At least three people were killed and 35 wounded, five seriously, in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv beachfront pub. The bomber blew himself up late Tuesday night at the entrance to “Mike’s Place,” a pub that is popular with tourists, when a security guard barred him from entering. The attack occurred as Israel […]

Abu Mazen is not as terrorism-free as might have been thought – and he is in fact connected with one of the 20th century’s most infamous terrorist crimes: the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes – including American citizen David Berger – at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany in 1972. Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu […]

A recent Jordan Times article by a columnist named Musa Keilani provides an insight into how the Arab world views the liberation of their brother Arabs from the regime of Saddam Hussein. The article, appearing in a mainstream newspaper of Jordan, recognized as a moderate Arab state that maintains diplomatic relations with Israel, is nonetheless […]

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day begins tonight, one week before Independence Day, in memory of the more than six million Jews murdered in Europe by the Nazi regime between 1941-1945. The theme for this year’s commemorations is, “Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust – Sixty Years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.” The official opening ceremony […]

ROME, April 22 (JTA) On April 19, 1943, heavily armed Nazi troopspenetrated into the Warsaw Ghetto with a grim goal: the liquidation ofthe ghetto and the deportation of the last remnants of Warsaw’s Jews some 40,000 men, women and children. The German forces were met by something unexpected: a fierce attack bysome 750 young Jews […]

The Holocaust was arguably among the most fearsome tragedies that have befallen the Jewish People in its long history, in which six million Jews, fully one third of European Jewry, including one and a half million children, were murdered. And the murderers were not a People who would normally be called “barbaric.” On the contrary, […]

A unique program launched this week at the IDF School of Military Justice in Tzrifin has brought smiles to the faces of a group of very special soldiers. Students from the “Mesilot” school in Bat Yam who suffer from developmental disabilities were drafted, appeared in uniform for the first time and were welcomed into the […]

PARIS, April 27 (JTA) — French Jews may have been hoping that the election of the first council to represent France’s 5 million-strong Muslim community would act as a moderating influence on its members. They received a rude awakening earlier this month. Representatives from more than 900 mosques across France who cast their ballots for […]

Although the international community expects Abu Mazen to dismantle the terrorist organizations, all three of the main ones – Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and even the Al-Aksa Brigades under the direct command of Yasser Arafat – have announced that they have no plans to disarm or to “give up their fight against the conquest.” Abu Hamid, […]

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the […]