Introduction The ninth of the Hebrew month of Av is a major fast day in the Jewish calendar, when the people lament the date of the destruction of both the First and Second Temples, with the subsequent loss of national sovereignty and exile from the Holy Land. Tisha Be’av is the culmination of a three […]

Israel released 339 Palestinian Authority prisoners – including terrorists and security administrative detainees – this afternoon. Of these, 182 were in prison for terrorist activity, although they did not actually harm anyone directly. The other 157 are administrative detainees. Another 99 common criminals and illegal aliens will be freed next week. In preparation for today’s […]

An amazing reunion took place in Tel Aviv the other day. After being separated for 52 years, 79-year-old Salima Moshe Nissim of the southern Iraqi city of Basra embraced her 83-year-old sister, Marcel Madar. Madar had immigrated to Israel in 1951, when more than 130,000 Jews fled Iraqi anti-Semitism. Nissim stayed behind. Now, finally, there […]

Editor`s Note: This past spring, HarperCollins released a book titled Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America. For obvious reasons, the author was billed as “Anonymous.” Just prior to its publication, “60 Minutes” did a segment on the book and named some […]

An innovative new program has been announced which aims to alleviate unemployment among new immigrants while also decreasing Israel’s dependence on foreign labor. The Jewish Agency, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and the Contractors and Building Construction Association have introduced a free course that will train Jewish immigrants to “get their hands dirty” and help build […]

I had an e-mail the other day from some fine fellow who was all upset. “According to you, there will never be peace between Israelis and the Palestinians” he fumed. Not so, dear sir. In fact, if you lived here in Jerusalem as I do, surrounded by Muslim Arabs ?you’d know that in many places, […]

An exhibit commemorating the wartime rescue of Danish Jewry is slated to open in New York in September. The exhibit at the Scandinavia House will mark the days in October 1943 when Denmark’s Jewish population was ferried to neighboring Sweden. More information about the exhibit, which will run from Sept. 19-Oct. 15, is available at […]

The search continued this morning for a 21-year-old American yeshiva student, Eliezer Zusia who has been missing since yesterday morning. The search for missing Tiberias teenager Donna Bennet also resumed this morning. The search continued this morning for a 21-year-old American yeshiva student, Eliezer Zusia – grandson of the late Skulener Rebbe of the same […]

The search continued this morning for a 21-year-old American yeshiva student, Eliezer Zusia – grandson of the late Skulener Rebbe of the same name – who has been missing since yesterday morning. He was last seen at the site of the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the Galilee. The search efforts are concentrating […]

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (JTA) — When Margo Allswang was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 34, she realized that friends could empathize but they couldn?t really understand her anguish. “Your friends can do a lot, but they?re not living your pain,” she says. Through a New Jersey-based nonprofit organization known as Sharsheret, however, the […]