Jacob Shrybman recounts unfriendly welcome at US university where he presented Sderot’s grim reality Jacob Shrybman Recently I shared the human side of the conflict in southern Israel and told my personal stories from Sderot in a presentation at DePaul University in Chicago sponsored by StandWithUs, Hillel, and the university’s Political Science department. As a […]

By: Editorial Board Date: Wednesday, March 25 2009 The continuing rocket attacks from Gaza are regular reminders (as were the thankfully diminished suicide and car bombings of several years ago and as was the major car bombing that was averted at a Haifa mall last Saturday night) of the kind of violent terror Israel has […]

Mar. 30, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Last week’s reports that during Operation Cast Lead Israel bombed truck convoys in Sudan transporting medium-ranged Fajr-3 missiles to Gaza from Iran couldn’t have come at a better time for outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Even as defense officials were following standard practice of neither confirming […]

by Avraham Zuroff (IsraelNN.com) Schoolchildren from a school near Shechem are making a pilgrimage walk to Jerusalem along the ancient road that their forebears took nearly 2,000 years ago. On Wednesday, 7th and 8th graders from the Lieberman Talmud Torah, located in the Jewish town of Yitzhar in the Shomron (Samaria), started their two-day trek […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) As if to signal the possible intentions of the new government, army forces under the command of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, together with Israel Police, made their way to Kokhav HaShachar in eastern Binyamin late Thursday morning, and destroyed four buildings in the start-up outpost neighborhood of Meoz Esther. They then […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Six months ago, the Israeli government under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinian Authority more than any other government in Israel’s history had been willing to give. So said Olmert himself on Thursday, in a speech given at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. “At one point, I put everything on […]

By Greg Burke BRUSSELS, Belgium — A clash of civilizations may be taking place on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, but it’s also happening a lot more quietly in European cities. Old Europe’s population is dwindling even as immigration and high birth rates among Muslim groups are swelling in cities all over the continent. […]

Adar 29, 5769, 25 March 09 05:37by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) National Union party head Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) says that despite all, his party is still anxious to “join the government and serve the public by accomplishing — and in the end, that’s what I think will happen.” “Our talks with the Likud were broken off […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Following the Labor Party vote enabling the party’s entry into the coalition, Binyamin Netanyahu has achieved what he wanted: a form of a national unity government, as opposed to what some see as a “narrow right-wing” government. The Prime Minister-designate must now, however, turn inward and see if he can placate […]

Feb. 18, 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. […]