NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (JTA) — When Rabbi Mitchell Ackerson blew the shofar this past Rosh Hashanah, it reverberated throughout one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces. More than 100 Jewish members of the U.S. forces stationed in Iraq attended the High Holiday services at the former Iraqi dictator’s Baghdad compound. They seemed shocked and awed, […]

At 2:15 this afternoon (Saturday), a female terrorist, age 29, blew herself up in Haifa’s Maxim Restaurant, a joint Jewish-Arab owned establishment, murdering 19 and leaving over 65 wounded. Among the dead were three children and a baby girl. Police report that the bomb was “moderate” in size, but contained a large quantity of shrapnel […]

JERUSALEM – The Israeli Air Force moved swiftly last week to punish some of the 27 officers who signed a petition refusing to serve in the territories, grounding nine of them. The petition had been widely circulated among hundreds of Israel’s reserve pilots by two left-wing groups called Yesh Gvul and Courage to Refuse, which […]

The Institute for the Study of Aging (ISOA) Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Award for 2003 was awarded to Dr. Marta Weinstock of Hebrew University. The Institute for the Study of Aging (ISOA) Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Award for 2003 was awarded to Dr. Marta Weinstock of Hebrew University. The award, announced on September 16th, includes a prize […]

In the three years of Palestinian terrorist warfare, there have been almost 19,000 terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. Despite its tiny size, Gaza was the site of 54% of the attacks, 42% in Judea and Samaria, and only 4% in the rest of Israel. These attacks include suicide explosions, car bombs, shootings, mortar shellings, bombs, […]

[In response to the letter released this past week by a group of IAF pilots to Air Force Command declaring that they refuse to attack targets in the “territories”.] My Not-So-Dear Pilots, In your letter to the prime minister (and Air Force command) at the start of the new year of 5764, you inform him […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | For this year’s “break the fast”, I want to serve something other than the ubiquitous fish platter delivered from the local deli’. Granted, it comes complete with rye bread and all the trimmings, but it changes little from one year to the next. At the appointed hour, you remove it from the refrigerator, […]

The Jerusalem Post’s feature “This day in history” reports on October 1, 1898, when a racist Russian Czar bars Jews from living in major Russian cities: 1898: A decree by the Russian czar Nicholas II explicitly bars Jews from living in major Russian cities. The action follows laws issued the previous May, restricting Jewish settlement […]

The Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShana, is marked quite differently from January first. Whereas the latter is celebrated in Times Square, at gala parties and the like, most of Rosh HaShana is spend in the synagogue. According to the Jewish calendar, a new ‘day’ begins at sunset, and so it is that we commenced our […]

Many are the myths that have embraced Islam over the centuries. Of these, the most dangerous is a belief in its tolerance, at least in relation to Christianity which, in 1215, when the Fourth Lateran Council met under the patronage of Pope Innocent III, decided that non-Christians would be separated from Christians by a special […]