By MEGHAN CLYNE NY Sun February 10, 2006 WASHINGTON – Brandeis University’s refusal to address concerns about possible ties between a prominent Palestinian Arab scholar, Khalil Shikaki, and the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad is prompting outrage in the Jewish community and among some Brandeis alumni. Calls are mounting for an investigation into Mr. Shikaki’s […]

Two Arab terrorists stabbed a 45-year-old Jewish man in the northern Jerusalem suburb of Ma’aleh Adumim Saturday night. The man remains in serious condition at Hadassah Ein Karem’s trauma ward. The man was found bleeding on the sidewalk outside of an old-age home in the city. He told police on the way to the hospital […]

Zalmi’s Weblog This map is an extract from this month’s airline magazine Business Traveller. It is part of a 4-page ad for InterContinental Hotels Group which has achieved in print what Mr Ahmadinejad seeks to achieve with nuclear weapons: the erasure of Israel from the world map.Now I always thought its Crowne Plaza Dead Sea […]

With Hamas now in power, the long-ruling Fatah party and its “military wing” Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades forced into the opposition, and Israel announcing it will soon withdraw from the West Bank, Palestinian terror leaders tell WorldNetDaily recent events here are leading them to launch what they call a third intifada – or violent confrontation […]

Pressure to establish an outside commission to inquire why police used excessive violence against protestors in Amona is growing. Activists are being blamed for a torched police chief’s car. Pictures of police involved in violence have been posted on the internet, and protests have been organized outside police headquarters. In addition, the car of the […]

Thursday May 23, 2002 is a day that could have easily lived in infamy. That morning tens of thousands of Israelis could have been incinerated when a bomb attached to a tanker truck blew up. The tanker truck had just pulled into Israel’s largest gas (and other fuel) depot, the Pi Glilot fuel depot, located […]

Up to a billion dollars in support for various Jewish and Zionist organizations are at stake in the election now underway in the U.S. for the World Zionist Congress. Registration ends Wednesday. The vote-by-mail election in the United States will choose the 145 American delegates to the all-important Congress, which will be held in Jerusalem […]

by Caroline Glick, JERUSALEM POST forwarded by Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator Israel’s public debate is known for its ferocity and general nastiness, but very rarely is the prime minister called a bold-faced liar. The fact that both the Likud and Labor called Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just that after he […]

WASHINGTON [MENL] — The United States has quietly revised its assessment on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Officials said the U.S. intelligence community has determined that Iran became capable of enriching uranium and completing the nuclear fuel cycle. They said the new assessment envisioned Iran as ready to produce fissile material for its first weapons. “I […]

The emerging Jewish community of Tarapoto, located in the heart of the Peruvian jungle region, now has its first rabbi thanks to the Shavei Israel organization. Comprising several hundred people, the Tarapoto community consists of descendants of Moroccan Jews who migrated to the area in the late 19th century. Settling in towns in Peru’s Amazon […]