name of Barack Obama is repeatedly being mentioned. One would have to be either political naïve, or politically biased, not to suspect that the weaponization of the branches of his administration against his political
- [The Guilt of NOT Being a Soldier's Mother](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/guilt-not-soldiers-mother/) - There are so many jokes about Jewish mothers and guilt that I won't mention them here. I'm very good at feeling guilty because rather than focus on what I did or did not due (the measure of most issues related to guilt), I often think about what I could have done or would be doing,
- [Sirens Sound on Israel's Northern Border](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/idf/sirens-sound-israels-northern-border/) - The huge difference now is the response from Washington
- [We Have Failed Joseph; Rachel Still Weeps](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/wehavefailedjoseph/) - It is time to move Joseph's bones again.
- [Never Judge a Jew By His or Her Cover – Especially Israelis](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/culture/never-judge-a-jew-by-his-or-her-cover-especially-israelis/) - Haven’t we all hated – been filled with sin’at chinam (baseless hatred) – long enough?
- [About Aliyah](https://israelblogger.com/aliyah/about-aliyah/) - There are a million and one things to say about Aliyah, each with its seemingly-almost-equal corresponding contradictory points. Aliyah means Jews “ascending” and returning to their homeland, the Land of Israel, based on God’s promises uttered and documented in His Book to us again and again, via our Patriarchs and Prophets, that He will return
- [Iran & The Supremacy of Human Free Will](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/iran-supremacy-human-free-will/) - The totalitarian regimes that try to zap the human free will out of their people may have taken down their countries’ social media lines (including the FB “Iran-Israel Friendship Group”), but they can never snuff out the innate will of human beings for freedom. Not too long ago, we witnessed the success of a hungry
- [An Open Letter of Support for Chen Solomon](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/open-letter-support-chen-solomon/) - Dear Chen: I do hope that you will see, read and take to heart the words of this post. Yesterday, I read your heartbreaking post on Facebook. It touched me to the core. I reproduce here it here for those who may not have seen it. "Shalom , My name is Chen Solomon, wife of
- [For The Love of Torah - The Essence of Jewish Education](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/love-torah-essence-jewish-education/) - The essence of Torah education is teaching to truly love learning and living Torah.
- [Jesus in the Children](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/jesus-in-the-children/) - In a world where children are starving, dying of curable diseases, living in regions without potable water, and subject to man's cruelty, the Pope should consider his words carefully.
- [Dennis Prager and the Elephant in the Room](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/dennis-prager-elephant-room/) - Dennis Prager addressing the Israel American Council in March 2017. A stunning video filled with truths that all Jews - in Israel and in the diaspora - should listen to.
- [Nikki Haley Answers the UN's Resolution](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/nikki-haley-answers-uns-resolution/) - Here Nikki Haley speak at the United Nations...it isn't about Jerusalem. It is about the very future of the United Nations. Truth...
- [I'm Feeling Sick Tonight...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/im-feeling-sick/) - I'm feeling a little bit sick tonight. And it's not because of the three slices of cheesecake I had earlier. Okay four, but that forth one was realy small! It's also not because of the fact that I only had three hours of sleep last night. Damn you Netflix! And it's definitely not because of
- [Why are you silent?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/why-are-you-silent/) - Last night, a missile was fired...again...at Israel. Three years ago, the parents of murdered Daniel Turgeman asked the UN Secretary General, "Why are you silent?" Why? Why are you silent when a city of 130,000 people is bombed? When people live in fear waiting for the siren?
- [How to Determine if Israel is Judged by a Double Standard](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/determine-israel-judged-double-standard/) - One country after another claims that they do not judge Israel by a standard any different than any other country. The UN claims it is not biased against Israel. Each time Israel calls foul in the public arena by how it is treated with a double standard, we are told we are paranoid or that
- [The Uranium One scandal and the implications for Israel.](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/uranium-one-scandal-implications-israel/) - Under the George W. Bush presidency, a tough line was taken against the Russian incursion into Georgia and Russian pressure on the Ukraine. Bush laid plans to create a missile-defense shield in Europe. When Barack Obama became president, he and Hillary Clinton decided to reset relationships with the Kremlin. At the heart of the reset
- [Antisemitism: Is There a "Cure?"](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/antisemitism-is-there-a-cure/) - The continued existence of the Jewish People, especially the return to our Historic Biblical Homeland threatens and contradicts the very essence of both Christianity and Islam.
- [The Maccabees Were Not G.I. Joes & Other Misconceptions of Galut Mentality](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/maccabees-not-g-joes-misconceptions-galut-mentality/) - A huge part of the entire Tanach is about showing just how hard we have had to struggle to maintain the Torah mentality Hashem wants of us and not fall into Galut Mentality. And we haven’t always completely succeeded, because it requires us to rise up to that level of consciousness, and then maintain its
- [So Just Shut Up!](https://israelblogger.com/jerusalem/so-just-shut-up/) - Ever feel like going outside and screaming at the top of your lungs, "Just SHUT UP!" I can't do that because, with several small grandchildren, I would have them repeating it to everyone they know and so, in silence I suffer as I read the words of others, as I hear them express one of
- [International diplomats - give me a break!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/international-diplomats-give-break/) - Let me see if I've got this right. Iraq has a civil war and won't recognise Kurdistan. Turkey, by the way, is killing any Kurds they can find. 500,000 murdered in Syria. The war goes on against ISIS. North Korea and Iran are on their way to nuclear weapons. Egypt cannot control the Islamic terrorists
- [Why Jared Kushner is on a fool’s mission.](https://israelblogger.com/authors/barryshaw/jared-kushner-fools-mission/) - Jared Kushner, President Trump’s attractive son-in-law, is trying to do the impossible. He hopes to achieve what too many others before him have failed to do. That is to turn a dysfunctional, corrupt, rejectionist, ideological, violent, Palestinian political divide, into a peace-loving nation. Here are just a few of the obstacles that stand in his
- [And the World Was Silent; Until...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/and-the-world-was-silent-until/) - In the past few years, Syria has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of its citizens. And the world has remained mostly silent. In Myanmar, there has been a systematic process of ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya. And the world has remained mostly silent. Tamil minorities are being slaughtered in Sri Lanka. And the world remains mostly
- [State of Israel Must Demand Respect](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/state-israel-must-demand-respect/) - The actual existence and survival of the State of Israel and victories in our wars were not because of any help we got from foreign countries.
- [Just Four Days In Time](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/just-four-days-time/) - There is not a single day in the year, or a single hour in the day or even a single moment in time that I am not grateful that the Jews have restored sovereignty in their ancient land of Israel. Because there is not a single day in the year, or a single hour in
- [My speech at the Jordan Option Conference](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/speech-jordan-option-conference/) - According to The Jordan Times, the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe unanimously approved a report praising Jordan's King Abdullah for implementing internal reforms. However, to the contrary of the king’s public perception in the West as a moderate seeking to improve the living conditions in his country slowly and gradually,
- [Pro-Palestinian pretense.](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/pro-palestinian-pretense/) - I have never met anyone who really gives a genuine damn about Palestinians unless it is linked with an umbilical cord to hatred of Israel. The two are so welded together that you have to think what came first - the Palestinian chicken or the Israeli egg. Those that adopt a Palestinian cause use it
- [1917 AND THE LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM.](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/1917-liberation-jerusalem/) - On December 11, 1917, General Edmund Allenby’s forces officially liberated Jerusalem. Actually, a Jerusalem delegation, led by the mayor, surrendered the city to a pair of British army cooks on December 8. Thus began a comical farce of who received the surrender of the Holy City. The Turkish army and their German commanders had fled
- [Fight, for the sake of today's boys](https://israelblogger.com/authors/chanaroberts/fight-sake-todays-boys/) - Can you really stomach the idea that your sons, nephews, male students, male cousins - will be legally disadvantaged, and receive no support if they are victims - just because they are boys?
- [In What Does Israel Rejoice?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/israel-blogger-team/in-what-does-israel-rejoice/) - In what does Israel rejoice...
- [What Not to Teach Children](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/not-teach-children/) - FURTHER UPDATE: (10:15am November 16, 2017) I have posted a follow up to the original post that can be seen here. UPDATE: (8:00am,November 16, 2017) Before posting this blogpost, attempts were made to contact the author/editor. After no replies were received, I the wrote this piece. I have since heard from the author and
- [Walking In The Path of Our Ancestors](https://israelblogger.com/authors/walking-path-ancestors/) - Netiv Ha’avot. You’ve probably never heard of it, and yet you know its story well, because it’s a story that is engraved in the Jewish consciousness and the Jewish soul and has been for thousands of years. Netiv Ha’avot is a place in the Judean hills that has been in the news lately, because the
- [Follow-Up Post Regarding the English Book](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/follow-post-regarding-english-book/) - Yesterday, I posted a story about a book in use to teach English, currently in use in some schools in Israel. In that post, I said that due to the nature of the story and the message, the book should not be in use in schools. Before posting, I attempted to contact some of those
- [Stepping Closer to the Edge](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/stepping-closer-edge/) - Live, Israel - it is and always has been, the only answer. No matter how close we step to the edge, the army and God above us remain our guardians. For now, we wait on the edge hoping that this time we will be able to back away rather than descend into yet another war.
- [40 Years in Shiloh Significance](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/only-in-israel/40-years-shiloh-significance/) - For the past few months, we've been focusing on the memorable fact that we're in the fortieth year of the renewal of Jewish Life in Shiloh.
- [A Magical Shabbat in Hevron](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/magical-shabbat-hevron/) - For years, I have watched as thousands have flocked to Hevron for Parashat Chaye Sara. Each year, I say I am going to join them and each year something comes up that prevents that from happening…until this year! There is so much to share and to tell that it makes writing this difficult. Just understand
- [When OMG No...Is the Only Answer](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/omg-no-answer/) - A few days ago, Israel did something rather routine. It discovered a terror tunnel that had been dug from inside Gaza to inside Israel. It blew the tunnel to smithereens. Apparently, there were men working inside and they were killed. Oops. Logically, if someone is breaking the law and digging a secret tunnel that will
- [The Real X Factor of Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/real-x-factor-israel/) - Now that the dust is somewhat settled and all and sundry predisposed to roar at any opportunity already got it out of their system, I ask: What if everything that’s going on here in Israel is really just God’s means to “clarify” more “sparks”? That is, What if He’s testing our How and not our
- [Well, I'm Not in Kansas Anymore](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/well-im-not-kansas-anymore/) - We have to learn to accept, to deal, if not to heal. So, I'm here. I'm dealing. I have six million shadows walking with me. I feel them and the Germans see them.
- [Huge victory against Palestinian efforts to kick Israel out of FIFA](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/fifa/) - FIFA made a decision following intense efforts by Jibril Rajoub, former terrorists and now head of the Palestinian Football Association, to have Israeli ejected as a member of FIFA, the world governing body for soccer or, at least, have Israel severely sanctioned. The issue was the existence of six Israeli football clubs playing under the
- [Every Day Aliyah Day](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/aliyah-issues/every-day-aliyah-day/) - Since I can't disguise my immigrant background, it means that wherever I am, whatever I do, I'm celebrating my own Aliyah Day.
- [Israel from halfway up](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israel-from-halfway-up/) - For the past couple of weeks, I have been kind of handicapped. On October 4, I suffered what apparently was a seizure. Since then, I have been kind of weak and unsteady. I've read that it goes with the territory, and takes a while for the brain and body to recover the balance and strength.
- [New Zionist Voices](https://israelblogger.com/authors/barryshaw/new-zionist-voices/) - Dema is one of the leaders of our New Zionists initiative where the world can hear the voices of non-Jewish Israelis speak about why they are proud Israelis. Listen to her words. She is equally as good in English. Give your support for Dema and other New Zionist voices like hers. Even Bibi says wonderful
- [Israel Should Just Leave The UN!](https://israelblogger.com/politics/israel-should-just-leave-the-un/) - Why is the State of Israel still a member of the United Nations?
- [Post-Conversion Situations and Complications](https://israelblogger.com/book-review/post-conversion-situations-and-complications/) - ... I really must say that this book about conversion and the halachic ramifications is fascinating and appropriate for laymen like myself.
- [Stop The Farcical Peace Talks](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/stop-farcical-peace-talks/) - We must remember that for the Arabs, peace talks are just a way to destroy the State of Israel, Gd forbid.
- [Not MY Haredim](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/not-my-haredim/) - If you cursed the protesters this week, you were right; if you cursed Haredim, including MY Haredim, you are part of the problem
- [Do you recognize this man?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/doyourecognizethisman/) - Do you recognize this man? In this life, his name, Jeff Halper, is as meaningless as the dust of the earth. When we first came back to this land after being slaves in Egypt thousands of years ago, you were one of the spies who lied about the land. You were there in the concentration camps, betraying our people and shoveling their bodies into the gas chambers.
- [The Asymmetry of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/asymmetry-israel-palestinian-conflict-barry-shaw/) - It is not about borders or territory. Until the international community realizes that there is this deep ideological asymmetry between the two sides, do not expect a solution any day soon.
- [The Test of True Friendship](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/test-true-friendship/) - A true friend is one who likes and accepts us as we are. So too are true friends of Israel – Jewish Israel that is: Am Yisrael for Eretz Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael for Am Yisrael. When someone is said to “work hard for Israel” that phrase is really meaningless unless qualified that it is
- [Why I agreed to speak at the Jordan Option Conference](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/agreed-speak-jordan-option-conference/) - A few months ago, Palestinian Jordanian dissident Mudar Zahran invited me to speak at the Jordan Option Conference in Jerusalem. He asked me to take part in this conference at a time when King Abdullah of Jordan was increasingly inciting violence against Israel, thus greatly contributing towards tension in the Middle East. This incitement led
- [O Canada! Put back the plaque!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rf/o-canada-put-back-plaque/) - Canada should not have replaced the original plaque for the memorial
- [Succot at Biblical Shiloh, 5778, 2017](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/only-in-israel/succot-biblical-shiloh/) - Biblical Shiloh has also been set up as a "fun for the entire family" tourist spot, and I went there today.
- [Joshua and Jeff: Zionist Occupier or Illegal Tour Guide](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/joshua-jeff-zionist-occupier-illegal-tour-guide/) - And Joshua? Somewhere in the heavens above, Joshua is smiling and Moshe stands beside him laughing, "A Zionist occupier?"
- [Social Linguistics - It's Etymology not simple Grammar](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/social-linguistics-etymology-not-simple-grammar/) - I have to respond to Paula's post on the difference between being Jewish and being a Jew. I would have just left her misguiding ideas alone, but she used strong language about differing opinions, so I think it needs to be addressed. First, the etymology. "Judaism" comes from being of the tribe of Judah or
- [The Need to Kasher](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/the-need-to-kasher/) - Am Yisrael needs a Jewish army in Eretz Yisrael.
- [Visited The New Jerusalem US Consulate](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/us-israel-relations/visited-new-jerusalem-us-consulate/) - ... I am so happy that the American Government has made a New Jerusalem US Consulate in which Jews can feel comfortable.
