By:Herbert Zweibon Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Shmuel Katz, a”h – underground leader, member of the first Knesset, publisher, historian, biographer and essayist – passed away May 9 in Eretz Yisrael at the age of 93. Katz was the most trenchant political thinker modern Israel has produced. His career was marked by a selfless political integrity; […]

By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Israel’s 60th anniversary has prompted a rash of articles summing up the Jewish state’s achievements and problems. It’s also worth considering the world’s record vis-à-vis Israel over these six decades of its existence. The subject is very large and this article only looks at some […]

David Isaac It’s strange to observe the mainstream Jewish reaction to the Qassaming of Sderot. It’s not that they don’t care. It’s that they do. There are rallies and fundraisers. Rabbis who talk about Carl Jung now talk about red lines. Lefty editors of Jewish papers sound like Menachem Begin, with remarks like, “No other […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 20, 2008 Spin doctors were relabeled “strategists” in the early 1990s. And as Mark Steyn wrote last week in National Review, “Increasingly, the Western world has attitudes rather than policies.” The latest attitude to be flouted as policy is indignation. Specifically, Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama’s furious […]

www.israeljustice.com:80/news2.asp?key=124 Date added: 5/20/2008 JERUSALEM — Two Jewish security guards were jailed despite a final plea to the Supreme Court to grant a stay of sentence while a presidential pardon is under consideration. The Supreme Court failed to answer the final appeal by the Dan and Yitzhak Halamish and they began their respective sentences of […]

By: Tsafrir Ronen Wednesday, May 14, 2008 At the Annapolis Conference, President Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples. One of those peoples – the Jewish people – has a clear identity. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of the second people. Already in 1977, […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Jewish residents of Samaria are accustomed to passing through checkpoints on their way to central Israel. However, in recent weeks residents have been forced to undergo security checks on their way home to Samaria as well. Dozens protested the new procedure recently, accusing the government of ordering the security checks as […]

Dear Senator, My name is Leon Weinstein. I am an American. I am also Jewish. I was born in the Soviet Union, was fortunate to get out in 1974 and lived in Israel until my second immigration to the US in 1986. I have family in Israel, including my brother, parents, and my bellowed nephews. […]

SF AND SILICON VALLEY DELEGATION INCLUDES TOP HIGH-TECH, VENTURE CAPITAL AND BUSINESS PERSONALITIES. (SAN FRANCISCO, CA/ JERUSALEM, ISRAEL) 4 MAY 2008- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will lead a high-level mission to Israel taking place this week. The trip, almost unprecedented in scope, will see some 100 San Francisco-area leaders explore possibilities of investment, cooperation, […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) On the final day of President Shimon Peres’s Tomorrow Conference, a panel discussion on Aliyah and the Israel-Diaspora relationship took place. The questions asked of the panel were: “Do current trends necessarily widen the gap or is it possible to cement relations between Israel and the Diaspora? What can be done […]