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A Bad Deal

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

By Esther Pollard – Special to IMRA – December 22, 2009 [May be reprinted with attribution] The news headlines this week have been urgent, sensational and quite uniform. Regardless of the news source, the people of Israel are up to their eyeballs in the media’s obsession with a morally bereft, indefensible prisoner deal that threatens […]


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Soldier Killed in Golan Training Accident

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) IDF soldier Cpl. Mor Cohen, aged 18 from Afula, was killed Monday when a misfired bullet injured him in the head in the course of training at Zeura Base in the northern Golan Heights. His family has been notified of the tragedy. Last August, Sgt. Or Haddad, 20, of Beit Dagan, […]


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Growing back a lost limb

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

An Israeli researcher has developed a biologically active ‘scaffolding’ of soluble fibers which could be used to regenerate lost or damaged bone and tissue. If a lizard loses its tail, it grows right back, but for human beings a lost limb can never be replaced. Now, however, thanks to breakthrough research from Israel, we may […]


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Hebron and Miracles That Can’t Be Explained

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

By: Barbara Ginsberg I have often heard people say, “I was high”. Well that word has many connotations. It could mean “high” as in drug related, or it can mean fun related and possibly much more. This past November 12th, I was very high, “spiritually high”. I was standing in the Cave of the Patriarchs […]


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David Brooks Recasts The Story Of Chanukah

Monday, December 21st, 2009

By: Editorial Board If there has been one constant in governmental and media circles in recent years it has been the invariable effort to distinguish between the religion of Islam and those of its adherents who seem to commit virtually all of what are referred to as terrorist crimes. It happened after 9/11 and has […]


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Yom Kippur War’s Miracle Parachute Survival Story

Monday, December 21st, 2009

by Arnon Ben-Dror and IsraelNN Staff (Israelnationalnews.com) Benny Ben-Dror parachuted from an exploding helicopter in the Yom Kippur War and miraculously survived. His son Arnon related to the IDF website how his father escaped with his life even though it has never been a practice to get into a helicopter with a parachute. Ben-Dror had […]


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IDF: Yes to Muslim calls to prayer 24:7 at illegal decibel level in Jewish areas – no to Jewish music in Ma’arat HaMachpela courtyard

Monday, December 21st, 2009

No more music at Ma’arat HaMachpela? The Jewish Community of Hebron December 20, 2009 For the first time in years – probably as a result of a direct order from the new Commander of the Central Region, it will be forbidden to play Jewish prayer music at the Ma’arat HaMachpela courtyard. For years, Jewish visitors […]


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Eric Cantor speech at ZOA dinner in NY

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in Congress and House minority whip, spoke at the ZOA annual dinner Thank you Martin. Thank you all. I’m honored by your recognition, and humbled by the challenges before us. Sixty-one years ago, the signers of Israel’s Declaration of Independence issued a clarion call to the Diaspora. That call […]


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The Debacle of Demographic Fatalism

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

RJC Blog, Yoram Ettinger Demographobia – the illogical fear of Arab demography – has become a central element shaping Israel’s state of mind in general and the attitude toward Judea & Samaria in particular. However, all projections dooming Jews to become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean have been crashed at the […]


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Column One: Reconsidering the Suez Campaign

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST It is hard to seize the initiative. The consequences of acting are frightening. It is always better to let others go first. But sometimes that is impossible. Today it is becoming clear that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has no choice but to lead. The stakes have never been higher. […]


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