- [Almost Yom Kippur in Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/authors/judylashbalint/almost-yom-kippur-jerusalem/) - In the days before Yom Kippur in Jerusalem, thousands of Torah observant Israelis rush to finish the ritual of kapparot, where human sins are symbolically transferred to a fowl--generally a chicken. It's a custom that does not appear anywhere in the Talmud, but whose origin seems to come courtesy of several 9th century rabbis.
- [Why Jews Take a Knee](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/jews-take-knee/) - We are taught from a young age that Jews do not bow (Take a Knee)...it isn't completely true, as any Jew can tell you. On nearly all days of the year, we do not bow down on the ground. There are only three days of the year where this is pushed aside. The most important
- [A Walk in the City of David](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/walk-city-david/) - Recently I got to spend more time over one week in Jerusalem’s City of David than I’ve spent there in the past 3000 years. Living a mere 15 minutes from Jerusalem I try to be mindful of how incredible it is to have the privilege to be in the holy city often, even for things
- [Now That's What I call REAL NACHAT!!!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rashirosenzweig/now-thats-call-real-nachat/) - Before my son headed back onto the bus tonight from Beit Sha'an to his base, sporting his new camoflouge beret that he earned from over the past few months in the IDF, I told him something that I only wish my father was here to hear. After a HUGE hug, I looked into his eyes
- [The Nouns and The Adjectives](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-nouns-and-the-adjectives/) - We live in a world of descriptions. We describe everything around us, everything within us using words that are often arbitrary and misunderstood. It's a challenge to understand what someone else means; to struggle to interpret their meaning, not the meaning you would place on their words. Who are you? Who am I? Deep philosophical
- [The Story behind Palestinian Bravery](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/story-behind-palestinian-bravery/) - The Story Behind Palestinian Terror isn't what you think it is...
- [Support Kurdistan's Independence Now](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/support-kurdistans-independence-now/) - On this crucial day, as the Kurdish people are voting for their Independence Referendum, I call upon the international community to support them in establishing an independent state. The Kurdish people are uniquely different from the Iranian, Turkish and Arab peoples. They have their own unique history, culture and way of life. They deserve to
- [To Be A Jew](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/to-be-a-jew/) - We live in a remarkable world, a world that can be filled with unlimited hope and also never ending despair. It can take you from the depths of misery to the peak of joy. At times it can be filled with darkness from which there is no escape, and at other times, it can be
- [Peace and Pride](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/peace-pride/) - When I saw the news of the police / MPs and the Ultra-Orthodox trying to have a sit-in against the draft, I thought, "If those had been Arabs and not Jews, the whole world would have been screaming. There can't be a reason to kick a man when he's down." No matter how much I
- [American Base in Israel? Thanks, But No Thanks](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/us-israel-relations/american-base-israel-thanks-no-thanks/) - I'd like to thank US President Trump for his friendship and the excellent Ambassador he has in the United Nations, but I'd really prefer that he keep his troops at home.
- [Drafting the Jews](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/drafting-the-jews/) - The issue of drafting yeshiva bochurs is upon us yet again, for the umpteenth time, which is really just a green-light excuse and field day for all and sundry predisposed to trash “them” – the Charedim. Ain’t nothin’ like whipping up a little more sin’at achim right before we all stand trial before THE Supreme
- [Yesterday's Anger](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/yesterdays-anger/) - On July 28th, I began this post...it was very hard for me to write it...and so I stopped. Today, I choose to finish it: July 28, 2017 Yesterday, I attended what was perhaps the most special circumcision ceremony (brit milah) I have ever attended in my life (including those of my own three sons). I
- [New Jewish Year, 5778, Reflections](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/spirituality/new-jewish-year-5778/) - In just a couple of days the Jewish People will be celebrating a new Jewish Year, 5778. It occurs just as the summer is coming to an end.
- [Women and Jihad: Incitement leads to terror](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/women-jihad-incitement-leads-terror/) - Today at the Netanya Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel, I spoke about my book titled "Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media." The book speaks about the motivations for Palestinian female terrorism from the Second Intifada to the present and how the media covers these
- [Chareidim to IDF with Honey not Lapid's Tirades](https://israelblogger.com/education/chareidim-idf-honey-not-lapids-tirades/) - I have no doubt that by being amenable, understanding and sympathetic, plus offering an extensive "end of service educational package," more and more chareidim will decide that it is to their advantage to serve in the IDF.
- [Holiday Season Begins with Giving to Holocaust Survivors](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/holiday-giving-holocaust-survivors/) - The Jewish Holiday season begins. After lunch at work, I saw that HR put out a table with supplies to make New Year greeting cards. They explained it is to join a larger organization, to send greeting cards to Holocaust survivors. I love this idea. Well, I actually hate greeting cards. Ever since third-grade Valentine's
- [50 Shades of Anti Semitism](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/50-shades-anti-semitism/) - Among Jews there’s heightened concern about a rise of anti-Semitism. It’s true that in recent years there has been a general increase of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide, and with it a greater awareness of such incidents and how they are responded to. But the truth is if you’re Jewish, more likely than not you’ve experienced anti-Semitism
- [A time for righteous anger](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/time-righteous-anger/) - Something made me very angry today. The kind of anger that burns white in my veins and turns my eyeballs a bright red. No, it wasn't the silly European governments who continually condemn Israel while excusing palestinian islamic terrorism. No, it wasn't the fascist arab governments who speak of Israel being the obstacle of peace
- [Why you should know about Israel’s air attack in Syria and why you should care](https://israelblogger.com/authors/jonathanfeldstein/know-israels-air-attack-syria-care/) - Perhaps you didn’t hear about Israel’s alleged air strike on a Syrian military installation last week, but the incident has significant global ramifications about which you should be aware. In Israel, it’s always reported that incidents like these are “allegedly” carried out by Israel because in most cases, Israel neither officially confirms nor denies any
- [Control of Chemical Weapons](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/control-chemical-weapons/) - With the world a nervous wreck from that missile-happy North Korean, Am Yisrael could use a soothing reminder of the two Gulf Wars. In preparation for the first Gulf War, the Israeli chevre kadisha ordered tens of thousands of body-bags, lo aleiynu. So, who controlled the non-conventional weapons? The following is the famous account recorded
- [Rebbe Nachman Wasn’t From Uman or Breslev](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/rebbe-nachman-wasnt-uman-breslev/) - ‘Tis the season when Yids either bash or bask in the idea of going to Uman to the tziyun of Rebbe Nachman of Breslev for Rosh HaShanna. So, I thought I’d at least get one thing straight: Rebbe Nachman was not from Uman or from Breslev. Surprise! The amazing and short life of Rebbe Nachman
- [Rami Levy's New Mall in Ariel has Major Chains](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/rami-levys-new-mall-ariel-major-chains/) - I definitely enjoyed my shopping adventure in the Rami Levy Ariel Mall and hope to return, Gd willing.
- [Israeli Supreme Court Supports Illegals Over Citizens](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/only-in-israel/israeli-supreme-court-supports-illegals-over-citizens/) - Law-abiding Israeli citizens have gone to the courts to have the illegals taken out of the country, but the Israeli Supreme Court has defended the law-breakers against the law-abiders
- [The incitement behind women waging jihad](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/incitement-behind-women-waging-jihad/) - Last month, a female terrorist from East Jerusalem, who is a mother of 5 children, attempted to stab a Haredi man and stabbed an Israeli Arab whom she mistook for a Jew. The question remains, what would prompt a woman who is the mother of 5 small children to wage such an attack? The female
- [Success in School (Part II) Executive Functioning Skills](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/success-school-part-ii-executive-functioning-skills/) - In a recent post, I provided some information as to how students have different ways of "learning" and incorporating material. Discovering the method which best suits a student to learn is the first step in a more successful year in school. However, there is another topic that needs to be discussed in order to make
- [Wishing you a Delicious New Year! Klita N’ima #3](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/aliyah-issues/wishing-delicious-new-year-klita-nima-3/) - New olim, and some veterans/vatikim, long to know the names of various foods and prepared dishes. Here’s a handy helper for Rosh HaShana fare (there are only 15.5 days left for you to cook it up!). Compare the English-language message to the Hebrew version (I want to give a hat tip to long-ago HaAkademia HaIvirit
- [Hold Out for the Sun](https://israelblogger.com/videos/hold-out-for-the-sun/) - I just returned to Israel from California. I was all set to write about Silicon-valley sexism and how it compares with Israel. But I can't get Harvey out of my thoughts. The people misplaced, the crowded shelters, the deaths, the hopeless near future...it's drowning out everything else. I visited my FB page today, for the
- [Harvey and Heels and Hakarat Hatov](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/harvey-and-heels-and-hakarat-hatov/) - When I was very young, my father had to take a job in far off Louisiana to help support our family. To put off the parting a few more days, the family drove together down south. I have no memory of how we got back...if we flew or if my mother drove us alone. I
- [Waiting in Line from Right to Left aka Whuttapain and What to Do about that](https://israelblogger.com/aliyah/waiting-line-right-left-aka-whuttapain/) - PSA: Someone in my community asked why Israelis don't behave politely and form lines when waiting for mass transit or for the doors of buildings to open, let alone appointments with doctors or clerks. I replied to the question and figure that some of you might find it helpful: Welcome to the Middle East, a
- [Mazkeret Batya Founders were Real Pioneers](https://israelblogger.com/book-review/mazkeret-batya-founders-were-real-pioneers/) - I highly recommend Rebels in the Holy Land for yourself and as gifts for others of all ages. It's the most readable history book I've ever come across.
- [The Importance of Knowing The Nazi](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/importance-knowing-nazi/) - [taken from chapter 9 of To Cross The Line With A Bridge (Rabeinu Publications, 2015)] We should not fool ourselves into thinking that Nazism was ever extinguished with the fall of the Third Reich, as Nazis or neo-Nazis are resurfacing globally. Because of this, Am Yisrael needs to acknowledge this phenomenon and review its
- [Just a Sip of The Jerusalem Beer Festival](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/food-and-recreation/just-sip-jerusalem-beer-festival/) - I'll blog in more detail about the festival in a few days, bli neder, Gd willing. And just that you know, the brewers that used the tobacco leaves made a different beer which I liked a lot. So Stay tuned, and you'll read more.
- [A message to fellow Jews...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/message-fellow-jews/) - To my fellow Jews I see a lot of fighting going in the virtual and the real world. I see Jews from the left and from the right arguing with each other about who is "better" for the Jews or who is "worse" for the Jews. So let me be clear about my thoughts on
- [How to Succeed in the New School Year - For Parents and Students](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/succeed-new-school-year-parents-students/) - The key is to try to determine with which method your child learns best, and then to use that method to study and learn.
- [My Daughter's Gone to Hell](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/daughters-gone-hell/) - My daughter has gone to hell...or at least that's got to be what she's thinking right now. I know, because I went there over a decade ago with her older sister. Hell, in this case, is Poland. Not so much the Poland of today as the one in Europe some 75 years ago. She's there
- [Thinking Aliyah? Talking Tough to Potential Olim](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/thinking-aliyah-talking-tough-potential-olim/) - It's time to admit the sad truth. Israel isn't for every Jew. I surrender. I've had people tell me this before but I kept thinking, kept hoping. Finally, I see.
- [My Father, "The Jew" in The US Navy](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/diaspora/father-jew-us-navy/) - The story I remember best, which he only began telling after a few books came out about the ship he spent time on, was how being a great cardplayer saved his life.
- [The Immoral Moral-Equivalency of Donald Trump](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/immoral-moral-equivalency-donald-trump/) - When the leader of the free world can not make a CLEAR differentiation between good and evil, he needs to step down.
- [The Dichotomy of Love and Hate - Words from Ryan](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/dichotomy-love-hate-words-ryan/) - Hate makes you drive a car into a crowd. Love makes you run toward the event to help anyone you can.
- [“Grafting” = Missionary Israel Takeover Tactic](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/grafting-missionary-israel-takeover-tactic/) - As Jews, we have a duty to stop promoting and enabling this avoda zara right here in Eretz Yisrael.
- [Coming Home?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/coming-home/) - I read an “In your opinion what's the hardest part of moving to Israel?” question on Facebook, and replied “Failing to prepare for the relocation to a new country with its own language, customs and realities. People arrive here as if they floated away in a hot air balloon from the Kansas State fair. You're
- [Women's Rosh Chodesh Prayers at Tel Shiloh](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/spirituality/womens-rosh-chodesh-prayers-tel-shiloh/) - Next week we will be celebrating Rosh Chodesh Elul, which marks a month to Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish Year. As has been my custom at least a decade I plan on praying at the Holy Site of Tel Shiloh, Shiloh Hakeduma, on Rosh Chodesh. Rosh Chodesh is traditionally seen as a women's
- [Why Did You Apologize? Your Only Mistake is that You Got Caught](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/apologize-mistake-got-caught/) - The owner of a resort hotel in the Swiss Alps has conceded that she “used the wrong words” in signs she placed over the weekend that singled out “Jewish guests” over their use of the facility’s indoor swimming pool and kitchen refrigerators. Ruth Thomann, owner of the Paradies Hotel in Arosa (Switzerland) posted a sign in
- [Now maybe they understand](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/now-maybe-understand/) - To respond without taking a stand is to demean your voice.
- [Tel Shiloh, We are All Archeologists](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/only-in-israel/tel-shiloh-we-are-all-archeologists/) - There may not have been archeologists living at Tel Shiloh in early 1978, but today we certainly can call ourselves an "Archeological Expedition."
- [My Bad Experience At Temple Mount And Why I Will Go Up Again.](https://israelblogger.com/authors/zahavaenglardshapiro/bad-experience-temple-mount-will-go/) - I hesitated in resolving to go to Har Habayit (Temple Mount) and mulled it over for quite some time. I follow the decision of many reputable rabbis who not only permit visiting Har Habayit, but encourage it. Information about where we may and may not step is readily available, as are the laws for the
- [Winning the War With a Spoon and Shemurah Matzah: Parashat Ekev](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/winning-war-spoon-shemurah-matzah-parashat-ekev/) - We may not even be able to imagine in our wildest dreams how He does it.
- [My role in rescuing Iranian journalist Neda Amin](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/role-rescuing-iranian-journalist-neda-amin/) - I first got involved in Neda’s case after Iranian human rights activist Shabnam Assadollahi introduced her to me, stressing that I should write a story about her case.
- [TU B'Av Dancing in The Vineyards Tel Shiloh](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/only-in-israel/tu-bav-dancing-vineyards-tel-shiloh/) - There are various "dance" workshops, crafts, gifts, clothing, jewelry and more for sale, besides food. Young women were dressed in bridal gowns for a special fashion show. And of course you hear music all the time. Many women come to pray and be at the Holy Site of Shiloh.
- [Israeli Demographics by Religious Level](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/israeli-deomographics-religious/) - Religious levels in Israel - the issues that make us see red
- [Every Place Has Its Own Beauty](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/every-place-beauty/) - So! Where to now? Follow your dreams...
- [Day of Love - Religious Style](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/day-love-religious-style/) - What is secular and what is religious? Is the divide really so great? Do we really love so differently? I don't think so.
- [Day of Love](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/day-of-love-in-israel/) - Secular Israel is the majority of the population.
- [What are we afraid of?](https://israelblogger.com/politics/left-2/what-are-you-afraid-of/) - When I want to hear real news about the Middle East and Africa, Al Jazeera is the only station actually providing new information that I find relevant.
