Dr. Ervin Birnbaum In its confrontation with the West, Iran is using the Nazi playbook circa 1938. The Iranians have been boycotting, stalling, and sidestepping every attempt to halt their nuclear program. So far the UN has failed to come up with a satisfactory answer to the threat, and the Six-Nation Meeting in Geneva last month, which […]

Straight From The Jerusalem Cloakroom #214, June 13, 2008 While the surrounding Arab countries – assisted by Palestinian Arabs - invaded the newly established Jewish State: 1. The British Mandate urged Arabs and Jews (November 30, 1947- May 14, 1948, before the outbreak of the war) to evacuate small mixed towns, where they constituted a minority. […]

By Deborah Weiss FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 08, 2008 Last Wednesday, July 30, 2008, the House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 361 “commemorating Irena Sendler, a woman whose bravery saved the lives of thousands during the Holocaust and remembering her legacy of courage, selflessness, and hope.” So, who was Irena Sendler? Born to a father who […]

by Efraim Karsh Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world that is subjected to a constant outpouring of the most outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels; whose policies and actions are obsessively condemned by the international community; and whose right to exist is […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Jewish Press Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Thirty years ago, the journalist Sidney Zion wrote an article for New York magazine titled “The Palestine Problem: It’s All in A Name,” which he would update in 2003 for The Jewish Press. Zion essentially supported the right-wing Zionist […]

By:Rabbi Steven Pruzansky Wednesday, May 7, 2008 The establishment of the State of Israel sixty years ago, on 5 Iyar 5708 (May 14, 1948), was by no means inevitable. From the moment the United Nations passed the partition resolution the previous November 29, the Arabs, desperate to thwart its implementation, ruthlessly intensified their attacks on the Jewish […]

By:Y. E. Bell Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Germans to the right, Byelorussians to the left. Lithuanians in the front, Into the wilderness of the Byelorussian forest fled the 20-year-old Lola Hudes… (Adapted from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”) Lola survived the Nazi genocide and […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Israel’s Independence Day begins Wednesday night and continues on Thursday. With the holiness of the holiday under attack from right and left - the hareidi-religious public, the secular public, and even parts of the Disengagement-stricken religious-Zionist public - celebrants of the day wish to emphasize its basic principles. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed […]

By: Zechariah Schwarzberg Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Warsaw Ghetto: a name, a phrase, familiar to most people today only as a matter of history. Important history, yes, but dry and impersonal just the same. Because even the most […]

By:Dr. Yitzchok Levine Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Note: This essay is based on “Crypto-Jews in Mexico during the Sixteenth Century” by Arnold Wiznitzer, American Jewish Historical Quarterly, 51, 1962 ( www.ajhs.org/reference/adaje.cfm). Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes are from the Wiznitzer article. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Catholic Church did its utmost to root out any […]