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Every single mitzvah has infinite, cosmic effects unseen by us, but also, by practicing the commandments, we become more refined, more mature, more elevated.
Unless the Israeli military can drive Hezbollah out of Southern Lebanon, the de facto border has shifted, shrinking the country by about 250 square miles.
When someone criticizes Israel, we need only ask: “Are they OK with killing Jews?”
The fast day commemorates the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem and memorializes other major tragedies that befell the Jewish people throughout its history.
Israelis realize that radical Islamists are well aware of our calendar and seem to make serious efforts to render our wisecrack about celebrating victory by stuffing our faces no longer funny.
The Jewish state is watching and waiting because it knows its own strength.
The precision strike on Hamas and Islamic Jihad officers embedded in a mosque within a school compound is being falsely depicted as a mass-casualty incident.
While the former is doubtless hard for liberal Jews to absorb, with regard to Israel and the Jews, the latter are much worse.