Gilo is a sprawling neighborhood in southern Jerusalem purchased by Jews before World War II. Most of Gilo’s residents are professionals employed in the fields of health, education and services. A few are business people. The neighborhood’s rabbis teach in well-known Torah instutions in the city. Its residents were looking forward to Wednesday June 19, […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is troubled and disappointed that former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross is largely blaming Israel for the lack of reforms among the Palestinian Arabs. Ross’s stance takes on potentially greater importance because the New York Times reported on March 1, 2004, that U.S. Senator John Kerry regards […]

The mystery of how the two suicide terrorists entered the Ashdod port on Sunday to murder ten Israelis may finally have been solved. Several possibilities had been entertained, including that they arrived via the sea, via an underground tunnel, or over the port’s perimeter fence. However, the discovery today of weapons, a mattress, and food […]

An Anniversary March 16 was the first anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, an American college student killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. It has been anything but “a year of silence,” as Elizabeth Corrie, Rachel’s cousin, recently alleged (“A year of silence since Rachel Corrie died,” Views, March 4). On […]

“Israel can just say no!” Dr. Rand Fishbein, former Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Defense Appropriations and Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittees, told participants of the three-day Jerusalem Conference. “The democratically elected leaders of the State of Israel are under no obligation to reflexively bow to State Department pressure – you can say no!” […]

Recently, I again visited some of the wonderful and essential Jewish communities in Gush Katif in Gaza. My son Mayer, a yeshiva student at the Israeli hesder Yeshiva Kerem BeYavneh, and I were members of an Orthodox Union (OU) Israel Mission to learn about and strengthen Jews under siege in Israel. It is not at […]

A Mother Writes: In Memory of Malka Chana How can I compress my Malki’s fifteen years into a mere few words? How can I sing her praises without sounding hyperbolic? And, the greatest challenge, how can I endure the pain that this will undoubtedly bring?  While the task seems daunting, I will attempt it nonetheless. […]

‘We are an Al Qaeda family.” So spoke one of the Khadrs, a Muslim Canadian household whose near single-minded devotion to Osama bin Laden contains important lessons for the West. Their saga began in 1975, when Ahmad Said al-Khadr left his native Egypt for Canada and soon after married a local Palestinian woman. He studied […]

TEL AVIV – Israeli Interior Minister Avraham Poraz, a member of the secularist Shinui party, has reportedly said that immigration to Israel from Ethiopia, India and Peru will be frozen because immigrants from those countries undergo only Orthodox conversions and many choose to live in Judea and Samaria. Poraz made the statement to leaders of […]

JERUSALEM, March 14 (JTA) — Walkers and wheelchairs rumble over the uneven stone alleyways as nursing home residents from New York make their way through Jerusalem’s Old City, stopping to gaze, posing with giggling schoolgirls, and sometimes weeping.Most of these visitors touring Jerusalem — on a weeklong trip — are in their 80s and 90s. […]