Royal seal impressions were discovered in excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority at Umm Tuba, in the southern hills of Jerusalem. A large building that dates to the time of the First and Second Temples, in which there was an amazing wealth of inscriptions, was discovered in a salvage excavation conducted by Zubair Adawi, on […]

By Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, February 20, 2009 She was an accomplished, professional woman, in her late thirties, a wife, and a mother. But her husband beat her. Terribly, and for a long time. Finally, after much suffering, she worked up the courage to leave him. That’s when, acting on his own, he killed […]

In wake of Operation Cast Lead, mostly tiny Jewish communities in Muslim world face violence, growing anti-Semitism the like they never experienced before Associated Press Published: 02.19.09, 09:07 / Israel Jewish Scene Outrage at the Israel war in the Gaza Strip has turned to intimidation and even violence against Jews living in some Muslim lands, […]

February 19, 2009 Stewart Weiss, THE JERUSALEM POST Dear Prime Minister Olmert, On September 30, 2002, our eldest son Ari, a member of the Sayeret Nahal anti-terrorist unit, was killed in battle in a raid on Hamas headquarters in Nablus. You were out of the country during the shiva, arriving only the day after. You […]

by Marc Prowisor For too many years most Diaspora Jews have viewed Israel as the “poor Jews”, the victims, and of course, “we have to help the poor Israelis”. Who can blame them? Every week they see another one of us coming to their synagogues and telling another story asking them to give Charity or […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) A Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon hit an Israeli-Arab village in the western Galilee near the Lebanon border early Saturday. Three Arab residents of the town were lightly injured by broken glass and were treated at Nahariya Hospital. Several others were treated for emotional shock. Two houses sustained damaged in the […]

Friday, 20th February 2009 Melanie Phillips After merely one calendar month, Obama’s foreign policy has already been disastrous for the defenders of the free world. See Charles Krauthammer’s description of how he has turned America into a grinning Goliath staggering about sporting a ‘kick me’ sign on his back with Russia, Iran and Pakistan duly […]

by Avraham Zuroff (IsraelNN.com) Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza attacked the Eshkol region in the western Negev Thursday morning, firing two short-range Kassam rockets at the region. Security officers did not immediately locate the points of impact, but no injuries or damage were reported. A third rocket misfired and exploded on the Gaza side of the […]

By Louis René Beres The multiple ironies are staggering. On December 15, 2008, just before mounting his indispensable and purposeful Gaza operation against Palestinian terrorism, Prime Minister Olmert had released 230 Palestinian terrorists. To be sure, these freed terrorists were supposedly Fatah, not Hamas, but Mr. Olmert’s underlying strategic calculation was still unreasonable and wholly […]

By News Agencies Haaretz www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065194.html A top Iranian defense official said Wednesday that the country has built an unmanned surveillance aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers). Deputy Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the semiofficial Fars news agency that he could not provide more details on what he called an important […]