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October 20, 2017 / 30 Tishri 5778
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Headlines & Recommended
Arab Terrorist Stole Truck Looking to Run Over IDF Soldiers

David Israel
A police force located the truck in the Beit Dagan area, just outside Rishon LeZion, and ordered the truck driver to stop, but he began to flee towards Rishon Lezion.


Israeli Labor Court Endorses Bedouin Polygamy

JNi.Media
The ruling encourages Bedouin husbands to marry many women and divorce them on paper, while receive assistance for their polygamous families with income supplements intended for the single mothers but in reality going to the spouses.


The Most Spectacular MosaicsExposed in Israel to Receive the Most Spectacular Permanent Home in Lod

JNi.Media
Construction of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center is underway to display world-class archaeological finds inside a modern complex.


IDF Retaliates Against Syrian Rocket Fire

Hana Levi Julian
Israel sees the Syrian government as responsible for whatever happens in its territory.


Liberman Says Assad ‘Shouldn’t Test Us’ After IDF Retaliates Against Syrian ‘Spillover’ Fire

David Israel
The IDF issued a statement following the operation: We will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli sovereignty.


At Jordan Valley’s 50th Yr Celebration: ‘If We’re Not Here, Tehran & Hamastan Will Be Here’

Hana Levi Julian
"Our roots trace back to here . . . Not far from here the Children of Israel entered the Promised Land."


NGO Forced by European Funder to Remove Terror Whitewashing

Hana Levi Julian
The European-funded Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) NGO had whitewashed the Sept. 26 terror attack at Har Adar on its website.


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News
Israeli Arab Family Charged With Joining ISIS
Throughout the court proceedings, Zabida'at insisted that he was dragged into and kept under the control of ISIS by his wife.


Watch: Hundreds Participate in Hareidi ‘Day of Rage’
The demonstrations were sparked by the arrest of two yeshiva students who refused to appear at the IDF enlistment office.


IRGC Announces Acceleration of Ballistic Missile Program
“Iran’s ballistic missile program will expand and it will continue with more speed," said the IRGC.


Netanyahu Commends Trump Administration on Reinforcing Quartet Conditions for Talks
“We want peace; we want a genuine peace ... we will not conduct negotiations with a terrorist organization in diplomatic disguise."


North Korea Threatens US with ‘Unimaginable Strike at Unimaginable Time’
The nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier is patrolling the waters around the Korean Peninsula.


Bulgaria Adopts Working Definition of Anti-Semitism
EJC expressed hope for "a continental standard so anti-Semites will know which lines they dare not cross.”


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InDepth
Religious Liberty For Me But Not For Thee

Jonathan S. Tobin
Rather than aiding bigotry, Trump is standing up for a principle that Jews ought to be defending: Religious liberty


President Trump Did the Right Thing by Walking Away from UNESCO — for Now

Alan M. Dershowitz
By withdrawing from UNESCO – again – President Trump is sending a powerful message to the international community: that we will no longer tolerate international organizations that serve as forums for Jew-bashing.


Belgium and Norway–but not US– Act Against Palestinian Incitement

Stephen M. Flatow
Norway and Belgium, in at least one important respect, have gone much further than the US in confronting the problem of Palestinian incitement against Israel--and they are not known for their love of Israel


Sukkot Brings Out International Love For Israel

Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The contrast with the increasing manifestations of international anti-Semitism is stark, and raises the question: What is the source of this incredible and effusive love for Israel from so many different stripes of people?


Stephen Paddock Gives Mental Illness A Bad Name

David Mandel
Let's label Paddock for what he was: A diabolically evil person not a person suffering from mental illness.


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Jewish
Parshas Noach

Rabbi Yaakov Klass
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A Tale of Two Noahs

Rabbi Simcha Weinberg
Adam's two Fermatas resonate in the two Noahs, and the notes continue to reverberate in our souls as we struggle to retain our connection to the Garden,


Noach and Global Warming

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
But the question of Noach and global warming can be understood as a theological rather than a factual question: Are there any circumstances under which G-d would allow the human race to be destroyed?


The Rubashkin Saga – VI

Rabbi Hanoch Teller
The desire to build a social justice program with a huge lucrative potential, required an appalling trigger. Agriprocessors and Rubashkin fulfilled that need


Caring For Bubbie – A Privilege

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
Not every family has the merit of caring for elderly grandparents, so instead of resenting the mitzvah, teach your children to embrace it with love.


Virtual Acquisition

Rabbi Meir Orlian
Must I give the produce itself or can I just give equivalent money to tzedakah instead?


The Purpose Of The World

Rabbi Raphael Fuchs
When in the history of the world did all of the nations of the world ever claim that we stole Eretz Yisrael?


Guarantors Who Become Co-borrowers (Siman 77:4)

Raphael Grunfeld
It is true that having been sued by Shimon, Levi had no choice but to pay off the whole loan.


Challenges

Faygie Goldstein
I found myself struggling to understand the rapid fire Hebrew spoken all around me but I forced myself to speak the little Hebrew I knew and slowly I became proficient.


Daf Yomi

Rabbi Yaakov Klass
As We Come Closer And Closer ‘… Like The Face Of A Dog’ (Sanhedrin 97a)


Conducting The Defense In Capital Punishment Cases (Sanhedrin 32b)

Raphael Grunfeld
If both sets of witnesses have withstood the rigor of the court’s cross examination, why, one might ask, does the beit din believe the evidence of the second set of witnesses more than the first?


Bitachon And Effort: Finding The Balance

Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
Our hishtadlus (efforts) and our bitachon (trust in Hashem) have to be balanced.


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