A new initiative is transforming life in Israel for many single olim chadashim (new immigrants). The Aliav Foundation has begun confronting the issue of Jewish continuity in an innovative manner, melding Jewish activism with social activity \u2013 and they have picked Jerusalem to be the heart of this endeavor. Aliav\u2019s first event took place Thursday […]

Prime Minister Sharon was quoted as saying today that there will be no Jews in Gaza or northern Shomron by the end of 2005. He also expressed his confidence that his withdrawal plan will be approved on Sunday. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today made his first appearance in several months before the Knesset Foreign Affairs […]

A familiar news story: A hard-line government uses its powerful military to launch a unilateral pre-emptive strike. The United Nations and Europe are horrified, along with most of the American media. They condemn the strike and brush off claims that it was justified as an act of self-defense against an unpredictable tyrant. So was it […]

NEW YORK- In response to new evidence that Egypt has been smuggling weapons to Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to suspend the more than $2-billion in aid the U.S. gives Egypt each year. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “Egypt’s smuggling of weapons […]

The Knesset Interior Committee met today to discuss the destruction of gravestones, the dumping of garbage and the building of illegal Arab structures upon Jewish graves on Har HaZeitim (the Mount of Olives). Arutz 7s Haggai Seri-Levi reports that the Interior Committee heard reports from representatives of the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Service), Jerusalem municipality […]

Sholem Asch, one of the great Yiddish writers of the last century, was not a politician but he was convinced, like many others, that in the ongoing Zionist conflict of the Twenties and Thirties between Chaim Weizmann and Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Weizmann was the rational, levelheaded statesman while Jabotinsky was an impractical dreamer. When I met […]

While we do not know the political beliefs of their journalists, we do know that most of the pictures coming from Israel are taken by Arabs. Don’t believe us? Just go to: Yahoo News Page and do a search for news photos, using some key words like: Israel, Ramallah, Gaza, etc. and see for yourself! […]

“Cherry Festival” events in the Golan Heights were kicked off yesterday afternoon. Cooking workshops for children, Israeli singers and hikes were among the features yesterday. Visitors to the Golan over the coming months will be able combine cherry-picking – and other forest fruits – with hikes in the many nature reserves and mountains of the […]

A new video, made available over the Internet, clearly depicts Arab terrorists using a United Nations ambulance as a getaway car during recent Gaza attacks. Much has been reported albeit not in the Western press about United Nations and Red Crescent vehicles transporting terrorists and firearms. Now a web site called Access Middle East has […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon continues to insist that his unilateral withdrawal plan must be passed in its entirety. All indications are that despite efforts to find a compromise involving the destruction of only three Jewish towns in Gaza, there is no stopping him, and he will even fire ministers if necessary in order to procure […]