Arabs freaking out over a dvar Torah in this week's parasha

Arutz-7 published a d'var Torah this week by prominent Religious Zionist Rabbi Melamed, where he encourages Israeli Jews to have more children and for diaspora Jews to move to Israel, because he says the more Jews in the land, the more peace there will be.In one part of the essay that mentions this week's Torah portion he says, Why were the borders of the land reduced...

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Chayyei Sarah -- A Parshah For Zionists (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosLast week, while reading online articles about the political situation in and surrounding Israel, I wasn't really expecting to come across articles discussing Chumash. Then again, with a title like Abraham The Zionist, and this week being Parshas Chayyei Sarah, Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz's article in JNS should not have been a surprise. The Parsha begins, of course,...

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