NEW YORK, March 25 (JTA) — Rick Dorfman may be the human face of the latest findings in the Anti-Defamation League’s annual report of anti-Semitic incidents across the country. Though the incident has not yet been confirmed by police as anti-Semitic, the University of Michigan junior was punched in the head by a stranger at […]

MADRID, March 26 (JTA) — It was truly a historic find. About 15 years ago, archivists examining several yellowed volumes of notarial records in the city of Girona in northeastern Spain began suspecting that the covers were lined with precious historical documents. They carefully picked apart the volumes and found a multitude of Hebrew manuscripts […]

Introduction Iran’s attitude towards the war in Iraq is complex. Iran repudiates Saddam Hussein, holding him responsible for the eight-year Iran-Iraq war (1) and for gassing Iranian citizens with chemical weapons. Nonetheless, Iran regards the U.S. presence on its borders as an even greater threat to the security of its regime and its national interests. […]

NEW YORK, March 25 (JTA) — As the U.S. military pounds Iraq, Jewish communities in Muslim countries may become increasingly vulnerable. Jews not only are tiny minorities in the Muslim world, but to some of their surrounding public, they represent the perceived twin threats of Israel and America. As coverage from Al-Jazeera and other Arab […]

As if to verify the warnings emanating from Hevron (see article on “Terrorist Victim’s Home Destroyed”), Ha’aretz reports today that the CIA – the United States’ intelligence agency – is establishing a special department that will be responsible for implementing the Road Map plan for an Israeli-PA peace agreement. One CIA team will focus on […]

On March 16th, college friends Joe Smith and Rachel Corrie came to Gaza to protest against terrorist home demolitions as part of the former’s activity with the International Solidarity Movement. Both Joe and Rachel had studied at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. Joe witnessed Rachel’s tragic death late that afternoon, and described what he saw […]

This past Shabbat, the one preceding Purim, we added to the regular Torah reading the commandment to blot out the memory of Amalek. And then we read from the prophet, Samuel, how King Saul lost his kingdom for failing to fulfill that commandment. Saul was a good King. He fought against Amalek valiantly. He began […]

Of particular interest to Israel were the reports emanating from Iraq this morning that coalition forces had uncovered two chemical-weapons production factories.One of them waslocated 150kilometers south of Baghdad, while the site of the other has not been publicized. The British Defense Ministry has allowed 15 Jewish soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf to remove […]

When it comes to encouraging terrorists and terrorism by disguising murder by other names, no one can beat USA Today. In a February 10 report headlined “Palestinian militants are undeterred: Israel`s crackdown feeds anger, ranks of militias,” I counted 16 different ways to distort language by calling terrorism against Israelis by any other name. A […]

“Day of Solidarity with Iraq.” This was the theme of a day of demonstrations and protests held by Israeli-Arabs yesterday against the U.S. attack on Iraq. To the consternation of the Israeli-Arab leadership, however, only several thousand people took part. One of them was MK Azmi Bishara, who announced his movement’s solidarity with “the Iraqi […]