The Yesha Rabbis Council issued a Halakhic ruling today not only permitting Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount, but even mandating it, contingent upon proper precautions. The Yesha Rabbis Council issued a Halakhic ruling today not only permitting Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount, but even mandating it, contingent upon proper precautions. Excerpts […]

Title: The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, and Built a Village in the Forest Author: Peter Duffy Publisher: HarperCollins. New York. 302 pages. $25.95 The calculus of public recognition is, at best, an inexact science. Even a subject as morally freighted as the Holocaust falls […]

The Refugee Question Critics of Israel from the moderate (my former position) to the most extreme portray it as an example of colonialism: European settlers push out the native population turning them into homeless refugees. And sure, they say, those Europeans were themselves victims of genocide, but do two wrongs make a right? There are […]

The cabinet meeting, called into emergency session minutes after the explosion on Bus #2 in Jerusalem, dispersed in the wee hours of the morning. A subdued, visibly tired prime minister sat motionless in his high-backed chair. There had been a phone call from Crawford, Texas. President Bush voiced his condolences and urged Israel not to […]

Sgt. Gavriel Uziel, 20, was killed this morning in Jenin by Arab gunfire. He and several other fighters were in the midst of arresting an Islamic Jihad terrorist who had been planning to carry out a major attack in the next few days. Shots rang out from a nearby house against the Israeli force, and […]

AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI & CHRISTIANS’ ISRAEL PUBLIC ACTION CAMPAIGN/CIPAC INVITE YOU TO JOIN THEM IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 2003, 4-6 P.M. TO ATTEND THE ISRAEL-UNITED STATES SOLIDARITY RALLY AT THE RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING BANQUET ROOM – RHOB B-339 We will meet with MEMBERS OF THE 108TH CONGRESS TO ADVANCE THE […]

No breakthrough is expected in the matter of Jonathan Pollard’s release, despite the court session yesterday. “The Jonathan Pollard case is a stain on the American legal process,” his attorney Eliot Lauer said. No breakthrough is expected in the matter of Jonathan Pollard’s release or re-sentencing, although his attorney Eliot Lauer did say yesterday that […]

Have Palestinian Leaders Shed Their Nazi Past? In Part II of this article, I documented that the Palestinian movement has its roots in the Nazi movement and the Final Solution. Here, I examine whether there is any reason to think that Palestinian leaders no longer want to exterminate the Jews. The first major reorganization of […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | “I lost three friends, close friends in the attack. I am so depressed,” he said as his chin dropped into his chest. The Orthodox Jew — or “ultra” Orthodox Jew as the New York Times would label him — was noticeably shaken as we walked up to the site of the bus bombing […]

To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be recalled. Acknowledged by the United Nations and the civilized community of nations, Israel became a recognized and sovereign state on May 14, 1948. Immediately, the five armies of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (which was renamed Jordan one year later, in 1949), Lebanon and Iraq […]