Jerusalem Watchman Thursday 23 March 2006 It’s insane, but if the myriad polls assaulting us in the final countdown to March 28 convey anything like an accurate forecast, most Israelis are poised to vote for parties that will place the country’s largest population centers directly in the line of Arab fire. As we hear daily, […]

Aaron Lerner Date: 23 March 2006 What happens if Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert succeeds next week in getting enough votes to put together a stable “retreat coalition”? According to Olmert, once Israel determines that the absence of a Palestinian partner renders the Roadmap irrelevant (a determination that can be made in 60 seconds) his […]

Two Kassam rockets fired from formerly Jewish areas of Gaza struck Ashkelon Saturday night. IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says Israel must remain “civilized” in its response to the rockets. One of the rockets hit a building in the southern Ashkelon industrial area, damaging the building, but failing to injure anybody. “The phenomenon of […]

By Hillel Fendel – Arutz7 News – March 23, 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request by Jonathan Pollard to access documents that could help his bid to seek clemency. [J4JP: The Supreme did not reject the merits of the petition; it simply declined to deal with the petition at all.] The […]

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Thursday, March 23, 2006 Dear Friends of Israel all over the World, March 28, 2006, will be an important day in Jewish History. Will the “destroyers” like Ehud Olmert win, or those of us who truly believe that the G-d of Israel promised the Holy Land to […]

By Ryan Jones JNW March 19th, 2006 Dressed up in new academic attire, the centuries-old libel that the Jewish people have somehow taken control of the affairs of the most powerful nations on earth – in this case the United States of America – is again making headlines. America’s roughly six million Jews make up […]

Over the past few years there has been extensive coverage of an upsurge in Jewish religious observance. Increasingly sophisticated efforts at kiruv have resulted in large numbers of ba’alei teshuva – returnees – rediscovering the beauty and depth of an observant lifestyle. An important concomitant of this revitalization of Orthodoxy is that we now have […]

Michael Freund and the Shavei Israel organization were presented with the Jerusalem Prize at the closing ceremony of the Jerusalem Conference. The Maaleh School of Cinema was also awarded. “The Jerusalem Prize is being granted to Shavei Israel For lending a hand to Jews and their descendents all over the world, educating them and assisting […]

As the world looks to nature to find cures for some of the world’s most debilitating diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and strokes, an Israeli company – Shulov Institute for Sciences Ltd (SIS) – has unlocked the chemicals found in deadly viper venom to help treat arthritis. About 2.1 million Americans suffer from rheumatoid […]

Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss is preparing a report on the matter, though Olmert has already issued a denial. A complaint was filed against Olmert in September 2004 by the Industry and Trade Ministry’s employees union. The union claimed that Olmert and the Ministry’s Director-General made illegal appointments, and took advantage of personal connections. Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss […]