Meet Hatzolah Jerusalem`s David Greenwald, chairman, Eli Beer, chief coordinator, and Reuven Pool, head of the Motorcycle Unit, who form the dynamic force behind that lifesaving organization. Hatzolah began its activities in Jerusalem 21 years ago with 15 volunteers, and today boasts 406 volunteers in the greater Jerusalem area and an additional 600 throughout Israel. […]

It has become vogue in many circles to represent Middle East savagery as part of some sort of “War of Civilizations”. It is not. In fact, it is simply a war by barbarism against all civilization. It is also considered chic to represent the Middle East conflict as a “cycle of violence”, and as something […]

Jerusalem police raised the level of security in the city on Wednesday due a terror attack alert in the capital. Roadblocks have been placed in central Jerusalem and at entrances to the city. A level of alert was also in place at the Erez crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, due to threats of militants’ […]

NEW YORK- The official web site of the Palestinian Authority’s representative in Argentina is displaying a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon, in which U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is shown performing in front of a hooked-nose Jew with bags of money. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 8, 2004) The cartoon is just the latest example of the constant torrent […]

When voters are asked to evaluate their choices for President next November, they will have to weigh carefully the temperament, judgment and instincts of the man who will hold that office. Nowhere will these qualities be of greater consequence than with respect to the execution of his duties as Commander-in-Chief. John Kerry\x{2019}s long record of […]

The presidency of George W. Bush seems vulnerable right now, and the major reason for this seems to be the issue of weapons of mass destruction \x{2014} more precisely the apparent lack of same \x{2014} in Iraq. The left-leaning media attack the president on this issue daily, as they should in a healthy democracy, and […]

The Biblical story of Noah’s ark is a “great myth”, devoid of any scientific or historical credibility according to a new BBC programme about the great flood. Noah’s Ark, which has been produced by the Corporation’s religion and ethics division, argues that there is no evidence to support the idea of an ark, a global […]

The holiday of Purim celebrates the successful effort by prominent Jews in the capital of ancient Persia to prevent genocide against the Jewish people. What is not well known is that a comparable lobbying effort took place in modern times — in Washington, D.C., at the peak of the Holocaust. In late 1942, the Roosevelt […]

In a recent article, Basem ‘Eid, founder and director of the east-Jerusalem based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group and former deputy director of the Israeli human rights group B’tselem, addressed the issue of the armed Palestinian gangs that terrorize the Palestinian populace in the PA territories on a daily basis. ‘Eid set out proposals for […]

The plea bargain reached between the state and Elhanan Tannenbaum last week has understandably generated considerable public anger. Yet offensive though it is, this deal is no more than a sideshow. The real issue is the earlier deal that secured Tannenbaum’s release from Hizbullah ­ and what, in light of the new information revealed by […]