Elor Azaria Loses Appeal | Saudis Against Internationalizing (Their) Religious City | Where’s the Kipa? | Hezbollah Threats | Temple Mount | Tisha B’Av |

David Israel
‘Regarding the claim by the defense of abuse of process,’ said Judge Piles, ‘It was argued that selective enforcement was used against [the appellant], and that the public statements made by the Chief of Staff and the Defense Minister contaminated the trial.’ However, Piles said, ‘Even if statements were made by the Chief of Staff and the Defense Minister, this does not mean any outside influence and considerations.’

TPS / Tazpit News Agency
Of course, politicians on the far left were happy with the decision.

Hana Levi Julian
„We reserve the right to respond to anyone who is working on the internationalization of the holy sites,” said Saudi Arabia.

JNi.Media
In recent years, the knitted yarmulkes, which fill the junior and middle echelons of the IDF, have not been promoted to the senior command of the army.

JNi.Media
Hezbollah is going broke, which pushes it to run intense fundraising campaigns among its wealthy Shiite supporters – and to restrict its media campaign to messages hastily scrawled on cardboard.

TPS / Tazpit News Agency
The satellite will help a farmer see the spatial and temporal changes of crops in the entire field, and on an intra-field scale of small plots as well.

Dr. Martin Sherman
As a non-observant Jew I was always skeptical towards the claim of my more devout kin-folk that the Temple Mount was the key to the maintenance of Jewish sovereignty over Israel. I was wrong!

JNi.Media
Other than that one Jordanian Waqf agent, the Temple Mount was almost empty of Muslims Sunday.

Yossi Baumol
The Temple is an affair of the heart–it’s what is missing from our lives. Subconsciously we have begun more and more to feel this great void in our lives.

Jewish Press Staff
A free, printable paper model of the Beit HaMikdash that kids can assemble is being made available by Tzivos Hashem Traditional Crafts Workshops.

Yossi Baumol
The Temple is an affair of the heart–it’s what is missing from our lives. Subconsciously we have begun more and more to feel this great void in our lives.

Dr. Martin Sherman
As a non-observant Jew I was always skeptical towards the claim of my more devout kin-folk that the Temple Mount was the key to the maintenance of Jewish sovereignty over Israel. I was wrong!

Rabbi Zalman Eisenstock
Rav Soloveitchik, z”l, taught that we are not just remembering what transpired on this day but that, mystically, the burning and destruction of the Temple reoccurs yearly, we are to envision the flames in front of our own eyes in every generation.

J. E. Dyer
Kelly’s walking into something that will be a tougher challenge than homeland security. He’s a good choice, and we have reason to hope for good things to come of it.

Rabbi Ben-Tzion Spitz
Zehut is proposing, for the first time in the history of the State of Israel, that Jews from the Diaspora are given a voice to determine potential Knesset members.

Dr. Shani Verschleiser
Preventing sexual abuse is not only about telling our kids that no one should touch their private parts or ask them to touch theirs. It’s also vital that a child, no matter the age, be heard and validated upon saying “I’m not comfortable.”

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
It is not enough to hope for redemption, we must be the catalyst for it. Our job is to make sure we can answer the call of ayeka, where are you? Are you taking responsibility?

Rabbi Dani Staum
The ninth of Av became a harbinger of the numerous tragedies we would suffer throughout the exile.

Raphael Grunfeld
The door to our troubles first opened on that Seventeenth day of Tammuz when Moses walked in on the worshippers of the golden calf and shattered the tablets of the law.

Rabbi Raphael Fuchs
Hashem wants us to realize that we are not in control of Har Habayis, and this should disturb us.

Rabbi Simcha Weinberg
The Tisha b’Av experience is a spiritual affliction, „Acedia,” a „sadness, a disgust with life, which comes from our inability to get along with ourselves, our disunion with God.”

Jewish Press Staff