When American intelligence broke the Soviet wartime code, we learned that the Soviets had infiltrated the American government. The American intelligence community’s penchant for secrecy and its refusal to admit that it had been infiltrated was so great that it failed to disclose this to President Harry S. Truman. This is how Daniel Patrick Moynihan […]

All over the world, people are afraid to say the word “cancer.” They are afraid that if they actually articulate it, somehow it will hasten their mortality, so they invent all kinds of euphemisms, including “the big C.” Here in Israel, we have a different problem. We are being killed by our enemy every day, […]

A new neighborhood in Kedumim – Mitzpeh Yishai – will be officially dedicated this Sunday. Thirty housing units are already occupied, another 70 are under construction, and yet another 400 are in the planning stages. A new neighborhood in Kedumim – Mitzpeh Yishai – will be officially dedicated this Sunday. What makes this neighborhood unique […]

The demise of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the control it exerted over the media has unleashed an outburst of feelings of freedom reflected in a large number of dailies and weeklies which, for the first time in Iraq’s modern history, are free, uncensored, and often highly imaginative. While some of the dailies are associated with […]

A lot of people don’t like Tom DeLay. As the majority whip and, since January 2001, the majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, DeLay is the fellow who has been leading the charge for the Republicans on Capitol Hill the last few years. He is a hard-core conservative, and believes in scorched-earth tactics […]

A violent night in Jewish Gaza: seven mortar shells at Kfar Darom, and other Jewish communities were attacked with gunfire. A shell landed on a building in which dozens of people were watching a movie – yet no one was hurt. In one of the most violent nights in Jewish Gaza in recent memory, no […]

SoundVision.com Visitors Applaud Jerusalem Suicide Bombing. The murder of 18 bus-riding Israelis by a militant Islamic terrorist on August 19 met with the expected joy in the Palestinian and Lebanese street (“Several hundred young men poured into the streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Tuesday and handed out sweets to celebrate a […]

Readers of daily newspapers are now well acquainted with unending Palestinian calls for the annihilation of Israel. What might not be apparent, however, is that such calls – sometimes in the carefully whispered voice of the Palestine Authority, more often in the strident voice of PA accomplices in Hamas and other related terror groups – […]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (JTA) — Jewish and Arab leaders say President Bush?s appointment of Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to a federal think tank — despite the objections of Arab groups and some congressional Democrats — offers a window into White House policy on Middle East issues. Bush?s Aug. 22 appointment of Pipes, director of […]

When American intelligence broke the Soviet wartime code, we learned that the Soviets had infiltrated the American government. The American intelligence community’s penchant for secrecy and its refusal to admit that it had been infiltrated was so great that it failed to disclose this to President Harry S. Truman. This is how Daniel Patrick Moynihan […]