Wearing a kipah in a liberal academic environment, I am occasionally confronted by colleagues eager to express their sympathies for the Palestinian cause. I listen in shock and disbelief how they distort history to portray the Palestinians as the victims and the Israelis as the oppressors in the Middle East conflict. They tell me about […]

The Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel Electric Company are building the world’s biggest and brightest sukkah in time for the upcoming Sukkot festival, which begins Wednesday evening, September 29. A sukkah is a temporary dwelling in which Jews live for the weeklong festival of Sukkot, commemorating the 40-year period during which the Nation of Israel […]

1. You can’t get on a bus without being poked in the rear a dozen times with someone’s stray lulav. 2. The sweet smell of etrogim in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda (Yehuda Market) is overpowering. Huge crowds descend on the alleyway just outside the market to vie for the best lulav and etrog. 3. An enterprising […]

Tifferet Tratner, age 24, was the first resident of Gush Katif to be killed directly by a mortar shell. In four years of endless bombardment, Gush Katif had experienced life in the realm of the supra-rational, the realm of endless miracles by the Almighty. Mortars launched by Arab terrorists in Khan Yunis into the Gush […]

When I tell people I spent the last year of my life studying abroad in Israel, they usually look at me funny and respond politely. When I tell them I’m planning to move there permanently, the flabbergasted look on their face demands an explanation. I’m a 21-year-old student at NYU majoring in journalism. I have […]

NEW YORK- A senior Israeli official has said that Egypt’s policy is to promote Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israel, and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to suspend U.S. aid to Egypt until the Egyptians change their policy. Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, who is chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs […]

In his speech to the United Nations on September 21, 2004, President Bush stumbled into ‘State Department speak’ and evoked the ‘road map’ for peace in the Middle East. He issued a perfunctory call for reform and democracy among Palestinian Arabs, and issued a list of demands on Israel: ‘Israel should impose a settlements freeze, […]

The missile in the photo with this article is the Luna-2 short-range ground-to-ground missile, known to NATO from Soviet times as FROG-7, which Iran has developed as its Zelzal-2/Mushak-200. In the hands of Iran’s Lebanon-based Revolutionary Guards, it has extended the Iranian-Hizballah’s missile range due south to Israel’s coastal cities of Haifa, Hadera and Netanya. […]

Gisela Blume is a convert to Judaism who has dedicated her life to the restoration and preservation of Fuerth’s historic Jewish cemetery. In her work as a genealogist, she has acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of Fuerth’s Jewish community from the sixteenth century to the founding of the first Jewish orphanage in Germany in 1762 by […]

One cannot help but be reminded of Hitlers supporters in America before, during and after WW2. These were high officials in government, industry, banking, military equipment manufacturers who were never arrested for treason. (I shall provide the reader with a deeper version of Americas betrayers on this subject in a following article.) In the meantime, […]