- [“Illegal” By Whose Stupid Law?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/illegal-whose-stupid-law/) - When you read accusations that Israel is so-called “illegally occupying”, demand to know “illegal” by whose stupid law that’s defined. Bear in mind two other stupid, but equally genocidal, man-made “laws”: British and Nazi. The British “White Paper” of 1939 ordered the ports of British-occupying Palestine closed and “warned any Jews who might try to
- [Arabs Fill Israeli Buses, No Seats for Jews](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/arabs-fill-israeli-buses-no-seats-for-jews/) - ...it's not right that Israeli citizens should find themselves waiting at bus stops without bus service.
- [Prayer DOES “Work”: Parashat VaEtchanan](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/prayer-work-parashat-vaetchanan/) - In the 1st war in Gaza, she kept appearing and warning IDF soldiers that certain buildings were booby-trapped. Remember that woman and IDF soldier Avner Azulai?
- [Israel's Security Solution, Clear and Timeless](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israels-security-solution-clear-timeless/) - The State of Israel must stop trying to get foreign support and allies, because our survival is dependent on our belief in Gd.
- [God's Law vs. Man's Law in Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/gods-law/) - A Jewish woman went up to the Temple Mount today and she did something unthinkable. She broke the law…man’s law, Bibi’s law, not God’s law.
- [Bye Bye Bibi, Jewish Home Must Go!](https://israelblogger.com/politics/bye-bye-bibi-jewish-home-must-go/) - Now, after seeing that petite Jewish woman being dragged like a sack of potatoes by those large men, there is no excuse for Bennett to stay in Bibi's coalition. I'm ready for elections. I hope they are!
- [9th of Av Yet Again](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/9th-av-yet/) - 9th of Av In another two days is the Fast of the 9th of Av, when we must endure a 25 hour fast* to commemorate/remember the invasion/conquering of Jerusalem and destruction of both our Holy Temples. The 9th of Av is the saddest most tragic time in the Jewish Calendar. In the heat of the
- [Tisha B'Av: A Call to ALL Jews to Fast](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/tishabav/) - The truth is that Har HaBayit does not belong to the Jews or the Christians and it sure as hell doesn't belong to the Arabs.
- [It’s Not About The Metal, It’s About The Mettle](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/not-metal-mettle/) - The palestinians will have you believe that installing metal detectors at the Temple Mount has led to an outbreak of violence. They’ll say it caused “outrage” in the Muslim world. They’ll say that Muslims were “insulted” and they’ll say that Israel is attacking Islam. They are concerned about the “Judaization” of Jerusalem, which is kind
- [Summer Treat, Bible Tanach at Herzog](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/summer-treat-bible-tanach-herzog/) - Yesterday, along with hundreds or most probably thousands of others, I spent the whole day learning Tanach, Bible at Michlelet Herzog in Alon Shvut.
- [Ari Yosef](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/britariyosef/) - Beautiful child, may you ever be blessed. You lost a grandfather before you ever got to know him. All we can do is love you in his memory.
- [Tears of Happiness / Tears of Sadness](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/tears-happiness-tears-sadness/) - Yesterday, as soon as I saw an invitation online to come to a Brit Milah, I said that I would attend. This wasn't "just" another Brit--it was a Brit of a newborn boy, in the Salomon family. This is the family whose grandfather, Yosef and two of Yosef's adult children were slaughtered in their home
- [Of Mice & Men, Of Monsters & Men: A Pep Talk For Tisha B’Av](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/mice-men-monsters-men-pep-talk-tisha-bav/) - This Tisha B’Av is Am Yisrael’s Day of Rage!
- [A Guide to The Kotel and Temple Mount](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/a-guide-to-the-kotel-and-temple-mount/) - The time has come to stop mourning and start building the Third Holy Temple. Stage one is to be fully sovereign in The Land of Israel, the City of Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount!
- [Israel Confirms Advanced Technology Being Used on Har HaBayit](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/israel-confirms-advanced-technology-used-har-habayit/) - Israel Confirms Advanced Technology Being Used on Har HaBayit
- [The Fabrication of the Palestinian Narrative](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/palestinenarrative/) - Every people has a history - the only real question is how far back it goes and what is in it. The Palestinians would have you believe that they are the predecessors of all. It's a matter of pride. In their twisted and desperate attempt to create a history of magnificent proportions, they find they
- [Guest Post: I Will Never Forget Jordan's Extortion](https://israelblogger.com/authors/guests/extortion/) - Guest Blog Post by: Gedalyah Chaim Reback - I Will Never Forget Jordan's Extortion
- [Bibi Melts Like Margarine on a Hot Day](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/bibi-melts-like-margarine-hot-day/) - Prime Minister Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu can't be relied on. We're being ruled by mushy melting margarine. Melting margarine can't stand up to terrorism!
- [Fearless Muslim woman and the Truth of Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/boomerang4israel/fearless-muslim-woman-truth-israel/) - Fearless Muslim woman reveals the truth about Israel
- [Jerusalem - Simple, Clear, Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/jerusalemisrael/) - They say a picture speaks a thousand words. If that is true, than a video likely speaks one hundred thousand. There are very few words in this video, but what is there is a simple. clear explanation of why Jerusalem is holy to Israel and how it is uniquely ours within the context of history.
- [Security 101 and Benjamin Netanyahu's Betrayal](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/securitybetrayal/) - Bibi, you're fired. Go home. You have betrayed Israel and your supporters for the last time.
- [Halacha, Like Every Created Thing, Is, Necessarily, Imperfect](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/halacha-like-every-created-thing-necessarily-imperfect/) - It seems to be obvious to me that it should go without saying, but experience both historical and contemporary requires me to emphasize and re-emphasize this. Exploiting Halacha and the halachic process in order to manipulate power, political, social, economic or any other is beyond obscene and should never occur. Unfortunately, all too often it
- [Only in Israel - Stranded at Sha'ar Hagai](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/israel-stranded-shaar-hagai/) - This amazing "ONLY IN ISRAEL!!!" story comes from Avi Abelow: So we are driving on kvish 1 to have some fun today in Tel Aviv/Yafo, when all of a sudden I can't turn the steering wheel! Not good at all. I pull off at the nearest gas station at Sha'ar Hagai and buy some power
- [What's the point of praying if you can't bring your own gun?](https://israelblogger.com/authors/honest-reporting/prayingtemplemount/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryKeoZaipDs
- [Dear World...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/rav-zev-shandalov/dear-world/) - Dear World: It is the magnometers that are causing the current crisis in Israel. Oh, no, wait, it is the occupation. Oops, no it is not, it is the settlements. Wait again! It is the apartheid in Israel. Ha, no, it is the “separation wall.” Ha, no silly, it is the blockade of Gaza. Oops,
- [Must Keep Temple Mount Metal Detectors for Arabs](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/must-keep-temple-mount-metal-detectors-arabs/) - The Temple Mount metal detectors must remain in place, and Arabs must undergo exactly the same security inspections as anybody else!!
- [Cold-Blooded Phony Journalists](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/cold-blooded-phony-journalists/) - The triple murder on Shabbat was directly related to Am Yisrael’s Beit Mikdash - the site and concept at large of our identity and ties with it.
- [She Heard Arabic and Knew Something Was Wrong](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/arabic_nevetsuf/) - Only the strong make peace...and we will be strong. The message we must deliver is a hard one. We have always been and will always be ready to meet you at the peace table but so long as you call for bloodshed...it will be YOUR blood that is shed.
- [World Cares More for Terrorists Than Arab Terror's Jewish Victims](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/world-cares-more-for-arab-terrorists-than-jewish-victims-of-arab-terror/) - There is an international agenda to portray Israel as aggressors. No one is interested in the truth when it comes to Israel and Arab terror.
- [There's something I want to tell you...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/theres-something-i-want-to-tell-you/) - I want to say something and I want the world to know it. I want to say it publically, unashamedly and unabashedly. I don’t care if it’s way too soppy, way too sentimental, and way too emotional. But I’m going to say it anyway. Because I just watched a video of how Israel is helping
- [Boomerang Says it Like it Is...in Arabic!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/boomerang4israel/boomerang4israel/) - You don’t have even one leader that dares to condemn the murder! Are you crazy?
- [21 Tammuz (July 26th) & My Musings on Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/21-tammuz-july-26th-musings-israel/) - There is a reality in this country of contradictions and impossibilities that defies reason and rational. Indeed, the spiritual energy of this holy land, very literally, defies even natural and physical law. One can never expect the expected and logical.
- [Parshat Moss’ay & Real Sanctuary Cities](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/parshat-mossay-real-sanctuary-cities/) - Cities of refuge only apply when Am Yisrael is on their land – i.e. in Eretz Yisrael.
- [Don't bend, Bibi - Don't give in](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/bibi-donotb/) - An Open Letter to Bibi Netanyahu I have something to tell you, Bibi. My son came home a few hours ago. I was very surprised and happy to see him. He is a combat soldier serving in a very well-respected unit. He is the third and youngest of my sons to serve...the first in Artillery, the
- [Why Arabs Turn to Terror? Follow The Money](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/arabs-turn-terror-follow-money/) - Remember that the money going into the terrorist pension fund comes from Europe, the United Nations, various NGOs, the United States and those people who think they are donating to peace, medical care and human rights.
- [Metal Detectors, What's Good for The Goose...](https://israelblogger.com/authors/batyamedad/metal-detectors-whats-good-goose/) - I also hope and pray that Jews will be given full religious and civil rights on The Temple Mount. It's time that we be allowed to pray in our Holiest Site in the World.
- [Jordan’s support for terrorism is despicable](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/jordans-support-terrorism-despicable/) - Rachel Avraham explains how Jordan in recent years has been supporting Arab terrorism against the State of Israel. She argues that the time has come for Israel to stop propping up this pro-terror regime. On the Temple Mount, two Druze police officers were killed and a third was wounded in a terror attack orchestrated by
- [It's Time For A Day Of Rage](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/its-time-for-a-day-of-rage/) - The demands of those Muslim clerics to continue to endanger the lives of ordinary people should not be treated with respect, but with contempt.
- [Jerusalem Jane from the Temple Mount!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/jerusalem-jane-temple-mount/) - This is the time to be on the Temple Mount, says Jerusalem Jane!
- [Welcome to Israel](https://israelblogger.com/videos/welcome-to-israel/) - Ezri Tubi is a one-man Israel video sensation
- [Peaceful At The Kotel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/batyamedad/peaceful-at-the-kotel/) - Yes, contrary to the impression you get from the news, the Kotel has a nice atmosphere. I felt no tension or resentment at all. And there is an egalitarian section, which is perfectly open, for those who want.
- [Enough with the Peace Process](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/enough-peace-process/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwufsOTwOOo For more information and to support this amazing organization, please see Boomerang Fighting for Israel They promised us if we withdrew from Lebanon; there would be peace. We did; they lied. They promised us if we withdrew from Gaza; there would be moves towards peace. We did;they lied. Again and again, this has been
- [You Just Can't Fix Stupid](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/fixing-stupid/) - Amiram Goldblum is, supposedly, a very intelligent man. He must be since he teaches at Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, right? In fact, he is SO intelligent, that he's a professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. And, you may not have known this, but apparently anyone with a degree in chemistry is a so smart that they are actually
- [Christian PIECE Plan of Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/christian-piece-plan-israel/) - Most Israelis – most Jews! – do not cotton to the very real and mammoth danger missionaries pose. To be sure, they are after, not only our Jewish souls, but also our land – Eretz Yisrael. Sherri Waller, wife of Tommy Waller and cofounder of the Har Bracha-based missionary group HaYovel, was quoted in January
- [Before The Window Closes](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/before-the-window-closes/) - Having been given the greatest opportunity in many generations, we've surely made a big mess of it. However close we once might have been to the millennia-longed-for ultimate Redemption (Geula), we now have a tremendous amount of work to do, cleaning up the damage and getting back on track before this chance expires. We have
- [Importance of the US to Israel’s National Security is Overstated!](https://israelblogger.com/authors/batyamedad/importance-us-israels-national-security-overstated/) - The State of Israel must wisen up and act as an independent country or the Americans will just keep tightening the noose until we are finished.
- [No Good Deed Goes Unpunished](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/family-values/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/) - A funny thing happened on the way to delivering a salad...
- [The temper is mounting](https://israelblogger.com/authors/justin-amler/the-temper-is-mounting/) - Some say this is just a religious argument, but it not about religion at all. It's about the rights and the freedom of people.
- [The Temple Mount Massacre](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-temple-mount-massacre/) - Powerful and troubling
- [A Letter to King Abdullah of Jordan](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/a-letter-to-king-abdullah-of-jordan/) - Your Excellency, As-Salaamu-Alaikum : I bring you greetings from Maale Adumim, Israel. (Yes, the very land that you occupied from 1948-1967, until Israel liberated it. The very same location, where I can look out my window and look at your capital, Amman, any time of day or night.) In any case, I am writing to
- [A Picture that Breaks the Heart](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/a-picture-that-breaks-the-heart/) - There are times when a picture speaks a thousand words and there are times when the words not spoken simply break the heart.
- [Horseradish All Year Long](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/horseradish-all-year-long/) - There are people who consider this condiment medicinal. It sure adds flavor.
- [What do BBC, CNN and the Times of Israel Share?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/what-do-bbc-cnn-and-the-times-of-israel-share/) - Fail, Times of Israel, OMG, fail
- [Parashat Pinchas: Intermarriage – Hinge or Downfall](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/parashat-pinchas-intermarriage-hinge-or-downfall/) - Many holy sparks have joined Am Yisrael from almost every other nation of the world. Without a sincere and kosher conversion, we only get catastrophic downfalls to our nation.
- [Disrespecting Others](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/disrespecting-others/) - I went to a town meeting last night. The mayor of our amazing city, Maale Adumim, has put his heart and soul into creating a flourishing city. In our small city of just under 50,000 people, we have a Cultural Center where entertaining productions are regularly brought to life on an impressive stage in a
- [Staying Healthy in Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/staying-healthy-in-israel/) - Hang on to the helpers in your life. They’ll make the aliya process easier. One day you’ll be able to laugh it off as we learned to do.
- [Is It Enough That Israel Governs Jerusalem?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/is-it-enough-that-israel-governs-jerusalem/) - Until the Jewish Israeli Government takes full sovereignty over Har Habayit, the Temple Mount and begins building the Third Temple for traditional Jewish Worship, we must mourn the destruction of our ancient Jewish Kingdom and Temple.
- [Why THREE WEEKS to Commemorate Holy Temple?](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/why-three-weeks-to-commemorate-holy-temple/) - And this is the true message of the Three Weeks, bookended by two fast days. We must remember that what may appear harmless, benign may very well be the beginning of a great tragedy, Gd forbid. It is always time to "recalibrate" and get on the right track.
- [Finding Long Lost Family](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/culture/finding-long-lost-family/) - Simply found long lost family who I never knew existed.
