In 1993, I was one of the few Canadian Jews who moved to Israel. A year later, I volunteered for the Israeli army. I was 23 years old, five years older than native-born Israelis when they begin to serve. I served for a year in the Golani infantry brigade and then, for the next ten […]

By Kenneth Lasson – The Baltimore Jewish News – June 9, 2006 [Provided by Justice4JP] Who wants to hear anything more about Jonathan Pollard? Not the government of the United States, or its criminal justice system, which long ago convicted Pollard of passing classified information to a foreign government – an offense normally punished by […]

Palestinian terrorists struggled with and tried to force two Jewish girls at gunpoint into a car – but an army vehicle happened along, and the would-be kidnappers were caught near Shilo. The incident began shortly before 3 PM. Two 9th grade girls were standing at the Rechelim junction on Highway 60, waiting for a ride […]

New York – Ari Shavit, the distinguished columnist for the major Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, said today, “the basic law of the Israeli – Palestinian jungle is that an Israeli withdrawal does not diminish the conflict, but instead exacerbates it.” (Ha’aretz, June 12, 2006). Other quotes from Shavit article: “The unilateralist strategy was never accepted by […]

No joy in the Knesset Finance Committee, whose members received the latest report on the status of the uprooted Gush Katif residents today. 70% of the families in Nitzan are still unemployed. Some 150 expellees demonstrated today, for the fourth straight day, on the Ashkelon highway. Blocking the highway near the hastily-constructed town of Nitzan […]

by Professor Jonathan Adelman, from Aish Hatorah Resources. Aish is the place for everything you want to know about Judaism . For permission to reprint, e-mail Aish at reprints@aish.com When Jewish parents take their children to university campuses this fall, those who have not set foot on a quad from the 1960’s through 1980’s may […]

By: Robert J. Avrech Wednesday, May 31, 2006 The death of Daniel Wultz is “a gift from Allah, and revenge against American support for Israel,” said Abu Nasser, a leader of the Al Aksa Murderers Brigade, one of the Palestinian groups responsible for the Tel Aviv Passover atrocity. Abu Nasser: “We wish this young dog […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 12, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150035838195&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Sunday Palestinian Hamas Authority Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar was in Teheran meeting with his boss, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad reportedly devoted the meeting to reminding Zahar that jihad is the only path for the Palestinians, and demanding that Hamas redouble its attacks against Israel. This […]

By Phyllis Chesler World Jewish Digest | March 6, 2006 Today, reality outpaces fiction. The truth is often linguistically reversed before our very eyes: Even as we see Muslim jihadic terrorists blow up civilians we are simultaneously told that the victims are not those who have just been murdered, that the perpetrators of violence are […]

Yoram Ettinger, “Makor Rishon”, May 19, 2006 “REALIGNMENT”, JUST like “DISENGAGEMENT”, IS NOT AN AMERICAN IDEA, and therefore the US does not feel obligated to support it. The US has always respected (although many times disagreed with) an Israel, which is a producer – rather than a consumer – of national security and deterrence. Before […]