IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS, Kuwait has been waging its own war on terror at home. The police have engaged in five fierce and bloody gun battles with extremists since January 10, as reported by the Associated Press. Five policemen have been killed in these encounters, along with four security men and two bystanders; foreign […]

Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim compared Theodor Herzl to Richard Wagner and Israeli soldiers to Nazis during a lecture this week on “Wagner, Israel and Palestine” at Columbia University. Going beyond contrasting the taboo on playing Wagner in Israel and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, Barenboim also won new converts to the cause of Columbia students […]

According to Jewish tradition, the day begins at evening, at sundown, continues in the morning and bursts out of the night until the following evening. Therefore, according to Jewish tradition – we are still at the height of the day which began yesterday with the inauguration of the Holocaust Museum, and continued with the conference […]

Fifteen members of the group, which is being led by New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (pictured below) and includes two State Supreme Court Judges, were detained upon reaching passport control. The police questioned them and told them that the Gaza Strip is a closed military zone,’ said Ruth Lieberman, one of the people waiting […]

New York – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), said yesterday that ‘the Israelis are responsible’ for the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing that murdered 5 Israelis and injured dozens more. He asserted this in his first English-language interview since taking office in January. It was published in the March 7, 2005 edition […]

It’s known as the ultimate survivor. It grows wild in Israel, thriving in the harsh dry conditions that would kill many other plants. And what do the cells of this hardy survivor – a native Israeli Persian buttercup – look like under a microscope? A Star of David. “It really is symbolic,” says Dr. Rina […]

Can the Sharon government protect Israel`s citizens? Clearly, “disengagement” will open the door widely to “Palestine.” In consequence, once deprived of its remaining strategic depth, Israel will become an irresistibly tempting object for aggression by certain enemy states. In view of what is already known about enemy state nuclearization, and about ballistic missile developments in […]

The US government has agreed to pay Hungarian Jews for the looting of their valuables by American soldiers during the Holocaust. Gideon Taylor, executive vice president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, told the New York Times, that the sum, $25.5 million, is ‘a symbolic acknowledgement of an isolated and unfortunate chapter […]

New York state legislator Dov Hikind will lead next week’s three-day mission of rabbis, New York High Court judges, doctors and other professionals. At the same time, a Norwegian organization called Friends of Gaza in Norway is concluding a two-day campaign to distribute flowers to each and every Jewish family in Gush Katif. Attached to […]

Danny Ayalon, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, will participate Monday in a Peace Now-sponsored forum on Capitol Hill. Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the June annual dinner of the Israel Policy Forum, a group that was formed to support the Labor Party’s Oslo 2 policy. These […]