More than anything else, what now emanates from Prime Minister Sharon`s willful deportation of pious and peaceful Jews in favor of avowed Palestinian terrorists is an overwhelming scent of impurity. Surely it had been bad enough for the embattered Jewish inhabitants of Gaza to endure endless and inexcusable Arab cruelties, but to compound this unique […]

A former resident of Sa-Nur, while mouning over the destruction of his town, points out that there still are Jewish communities in N. Samaria that ugently need to be bolstered with new families. The Jewish communities of northern Samaria have always had trouble attracting residents, primarily because of their distance from the main centers of […]

The nightmare of housing the exiled settlers is just coming into full view. The government has apparently deliberately made minimal plans to house, feed, employ what now amounts to Jewish refugees – again. I am reminded of how the Arab Muslim Palestinian Authority kept their people in camps and never bothered to plan to settle […]

Palestinians still live in refugee camps, even when the camps are in Palestinian Authority controlled areas, because the PLO opposes and prevents refugee resettlement. As the PLO slogan goes, A Palestinian refugee never moves out of his camp except to return home (ie, to Israel). While the PLO has done its best to keep Palestinians […]

The Israeli government’s removal of its own citizens from Gaza ranks as one of the worst errors ever made by a democracy. This step is the worse for being self-imposed, not the result of pressure from Washington. When the Bush administration first heard in December 2003 that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had unilaterally decided […]

Days after the expulsion of Jews from Gaza, and while the destruction of the communities there continues, rockets have already been fired upon towns both in the Negev and northern Israel. A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza hit the Negev city of Sderot around noon Thursday. A second rocket was also fired, and landed between […]

The First Jew To Live In North America The year 2004 marked the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America. In 1654 the first Jews arrived from Brazil to take up permanent residence in New Amsterdam (New York). When the Portuguese re-conquered Pernambuco, a portion of northern Brazil, from the Dutch, the Jews residing there […]

Police were searching for an Arab terrorist Wednesday night after he stabbed to death a Jewish yeshiva student and injured another near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. The attacker stabbed his first victim in the leg at around 8:30 PM on David Street. The young man suffered moderate injuries and managed to reach the […]

I write this from New York after returning from a bitter trip to Israel in mid-August. I wanted to be with my friends in Gush Katif during the period of the scheduled expulsion. I was sure it would never happen. Knowing the dedication, devotion, and beauty of the people and the land of Gush Katif […]

As family after family is evicted from a home and a community, as the synagogues are emptied and the nurseries abandoned, the scale of destruction and suffering seems overwhelming. Equally overwhelming is the ease with which four decades of work and love invested in communities can be effaced. Is it really that easy to destroy […]