Hadassah Medical Organization A startling birth of two healthy babies from 12-year-old frozen embryos in Israel recently provides some hope for over 2.1 million American couples who are infertile. Fertility experts at Jerusalem’s Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Kerem have produced the babies for a couple from Jerusalem who had the embryos frozen in 1990. The […]

A 30-year-old member of Israel’s security forces was injured last night in a shooting attack in the area of Burkin, near Jenin in the northern Shomron. He remains hospitalized today in moderate condition at Hadera’s Hillel Yafeh Hospital, with injuries to his leg and back. Today, the army destroyed the home that was used as […]

An editorial in the Egyptian government daily Al-Masaa praised suicide/martyrdom operations, and called on Palestinian organizations to not publish the names of the bombers so that their families’ houses would not be demolished. The article focuses primarily on female suicide bombers, following the debate in the Arab media over Hamas’s dispatching of Reem Al-Riyashi, a […]

It was release for publication that members of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza have been working to establish a maritime branch whose goal was to carry out naval terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. An Arab fisherman from the village of Khan Yunis was arrested by the General Security Services last November after he admited to […]

A senior officer in the Jerusalem Police Department reports that ever since the opening of the Temple Mount to Jews four months ago, some 10,000 people have visited the holy site – including 4,000 who have done so according to Halakhic [Jewish legal] guidelines. Kol Rina News Agency reports that before September 2000, when the […]

The shiva week is over. For the families of the eleven victims of the #19 bus bomb the initial mourning period draws to a close. The rituals of mourning ratchet down a few notches for the next 30 days, and even further over the next 11 months, but the real pain of living without a […]

A year after the Columbia shuttle disaster which killed all seven crew members including Israeli Ilan Ramon, the connection between the U.S. and Israel’s space programs remains strong. In addition the families of the six American astronauts killed are reportedly planning to visit Israel at the invitation of Ramon’s widow Rona Ramon. Evelyn Husband, whose […]

“The Prime Minister’s notion to destroy 17 blossoming Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip is an act of insanity and devoid of morality… It will not come to fruition, because myriads of people will prevent it by forming a human wall wherever necessary.” So says the Yesha Rabbis Council, in response to Mr. Sharon’s announcement […]

A great tragedy took place in Israel last week when a shul in the settlement of Tapuach was destroyed by the IDF caving in to the pressure of American dollars and left wing anti-religious politicians The shul is already being rebuilt but is in desperate need for funds. Please join us at the Millinery Shul […]

You saw the images on television this Christmas season – Israeli soldiers patrolling Bethlehem. You heard the Jews blamed for the unrest in the city of David, the birthplace of Jesus. This column is about what you didn’t see or hear in those reports, which have become something of annual journalistic ritual. The Christian population […]