Who bombed that hospital?
The scenes of a burning hospital, with hundreds of people likely dead or dying, should sicken any person who has a soul and a conscience. And within minutes after the hospital went up in flames, Israel...
View ArticleWords can create worlds; they can also destroy them
Avtalyon said: Sages, be careful with your words, lest you incur the penalty of exile, and you are exiled to a place of evil waters, from which your students who follow you will drink and die; and the...
View ArticleThe Orwellian Jewish problem
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Terrorists are angels. Jews are Nazis. And 1,400 murder victims brought their massacre on themselves
View ArticleGod tested Abraham 3,700 years ago… and today
God tested Abraham. The Binding of Isaac is a mystery that will never be completely understood. Commentators, philosophers, poets, and artists have tried to uncover its secrets — yet there always...
View ArticleOur son is joining the IDF – now
When I am able to ignore my anxiety, I feel wonder and even joy that God has allowed my family to live at this time in history
View ArticleA Mark on My Forehead, a Mark on Yours
I’m going to put a mark on your forehead, and I hope you’ll put a mark on mine. But first I’m going to talk about gaslighting. Gaslighting is, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the...
View ArticleThank You… And a Request
I would like to begin by saying thank you. As someone who lives in Israel, I was given chizuk by the very strong showing yesterday in Washington. It was genuinely encouraging to know that we are truly...
View ArticleThe Buck Stops… With Thee, Not With Me
The year was 1961, and President Kennedy was still basking in the adulation that often accompanies a president during his first one hundred days. That adulation was soon tested when Kennedy gave the...
View ArticleYaakov joins the Israeli army
It’s a fairly simple and straightforward drive from Ramat Beit Shemesh to Tel Hashomer. Waze said that it would take about an hour, and I wanted to leave a bit early in case we ran into traffic and...
View ArticleRight Now, It’s Just Not Fair
Every couple of hours, throughout the night, I wake up with a start. I jump up with my heart racing, lift my phone, and check the news to see if anything terrible occurred. Sometimes the answer is yes,...
View ArticleThe God Who Hides
God Who hides Himself in the beauty of secrecy His mind that is hidden from any thought Cause of all causes, crowned with the supernal crown A crown they give to You, O Lord. (Abraham Maimin, 16th...
View ArticleGaslighting Jews on a National Scale
One cannot be a Jew only “at heart”; one must be a Jew together with other Jews in history-making action. A people in control of its own life, capable of implementing Judaism by applying it to the...
View ArticleThe Ambiguous Good of National Unity
Ever since Hamas committed its horrific atrocities on October 7th, the Israeli public has rallied behind the Israel Defense Forces. Despite the threats of hundreds of reservists to refuse to serve in...
View ArticleThe Fall – and Rise – of Religious Zionism
I am a proud religious Zionist – but I am not proud of the direction in which the religious Zionist community is moving. I am a believing religious Zionist – but I do not believe in some of the...
View ArticleIdealistic… and completely, dangerously wrong
The religious Zionists who advocate 'voluntary transfer' are too confident that the world - and God - will back them
View ArticleRevenge
Revenge. It’s the word invoked repeatedly to describe Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza. Like in the following sentence, said by the man behind the counter to an identifiably Jewish man as he...
View ArticleThe bombing of February 15th
It is an episode in the war that people seldom mention, but which should be more widely known. On February 15th, after obtaining information that a large civilian structure was actually a secret base...
View ArticleHypocrisy or Indifference
The following does not represent some original thought or halachic innovation. Others have said things like this before, and more will say them after. I’m simply joining an existing chorus, and...
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