This Friday, December 10th, 2004, International Human Rights Day, Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League are sponsoring a visit by Sari Nusseibah, a Palestinian whom these organizations describe as a “peace activist”. Indeed, Sari Nusseibah positions himself as a “peace activist”, speaking throughout the world for reconciliation with […]

The IDF took up posts outside the Arab slums bordering Jewish communities in Gush Katif Friday night after a barrage of mortar shells injured four, including a seven-year-old boy lying in bed. “We will not accept this massive shelling, just as we do not accept the firing of Kassam rockets near Sderot,” army sources said […]

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (JTA) — Leaders of Chicago’s Jewish community are optimistic that a jury award of $156 million to an Israeli-American family whose son was killed in the West Bank will send a stern message that financial support of terrorist organizations won’t be tolerated. A jury ruled Wednesday in a Chicago federal courthouse that […]

A riveting and invaluable new book, “Arafat’s War” by Efraim Karsh, offers the first comprehensive account of Palestinian policy through the Oslo years. Karsh tracks Arafat’s ongoing commitment to Israel’s annihilation and establishment of a Muslim Arab state in all of “Palestine,” an agenda clearly discernible in the PA’s continued promotion of the “plan of […]

ENCINO, Calif. – Abram and Julia Bobrow escape the Nazi onslaught in the early days of World War II and take refuge in the vast forests of eastern Poland. Their riveting stories are a unique and little known piece of World War II history. As chronicled by Stephen Edward Paper, Voices From The Forest: The […]

Shlomo Ben-Zvi, a shareholder with 20% of Channel 10, the owner of the newspaper, Makor Rishon, and the Jewish traditional cable and satellite channel, Tchelet (which has entered a sort of freeze in recent months), is sharply critical of the Israeli media. “In the electronic media, as with the written media, a narrow, elite has […]

The US demands that Israel evacuate and abandon all Jewish communities behind the anti-terror partition fence. So says Elliot Abrams, director of the National Security Council Middle East section. Abrams gave this short-thrift treatment to the 250,000-strong, 35-year-old Jewish settlement enterprise when speaking to American Jewish leaders recently. They were visiting Washington when Abrams told […]

Israeli air and ground forces killed two members of an Arab terrorist cell that perpetrated an attack against the IDF’s Oketz canine unit in Gaza. St.-Sgt. Nadav Kodinsky was killed. One IDF soldier was killed in the initial attack. In the course of a predawn mission near the Karni Crossing, St.-Sgt. Nadav Kodinsky, 20, of […]

Is it about the wars; the victory of the few over the many? The amazing Maccabean victories over Greek armies were battles in a drawn-out conflict that would last for decades after the Chanukah saga. There would be future defeats, as well. Perhaps Jews are celebrating their freedom from oppressive rule. But freedom was only […]

A unique Chanukah candelabra is to be lit this evening at the White House in Washington, DC at the request of US President George Bush. The menorah was built by a Florida congregation in memory of Noam Apter, a 23-year-old student at the Otniel Yeshiva in the Hevron Hills region who was murdered by terrorists. […]