Like many American Jews, I was brought up to believe that if I pulled the Republican lever on the election machine my right hand would wither and, as the Psalmist says, my tongue would cleave to the roof of my mouth. According to the Bible, of course, these are the feared consequences of forgetting Jerusalem. […]

On Oct. 1, over 30 Middle Eastern American groups gathered at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., to discuss something that is only whispered about in their native lands: freedom. The Middle Eastern American Convention for Freedom and Democracy, a conference organized by the Washington-based Center for Freedom in the Middle East along […]

Daniella Weiss, the Mayor of the Shomron city of Kedumim and one of the most veteran settlement leaders in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, says that we must object to any form of referendum. “We have learned from our rabbis that there is no such thing as a referendum on the Land of Israel. Even Yitzchak […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed its dismay at the statement by Israeli President Moshe Katzav that anyone who calls the Gaza retreat plan a danger to security or a mortal blow at the State of Israel should be placed behind bars. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: The cherished […]

Israel’s future is in your hands. Bush? Kerry? Pro or con? One of the most important US elections in our history will help shape the future of Israel. Each and every individual who is concerned for Israel’s peace and security must weigh the record and statements of the two presidential candidates very carefully and seriously. […]

One hundred simultaneous demonstrations were held last night in favor of Gush Katif and northern Shomron, and against Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement/expulsion plan. A total of close to 200,000 people participated in the rallies, which were held from Kiryat Shmonah in the north to Eilat in the south. The central event was held in Jerusalem, […]

Saddam Hussein’s goal through the 1990s and until the 2003 U.S. invasion was to end U.N. sanctions on Iraq, while working covertly to restore the country’s ability to produce weapons of mass destruction, a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector says. “Saddam wanted to re-create Iraq’s WMD capability which was essentially destroyed in 1991 […]

“I know it when I see it” was the famous response by a U.S. Supreme Court justice to the vexed problem of defining pornography. Terrorism may be no less difficult to define, but the wanton killing of schoolchildren, of mourners at a funeral, or workers at their desks in skyscrapers surely fits the know-it-when-I-see-it definition. […]

“You wouldnt know it from the headlines, but the new WMD report explains why Saddam Hussein was a threat and why the U.S. was right to remove him…[but] the anti-war media have been quick with agitprop leads like this one from AP: Contradicting the main argument for a war that cost more than 1000 American […]

Living in Israel, I have naively believed that whether or not a president of the United States supported the State of Israel would make a significant difference to my voting Diaspora brethren. That was particularly true after these four painful years of terror. I imagined the awkwardness of Democrats voting Republican for the first time […]