Sacrificing the Altar Itself

Adapted by Hillel Fendel

A B'sheva newspaper investigation by Yoni Rotenberg shows how the Palestinian Authority is seeking to destroy Jewish history in the Shomron (Samaria)

Israel underwent something of a national trauma earlier this month, when it was discovered that one of the oldest Biblical Jewish sites in the country had been purposely destroyed by Palestinian Authority bodies. And then, to pour salt on the wounds, while some government officials condemned the destruction, Defense Minister Benny Gantz excused it as just "human error."

The original report of the destruction arrived two weeks ago. Channel 12 reporter Lia Spilkin provided viewers with a short video obtained by the organization "Preserving the Eternal." The clip shows heavy machinery grinding large boulders into gravel, with an Arab narrator boasting, "Here we see bulldozers taking apart the stones of what the Jews call Joshua's Altar and turning them into gravel for a road that we are paving here."

Torah from Bet El: Ki Tisa

 Then the Tabernacle, Now the Land

Baruch Gordon discusses the campaign found in Ki Tisa for the building materials to construct the Tabernacle and Sanctuary, and tells how we can participate in like construction today.

Torah from Bet El: Tetzave

 How Temple Laws Apply to Modern Israel

Baruch Gordon uses one of the laws of the Temple found in Parshat Tetzave to teach something insightful about the building of the modern State of Israel.

Torah from Bet El: Teruma

Is It Time to Rebuild the Temple?

Baruch Gordon explains the order in which Redemption must take place, and how we will know when the time has come to rebuild the Temple.

Torah from Bet El: Mishpatim

The Morality of Conquest

Baruch Gordon probes the question of how it can be "moral" for the Jewish People to have entered the Land of Canaan, killed its inhabitants, conquered the Land, and called it the Jewish homeland.

The Smotrich-Bennett Split Explained

by Hillel Fendel

The Religious Zionism Party, founded last month by former Transportation Minister and MK Betzalel Smotrich, has received the support of leading Yeshiva heads and others - even in the face of protests from the dwindling Jewish Home party. 

The new party's predecessor, the Ichud HaLeumi (National Union), had been expected to continue its partnership and political cooperation with Naftali Bennett's Yemina [Rightward] party, as it did in previous election campaigns. However, Smotrich last month took the brave and surprising step of splitting with Bennett. Why? In what might have served as the basis for the platform of the new Religious Zionism party, he explained at length:

IDF Prep Academy Soldiers Return To Continue Learning

Hesder IDF Prep Academy students return from army service to continue their Torah learning