- [Donald Trump and the Jewish Question](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/donald-trump-and-the-jewish-question/) - Let me preface this by saying that I did not, and still do not think that any candidate in the Presidential election in 2016 was capable of leading the United States. Right now, Donald Trump is the President, despite what the #notmypresident fans think. The United States has a serious problem, and that is the
- [Hebron Jewish Community Responds to UNESCO](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/hebron-jewish-community-responds-to-unesco/) - Hebron Jewish community calls on the international community to recognize the manipulation to which bodies like UNESCO are being subjected.
- [Abe's Stolen Legacy](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/abes-stolen-legacy/) - A recent case was brought before the courts...and should be of interest to all of us. The case concerns a man name Abe who purchased land, and on that land, built a home for his family. When Abe died, the property was given to his children and they too lived in and/or near the house.
- [Why The Palestinians 'Care' About Jewish Holy Sites](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/why-the-palestinians-care-about-jewish-holy-sites/) - The reason the palestinians try to claim Hebron as their own, just as they try to claim Jerusalem as their own, or the Temple Mount as their own is really quite simple. They have nothing of their own to claim. They have no ancient history in the Land of Israel. They have no tombs of
- [Pishers' Guide to Jerusalem #22 "High Tech" Loo, Not for Use](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/pishers-guide-to-jerusalem-22-high-tech-loo-not-for-use/) - I hope that this was helpful. If you have any suggestions, please mention in the comments, thanks.
- [UNESCO Vote Sure Suits Parshat Balak](https://israelblogger.com/other/unesco-vote-sure-suits-parshat-balak/) - This Land was given to the Jewish People by Gd, and that is why it is fertile and rich today. We must thank Gd and not the United Nations or the United States.
- [UNESCO and Hebron](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/unesco-and-hebron/) - The M'arat Hamachpelah, the Cave of the Patriarchs.is the world's most ancient Jewish site and the second holiest place for the Jewish people, after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.. The cave and the adjoining field were purchased—at full market price—by our father, Abraham approximately 3700 years ago. Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out
- [Polling for PM, "None of The Above"](https://israelblogger.com/politics/polling-for-pm-none-of-the-above/) - On one hand it's pretty humorous, but to be honest it's much more worrying. Most Israelis don't see/feel leadership coming from the politicians running the government. These politicians don't have vision.
- [Parshat Balak & All Who Try to Curse Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/parshat-balak-all-who-try-to-curse-israel/) - UNESCO can try to deny our sovereignty in Jerusalem, but…
- [Deteriorating Writing Skills Back to Symbols](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/deteriorating-writing-skills-back-to-symbols/) - At the same time that modern man is so proud of his/her technological advances, we're rapidly losing writing skills.
- [Upon Our 8th Aliyaversary](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/upon-our-8th-aliyaversary/) - As I begin to write this post, I must say that it is truly hard to believe that this week, my family (along with a number of others here in Maale Adumim and beyond) will celebrate our EIGHTH year in Israel, since our Aliya. In the early days of Summer 2009, after our lift shipped
- [After 33 Years](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/after-33-years/) - "It's a small world after all" can't even measure up to this...
- [The Jewish Response](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-jewish-response/) - There is a Talmudic statement:Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act. There is injustice and wrongness here, and it must be addressed. Several years ago, there was a massive demonstration in Jerusalem against the proposed draft law. I fully supported the demonstration, not because of the draft, but
- [The Cop Behind The Huge Rock](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/culture/the-cop-behind-the-huge-rock/) - One sure way one could get out of a speeding ticket in Israel..
- [Terminology- Words Count- No "New Testament" for Me!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/terminology-words-count-no-new-testament-for-me/) - And that's why it is very important that we recognize and make it clear that not only are Judaism and Christianity two separate religions, but their agenda is to replace us. To say that their bible is the "new" one plays into their hands.
- [Remembering the Entebbe Moment](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/remembering-the-entebbe-moment/) - Entebbe terrorists failed because they didn't factor in Israel and the collective Jewish soul
- [Dieting Blues, Burnout](https://israelblogger.com/other/dieting-blues-burnout/) - I guess it's "Public Diet" time again. But I'm not telling you my weight. Some things must stay between me and the scale.
- [Olmert, Served Enough or Long Way to Go?](https://israelblogger.com/other/olmert-served-enough-or-long-way-to-go/) - I'm not the only one to consider his "punishment" much too short. What's twenty-seven 27 months when those awful projects he approved will last for decades if not longer? And then he davka got early release which reduces his prison time to only sixteen 16 months.
- [Past, Present and Future](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/past-present-and-future/) - Ki Ani HaShem Lo Shaniti (Malachi 3:6), "Because I am God, I do not change". Among the very final words of the official prophetic era, a close reading (diyyuk) implies that absolutely everything except The Creator is subject to change. Judaism and the Jewish People have lived and evolved in several distinct periods and modalities
- [Amazing YouTube Videos - Yom Kippur Dogfight!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/amazing-things-you-find-on-youtube/) - Dogfight in the 1973 war. Israeli ace pilot against crazy Egyptian pilot. Guess who wins!
- [Amazing YouTube Videos: A Miracle Bird of Protection](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/amazing-youtube-videos-a-miracle-bird-of-protection/) - An interview about 1973 battles on the Syrian border...and in Syria...and a bird...wow
- [Praying From The Floor](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/praying-from-the-floor/) - This is adapted from a post on RabbiZeitlin.com. Since I wrote and published that, I have been steadily recovering. As horrible as it was to experience, it has generated deep insights and even deeper questions which I hope to explore here in the future. What do we achieve when we perform a Mitzva? Who is
- [The Four Sections of the Western Wall](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-four-sections-of-the-western-wall/) - The Kotel is not divided into two parts, it is divided into four parts - and should be shared equally!
- [Funeral in Ariel, Jewish Burial Customs](https://israelblogger.com/authors/batyamedad/funeral-in-ariel-jewish-burial-customs/) - May Gd give comfort to the mourners... המקום ינחם
- [The Difference a Week Makes](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-difference-a-week-makes/) - I never met Hadas, but her smile haunts me. May her memory be blessed.
- [Israel Moment...Suspicious Object Alert](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/an-israeli-moment-suspicious-object-alert/) - Know that we are blessed to live in this country, even with the occasional concerns over suspicious objects.
- [El Al's Cacophony of "Musical Chairs," Women Can't Be Moved!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/culture/el-als-cacophony-of-musical-chairs-women-cant-be-moved/) - If El Al would have made their policy to downgrade men who complained, then the men would have stopped making these demands a long time ago!
- [How to Open a Puzzling Lock](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/how-to-open-a-puzzling-lock/) - Are you dealing with a personality that you don’t understand? Look at the lock. Melt the pin with love and acceptance. It can help you, too, even if the situation is such that you need to call for professional help.
- [Finally, Ground Being Broken for Town of Amichai, B"H](https://israelblogger.com/politics/finally-ground-being-broken-for-town-of-amichai-bh/) - Yesterday morning while riding from Shiloh to Kochav Hashachar I could see the empty hill that had been promised to those displaced from Amona and was so sad. What was taking so long? Why is the Netanyahu Government making them suffer further? And then while returning home we suddenly noticed something new on the landscape.
- [On Becoming a Grandfather](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/on-becoming-a-grandfather/) - There are many significant milestones in a person's life. They celebrate a bar/bat mitzva; a wedding; birth of children; their first political post on Facebook (ok, maybe that is not so significant!), among other stages. This past week, my wife and I reached a new milestone: We became grandparents! So, please allow a new Sabba
- [An Open Letter to the Rabbis of T'ruah](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/an-open-letter-to-the-rabbis-of-truah/) - There is the voice of right - and the right to voice. The so-called rabbis of T'ruah have neither. Their credibility is shot as soon as someone looks at their "About" page. Perhaps the only really credible and non-controversial part of their description is where they correctly point out, that t'ruah is one of the
- [Israel: Stop Setting A Bad Example](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israel-stop-setting-a-bad-example/) - Despite all evidence, the west refuses to identify fundamental Islam as the underlying drive behind sponsoring terrorist countries and organizations whose end game is global jihad and enforcing Sharia law on the free world. Yet, identifying them is a must and the first pivotal step to take in order to alter the steady course of
- [Parshat Shlach, The "Mother of All" Pilot Trips Gone Bad](https://israelblogger.com/other/parshat-shlach-the-mother-of-all-pilot-trips-gone-bad/) - One of the big "misnomers" in Jewish Parshat Shavua, Torah Portion of the Week is calling this week's parsha, Shlach-Send "The Sin of the Spies." The very large and honorable delegation sent off to scout out, or more accurately to stake out the Holy Land weren't called מרגלים miraglim, spies in the Biblical narrative. That's because they weren't
- [Is the betrayal of our government tantamount to murder?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/is-the-betrayal-of-our-government-tantamount-to-murder/) - First let me establish the traitorous activities of our government as fact before we go on the question of the article. Treason, by its definition, is any act that would endanger the lives, land and livelihood of the people, infringe on its national rights or empower one's enemies in a way that outweighs any derived
- [What Faux Peace Game is Lieberman Playing?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/what-faux-peace-game-is-lieberman-playing/) - Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has come out with so many contradictory statements over the decades he has been on the political scene that the best guess is that he has no real ideology, just raw ambition.
- [Israel's F-35s may not be able to beat Iran](https://israelblogger.com/politics/non-political/israels-f-35s-may-not-be-able-to-beat-iran/) - Israel has already acquired several F-35 stealth fighters from the US, and we're set to acquire about fifty more, if the rumors are true. But are F-35s in Israel's best interest? Assuming we don't need F-35s to fight Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Authority, or "lone-wolf" terrorists, the main enemy our pilots will fight is Iran.
- [Blaming the Victim](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/blaming-the-victim/) - When I was in college, there was a relatively new book we were required to read in a Criminal Justice class: "Blaming the Victim," written by William Ryan (1971). In his book, the author coined the phrase, which became the title of his book ("blaming the victim"), which then became a well-known term used in
- [A 44-Line Summary of the Miracle of The Six Day War](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/a-44-line-summary-of-the-miracle-of-the-six-day-war/) - [taken from chapter 6 of To Cross The Line With A Bridge (Rabeinu Publications, 2015) quoting the time-table from Beit Torah Ohr Gadol’s disk series “Sha’at HaEfes”] “Maybe others had the patience for durations like the Hundred-Years War or the down-sized Thirty-Years one, but for His holy people back on their Promised Land, He would
- [The Story of Ruth & Naomi is Not About "Loving the Stranger"](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/the-story-of-ruth-naomi-is-not-about-loving-the-stranger/) - Maybe I should call this post: Jerusalem Post Promotes Intermarriage I got very aggravated on Shavuot after reading the first/main article in the Jerusalem Post's Holiday Magazine, LOVING THE STRANGER: THE TIMELESS MESSAGE OF THE STORY OF RUTH by Lee Caspi, because Caspi got it all wrong. On my first reading, I focused on Caspi's totally
- [#fakejews](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/fakejews/) - We have read so much about "fake news" over the past many months, that the title of this post came to me as I kept looking at the stream of news I was reading on Facebook. A little context. For quite a long period of time, there have been many incidents that have been perpetrated
- [Ambassador Bolton's "3 State" Peace Proposal, Nonsensical](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/ambassador-boltons-3-state-peace-proposal-nonsensical/) - Ambassador Bolton addressing the Ingeborg Rennert Center's Guardian of Zion Award dinner As I already blogged on A Jewish Grandmother, my husband and I attended the Ingeborg Rennert Center's Guardian of Zion Award Dinner last night. So, besides the food, the real highlight of the evening was the speech by Award winner, former US Ambassador
- [Fixing a 3000 Year Old Mistake Should Always be this Easy](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/fixing-a-3000-year-old-mistake-should-always-be-this-easy/) - I love the holiday of Shavuot...I don't know why really. Passover is too much work. I do love Sukkot...Simchat Torah...Purim...Rosh Hashana - so really, oh...Hanuka...the point is...I really love all the holidays, but there is something about Shavuot...it isn't just that it is on this holiday that we were blessed with the gift of the
- [Vive La Différence, Trump versus Obama](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/vive-la-difference-trump-versus-obama/) - Finally the United States has a president who isn't totally enamored with Arab terrorist leaders. I can't remember a time when an American President seemed more comfortable and supporting of Israel rather than the Arabs who want to destroy us. As imperfect/flawed as Donald Trump certainly is, at least he and his family aren't as
- [Jerusalem as Seen by Many](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/jerusalem-as-seen-by-many/) - ... I think that today, the day after Jerusalem Day and three weeks after Israeli Independence Day is just the time to post a special Jerusalem themed edition.
- [Should Ivanka and Jared have flown on Shabbat?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/should-ivanka-and-jared-have-flown-on-shabbat/) - Since President Trump and his entourage left the US for Saudi Arabia, the religious world has been "up in arms." No one knows the identity of the rabbi who permitted Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to fly in an airplane on Shabbat. No one knows if they actually asked a rabbi, or if they decided
- [Elisha Davidson and The Shamir, Third of The Trilogy, A Book Review](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/spirituality/elisha-davidson-and-the-shamir-third-of-the-trilogy-a-book-review/) - Elisha Davidson and The Shamir by M. R. (Rhonda) Attar is the final book in the futuristic trilogy that could happen in the not so distant future. I reviewed the first two, ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Letters of Fire and ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Ispaklaria. Attar's trilogy along with Catriel Sugarman's The Falconi Effect: A Modern Novel
- [No Stories to Tell - A Shrink's Journey to Orthodox Judaism](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/no-stories-to-tell-a-shrinks-journey-to-orthodox-judaism/) - Life goes better when someone else makes the mistakes but you benefit from them, right? If you agree with that, you’re gonna LUV this book review. PS – Sharing is one thing, but re-publishing my work in a different forum (print, broadcast or online) is another. NOBODY has the right to use my content elsewhere.
- [Batsheva and King David, "Takes Two to Tango," Said The Busdriver](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/batsheva-and-king-david-takes-two-to-tango-said-the-busdriver/) - One of the things so very different here in Israel is that here the bus drivers are "peers," meaning "regular people," the sort who can be neighbors, friends, fellow Tanach, Bible aficionados. There are Arab bus drivers, too, as I wrote about here, but they are the exceptions. Unlike the American Jewish society in which
- [Right Now in This Up-Side-Down World It’s All a Clarification of Sparks](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/right-now-in-this-up-side-down-world-its-all-a-clarification-of-sparks/) - on Hebrew U opposition to HaTikva, former Miss Israel Mor Maman, BTS-enabler “Rabbi” Jonathan Sacks
- [Summary of The Kastner Affair:  When We Say ‘Never Again’ and ‘Never Forget’ – It Includes This Too](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/summary-of-the-kastner-affair-when-we-say-never-again-and-never-forget-it-includes-this-too/) - [Summary taken from chapter 9 of To Cross The Line With A Bridge, Rabeinu Publications, 2015 and is OF (and citations refer to) Ben Hecht’s book Perfidy] On May 5, 1953, the Attorney General of Israel presented Malchiel Greenwald a criminal complaint for libel against Dr. Israel (Rudolf) Kastner. On January 1, 1954, Greenwald was
- ["Stay Focused"!](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/stay-focused/) - Sunday, 10th June 2007 - Haifa, Israel I set my alarm for 4:00 AM to give myself time to shower and prepare for our long morning. Funnily enough, Motti managed to get to sleep at a relatively normal hour (normal being a very loose term in the Rosenzweig Unabridged Dictionary) despite the fact that he
- [Rosh Chodesh Sivan, Tel Shiloh](https://israelblogger.com/uncategorized/rosh-chodesh-sivan-tel-shiloh/) - Every Rosh Chodesh, besides those on Shabbat, there are Women's Prayers at Tel Shiloh, Shiloh Hakeduma. We gather at the spot where the Mishkan, Tabernacle was located during Biblical times, before King David declared Jerusalem as the Jewish Capital City. Joshua brought the Tabernacle to Shiloh and made it the Capital and religious center for the
- [To Whom Do You Pledge Allegiance?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/to-whom-do-you-pledge-allegiance/) - All those who claim to believe in Hashem - whether they call Him the Lord, God, or Allah – must therefore believe that (1) Hashem gave the Nation of Israel the Land of Israel forever, (2) Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and (3) Judea and Samaria are part of Eretz Yisrael. As a Jew, I pledge allegiance to Hashem and His Torah, one Nation under Hashem, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
- [Simple Reason Why World Won't Accept Israeli Rule Over Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/simple-reason-why-world-wont-accept-israeli-rule-over-jerusalem/) - ...our enemy is the antisemitism that has existed from the very beginning of Judaism.
