LESLIE J. SACKS Amid the constant turmoil and angst boiling over in Israel and the West Bank, at the center of the Middle East, lies the Dead Sea. [3] This salt-laden desert sea is rapidly diminishing in size as its source, the Jordan River, dries up: the Syrians (via the Yarmuk, a source for the […]

By Fern Sidman The 68th annual yahrzeit memorial for legendary Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky was held Sunday afternoon, September 14, at Manhattan’s Edmund J. Safra Synagogue. The event, sponsored by Americans For a Safe Israel and the Nordau Circle, drew more than over 400 people who gathered to pay tribute to one of […]

By Morris J. Amitay As a patriotic Jewish American, I care deeply about Israel’s wellbeing and security, as well as that of our own country. In having to choose between the two presidential candidates, I find myself looking closely at their statements, record of accomplishments and the people who advise them now and those they […]

by Susan Rosenbluth, Editor, Jewish Voice and Opinion September 2008 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE), has a pro-Israel reputation and, in a recent interview with Shalom television, even identified himself as “a Zionist,” but it is open to question what the late Menachem Begin would have to say about that designation for the […]

Oct. 10, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Over the past several weeks, both Washington and Jerusalem have spelled out clear policies relating to the situation in Lebanon. The two policies contradict one another, and by adopting them, the US and Israel are on a collision course. Following Lebanese President Michel Suleiman’s visit to […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Akko Mayor Shimon Lankri announced Friday that he is calling off the Akko Festival for fringe theater which was supposed to take place next week. “Because of the residents’ feelings of anger and insult, there will be no point in holding the festival,” Lankri said. Video of the aftermath of the […]

Dr. Ervin Birnbaum The Munich Conference at the end of September 1938 played a frightful role in human history. Before Munich, the seemingly inexorable movement of mankind toward the dark void of World War II could in fact have been halted. For five years prior to Munich, in their desperate yearning for a peaceful world, […]

by Rabbi Jeff Kahn (Temple Har Shalom, Warren N.J.) Abraham Lincoln was Jewish? The work Rabbi Jeff Kahn: “On the twelfth of February, 1809, nearly 200 years ago, a young, poor illiterate woman from Virginia, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, gave birth to a son, in a log cabin, built along the banks of the south fork […]

Since Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was named the Republican V.P. nominee, the Jewish community has been eager to learn her views on Israel and Jewish issues. Some have questioned the values of her church after a Jews for Jesus representative gave a sermon there, but her supporters laud her as a friend to the Jews. […]

Steven Plaut Posted Sep 17 2008 The day Israel released the baby-murdering Arab terrorist Samir Kuntar was without doubt the most disgraceful in modern Jewish history. Israel paid tribute to the Hizbullah terrorists for murdering Jewish soldiers by freeing Kuntar, much as it had done four years earlier when it let go hundreds of jailed […]