Understanding How To Stop The Next Old City Attack
On August 14th a lone gun man shot 8 pedestrians just outside of Jerusalem’s Old City and then fled into…
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A Past and Present Connection
Our parsha explores the nature of the Jewish people’s connection to the Land of Israel. Interestingly, it seems that there…
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The All-Inclusive Redemption
This week is known is Shabbat Nachamu, when we read the beautiful haftorah of consolation. As usual, it is also…
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The Latest Fatwa: Don’t Visit Jerusalem
An Emirati political scientist has publicly come out in support of the Jerusalem Mufti’s Fatwa against muslims visiting Jerusalem through…
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The Mourning of Jerusalem
One of the most iconic and stirring kinnot is “Eli Tzion.” The opening line and refrain reads as follows: “Wail…
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Remembering Jerusalem : From Sadness to Joy
To Be Read After Tisha B’Av We are told by the great Sages, that we – the Jewish People, have…
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Living in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem
by Mordechai Tzion I heard from Ha-Rav Aviv Tzuberi, Rosh Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim, that when Ha-Rav Yosef Zilberman decided to…
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Wagon wheels of “the Redemption and the Settler movement” are always moving forward
There is a good reason why it says in our prayers – from Chapter 92 in Tehillim (Psalms): “5 How great…
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The Three Weeks – The Three Actions
We are all familiar with the current “semi-mourning” period of the Three Weeks, from the minor fast day of the 17th Tammuz (Breaking G-d…
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The End of the Journey
Our parsha opens with a list of the forty-two stations at which the Jewish people stopped in their journey through…
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