- [My Neighbor's Miracle](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/my-neighbors-miracle/) - One of our neighbors (let’s call him Manny) missed last night’s terror attack in Be’er Sheva. Here’s what happened: Manny’s work often takes him abroad. He’s supposed to travel next week. In preparation for the trip, Manny took a trip to Tel Aviv yesterday. After he finished his business in Tel Aviv, he got on
- [Do you love Israel?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/do-i-love-israel/) - People often ask me, "Do you love Israel?" The pat answer is, "Of course I do!" Truthfully, though, living in Israel is similar to being married. At the beginning, when you first meet, there are lots of fireworks. The land is beautiful, it beckons. The sun is fantastic, and you barely feel the cold winters.
- [Choose Democracy or Freedom, you can't have both](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/choose-democracy-or-freedom-you-cant-have-both/) - The real conflict in Israel is between a halacha state and a liberal sharia compliant state, not a Jewish vs a democratic state. There has been so much spilled ink about the two opposing ideals, a Jewish state vs a Democratic state. The real conflict is essentially will you force me to keep Shabbat or
- [Take Assad Out](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/take-assad-out/) - There are crematoria alight in Syria.
- [Maale Adumim Book Swap](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/family-values/maale-adumim-book-swap/) - It's an event that takes place twice a year. Five or six THOUSAND English books...all donated and then sold for charity. It's about community; it's about dozens of volunteers working together. It takes place in May and in November. Just a reminder that we are days away from the Maale Adumim Book Swap – which
- [Welcome to Israel, Ambassador Friedman!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/welcome-to-israel-ambassador-friedman/) - Good luck, Ambassador Friedman! May Gd be with you...
- [Israel Must Stop Begging!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israel-must-stop-begging/) - Our enemies aren't afraid of us, and that's a problem.
- [Book Review: Experiencing War](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/book-review-experiencing-war/) - Rabbi Emanuel Feldman's book, The 28th of Iyar accomplishes something amazing. For most people, experiencing war is something simply not on their radar. If in their lifetime there is a war, it is on distant shores. Though only a small child at the time, I have vague memories of the Vietnam War - I remember
- [Shabbat, A Life Saver](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/shabbat-a-life-saver/) - I just can't imagine surviving without this special holy day.
- [The Moral and Ethical Bankruptcy of the Haredi Leadership in Bet Shemesh](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-moral-and-ethical-bankruptcy-of-the-haredi-leadership-in-bet-shemesh/) - I recently posted an article in which I made a suggestion about how, perhaps, the residents of Bet Shemesh can come together to try to resolve the ongoing religious conflicts and violence in their community. I wrote this as a total outsider, but with the intention of trying to voice an opinion of a potential way
- [Pumpkinflowers and Necessary Stories](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/pumpkinflowers-and-necessary-stories/) - Matti Friedman and Haim Watzman spoke about their books and their IDF experience at an author event at the Tower of David.
- [Summer! Cold Brew Coffee, Homemade](https://israelblogger.com/other/summer-cold-brew-coffee-homemade/) - Last summer I discovered a new coffee taste and brewing method, Cold Brew.
- [An Open Letter to ALL Parents in Bet Shemesh](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/an-open-letter-to-all-parents-in-bet-shemesh/) - As I said in an earlier post, it was only a matter of time before there would be blood shed by someone, somewhere in the name of Judaism. Whether it would be as a result of (violent) protests against the army or perhaps the "Tzniut Police"--it was only to be determined by time. Sorry to
- [The Problem with Modesty](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/family-values/my-problem-with-modesty/) - Outward behaviors and appearances have eclipsed the essence of modesty in the Orthodox community and have trampled on some other middos which are equally important.
- [Israeli Sovereignty Trumps Trump](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israeli-sovereignty-trumps-trump/) - ...if we want the respect and support of American President Trump, then we must act like a strong, independent sovereign state, not a weak fawning nebbich.
- [All Because Erdogan  Forgot His Quran](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/all-because-erdogan-forgot-his-quran/) - You see, in being here in the Land of Israel, we of the Nation of Israel are actually fulfilling, not only the prophesies of our holy Torah, but also of your Quran.
- [Welcome back to Klita N’ima. Part 2!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/welcome-back-to-klita-nima-part-2/) - The more you experience the vocabulary, the spelling and the sound of the words you need to know, the more likely you’ll recall them at will. Think about it. How did you learn the songs you heard on radio, albums or other recordings? Your repeated exposure to the lyrics made memories!
- [The Bus Driver](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/the-bus-driver/) - Israeli bus drivers are notorious for being...well...Israeli. Their personalities come shining through in many ways. They have saved lives - one bus driver "hijacked" a bus and its passengers to become an ambulance to take a passenger to the hospital when she suddenly became ill. He saved her life and gave everyone on the bus
- [Negotiations With The Arabs Won't Bring Us Peace](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/negotiations-with-the-arabs-wont-bring-us-peace/) - I've been following news in Israel since before the 1967 Six Days War, and I've lived here since 1970, so I do have quite a long perspective. I remember when Israel's political Center and even Left mocked the idea of a Palestinian State and People. That was the consensus here. Some of us haven't changed
- [Was Yesterday's Terrorist an Innocent Girl?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/was-yesterdays-terrorist-an-innocent-girl/) - Because she wasn't really innocent, was she? She is a victim, without question. But a victim of whom?
- [Up Against the Devil’s Advocates in the British House of Lords](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/up-against-the-devils-advocates-in-the-british-house-of-lords/) - Am Yisrael is a people with direct blood lines to the very real people of the Torah.
- [Building in Shiloh, We're Expanding!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/building-in-shiloh-were-expanding/) - During "the season" we moved to Shiloh in the summer of 1981, Shiloh doubled in population from over thirty families to sixty plus. And the yishuv (town) also got much, much larger, because Arik Sharon who had then been Minister of Construction had decided on insisted on making a whole new neighborhood on a large
- [Blessing the Government, Ethics of the Fathers, Pirkei Avot, Chapter 3:2](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/blessing-the-government-ethics-of-the-fathers-pirkei-avot-chapter-32/) - The prayer was very carefully worded. It does not endorse the policies of the politicians leading the State of Israel. It has us asking Gd to bless those people with wisdom and the ability to follow Gd's instructions.
- [The Lies They Tell You...and the Truths They Don't](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/the-lies-they-tell-you-and-the-truths-they-dont/) - Tuvia found an America that was very patriotic, without much knowledge of what that patriotism means.
- [Honestly, I Don't Want a "Peace Deal" with Arabs!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/honestly-i-dont-want-a-peace-deal-with-arabs/) - "Peace Deal" is an oxymoron.
- [Language Leads to Education & Education Leads to Peace - If Your Lexicon is Torah & Who Does UNESCO Think It Is Anyway?!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/language-leads-to-education-education-leads-to-peace-if-your-lexicon-is-torah-who-does-unesco-think-it-is-anyway/) - Peace and security – isn’t that what we want?! Torah values and esteems peace so much that it notes and credits all those who effected peace, while also specifying the exact number years of peace each succeeded to achieve.
- [Boomerang Fighting for Israel and a Fearless Muslim Woman](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/boomerang-fighting-for-israel-and-a-fearless-muslim-woman/) - https://youtu.be/cRfIPbsMcdE
- [The Three State Solution](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-three-state-solution/) - The two state solution, the most favored of all solutions, the one the USA and Europe and all Knesset members seem in one form or another favor, is today's solution to bring "peace in our times". Has anyone heard of the three state solution? The world is very upset at the after pictures, after
- [Boomerang Fighting for Israel's Video for President Trump](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/us-israel-relations/boomerang-for-israels-video-for-president-trump/) - https://youtu.be/ewbgz8R7URc
- [Time to Declare Independence From United Nations](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/time-to-declare-independence-from-united-nations/) - It seems like we Israelis are always complain about the treatment we get from the United Nations and its various bodies/groups/organizations such as the Security Council, UNESCO, etc. Nu, why does anyone in their right mind expect an improvement? The world is antisemitic. The only Jewish establishments/foundations/museums that can get lots of funding are Holocaust
- [In every generation...](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/in-every-generation/) - And this is what kept our forefathers, and what keeps us surviving. For not only one arose and tried to destroy us, rather in every generation they try to destroy us, and the Holy One, Blessed is He, saves us from their hands. From the middle of the 19th century, Jewish life and culture blossomed
- [UNESCO Discovers the Great Wall of New Zealand](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/unesco-discovers-the-great-wall-of-new-zealand/) - It does seem insane that UNESCO would ignore thousands of years of history, irrefutable archaeological evidence proving Jewish and Israeli claims to the city and more.
- [What does it all mean?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/what-does-it-all-mean/) - Today is Israel's 69th Independence Day. 69 years ago, the State of Israel became a reality, as the declaration of Independence was read. A citizenry, a large population of which lived through the horrors of the Holocaust in Europe, finally had some ray of hope for the future, some modern manifestation of the Divine promise,
- ["What About the Good Arabs?"](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/what-about-the-good-arabs/) - – asked Danny Lewin. He wanted the good Arabs to have a chance, and to have rights. And I ask, “What about the good Arabs? Where are they? Why do they not stand up for what is good and right; why do they sit quietly and watch innocent Jews be murdered, maimed, and terrorized? Why
- [Celebrating Israeli Independence Day, 5777, 2017](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/celebrating-israeli-independence-day-5777-2017/) - Yom Ha'atzma'ut, Israeli Independence Day is definitely a spiritual holiday, not a simple celebration of a historic event. Recognizing the Hand of Gd in everything that has been happening to the Jewish People makes it easier to go on even when times are difficult.
- [Syria's Civil War is NOT Another Holocaust](https://israelblogger.com/politics/center/syrias-civil-war-is-not-another-holocaust/) - Here’s why I don’t like people comparing the Holocaust to the Syrian civil war: The problem is that in order to help Syria, we have to find a way to safely deal with: 1. Hezbollah, who has been helping Assad, and therefore expects Assad to give them their share of the power when things get
- [To Hell With You, America and Europe](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/to-hell-with-you-america-and-europe/) - Yesterday morning, at 9am, a man stood leaning against the Yafo/King George light rail station. In Jerusalem, if you will. A security guard walked up to him, asked him for his name and what he was up to. Asked him to open his bag. The guy said, “No.” The guard said, “Open your bag.” “No.”
- [Profiling Ain't Equal](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/profiling-aint-equal/) - Today my husband and I went on a tour of government offices. He held our son's hand. I pushed the stroller. The security guard saw us, and let me through the stroller gate with both kids. I didn't even pass through the metal detector. He told my husband, who was holding the backpack, to wait
- [How Honest are Israelis?](https://israelblogger.com/politics/non-political/how-honest-are-israelis/) - What happens when a blind man asks for change for a 20 shekel bill, but holds out a 100 or 200 shekel bill by mistake? Watch this video to find out. Then share your thoughts in the comments. https://youtu.be/UUVsTHRgN0s
- [Having a Son In Green on Yom HaZicharon](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/having-a-son-in-green-on-yom-hazicharon/) - Every year I attend the Yom HaZicharon tekes at our Yad L'Banim in Ra'anana. 18 years of standing (I don't think that I ever got there early enough to find a seat) in a crowd that boasted more/less 10,000 people from all walks of life, most wearing white shirts and blue trousers or skirts, standing
- [אין מילים There are No Words, "Ain Milim"](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/אין-מילים-there-are-no-words-ain-milim-2/) - אין מילים There are No Words, "Ain Milim"
- [Klita N’ima](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/klita-nima/) - Aliya is a tough process for normal people. Olim appreciate all the help they can get to make the transition to Israeli life as pleasant as possible - Klita N’ima, and even for deciding if they'll make aliya. Should you make aliya? Could you make aliya? Will political realities FORCE you to make aliya? Headlines are
- [The Sound of the Siren](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-sound-of-the-siren/) - Please God, please watch over him...over all of them. Let this be the last time we mourn newly fallen.
- [A Letter To Pres. Trump in Advance of His Meet with Abbas](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/a-letter-to-pres-trump-in-advance-of-his-meet-with-abbas/) - Dear Mr. President: Later this week, you will be meeting with a person, who (on the outside) appears to be an older, respectable gentleman, in the twilight of his life. Do not let that outward appearance fool you. Sir, he is a terrorist with blood on his hands. Not only that, he also rewards those
- [A Special Offer for BBC Journalists (CNN and Reuters too)](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/a-special-offer-for-bbc-journalists-cnn-and-reuters-too/) - As is almost always the case with BBC, they got it wrong.
- [The 28th of Iyar, Book Review](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-28th-of-iyar-book-review/) - The State of Israel has been gearing up for celebrating the 50th anniversary of our miraculous victory in the 1967 Six Days War...That's why I'm very happy that Rabbi Emanuel Feldman has republished his lovely and honest memoir, his day by day journal written during the weeks leading up to the Six Days War and the war itself.
- [An "Only in Israel Story," The Arab Bus Driver](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/an-only-in-israel-story-the-arab-bus-driver/) - Not long ago, after getting on a bus to Jerusalem, I realized they the bus driver was an Arab. This happens a lot, because as I keep saying: "Israel isn't an apartheid state!" Honestly, I don't inspect the driver when getting on the bus, so unless it's a driver I'm familiar with, I haven't a
- [Collective Punishment - Or Coming to One's Senses](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/collective-punishment-or-coming-to-ones-senses/) - The burning issue that is the talk of Israel, when it comes to dealing with terror is the hatred of collective punishment. The "Jewish conscience" (filled with Western morality that is in fierce opposition to the Torah and traditional Jewish values) states, thou shall not collectively punish a people, city or town for the sins
- [Israeli Memorial-Independence Days Connection, Suits to a "T"](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israeli-memorial-independence-days-connection-suits-to-a-t/) - Our Independence Day celebrations honor those who were killed. By celebrating we are saying that they didn't die in vain, and that our enemies will not defeat us, not militarily and not psychologically.
