Archive for י״ז בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (June 29, 2010)

A Right to G-ds Promise

As I walk through the modern streets of the Holy City of Jerusalem I can’t help but feel the powerfulness of a nation striving towards a strong dominant future in terms of economy, academia and technology. Let us not forget though what really matters and that is faith, faith in our destiny faith in our [...]

Israel’s Right to Exist Bubble

This article originally appeared on American Enterprise. Of all the implications following the Gaza “peace flotilla” episode, perhaps the most important for Israel is that the existence of a growing challenge to Israel’s very right to exist has finally been fully exposed. Whether it was the provocation by the flotilla itself, or the subsequent challenge [...]

Making a Life in Israel (by Howie Mischel)

A young rabbi (my oldest son Judah) recently reminded me of a saying that “you come to Israel to make a life, not a living”. My wife and I arrived on aliyah last August and aside from completing a five-month, full-time ulpan, my primary preoccupation until recently has been to find full-time work to support [...]

Connecting the dots

One may look at the challenges facing Am Yisrael today, especially those of us in Eretz Yisrael, and simply shrug and say, “It isn’t easy being a Jew.” True, we have suffered many hardships throughout the centuries and often gone through tough periods in which one challenge after another seems to befall us. It would [...]

The Debate for Aliyah: G-d, the Rabbi’s, and a little thing called Jewish Destiny

In the last few weeks I have been engaged in a little back and forth concerning some of the substance of my blogs, with someone known to me only as “rd”. What I have learned about him is the following: he is a knowledgeable G-d-fearing Jew with the utmost respect for the Torah and the [...]

Yishai Fleisher’s “Eye on Zion” Speaking Tour is Coming to America!

SUMMER 2010: “Israel – A Heart of Flesh in a World with a Heart of Stone” Israel is a miracle and is the most exciting project of the Jewish people in 2,000 years. Yet this young country is in ever present danger, from within and from without. How do we help Israel regain her self-confidence [...]

What if we blew the Iranian “aid” ships out of the water?

Come one come all! The show has already begun please won’t you sit down. From the makers of a fake nation, a false claim and the killers of our children we bring you the Palestinians! If you liked suicide bombs, intricate smuggling tunnels, and both the first and second Intifada. We have a new treat [...]

NBN Coming Attractions 2010

Turkish Ships and Morality

(The article was originally published on PajamasMed ia)   With the recent events on the Turkish sponsored “peace flotilla”, Israel has once again been tossed into another lose-lose public relations game. Had Israel refrained from acting, as the self-declared moralists of the world demanded, then Israel certainly would have won a few brownie points for good [...]

It’s about time we all “got it”

It has been a very trying time for Israel this past year. It seems like every other week a major scandal is broken. Ironically with the frequency of each scenario, be it fake passports, internal spies, or large scale building corruption, we don’t even have time to process each one before the next one blows [...]