Notice the priority of G-d in verse 8: ”You will….succeed in the rescue.” Again, the first objective was bringing the ...

All of this plays into a very scary feeling I have, leading into Parashat Zakhor. On the week that so many Jews recall tragedies from times gone by and those from recent memory, especially when the ...

The halakha tells us to destroy Gaza and its cities to their foundations and try to rescue the hostages by means of the war itself, certainly not by freeing terrorists or through a ceasefire.

The halakha calls for the total destruction of Gaza and its cities, and for attempting to rescue the hostages as an ongoing goal of the war itself.