- [Back to Me on the Indigenous Issue Dialog](https://israelblogger.com/authors/yemima/back-to-me-on-the-indigenous-issue-dialog/) - Thank you, Paula, for your wonderful and eloquent response to my original post on this issue. I agree with everything you write, and then some. I look at the whole “indigenous” issue as an attempt to distract and side-step from the main point, being that we don’t need “proof” to prove this land is ours.
- [Sean Spicer, the Pope and the Holocaust](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/sean-spicer-the-pope-and-the-holocaust/) - The fact that people in such positions would make such absurd statements is indicative of a larger problem fostering ignorance and insensitivity, not because of Holocaust denial or even anti-Semitism, but simply because of not knowing the facts.
- [Comments on Israel's Indigenous Population](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/comments-on-israels-indigenous-population/) - There is only one answer. Palestinians are not indigenous to this land.
- [Another Final Word About the “Indigenous” Issue](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/another-final-word-about-the-indigenous-issue/) - B"H Since the “indigenous” issue has cropped up yet again, I will add my two cents in hope of helping it finally be laid to rest. Basically, the question is simply: ‘Is Am Yisrael indigenous to Eretz Yisrael?’ The answer, though, is not so simple. The answer is neither yes nor no, but rather (c)
- [Gavriella is Dancing in the Heavens](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/gavriella-is-dancing-in-the-heavens/) - Somewhere in the heavens, Gavriella is dancing.
- [Our First...Welcome](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/israelbloggerbegins/) - First post of Israel Blogger
- [Answering International Holocaust Remembrance Day](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/answering-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/) - Today, as the world remembers, I live the only answer I could imagine to the Nazis and yes, even to Holocaust Remembrance Day
- [When You Go To War](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/when-you-go-to-war/) - There is a battle raging in Israel and sadly, it is between Ultra-Orthodox Jews and non-Ultra-Orthodox Jews. On the bright side, it is a battle that unifies many diverse communities. On the negative side, they are unified against one of our own. In the last few weeks, the debate has reached new lows. This was
- [It's about time](https://israelblogger.com/politics/center/its-about-time/) - Last week, Secretary-General António Guterres did something very surprising for a senior member of the United Nations. He rejected a report accusing Israel of establishing an "Apartheid regime". The report was compiled for UNESCWA (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia), a group composed of 18 Arab states, by well-known anti Israel activists Richard
- [Iran the Snake Gets Caught Biting Its Own Tail](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/iran-the-snake-gets-caught-biting-its-own-tail/) - B”H Iran wants credit for having saved Am Yisrael three times. How the newscaster on the radio was able to read this without choking, or laughing, or gagging – I don’t know. Iran is putting forth that King Achashverosh saved Am Yisrael, when in fact he was the one who enable the diabolical plan of
- [Purim: An Iranian-Persian Haman’s Final Solution to Annihilate All Am Yisrael  – We’ve Heard That Before](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/purim-an-iranian-persian-hamans-final-solution-to-annihilate-all-am-yisrael-weve-heard-that-before/) - B”H Bayamim hahem – those days just as today. Am Yisrael has been up against more than one Final Solution plan to completely wipe us out. With all the merriment of Purim, we still need to remember that our joy and celebration are because we were able to not only thwart Haman’s evil plan, but
- [Who is your God?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/who-is-your-god/) - My God is, quite simply, God. Elokim. He is a God of hope, of prayer.
- [So, Where Does It Say We Have to Wait For Mashiach?  The “Three Vows”](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/so-where-does-it-say-we-have-to-wait-for-mashiach-the-three-vows/) - That we, Am Yisrael, on the brink of our exile, vowed to Hashem that we would not return en masse to Eretz Yisrael before the geula – whereby the Mashiach would ingather us home (kibbutz galuyot) – that is undisputed. What is disputed is only whether the vows are still valid and in effect.
- [It is High Time to Make Peace Within Yisrael](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/it-is-high-time-to-make-peace-within-yisrael/) - It is high time we break out of this terrible impasse and deadlock. It is high time we respectfully request all the rabbanim to come together to provide a concrete Step No. 1 – if not Nos. 2 and 3 too – to finding a solution to the rift, as we also request all to acknowledge and accept Torah.
- [Ignorance of Torah & Tzom Yeshayahu](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/ignorance-of-torah-tzom-yeshayahu/) - How can it be that there are Jews right here in Eretz Yisrael who know nothing about Torah and Judaism?!
- [BTS = Modern Form of Erev Rav](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/bts-modern-form-of-erev-rav/) - The closer we get to geula, the stronger and clearer the rift and antagonism between Am Yisrael and the Erev Rav. It all boils down in the end to Am Yisrael versus the Erev Rav, though the two opposing camps are still intertwined and mixed together. Am Yisrael stands with and for Yisrael – the
- [Rocket Attack in Israel](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/rocket-attack-in-israel/) - They fired a rocket at Israel this morning. No one was hurt. But that doesn't take away the terror;
- [Breaking News: Parashat HaShavua & 20 Years Since the Israeli Helicopter Disaster](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/breaking-news-parashat-hashavua-20-years-since-the-israeli-helicopter-disaster/) - B”H This morning, “My Nation – Ami Chai” posted a pic of the monument erected in She’ar Yeshuv, the village over which the two helicopters crashed, with the caption reading “Today marks 20 years since the Israeli Helicopter Disaster”. It then adds - “On February 4, 1997, two Israeli helicopters crashed, killing 73 soldiers. The
- [Reevaluate the Enemy & Separate Issues](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/reevaluate-the-enemy-separate-issues/) - Today, those we may have deemed the good-guys, one of “us”, are betraying us – Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael. But the mindset of us versus them remains despite the reality.
- [The Brain-Washing of Jewish Israeli Children to Hate Torah: How the Erev Rav Indoctrinate Generations that Become Able to Evict Jews From Their Homes In Eretz Yisrael](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-brain-washing-of-jewish-israeli-children-to-hate-torah-how-the-erev-rav-indoctrinate-generations-that-become-able-to-evict-jews-from-their-homes-in-eretz-yisrael/) - B”H Modern psychology may pat itself on the back for coining the term “projection”, but our Sages get the credit for defining it thousands of years ago: “Kol HaPosel beMumo Posel” (Tractate Kiddushin 70 a and b) means “All who disqualify, in his own defect disqualifies”. Yes, it is a terrible thing that the arabs
- [Please Help to Thank the UN Sec'y General!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/please-help-to-thank-the-un-secy-general/) - The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, made an amazing statement the other day for which he deserves not only a lot of credit but our thanks as well. He stated: “…completely clear that the Temple that the Romans destroyed in Jerusalem was a Jewish temple.” While the statement is not an earth-shattering one, it does
- [Hello Darkness, My Old Friend](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/hello-darkness-my-old-friend/) - What so bad about the plague of darkness?
- [Enter the Erev Rav & Exodus B’nei Israel: The Need to Internalize Their Power and Enormity, Because They’ve Always Outnumbered Us… the Erev Rav](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/enter-the-erev-rav-exodus-bnei-israel-the-need-to-internalize-their-power-and-enormity-because-theyve-always-outnumbered-us-the-erev-rav/) - Today we learn that it is the Erev Rav rule here in Israel that refuses to acknowledge Jerusalem as our capital – it is they who are preventing the US embassy from being transferred to our capital. It’s the Erev Rav, not the US, that’s stopping it.
- [Leadership: Alpha-Male versus Alpha-Jew](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/leadership-alpha-male-versus-alpha-jew/) - It’s Moshe that Hashem picks to lead – and this to be the greatest leadership mission of all time.
- [We WILL Remember!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/diaspora/we-will-remember/) - Barack Obama claimed that he was the "best friend Israel ever had in the White House.." So in the waning days of his presidency, he performed the following acts of freindship: He failed to veto a UNSC resolution, which will have severe repercussions on the international stage. He sent the Palestinian Authority $221 million dollars
- [The Maccabees Were Not G.I. Joes & Other Misconceptions of Galut Mentality](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/the-maccabees-were-not-g-i-joes-other-misconceptions-of-galut-mentality/) - Galut Mentality is dangerous for Am Yisrael. When we internalize the bullying of the goyim throughout the ages and think less of ourselves than B’nei Melech and Am Segulah, that too is Galut Mentality. We have no one to fear and no one to answer to, but Hashem.
- [When American Terrorism Comes to Israel](https://israelblogger.com/authors/paula/when-american-terrorism-comes-to-israel/) - My husband is a volunteer for the Israeli police. He, like thousands of others in Israel donate their time and dedication and in return, they get the gratitude not only of our friends and neighbors, the community and city, but also of "fellow" police officers. Each year, we are invited to a gathering, some gifts,
- [Am Yisrael’s Greatest Warrior To Date Remains King David](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/am-yisraels-greatest-warrior-to-date-remains-king-david/) - At what point will Am Yisrael really get fed up with the continuous terror of the most primitive of warfare, rocks and knives, and with being bullied by all forms of modern-day Goliaths – whether they convene in Paris, Iran, D.C., Gaza, Ramallah, or wherever?
- [Reaction vs. Pro-action](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/reaction-vs-pro-action/) - Am Yisrael Chai VeKayam VeKadosh!
- [Shabbat is Coming!](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/shabbat_is_coming/) - Whatever awaits Israel in the coming week is irrelevant right now. Shabbat is coming.
- [Is It Time to Eradicate the "Built-In" Sadness in Judaism?](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/is-it-time-to-eradicate-the-built-in-sadness-in-judaism/) - Allow me to preface this with a very important statement. What I am proposing here is merely in theory. The Shulchan Aruch (the Code of Jewish Law) indeed prescribes various fast days and days in which joy is curtailed. Therefore, any comments or ideas here cannot be taken as a move to countermand Shulchan Aruch.
- [Why Israel Should NOT Attend the Paris "Peace" Summit](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/why-israel-should-not-attend-the-paris-peace-summit/) - Israel is eternal; the rest of those guys who will meet in France? Not so much.
- [Let the World Speak in PC & Jews in Torah](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/let-the-world-speak-in-pc-jews-in-torah/) - Am Yisrael needs an army like King David’s army. Not just an army with a Jewish majority, but a Jewish army by Torah standards.
- [G’ment Officials as Reps at National Funerals](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/gment-officials-as-reps-at-national-funerals/) - This morning on the news they mentioned that the government needs to reform the law regarding officials attending national funerals, since no official representation by the government showed at any of the four funerals yesterday of the casualties from the terrorist lorry-ramming attack. Funerals of terror victims are a national affair, and a government official
- [The Fear Effect](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/israel/the-fear-effect/) - Congratulations Lieutenant-General Eizenkot. Or should I say Mazal Tov. It is a hard thing to do, to destroy the morale of the IDF, but you've done it. Last week, before the Azaria verdict, you calmed the fears and worries of the parents of EVERY soldier by stating that the IDF soldiers are just that; soldiers. They
- [BBC and CNN Allegedly Frame the News](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/terrorism/bbc-and-cnn-allegedly-frame-the-news/) - Actually, that probably isn't true but I'm too sick to search and prove it. A terror attack in Jerusalem on this beautiful, sunny, winter day in Israel. A truck rammed into a group of soldiers. Five have died - three girls...young women, and 2 boys...young men. Five lives...stolen and more than a dozen others injured.
- [Torat Yisrael is Not Transferable Nor Translate-able](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/torat-yisrael-is-not-transferable-nor-translate-able/) - There’s a reason Hashem gave us the Written Torah written in the Holy Tongue, Hebrew.
