Two IDF soldiers were killed when two Arabs approached and fired at them near the northern Jordan Valley of Bekaot early this morning. Seven other soldiers were wounded in the attack, including one in serious condition. Another IDF force, of the Nachal HaHareidi, immediately arrived on the scene, and killed the two Arabs in an […]

Reconsidering the 49 Deaths That Galvanized a Generation and Changed Jewish History By J.J. GOLDBERG One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1903, the Jewish community of Kishinev in what was then czarist Russia suffered two days of mob violence that shocked the world and changed the course of Jewish history. Provoked by a medieval […]

Culinary snobs tend to snicker at kosher cookbooks. Despite some of the fabulous new kosher wines, chefs and restaurants that hold their own with the best, the perception persists that kosher means second-class. Until now. Kosher By Design: Picture-perfect Food for the Holidays and Every Day published by ArtScroll/Shaar Press (CLICK ON LINK TO PURCHASE) […]

IDF forces carried out a “targeted killing” of an arch-terrorist last night in Gaza. In the attack, of the type often criticized by the United States before the Americans themselves implemented it in Iraq during the current war, Apache helicopters fired two missiles at the car of Saad Arabid within the space of a few […]

“If Israel’s comments on the Road Map plan are not accepted, the chance of implementing the plan will be very small.” So says Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. Representatives of the Prime Minister’s Office and the Defense Ministry are in Washington this week, discussing the changes Israel would like to introduce with American Administration officials. Israel […]

Army Radio reported today that the Bush Administration is pressuring Israel not to allow Jews to move into their homes in the Maaleh HaZeitim (Ras el-Amud) neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. It’s apparently too late, however, as Arutz-7’s Shimon Cohen reports that some residents have already been living there for a week. It was reported that […]

Friends, This is an e-mail that should be of interest to my readers in America.An organization called Rebuilding Homes (rebuildinghomes.org) whosewebsite, together with the indispensable sad-faced Arab, the statistics about howmany Palestinian homes have been destroyed (doesn’t mention why…or that thebomb factory in the basement, or the sister who sewed the suicide bomber belthad anything […]

The Road Map, without major and critical revisions, is a straitjacket. If anyone thought Abu “use all means against settlers” Mazen was going to turn a new page as the Palestinian Authority’s new prime minister, consider who he wants to bring in as “interior minister”, to handle the official Palestinian security forces: Mohammed Dahlan, the […]

The Big Strike, still scheduled by Israel’s Histadrut Labor Unions for Wednesday, is expected to shut most of the country down. Oded Tira, chairman of the Israel Manufacturers Association, told Histadrut leader Amir Peretz that a nationwide general strike would be the “crossing of a red line” that would result in additional unemployment and a […]

Sheikh Abdul Palazzi, professor at the Research Institute for Anthropological Studies in Rome, was in the United States recently guest lecturing at Yale University on the possibility of bringing democracy to the Arab world. Having read numerous items about the sheikh, we were interested in meeting him. We caught up with him in New York […]