What does the Arabic word “jihad” mean? One answer came last week, when Saddam Hussein had his Islamic leaders appeal to Muslims worldwide to join his jihad to defeat the “wicked Americans” should they attack Iraq; then he himself threatened the United States with jihad. As this suggests, jihad is “holy war.” Or, more precisely: […]

The Washington Post recently reported that though the U.S. is now infuriated to the point of war by Saddam Hussein’s chemical, nuclear and biological programs, and by his contacts with international terrorists, the U.S. itself highly valued Iraq as an ally when these programs began. The Post’s Michael Dobbs wrote on Monday that U.S. involvement […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (JTA) A conference room filled with suits is nothing unusual in this town except when the suits are all filled by college students. As part of an initiative to groom a new generation of pro-Israel activists on campus, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee brought 240 students to Washington for four all-expense-paid […]

Transplanted tissue could offer a solution to kidney donor shortage. Instead of searching for a kidney donor, a new study suggests, one might be able to grow a new kidney. A team headed by Prof. Yair Reisner of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, one of the world’s top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions, has […]

The Al-Aksa Brigades announced last night that one of their members had murdered a Jew – and today the victim’s body was found, burnt beyond recognition, next to his car. Masoud Alon, 70, of Menachemiya – a community between the Jordan Valley and the Kinneret Sea – was reported missing yesterday. A massive search involving […]

House by house, old Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem are being reclaimed for Jews. The Uvneh Yerushalayim association, formed for the purpose of locating and reclaiming Jewish-owned properties in eastern Jerusalem and environs, very recently scored a very dramatic success in its efforts. The story began when a property in a largely Jewish-owned, but currently Arab-inhabited, […]

On the Yahoo map Web site, there is an advisory: “When using any driving directions, or map, it is a good idea to do a reality check and make sure the road still exists .. ” That’s good advice for the Bush administration’s Middle East “road map ” it vainly hopes will bring peace to […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to resume the transfer of tax monies to the Palestinian Authority – despite objections by Israeli defense and security elements. The latter say that it is still Yasser Arafat who oversees the PA coffers, and that money given to the PA will be used to finance terror activities. IDF Chief […]