- [The Soldiers' Answer for Elor Azariya](https://israelblogger.com/politics/right/the-soldiers-answer-for-elor-azariya/) - Every soldier, when he or she comes to that first interview after receiving notification that they are being drafted in to the Israel Defense Forces is given a profile number. A rating of his or her physical health. The best he or she can get is 97 - it's a part of Israeli/Jewish culture that
- [El’or Azaria = the Erev Rav’s Human Sacrifice](https://israelblogger.com/topic-categories/religion/elor-azaria-the-erev-ravs-human-sacrifice/) - All of the prophecies of Torah are coming true, and right before our very eyes, and now. We were warned that the Erev Rav would rule over us before Mashiach comes, and we were warned that they are Am Yisrael’s greatest enemy – they are the enemy from within and among us. The Zohar forewarned
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- [Bibi Netanyahu](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bibi-netanyahu/)
- [weak](https://israelblogger.com/tag/weak/)
- [leader](https://israelblogger.com/tag/leader/)
- [King Abdullah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/king-abdullah/)
- [Salomon Family](https://israelblogger.com/tag/salomon-family/)
- [Tanach](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tanach/)
- [KIng David](https://israelblogger.com/tag/king-david/)
- [Yehuda](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yehuda/)
- [Herzog College](https://israelblogger.com/tag/herzog-college/)
- [Michlelet Herzog](https://israelblogger.com/tag/michlelet-herzog/)
- [miracles](https://israelblogger.com/tag/miracles/)
- [Tisha B'Av](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tisha-bav/)
- [Moshiach](https://israelblogger.com/tag/moshiach/)
- [9th of Av](https://israelblogger.com/tag/9th-of-av/)
- [teshuva](https://israelblogger.com/tag/teshuva/)
- [Har Habayit](https://israelblogger.com/tag/har-habayit/)
- [elections](https://israelblogger.com/tag/elections/)
- [Naftali Bennett](https://israelblogger.com/tag/naftali-bennett/)
- [buses](https://israelblogger.com/tag/buses/)
- [Arabs](https://israelblogger.com/tag/arabs/)
- [Ariel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ariel/)
- [Tu B'Av](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tu-bav/)
- [Secular](https://israelblogger.com/tag/secular/)
- [Observant](https://israelblogger.com/tag/observant/)
- [Religious](https://israelblogger.com/tag/religious/)
- [Neda Amin](https://israelblogger.com/tag/neda-amin/)
- [Iranian dissidents](https://israelblogger.com/tag/iranian-dissidents/)
- [Iran human rights](https://israelblogger.com/tag/iran-human-rights/)
- [refugees in Turkey](https://israelblogger.com/tag/refugees-in-turkey/)
- [archeology](https://israelblogger.com/tag/archeology/)
- [Tel Shiloh](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tel-shiloh/)
- [Menachem Begin](https://israelblogger.com/tag/menachem-begin/)
- [Metis](https://israelblogger.com/tag/metis/)
- [Ryan Bellerose](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ryan-bellerose/)
- [Donald Trump](https://israelblogger.com/tag/donald-trump/)
- [White supremacists](https://israelblogger.com/tag/white-supremacists/)
- [Nazi](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nazi/)
- [Charlottesville](https://israelblogger.com/tag/charlottesville/)
- [father](https://israelblogger.com/tag/father/)
- [World War Two](https://israelblogger.com/tag/world-war-two/)
- [Israeli banks](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeli-banks/)
- [money laundering](https://israelblogger.com/tag/money-laundering/)
- [human traffiking](https://israelblogger.com/tag/human-traffiking/)
- [aliyah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/aliyah/)
- [Treblinka](https://israelblogger.com/tag/treblinka/)
- [Poland](https://israelblogger.com/tag/poland/)
- [Jedwabne](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jedwabne/)
- [beer](https://israelblogger.com/tag/beer/)
- [craft beer](https://israelblogger.com/tag/craft-beer/)
- [festival](https://israelblogger.com/tag/festival/)
- [jewry](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewry/)
- [Mazkeret Batya](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mazkeret-batya/)
- [First Aliyah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/first-aliyah/)
- [waiting in lines](https://israelblogger.com/tag/waiting-in-lines/)
- [culture wars](https://israelblogger.com/tag/culture-wars/)
- [Melania Trump](https://israelblogger.com/tag/melania-trump/)
- [Hurricane Harvey](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hurricane-harvey/)
- [Houston](https://israelblogger.com/tag/houston/)
- [vocabulary](https://israelblogger.com/tag/vocabulary/)
- [translation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/translation/)
- [Rosh HaShana](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rosh-hashana/)
- [menus](https://israelblogger.com/tag/menus/)
- [Hebrew vocabulary](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hebrew-vocabulary/)
- [illegals](https://israelblogger.com/tag/illegals/)
- [migrants](https://israelblogger.com/tag/migrants/)
- [Tel Aviv](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tel-aviv/)
- [Israeli Supreme Court](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeli-supreme-court/)
- [mall](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mall/)
- [Rami Levy](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rami-levy/)
- [Hezbollah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hezbollah/)
- [WMD](https://israelblogger.com/tag/wmd/)
- [American Jewry](https://israelblogger.com/tag/american-jewry/)
- [conversion](https://israelblogger.com/tag/conversion/)
- [Jewish Law](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewish-law/)
- [halacha](https://israelblogger.com/tag/halacha/)
- [holidays](https://israelblogger.com/tag/holidays/)
- [survivors](https://israelblogger.com/tag/survivors/)
- [hate groups](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hate-groups/)
- [KKK](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kkk/)
- [antifa](https://israelblogger.com/tag/antifa/)
- [BDS](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bds/)
- [chareidim](https://israelblogger.com/tag/chareidim/)
- [draft](https://israelblogger.com/tag/draft/)
- [IDF](https://israelblogger.com/tag/idf/)
- [Yair Lapid](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yair-lapid/)
- [Jewish year](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewish-year/)
- [Jewish People](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewish-people/)
- [National Service](https://israelblogger.com/tag/national-service/)
- [American Base](https://israelblogger.com/tag/american-base/)
- [military industry](https://israelblogger.com/tag/military-industry/)
- [aid](https://israelblogger.com/tag/aid/)
- [military aid](https://israelblogger.com/tag/military-aid/)
- [Jewish Identity](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewish-identity/)
- [Jewish World](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewish-world/)
- [Grammar](https://israelblogger.com/tag/grammar/)
- [Nouns](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nouns/)
- [Adjectives](https://israelblogger.com/tag/adjectives/)
- [Assimilation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/assimilation/)
- [#beretceremony](https://israelblogger.com/tag/beretceremony/)
- [Palestinian terrorism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/palestinian-terrorism/)
- [Har Adar attack](https://israelblogger.com/tag/har-adar-attack/)
- [NFL](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nfl/)
- [Yom Kippur](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yom-kippur/)
- [kapparot](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kapparot/)
- [New Jerusalem US Consulate](https://israelblogger.com/tag/new-jerusalem-us-consulate/)
- [consulate](https://israelblogger.com/tag/consulate/)
- [America](https://israelblogger.com/tag/america/)
- [Zionist](https://israelblogger.com/tag/zionist/)
- [Occupation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/occupation/)
- [Jeff Halper](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jeff-halper/)
- [tourists](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tourists/)
- [Jordan Option Conference](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jordan-option-conference/)
- [Mudar Zahran](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mudar-zahran/)
- [Mahmoud Abbas](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mahmoud-abbas/)
- [Hamas](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hamas/)
- [Tourism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tourism/)
- [Protests](https://israelblogger.com/tag/protests/)
- [Sinat Chinam](https://israelblogger.com/tag/sinat-chinam/)
- [Army](https://israelblogger.com/tag/army/)
- [peace talks](https://israelblogger.com/tag/peace-talks/)
- [1973 Yom Kippur War](https://israelblogger.com/tag/1973-yom-kippur-war/)
- [Richard Nixon](https://israelblogger.com/tag/richard-nixon/)
- [Henry Kissinger](https://israelblogger.com/tag/henry-kissinger/)
- [Kansas](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kansas/)
- [Germany](https://israelblogger.com/tag/germany/)
- [Holocaust](https://israelblogger.com/tag/holocaust/)
- [Nazis](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nazis/)
- [Jews](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jews/)
- [Missionaries](https://israelblogger.com/tag/missionaries/)
- [Work in progress](https://israelblogger.com/tag/work-in-progress/)
- [it's complicated](https://israelblogger.com/tag/its-complicated/)
- [Zionism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/zionism/)
- [Disabled](https://israelblogger.com/tag/disabled/)
- [disability](https://israelblogger.com/tag/disability/)
- [wheelchair](https://israelblogger.com/tag/wheelchair/)
- [Yom Aliyah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yom-aliyah/)
- [immigrant](https://israelblogger.com/tag/immigrant/)
- [standup comedy](https://israelblogger.com/tag/standup-comedy/)
- [The Women's Performance Community of Jerusalem](https://israelblogger.com/tag/the-womens-performance-community-of-jerusalem/)
- [sport](https://israelblogger.com/tag/sport/)
- [FIFA](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fifa/)
- [Grandchildren](https://israelblogger.com/tag/grandchildren/)
- [Odelia](https://israelblogger.com/tag/odelia/)
- [Grandparents](https://israelblogger.com/tag/grandparents/)
- [Jewish History](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewish-history/)
- [Israeli history](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeli-history/)
- [Racism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/racism/)
- [Ministry of Education and Culture](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ministry-of-education-and-culture/)
- [Profound](https://israelblogger.com/tag/profound/)
- [Golda Meir](https://israelblogger.com/tag/golda-meir/)
- [abuse](https://israelblogger.com/tag/abuse/)
- [human rights](https://israelblogger.com/tag/human-rights/)
- [Middle East](https://israelblogger.com/tag/middle-east/)
- [minority rights](https://israelblogger.com/tag/minority-rights/)
- [counter-terrorism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/counter-terrorism/)
- [Dead Sea scrolls](https://israelblogger.com/tag/dead-sea-scrolls/)
- [Balfour Declaration](https://israelblogger.com/tag/balfour-declaration/)
- [capital city](https://israelblogger.com/tag/capital-city/)
- [anti-Israel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/anti-israel/)
- [Missile attacks](https://israelblogger.com/tag/missile-attacks/)
- [Daniel Turgeman](https://israelblogger.com/tag/daniel-turgeman/)
- [banking](https://israelblogger.com/tag/banking/)
- [Israeli banking](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeli-banking/)
- [life in Israel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/life-in-israel/)
- [Nikki Haley](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nikki-haley/)
- [Dennis Prager](https://israelblogger.com/tag/dennis-prager/)
- [Ahed Tamimi](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ahed-tamimi/)
- [Ahlam Tamimi](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ahlam-tamimi/)
- [Media bias](https://israelblogger.com/tag/media-bias/)
- [humor](https://israelblogger.com/tag/humor/)
- [parody](https://israelblogger.com/tag/parody/)
- [South Africa](https://israelblogger.com/tag/south-africa/)
- [desalination](https://israelblogger.com/tag/desalination/)
- [Water shortages](https://israelblogger.com/tag/water-shortages/)
- [Raziel Shevach](https://israelblogger.com/tag/raziel-shevach/)
- [Itamar Ben-Gal](https://israelblogger.com/tag/itamar-ben-gal/)
- [Israeli export](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeli-export/)
- [White House](https://israelblogger.com/tag/white-house/)
- [Drone](https://israelblogger.com/tag/drone/)
- [children](https://israelblogger.com/tag/children/)
- [child abuse](https://israelblogger.com/tag/child-abuse/)
- [rockets](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rockets/)
- [Boomerang4Israel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/boomerang4israel/)
- [NFL Football Stars](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nfl-football-stars/)
- [Hasbara](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hasbara/)
- [deportations](https://israelblogger.com/tag/deportations/)
- [african infiltrators](https://israelblogger.com/tag/african-infiltrators/)
- [Auerbach](https://israelblogger.com/tag/auerbach/)
- [Jerusalem Faction](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jerusalem-faction/)
- [Israel's Best Friends](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israels-best-friends/)
- [Justin Trudeau](https://israelblogger.com/tag/justin-trudeau/)
- [Stephen Harper](https://israelblogger.com/tag/stephen-harper/)
- [Bahrain](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bahrain/)
- [Nuclear war](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nuclear-war/)
- [Eldlers of Ziyon](https://israelblogger.com/tag/eldlers-of-ziyon/)
- [Paula Stern](https://israelblogger.com/tag/paula-stern/)
- [Daylight Savings Time](https://israelblogger.com/tag/daylight-savings-time/)
- [DST](https://israelblogger.com/tag/dst/)
- [Acting](https://israelblogger.com/tag/acting/)
- [Passover](https://israelblogger.com/tag/passover/)
- [Pesach](https://israelblogger.com/tag/pesach/)
- [freedom](https://israelblogger.com/tag/freedom/)
- [David Baddiel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/david-baddiel/)
- [Ricky Gervais](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ricky-gervais/)
- [Nazi Saluting Pug](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nazi-saluting-pug/)
- [Fallen Faces Project](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fallen-faces-project/)
- [Fallen Faced Project](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fallen-faced-project/)
- [Koby Mandell](https://israelblogger.com/tag/koby-mandell/)
- [Efrat Ungar](https://israelblogger.com/tag/efrat-ungar/)
- [Hebrew University](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hebrew-university/)
- [Bat-Chen Shahak](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bat-chen-shahak/)
- [Rules of Engagement](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rules-of-engagement/)
- [March of Return](https://israelblogger.com/tag/march-of-return/)
- [Rioting](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rioting/)
- [Mortar](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mortar/)
- [Daniel Treggerman](https://israelblogger.com/tag/daniel-treggerman/)
- [Dave Bender](https://israelblogger.com/tag/dave-bender/)
- [soldiers](https://israelblogger.com/tag/soldiers/)
- [Naftali Dean](https://israelblogger.com/tag/naftali-dean/)
- [Fallen Faces](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fallen-faces/)
- [Maxim restaurant](https://israelblogger.com/tag/maxim-restaurant/)
- [Haifa](https://israelblogger.com/tag/haifa/)
- [Osama Najar](https://israelblogger.com/tag/osama-najar/)
- [Hodaya Asulin](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hodaya-asulin/)
- [yom hashoah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yom-hashoah/)
- [Never Again](https://israelblogger.com/tag/never-again/)
- [#NeverAgain](https://israelblogger.com/tag/neveragain/)
- [Hillel Fuld](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hillel-fuld/)
- [Charedim](https://israelblogger.com/tag/charedim/)
- [Yom Ha'atzmaut](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yom-haatzmaut/)
- [Israel Independence Day](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israel-independence-day/)
- [Natalie Portman](https://israelblogger.com/tag/natalie-portman/)
- [Marit Ayin](https://israelblogger.com/tag/marit-ayin/)
- [motherhood](https://israelblogger.com/tag/motherhood/)
- [Judaism in America](https://israelblogger.com/tag/judaism-in-america/)
- [Judaism in Israel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/judaism-in-israel/)
- [Sephardic Judaism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/sephardic-judaism/)
- [Search and Rescue](https://israelblogger.com/tag/search-and-rescue/)
- [Haaretz](https://israelblogger.com/tag/haaretz/)
- [Anti-religious](https://israelblogger.com/tag/anti-religious/)
- [Thinking People](https://israelblogger.com/tag/thinking-people/)
- [Ella Or](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ella-or/)
- [Bnei Zion Mechina](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bnei-zion-mechina/)
- [Iranian nuclear deal](https://israelblogger.com/tag/iranian-nuclear-deal/)
- [Mossad](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mossad/)
- [Intelligence](https://israelblogger.com/tag/intelligence/)
- [Espionage](https://israelblogger.com/tag/espionage/)
- [Iranians](https://israelblogger.com/tag/iranians/)
- [Jerusalem post](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jerusalem-post/)
- [front lines](https://israelblogger.com/tag/front-lines/)
- [US Embassy](https://israelblogger.com/tag/us-embassy/)
- [Flavors of Israel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/flavors-of-israel/)
- [Double standard](https://israelblogger.com/tag/double-standard/)
- [American Jews](https://israelblogger.com/tag/american-jews/)
