By: Dr. Rafael Medoff Miami Beach was certainly a fitting choice as the site for this month’s reunion of passengers from the ill-fated SS St. Louis, the ship of Jewish refugees that sailed from Nazi Germany in May 1939. As children, they gazed at the lights of Miami as the St. Louis hovered off the Florida […]

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine In 1636 Roger Williams, after having been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for what were considered radical religious views, settled at the tip of Narragansett Bay. He was joined by twelve other settlers at what he named Providence Plantation, due to his belief that God had sustained him and his followers. This […]

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine The first Jews arrived in North America in 1654. What is not so well known is that the first qualified rabbi to settle here, Rabbi Abraham Rice, did not arrive until 1840. One might refer to the first 186 years of American Jewish history as the “Reverend and Cantorial […]

By: Steven Plaut Fall arrived late this year in Budapest, where I am visiting from Israel, and it is still very warm on Yom Kippur. The largest Orthodox Yom Kippur services in the city are being held in a downtown hotel. A plaque marking what had been the offices of controversial Judenrat leader Rudolf Kastner is […]

By: Seth J. Frantzman The death of polymath Amos Kenan and recent Canaanite archeological finds at Beit Shemesh remind us once again of the obscure movement known as Canaanism, founded by a handful of right-wing Hebrew resistance fighters who decades later would become fountainheads of radical post-Zionism. The Canaanites were mostly either native-born Sabras or immigrants of […]

By: Helen Zegerman Schwimmer The idyllic countryside of Sobibor bears no resemblance to the large, efficient extermination camp once located in that remote corner of eastern Poland. Among the 250,000 Jews murdered during its 18 months of operation were the members of my mother’s family. I didn’t learn the details of their deaths until I was […]

[Lawrence Auster, FrontPageMagazine.com]2004 Summary … There is a myth hanging over all discussion of the Arab problem: the myth that this land was “Arab” land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews.” * As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn’t take Palestine [sic] from the Arabs; they took it from the […]

By Attorney Elyakim Haetzni. HaEtzni lives in Kiryat Arba and was a member of the Knesset. He is one of the eight pioneers who initiated the re-establishment of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Presently he is a member of the board of the Yesha Council , the organization responsible for Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. He […]