By Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe Sunday, December 16, 2007 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/16/the_white_house_menorah/ On the seventh night of Hanukkah in 1944, my father was in Auschwitz. He had been deported with his parents and four of his five siblings to the Nazi extermination camp eight months earlier; by Hanukkah, only my father was still alive. That year, […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Wednesday’s leak of a municipal plan to build a new Jerusalem neighborhood on land of a moshav destroyed in the War of Independence has caused the repudiation of the plan in the face of American pressure. The leak of the plan to build 10,000-15,000 housing units in Atarot, located in the […]

By:Professor Louis René Beres and Major General (IDF/Res.) Isaac Ben-Israel Wednesday, December 19, 2007 It has now been almost five years since the Project Daniel Group advised then Prime Minister Sharon on how to deal with Iranian nuclear weapons. Our report, Israel’s Strategic Future, urged the prime minister to enhance Israel’s deterrence and defense postures, […]

Celebrating Chanukah 2007 in Saddam Hussein’s Republican Palace, who would think? Yet tonight inside a marble encrusted hall in Baghdad, we lit the eighth light of a hand-made, 6-foot tall menorah. We prayed in Hebrew, joyfully sang a medley of Chanukah songs, ate latkes, and best of all, we were Jews together in the land […]

By:Gary Spruch Wednesday, December 19, 2007 More than 140,000 people in the past month have clicked their way to a dramatic YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZihm6VlYjo) about a historic Jewish religious service led by a Brooklyn-born U.S. Army chaplain. The video tells how, on October 29, 1944, as artillery shells exploded in the distance, Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Human rights week in Israel heralds the publication of a plethora of reports by groups funded by the European Union and the New Israel Fund, on the alleged mistreatment of Arabs in Israel. In response, the Yesha Human Rights Organization published its own report on the status of human rights among […]

Office For Civil Rights Abandons Jewish Students, Defying U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s Recommendation The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is shocked by and condemns the decision issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning allegations of anti-Semitic harassment that the ZOA made on behalf of Jewish students at the University […]

By Ruthie Blum Jerusalem Post | 12/19/2007 Likening anti-Semitism to pollution, Manfred Gerstenfeld makes a distinction between that “which comes out of a chimney and spreads over a huge area,” and that “which comes from the exhaust pipes of millions of cars, each one contributing its little bit.” The former, he says, was characteristic of […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The Gush Katif Residents Committee has released its latest report on the state of the families expelled during the Disengagement of 2005. The starkest finding: 85% of the expellees are still, 28 months later, living in temporary quarters. Additional numbers: 8,800 people in 1,667 families were thrown out of their homes […]

American agency constructing roads in village ruled by terror organization Posted: December 20, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – While the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for a halt in funding to the Palestinians if Hamas wins upcoming parliamentary elections, the U.S. government is currently […]