By Lori Lowenthal Marcus There is a chilling scene in the 2002 movie “The Pianist.” In it the train was already chugging along on the path to insanity and destruction, but before all was destroyed. The family of the protagonist has been moved into the Warsaw Ghetto and the head of the family is sitting […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) Sunday will see the launch of the new IDF recruits for November 2009, and this month’s cycle saw a significant increase in willingness to serve in combat roles, with motivation at the highest level it’s been in a decade. The vast majority of recruits — 73.7 percent of all field […]

Cal Thomas HBO showed the film “Schindler’s List” last week. The 1993 Steven Spielberg movie never ceases to arouse my deepest emotions. The perennial question put forth in the film remains: How could people wantonly kill so many others as a matter of state policy? This is more than history, however. There are those who […]

By: Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Nazi hunting. Sounds like a glamorous job, but judging from Operation Last Chance, a new book by Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, catching Nazis is more grit than glamour. In the book, published by Palgrave MacMillan, Zuroff recounts his recent painstaking efforts in finding aging Nazis and their collaborators […]

Israel has long asserted that the Egyptians could put an end to the entire smuggling industry within 24 hours if they wanted to, using military obstructions along the length of the Philadelphi Corridor. Gaza smuggling at pre-Cast Lead volume Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 17, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027307182&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Smuggling into the Gaza Strip from […]

By: Editorial Board Several weeks ago we expressed our dismay at the unusual amount of attention the Obama administration was lavishing on the fledgling J Street organization, which only last month held its first-ever convention. The group’s representatives were invited by the White House to what was supposed to be a meeting with the Presidents […]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Next week marks the 32nd anniversary of Anwar Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem, an event that set into motion a process that would result, nearly a year and a half later, in the signing of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. It’s been a cold peace, to be sure, but […]

Justice4JP – November 13, 2009 To mark Jonathan Pollard’s 25th year in American captivity – which is also his 25th year of abandonment and betrayal by the government of Israel – J4JP will be reviewing some of the best-written, most informative, and most interesting articles, essays and information written about the case over the last […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind is in Israel for three days, with a busload of other Jews from the U.S., and their message is: “The Jewish presence in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem is growing and will continue to grow – and we want to be a part of it.” A […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israelnationalnews.com) The global economic downturn has hit many people hard, with some having to liquidate their real estate assets. In the case of at least one Jewish man in the United States, the result is an ideological crisis that impacts Jerusalem. Aryeh King, chairman of the National Lands Fund, told Arutz Sheva […]