NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (JTA) — “During our Chanukah bazaar, we open our doors to the whole city,” says Emily Amato, a member of Congregation Or VeShalom, an Atlanta synagogue with Sephardi roots. She gushes as she describes its silent auction, the game-room arcade and the irresistible aroma of Sephardi cuisine, such as home-made Greek […]

Oh. You didn’t know there was a First Palestinian State? It’s not necessary to go back to 1964 when, with Egypt’s help, the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) was formed – with the sole intent of engaging in terror for the purpose of conquering the Jewish State, with the assistance of all the Arab/Muslim nations. Those […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank – In a West Bank university election that focused on which party had killed the most Israelis, the violent Hamas swept to victory Wednesday, defeating Yasser Arafat’s Fatah. The campaign at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah featured exploding models of Israeli buses and claims of prowess based on Israeli casualties. In three […]

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (JTA) — As he sped north to Baghdad on March 22, Lt. Col. Scott Rutter was looking for signs of ancient Babylonian Jewry. But there was no time. That’s because Rutter, 41, was leading nearly 900 soldiers driving 150 vehicles, including 14 M-1 battle tanks and 30 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, as […]

Jerusalem (jnewwire.com) – The Palestinians’ armed effort of the past three years has not been in vain, and the political payoff from that murderous campaign is about to realized. This was the message of “hope” conveyed to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the refugee “camps” of Lebanon Sunday by Yasser Arafat advisor Hani al-Hassan. […]

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (JTA) — Babak Tehrani was 17 years old in June 1994 when he hugged his parents and two younger brothers, left his home in Tehran and, guided by a well-paid smuggler, tried to slip across rugged mountains into Pakistan. He was joined by his friend Shaheen Nikkhoo, 20. The two were […]

Does Defense Minister Mofaz intend to try to uproot a Jewish community of over 40 families, only 20 minutes’ drive from Jerusalem, within the coming days? Yesha leaders suspect the answer is yes. Does Defense Minister Sha’ul Mofaz intend to try to uproot a Jewish community of over 40 families, only 20 minutes’ drive from […]

The “Geneva Agreement” that Israel’s Far Left has cooked up with the PLO is such a long-winded and complex manuscript that very few can really work their way through all the prose and technicalities, and even fewer can understand the implications of the intentional confusions and duplicitous obfuscation in the text. I have no doubt […]

The news last week that police had arrested Sajid Badat at his home in Gloucester, England, shook many Britons. The charges against him concerned his training with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and his possession of PETN, one of the most powerful high explosives known, the same substance that would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid had tried […]

A gag order was lifted today permitting the publication of the planned Hamas terrorist attacks by Jamal Akal, 23, from Nutzeirat in Gaza, just south of Netzarim. He was taken into Israeli custody five weeks ago. Akal was living in Canada for several years and holds Canadian citizenship. Security officials report that he arrived in […]