Tuesday, February 9, 2021

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

Bennett and Smotrich

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