HOW HISTORY TURNS ON POLITICAL MISJUDGMENT By: Dr. Ervin Birnbaum Date: Wednesday, March 30 2011 At an extraordinary meeting in Berlin 70 years ago this week, attended by 200 generals, commanders-in-chief and senior officers of the German armed forces, Adolf Hitler spoke for two and a half hours on the special nature of “Operation Barbarossa,” [...]

(Israelnationalnews.com) Dina Buchler-Chenis is one of the six torch lighters who participated in the official openeing ceremony of this year’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority presents her story. Dina was born in April 1940 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (today Croatia), to Dragotin and Blanka Büchler. In [...]

By Leah Abramowitz, from Aish Hatorah Resources. Aish is the place for everything you want to know about Judaism. For permission to reprint, e-mail Aish at reprints@aish.com A prosecutor and key witness reflect back on the event that transformed Israel. In May 1960, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer in charge of orchestrating the Final Solution [...]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) U.S. Pres. Barack Obama’s demand that Israel not settle Jews in the Biblical areas of Judea and Samaria ignores thoroughly-documented Jewish roots in the Land of Israel, and in Judea/Samaria in particular. Yoram Ettinger, a former liaison for Congressional affairs in Israel’s Washington embassy, lists in the latest of his periodic [...]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) It was none other than Pharaoh whose mention of the “People of Israel” is the first such Biblical reference, 3323 years ago, using calculations based on information in the Torah. Serbian-born Eliezer Shulman, who was exiled to Siberia by the former Soviet Union in the 1930s, recently showed how he [...]

by Steve Israel (Israelnationalnews.com) (reprinted from the Times Herald-Record) The Nazi soldiers grabbed the 5-year-old Jewish girl from her teenage sister’s arms. They put the blond-haired, blue-eyed little girl on a truck in Vilna, Poland, and took her to Auschwitz, the concentration camp where some 1 million Jews were shoved into gas chambers and murdered. [...]

By: Toby Axelrod Date: Wednesday, April 13 2011 BERLIN – The face, with its twisted mouth, receding hairline and dark-framed glasses, is familiar around the world today. But 50 years ago, when Adolf Eichmann – former head of the Nazi Department for Jewish Affairs – first sat in a Jerusalem courtroom to face war crimes [...]

by Larry Domnitch (Israelnationalnews.com) The outbreak of World War I, on August 1, 1914, had dire consequences for the over 90,000 Jews of Eretz Yisrael. During the traumatic days of the First World War, the Jews of Eretz Yisrael faced a brutal wave of persecution. This wave intensified over Passover, 1917, when Jewish communities were [...]

By: Dr. Ervin Birnbaum Date: Wednesday, March 30 2011 At an extraordinary meeting in Berlin 70 years ago this week, attended by 200 generals, commanders-in-chief and senior officers of the German armed forces, Adolf Hitler spoke for two and a half hours on the special nature of “Operation Barbarossa,” the code name of the forthcoming [...]

By: Prof. Livia Bitton Jackson Date: Wednesday, March 30 2011 The Israel Academy of Sciences and the Humanities recently elected Professor Ruth Arnon as its president. It was a watershed development: during its half century of existence the Academy, composed of Israel’s leading experts in the field of natural sciences and humanities, has never had [...]