A private memorial ceremony will be held in Houston, Texas today for the seven astronauts who perished aboard the Columbia space shuttle. Some 12,000 pieces of the craft have been found thus far. Volunteers of the Zaka emergency medical organization – which responds to terrorist attacks, car accidents and the like, ensuring burial for all […]

We wanted to share with all of you the statements made by Ilan Ramon, who is presently encircling the earth aboard the Columbia space shuttle. In a televised conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Ramon, who is the first Israeli astronaut, said, “I call upon every Jew in the world to plant a tree […]

The year 2002 will be remembered as a low point in the long conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, when diplomacy came to a standstill, emotions boiled over, blood ran in the streets, and the prospects of all-out war drew closer. Anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic furies seemingly put to rest suddenly revived with stunning vehemence. The existence […]

(IsraelNN.com) The Israel Defense Forces has created a special e-mail address where the public may express its condolences to the Ramon family and to the people of the State of Israel on the loss of Col. Ilan Ramon in the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy. The e-mail address is: ilanfamily@mail.idf.il . All letters received by the […]

The Belgian Senate approved this morning an amendment to its Universal Law, allowing Belgium to try Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes. Sharon was about to be tried there last year for his involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacres – in which Christian Phalangists murdered hundreds of Arabs in Lebanon in 1982 – […]

My son long ago introduced me to the joys of the Onion, the hilarious Web site that features such parodies of the news as “Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia; Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to be First Recipients.” So when, on the night of the State of the Union address, my son handed me an Internet […]

Residents of Nacogdoches Texas report finding debris, including an arm and a hand, presumably from the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle that broke up about 200,000 feet above central Texas minutes before its scheduled landing. US officials are indicating the seven are most likely dead as a result of the shuttle breaking up before landing. US […]