I admit and have always admitted that I am one of the absolute worst athletes God has ever planted on this planet. I remember as a youngster – I could not have been older than seven or eight years old – playing Little League Baseball on my Young Israel of Laurelton team. The Laurelton “Laurels” […]

The first incident occurred last night when an IDF paratroopers reserve force sighted an armed terrorist crawling towards Netzarim, north of Gush Katif. An armored force in the area opened fire and killed him. His body was found this morning, wearing a PA uniform and holding a Kalachnikov rifle and an axe. The other incident […]

The Jewish community of Ferrara bulks large in the history of Jews in the Emilia Romagna region, not only because of its cultural prestige but also because it is the only one with a continuous presence from the Middle Ages to the present. It played an important role when Ferrara enjoyed its greatest splendor in […]

(JTA) – WASHINGTON – In a stunning reversal, the Ford Foundation is admitting it erred in funding anti-Israeli Palestinian groups. The foundation said it was “disgusted” by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agitation action taken at the 2001 U.N. Conference Against Racism it Durban, South Africa, which the foundation helped finance. “We now recognize that we did […]

The G.A. (General Assembly) of the UJC (United Jewish Communities) was put to the test of courage – and they failed – miserably. Shame has once again marked the head of most American Jewry or, at least, their so-called self-appointed leaders. 6,000 and more participants, including 4,300 from North America and more than 2,000 from […]

Eight people were injured, one critically, this morning (Wednesday) when a terrorist opened fire on tourists passing through the Israeli side of the Yitzhak Rabin Arava Crossing on the Jordan-Israel border between Eilat and Aqaba. Dr. Tzvi Epstein, director of the Yoseftal Hospital in Eilat, reported that five of the victims were injured by the […]

The Iranian nuclear potential is an existential threat to the State of Israel, Mossad head Major General (res.) Meir Dagan told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday. “We believe the Iranians will continue developing nuclear military projects and in their hands such weapons pose, for the first time, an existential threat to Israel,” […]

A fatal terrorist attack on the Tunnels Highway between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem claimed the lives of two IDF soldiers this morning. Around 6 AM, Palestinian terrorists opened fire from very close range at an Israeli car, murdering one soldier on the spot and seriously wounding another. A doctor and a Magen David Adom medical […]

Following the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority began to devise new schoolbooks that showed a relative change in content and direction. MEMRI’s 2001 study of Palestinian schoolbooks, “Narrating Palestinian Nationalism,” found that the Palestinian textbooks produced after Oslo reflected a general attempt to lessen the virulence of anti-Israel venom, as direct incitement significantly declined while […]

Eight years ago last week, the fate of Israel was sealed. On Nov. 4, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir. The murder was tragic, not just because Rabin suffered an untimely death but because Rabin became sacrosanct. The illusory image of Rabin as the tough sabra willing to negotiate with the […]