Led by Sen. Ted Kennedy, Democrats recently waged a vicious battle against the distinguished scholar Daniel Pipes, whom President Bush had nominated for a position on the board of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a think tank designed to advance ideas for resolving world conflicts through peaceful means. Pipes is widely respected as […]

An estimated 40,000 people arrived at the Western Wall (Kotel) this morning for the semi-annual Birkat Cohanim (Priestly Blessing) prayer. Hundreds of Jews who trace their ancestry directly back to Aaron the High Priest, Moses’ brother, blessed the assembled congregation. An estimated 40,000 people arrived at the Western Wall (Kotel) this morning for the semi-annual […]

The date was April 24, 2002. Standing on the runway at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, the cadre of FBI, Secret Service and Customs agents had just been informed by law-enforcement officials that there was a “snag” with Crown Prince Abdullah’s oversized entourage, which was arriving with the prince for a visit to George […]

TEL AVIV – Israel has modified U.S.-supplied cruise missiles to carry nuclear warheads on submarines, giving the Middle East’s only nuclear power the ability to launch atomic weapons from land, air and beneath the sea, according to senior Bush administration and Israeli officials. The previously undisclosed submarine capability bolsters Israel’s deterrence in the event that […]

Tens of thousands of people are expected to visit Jerusalem daily during this Sukkot holiday week, and dozens of events are planned throughout the country. After three years of difficult renovations on a burnt-out hovel, a new Jewish property will be dedicated in the Old Citys Moslem Quartertoday: Beit Reuven, named for a victim of […]

On the eve of a festival, the Jewish Quarter of Baghdad would be filled with the excited bustle of a community preparing to celebrate. This was not the case on Shavuoth of the 2nd and 3rd of June, l941. A fierce pogrom – known as the farhud – was unleashed on the Jews of that […]

ATHENS, Oct. 9 (JTA) — A Jewish group is threatening to call for a boycott of the 2004 Olympics if an art exhibition that allegedly glorifies Palestinian suicide bombings is allowed to proceed in Athens. An embroidery montage in an exhibit called “Body Milk,” scheduled to open Oct. 20, shows a pregnant woman pushing a […]

The Associated Press (AP) has coined a new term for attacks by Palestinian terrorists: “revenge bombings.” Israeli counter-terror strikes are said to ” lead to” or “trigger” “revenge bombings” or “revenge attacks.” Characterizing as “revenge” the deliberate terrorist targeting of Israeli civilians – on buses or in their homes and public spaces – mangles the […]

How many bombings make a war? It depends upon whom you ask. But one thing is clear: Never in recorded history has any sovereign nation sustained such a steady and large onslaught of attacks and not declared war. In the case of World War I, all it took was one small bomb to throw the […]

Sukkot is a 7-day holiday. We build a temporary booth called a “Sukkah” where we eat, sleep and shmuze for the entire week. Each day we also wave the Four Species of plants, in celebration of God’s gift of bounty. During the first day (or first two days outside of Israel) no creative activity is […]