(KRT) Sen. John Kerry is a former altar boy with a Jewish heritage that includes at least two victims of the Holocaust in his family tree. His brother converted to Judaism. He supports Israel. So he should be a cinch with Jewish voters and donors, yes? Not quite. Over the past few months, wary leaders […]

Editor’s Note: Jamie Glazov of FrontPageMag.com recently interviewed Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former acting chief of Communist Romania’s espionage service and author of the international bestsellers “Red Horizons” and ” The Black Book of the Securitate.” Following are some highlights of their discussion: Glazov: As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take direct […]

The US made the wrong plans for Iraq. We didn’t have enough allies. We didn’t have the “right” allies. We used too few soldiers. We didn’t use the “right” soldiers. We didn’t find the WMD (yet?). We didn’t plan “right” for the occupation. We didn’t anticipate the looting. We anticipated too many starving refuge es. […]

Palestinian terrorists were willing to sacrifice a 10-year-old Arab boy in the course of an attempt to perpetrate a terrorist attack against Israelis today (Monday). Palestinian terrorists were willing to sacrifice a 10-year-old Arab boy in the course of an attempt to perpetrate a terrorist attack against Israelis today (Monday). The incident occurred this afternoon […]

Background: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” “elect new leaders not compromised by terror,” and […]

Ten people were murdered today (Sunday) when two terrorists detonated explosives in a port facility in Ashdod. The terrorists, who were residents of Gaza, killed themselves in an attempt to carry out a \x{2018}mega-attack\x{2019} that would have released deadly chemicals into the port city. One of the terrorists made his way into the port\x{2019}s inner […]

Next week’s Jerusalem Conference has Israel abuzz with excitement in anticipation of what many expect to signal a turning-point in Israel’s increasing drift to the left on domestic and foreign policy under the Sharon government. Jerusalem Conference The Jerusalem Conference, billed as the religious-nationalist response to last December’s Herzliya Conference, is set to begin this […]

WALTHAM, Mass., March 2 (JTA) — About 350 years ago, in 1654, a small vessel named the Ste. Catherine, or St. Catrina, sailed into the port of New Amsterdam. Most of the ship’s passengers –“twenty-three souls, big and little,” according to an account at the time — were bedraggled Jewish refugees from Recife, Brazil, who […]

Israeli scientists help fight fatal disease in Arab infants Discovery of Beduin gene may be key to anemia breakthrough The intensive medical treatment that premature infants receive often saves their lives. But along with the good comes the bad – many of these delicate infants eventually suffer from anemia, because of the frequency that blood […]

More than two months after Prime Minister Sharon first announced his plan to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, Maariv reports its details today. The main points: All of the Jewish residents in Gaza are to be expelled, except those living in the three northern communities; another 15-20 communities in Judea and Samaria will be destroyed, if […]