- [Protesters](https://israelblogger.com/tag/protesters/)
- [Bette Midler](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bette-midler/)
- [Conan O'Brien](https://israelblogger.com/tag/conan-obrien/)
- [Conen O'Brien](https://israelblogger.com/tag/conen-obrien/)
- [Female soldiers](https://israelblogger.com/tag/female-soldiers/)
- [Training](https://israelblogger.com/tag/training/)
- [Enlisting](https://israelblogger.com/tag/enlisting/)
- [Eternal people](https://israelblogger.com/tag/eternal-people/)
- [Anti-Semitism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/anti-semitism/)
- [Hitler](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hitler/)
- [Nas Daily](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nas-daily/)
- [Islamist](https://israelblogger.com/tag/islamist/)
- [ISIS](https://israelblogger.com/tag/isis/)
- [Taliban](https://israelblogger.com/tag/taliban/)
- [Muslim Brotherhood](https://israelblogger.com/tag/muslim-brotherhood/)
- [Hamas Charter](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hamas-charter/)
- [save a child's heart](https://israelblogger.com/tag/save-a-childs-heart/)
- [IsraAid](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israaid/)
- [News](https://israelblogger.com/tag/news/)
- [Paraguay](https://israelblogger.com/tag/paraguay/)
- [Abu Mazen](https://israelblogger.com/tag/abu-mazen/)
- [Gal Gadot](https://israelblogger.com/tag/gal-gadot/)
- [Wonder Woman](https://israelblogger.com/tag/wonder-woman/)
- [Dead Sea](https://israelblogger.com/tag/dead-sea/)
- [F-35](https://israelblogger.com/tag/f-35/)
- [Kerplop](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kerplop/)
- [Survivor](https://israelblogger.com/tag/survivor/)
- [Values](https://israelblogger.com/tag/values/)
- [Armenian Genocide](https://israelblogger.com/tag/armenian-genocide/)
- [Turks](https://israelblogger.com/tag/turks/)
- [In the News](https://israelblogger.com/tag/in-the-news/)
- [International Hamburger Day](https://israelblogger.com/tag/international-hamburger-day/)
- [Building freeze](https://israelblogger.com/tag/building-freeze/)
- [Judea](https://israelblogger.com/tag/judea/)
- [Samaria](https://israelblogger.com/tag/samaria/)
- [Shomron](https://israelblogger.com/tag/shomron/)
- [agro-terrorism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/agro-terrorism/)
- [agricultural terrorism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/agricultural-terrorism/)
- [Gush Etzion](https://israelblogger.com/tag/gush-etzion/)
- [Cherry picking](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cherry-picking/)
- [Krav Maga](https://israelblogger.com/tag/krav-maga/)
- [Emotion](https://israelblogger.com/tag/emotion/)
- [Confrontation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/confrontation/)
- [Blood Libel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/blood-libel/)
- [Big Lie](https://israelblogger.com/tag/big-lie/)
- [Saeb Erekat](https://israelblogger.com/tag/saeb-erekat/)
- [Jenin](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jenin/)
- [Jokes](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jokes/)
- [Black humor](https://israelblogger.com/tag/black-humor/)
- [fly in the coffee cup](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fly-in-the-coffee-cup/)
- [Reserve soldier](https://israelblogger.com/tag/reserve-soldier/)
- [teaching](https://israelblogger.com/tag/teaching/)
- [Marwan](https://israelblogger.com/tag/marwan/)
- [Barghouti](https://israelblogger.com/tag/barghouti/)
- [Hunger Strike](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hunger-strike/)
- [Ramadan](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ramadan/)
- [Gaza protesters](https://israelblogger.com/tag/gaza-protesters/)
- [innocent protesters](https://israelblogger.com/tag/innocent-protesters/)
- [kaddish](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kaddish/)
- [islamic jihad](https://israelblogger.com/tag/islamic-jihad/)
- [UN Security Council](https://israelblogger.com/tag/un-security-council/)
- [Sderot](https://israelblogger.com/tag/sderot/)
- [Kites](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kites/)
- [Micha Danzig](https://israelblogger.com/tag/micha-danzig/)
- [Tamika Mallory](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tamika-mallory/)
- [Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jerusalem-academy-of-music-and-dance/)
- [Birthright Israel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/birthright-israel/)
- [Taglit](https://israelblogger.com/tag/taglit/)
- [fanaticism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fanaticism/)
- [exploding kites](https://israelblogger.com/tag/exploding-kites/)
- [arson attacks](https://israelblogger.com/tag/arson-attacks/)
- [Anne Frank](https://israelblogger.com/tag/anne-frank/)
- [Conspiracy](https://israelblogger.com/tag/conspiracy/)
- [Conspiracy theories](https://israelblogger.com/tag/conspiracy-theories/)
- [Arab Slave Trade](https://israelblogger.com/tag/arab-slave-trade/)
- [1948](https://israelblogger.com/tag/1948/)
- [Ottoman](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ottoman/)
- [dhimmi](https://israelblogger.com/tag/dhimmi/)
- [pogroms](https://israelblogger.com/tag/pogroms/)
- [refugees](https://israelblogger.com/tag/refugees/)
- [Jewish refugees](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jewish-refugees/)
- [farhud](https://israelblogger.com/tag/farhud/)
- [deir yassin](https://israelblogger.com/tag/deir-yassin/)
- [democracy](https://israelblogger.com/tag/democracy/)
- [Zion](https://israelblogger.com/tag/zion/)
- [Israel-Hating Conspiracy Theorists](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israel-hating-conspiracy-theorists/)
- [Palestine](https://israelblogger.com/tag/palestine/)
- [teenagers](https://israelblogger.com/tag/teenagers/)
- [Naftali](https://israelblogger.com/tag/naftali/)
- [Gilad](https://israelblogger.com/tag/gilad/)
- [Eyal](https://israelblogger.com/tag/eyal/)
- [Operation Brother's Keeper](https://israelblogger.com/tag/operation-brothers-keeper/)
- [operation Nachshon](https://israelblogger.com/tag/operation-nachshon/)
- [Sabra and Shatila](https://israelblogger.com/tag/sabra-and-shatila/)
- [indigenous Jews](https://israelblogger.com/tag/indigenous-jews/)
- [Techy-Talk](https://israelblogger.com/tag/techy-talk/)
- [cybersecurity](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cybersecurity/)
- [Islamic State](https://israelblogger.com/tag/islamic-state/)
- [Arab violence](https://israelblogger.com/tag/arab-violence/)
- [Islamic Conquest](https://israelblogger.com/tag/islamic-conquest/)
- [CIA](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cia/)
- [Israeli Arabs](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeli-arabs/)
- [Mizrachi Jews](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mizrachi-jews/)
- [Declaration of Independence](https://israelblogger.com/tag/declaration-of-independence/)
- [arson](https://israelblogger.com/tag/arson/)
- [libels](https://israelblogger.com/tag/libels/)
- [blood libels](https://israelblogger.com/tag/blood-libels/)
- [Gonen Segev](https://israelblogger.com/tag/gonen-segev/)
- [News in 300](https://israelblogger.com/tag/news-in-300/)
- [Natural disaster](https://israelblogger.com/tag/natural-disaster/)
- [Flaming kites](https://israelblogger.com/tag/flaming-kites/)
- [eco-terror](https://israelblogger.com/tag/eco-terror/)
- [Samir Kuntar](https://israelblogger.com/tag/samir-kuntar/)
- [Nasrallah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nasrallah/)
- [Ehud Goldwasser](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ehud-goldwasser/)
- [Eldad Regev](https://israelblogger.com/tag/eldad-regev/)
- [Danny Haran](https://israelblogger.com/tag/danny-haran/)
- [talmud](https://israelblogger.com/tag/talmud/)
- [rambam](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rambam/)
- [mitzvot](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mitzvot/)
- [Operation Moses](https://israelblogger.com/tag/operation-moses/)
- [trees](https://israelblogger.com/tag/trees/)
- [molotov cockails](https://israelblogger.com/tag/molotov-cockails/)
- [Mark Twain](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mark-twain/)
- [Reverend Samuel Manning](https://israelblogger.com/tag/reverend-samuel-manning/)
- [white papers](https://israelblogger.com/tag/white-papers/)
- [Moshe Katz](https://israelblogger.com/tag/moshe-katz/)
- [Slavery](https://israelblogger.com/tag/slavery/)
- [self-hating Jews](https://israelblogger.com/tag/self-hating-jews/)
- [Hatikvah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hatikvah/)
- [The Hope](https://israelblogger.com/tag/the-hope/)
- [Muslim](https://israelblogger.com/tag/muslim/)
- [Waqf](https://israelblogger.com/tag/waqf/)
- [6 day war](https://israelblogger.com/tag/6-day-war/)
- [Joseph](https://israelblogger.com/tag/joseph/)
- [Hurva](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hurva/)
- [Nablus](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nablus/)
- [knife intifada](https://israelblogger.com/tag/knife-intifada/)
- [Ariel Gold](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ariel-gold/)
- [Hillel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hillel/)
- [Deportation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/deportation/)
- [Nina Morris-Evans](https://israelblogger.com/tag/nina-morris-evans/)
- [Ashkelon](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ashkelon/)
- [Family values](https://israelblogger.com/tag/family-values/)
- [Cerebral palsy](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cerebral-palsy/)
- [Thailand](https://israelblogger.com/tag/thailand/)
- [Maxtech](https://israelblogger.com/tag/maxtech/)
- [Uzi Hanuni](https://israelblogger.com/tag/uzi-hanuni/)
- [earthquake](https://israelblogger.com/tag/earthquake/)
- [shabbat shalom](https://israelblogger.com/tag/shabbat-shalom/)
- [genocide](https://israelblogger.com/tag/genocide/)
- [Arab-Israeli conflict](https://israelblogger.com/tag/arab-israeli-conflict/)
- [Israel's wars](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israels-wars/)
- [tzeva adom](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tzeva-adom/)
- [rocket attacks](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rocket-attacks/)
- [Khan Ashiya](https://israelblogger.com/tag/khan-ashiya/)
- [reading](https://israelblogger.com/tag/reading/)
- [words](https://israelblogger.com/tag/words/)
- [Anne Fadiman](https://israelblogger.com/tag/anne-fadiman/)
- [camel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/camel/)
- [falcon](https://israelblogger.com/tag/falcon/)
- [White Helmets](https://israelblogger.com/tag/white-helmets/)
- [Oren Shaul](https://israelblogger.com/tag/oren-shaul/)
- [BBC](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bbc/)
- [CNN](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cnn/)
- [Propaganda](https://israelblogger.com/tag/propaganda/)
- [BBC News](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bbc-news/)
- [Daniel Tragerman](https://israelblogger.com/tag/daniel-tragerman/)
- [mortar fire](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mortar-fire/)
- [reunion](https://israelblogger.com/tag/reunion/)
- [hammer](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hammer/)
- [teacher](https://israelblogger.com/tag/teacher/)
- [Yoram Raanan](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yoram-raanan/)
- [Meira Raanan](https://israelblogger.com/tag/meira-raanan/)
- [painting](https://israelblogger.com/tag/painting/)
- [Pat Condell](https://israelblogger.com/tag/pat-condell/)
- [Islamic fundamentalism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/islamic-fundamentalism/)
- [Black and Jewish relations](https://israelblogger.com/tag/black-and-jewish-relations/)
- [Ari Fuld](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ari-fuld/)
- [peace process](https://israelblogger.com/tag/peace-process/)
- [rage](https://israelblogger.com/tag/rage/)
- [morality](https://israelblogger.com/tag/morality/)
- [Tonge](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tonge/)
- [Sarsour](https://israelblogger.com/tag/sarsour/)
- [Farrakhan](https://israelblogger.com/tag/farrakhan/)
- [Tree of Life](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tree-of-life/)
- [Bowers](https://israelblogger.com/tag/bowers/)
- [Airbnb](https://israelblogger.com/tag/airbnb/)
- [#LetDavidMakeAliyah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/letdavidmakealiyah/)
- [justice](https://israelblogger.com/tag/justice/)
- [giyur](https://israelblogger.com/tag/giyur/)
- [acceptance](https://israelblogger.com/tag/acceptance/)
- [kiddush HaShem](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kiddush-hashem/)
- [Belgium](https://israelblogger.com/tag/belgium/)
- [FC Brugge](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fc-brugge/)
- [Israel 300](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israel-300/)
- [Six Million](https://israelblogger.com/tag/six-million/)
- [messianics](https://israelblogger.com/tag/messianics/)
- [Interfaith](https://israelblogger.com/tag/interfaith/)
- [HaYovel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hayovel/)
- [Cry for Zion](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cry-for-zion/)
- [#genealogy](https://israelblogger.com/tag/genealogy/)
- [#findinglostfamily](https://israelblogger.com/tag/findinglostfamily/)
- [#familyhistory](https://israelblogger.com/tag/familyhistory/)
- [shiva](https://israelblogger.com/tag/shiva/)
- [water conservation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/water-conservation/)
- [yartzeit](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yartzeit/)
- [death](https://israelblogger.com/tag/death/)
- [cultural appropriation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cultural-appropriation/)
- [Torah for the nations](https://israelblogger.com/tag/torah-for-the-nations/)
- [Teaching Christians Torah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/teaching-christians-torah/)
- [Moon](https://israelblogger.com/tag/moon/)
- [IsraeliIL](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeliil/)
- [Argentina](https://israelblogger.com/tag/argentina/)
- [Chief Rabbi](https://israelblogger.com/tag/chief-rabbi/)
- [Barrett Outdoor Communications](https://israelblogger.com/tag/barrett-outdoor-communications/)
- [Israeli elections](https://israelblogger.com/tag/israeli-elections/)
- [Christians learning Torah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/christians-learning-torah/)
- [Zechariah Baumel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/zechariah-baumel/)
- [American politics](https://israelblogger.com/tag/american-politics/)
- [Beresheet](https://israelblogger.com/tag/beresheet/)
- [George Schaeffer](https://israelblogger.com/tag/george-schaeffer/)
- [Welcome](https://israelblogger.com/tag/welcome/)
- [matzah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/matzah/)
- [haggadah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/haggadah/)
- [Yom Yerushalayim](https://israelblogger.com/tag/yom-yerushalayim/)
- [Reunificiation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/reunificiation/)
- [Naveh Yisrael](https://israelblogger.com/tag/naveh-yisrael/)
- [Benny Kashriel](https://israelblogger.com/tag/benny-kashriel/)
- [Beit Shemesh](https://israelblogger.com/tag/beit-shemesh/)
- [Intolerance](https://israelblogger.com/tag/intolerance/)
- [Feminism](https://israelblogger.com/tag/feminism/)
- [Viewpoint](https://israelblogger.com/tag/viewpoint/)
- [Simchat Torah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/simchat-torah/)
- [kristallnacht](https://israelblogger.com/tag/kristallnacht/)
- [birthday](https://israelblogger.com/tag/birthday/)
- [Shandalov](https://israelblogger.com/tag/shandalov/)
- [family](https://israelblogger.com/tag/family/)
- [#coronastrong](https://israelblogger.com/tag/coronastrong/)
- [#pandemic](https://israelblogger.com/tag/pandemic/)
- [#coronavirus](https://israelblogger.com/tag/coronavirus/)
- [#lockdown](https://israelblogger.com/tag/lockdown/)
- [COVID-19](https://israelblogger.com/tag/covid-19/)
- [social distancing](https://israelblogger.com/tag/social-distancing/)
- [self quarantine](https://israelblogger.com/tag/self-quarantine/)
- [Pesakh](https://israelblogger.com/tag/pesakh/)
- [tefila](https://israelblogger.com/tag/tefila/)
- [hitbodedut](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hitbodedut/)
- [isolation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/isolation/)
- [introspection](https://israelblogger.com/tag/introspection/)
- [ASD](https://israelblogger.com/tag/asd/)
- [autism spectrum](https://israelblogger.com/tag/autism-spectrum/)
- [special education](https://israelblogger.com/tag/special-education/)
- [Neowise](https://israelblogger.com/tag/neowise/)
- [Comet](https://israelblogger.com/tag/comet/)
- [Mitzpe Ramon](https://israelblogger.com/tag/mitzpe-ramon/)
- [Friday](https://israelblogger.com/tag/friday/)
- [Joe Biden](https://israelblogger.com/tag/joe-biden/)
- [US Elections](https://israelblogger.com/tag/us-elections/)
- [Chanukah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/chanukah/)
- [Menorah](https://israelblogger.com/tag/menorah/)
- [Pollard](https://israelblogger.com/tag/pollard/)
- [conspiracies](https://israelblogger.com/tag/conspiracies/)
- [langauge](https://israelblogger.com/tag/langauge/)
- [ignorance](https://israelblogger.com/tag/ignorance/)
- [Cheshbon Nefesh](https://israelblogger.com/tag/cheshbon-nefesh/)
- [Har Meron](https://israelblogger.com/tag/har-meron/)
- [Lag B'Omer](https://israelblogger.com/tag/lag-bomer/)
- [#Dubai](https://israelblogger.com/tag/dubai/)
- [#AbrahamAccords](https://israelblogger.com/tag/abrahamaccords/)
- [Operation Guardian of the Walls](https://israelblogger.com/tag/operation-guardian-of-the-walls/)
- [Hadar Goldin](https://israelblogger.com/tag/hadar-goldin/)
- [meditation](https://israelblogger.com/tag/meditation/)
- [Parshat Toldot](https://israelblogger.com/tag/parshat-toldot/)
- [evangelicals](https://israelblogger.com/tag/evangelicals/)
- [proselytizing](https://israelblogger.com/tag/proselytizing/)
- [Jesus](https://israelblogger.com/tag/jesus/)
- [Florida](https://israelblogger.com/tag/florida/)
- [Fun in the Son](https://israelblogger.com/tag/fun-in-the-son/)