(Washington, D.C.): The plight of Israelis today calls to mind the tongue-in-cheek prayer of Tevye, the hero of “Fiddler on the Roof” who, in light of his people’s suffering, asks the Almighty if someone else could be the chosen people for a while. For years, the people of Israel have voted for leaders who promised […]

Even now \u2014 after Arafat, after thousands of Israeli men, women and children have been systematically dismembered, burned and mutilated by the most barbaric terrorist movement in recent memory \u2014 much of the world remains willfully impervious to geopolitical truth. Understood from the standpoint of Biblical imagery, the media generally continues to portray the Palestinians […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (JTA) ‘ A Jewish community initiative to bring to justice those who kill Americans overseas has become law. Provisions of a bill spearheaded by the Zionist Organization of America, dubbed the Koby Mandell Act, were incorporated into the omnibus spending bill President Bush signed last week. The provisions would create an Office […]

Controversy continues to swirl around the revelations that during the 1930s, Harvard University president James Conant forged friendly ties with senior Nazi officials and Nazi-controlled universities, and even urged a major US corporation not to hire a German Jewish refugee scientist because he was “very definitely of the Jewish type.” At a recent Boston University […]

My wife Suri and I moved to the .Big D. four years ago with our children and joined the growing Dallas Jewish community. But our family connection to the big D is older than four years and more than geographic. I am the son of a Democrat, grandson of a Democrat, and great-grandson of a […]

So, let us see if we have this straight. The anti-Zionists claim that the Jews have no right to the land of Israel because before Israel was re-created in 1948, it had been almost 1,900 years since the last time the Jews exercised sovereignty over the Land of Israel. And the anti-Zionists claim that it […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly opposes the Bush administration.s plan to sell sophisticated AMRAAM missiles to Jordan. The Associated Press reports (December 4, 2004) that the Bush administration .has authorized the sale of 50 sophisticated American-made air-to-air missiles to Jordan, despite Israel’s protests to the sale, according to the U.S. military … Sending […]

Sixty years ago this autumn, the British reluctantly agreed to establish a Jewish armed force to take part in the Allied war against Nazi Germany. Hailed as the modern-day incarnation of the Maccabee warriors, the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade fought for Jewish survival both on and off the battlefield, in an epic of courage […]

Arab terrorists and suicide bombers exploded a tunnel near an IDF post and injured at least 11 soldiers Sunday night during a carefully planned massive assault on the army and nearby Jewish towns. The attack came on the heels of continued shelling of nearby Jewish communities the day after an Israel Army commander declared his […]

Daniel Pipes, a board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace, is one of four members of the Presidium of the Jerusalem Summit, ostensibly a conservative or right-wing organization that includes distinguished Israeli academics. Surprisingly, various Muslim .moderates. were invited to and spoke at the Summit.s second annual 3-day conference in Jerusalem. The Summit not […]