By: Rick Richman Wednesday, June 4, 2008 The firestorm that erupted with the YouTube posting of excerpts from a 1990 sermon by Pastor John Hagee – reflecting his belief that the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel both reflected God’s will – is a case study of how certain religious views have been placed beyond […]

By Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – The Hamas and Hizbullah terrorist organizations have “legitimate claims” that are being “weakened” by the violence the terror groups carry out, Sen. Barack Obama recently stated in largely unnoticed remarks in The New York Times. Speaking in May with columnist David Brooks, Obama said the U.S. needs a foreign policy […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) The Almagor Terror Victims Organization said Monday that an attack on an IDF soldier earlier in the day was the result of the removal of military checkpoints near Jericho. A month ago, Almagor called on the government to return the checkpoints to the roads, warning that the stretch between Ramallah and […]

By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent Last update – 00:40 15/09/2008 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020978.html A member of the Winograd panel on Sunday blasted the government and defense establishment for not implementing all the recommendations made in the damning report on their conduct during the Second Lebanon War. “About half the recommendations have not been put into action,” said […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a “sharp demographic shift” in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city’s total population today. It is estimated that, for the […]

by Daniel Pipes Jerusalem Post July 21, 2008 Israel has lived the past sixty years more intensively than any other country. Its highs – the resurrection of a two-thousand year old state in 1948, history’s most lopsided military victory in 1967, and the astonishing Entebbe hostage rescue in 1976 – have been triumphs of will […]

By Karin Kloosterman September 08, 2008 America was shocked when Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. His “coming out” brought attention to the silent killer, which afflicts about 30,000 Americans each year. Most – unfortunately – don’t live past a year of diagnosis. But hope might be around […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) An Arab terrorist stabbed a nine-year-old Jewish boy at the Shalhevet neighborhood in Yitzhar in Samaria on the Sabbath, torched an empty house and tried to set fire to a second building. The terrorist threw the boy four meters down off of an outdoor porch, into an area filled with […]

Sep. 11, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST With its nuclear weapons program, its control of Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, its massive influence in Iraq and Afghanistan and its messianic, global ambitions, Iran is rightly viewed as the greatest threat to global security today. One of the most disturbing aspects of the Iranian challenge […]

By Rafael Medoff Fans of “Law & Order” and “Mission Impossible” know Steven Hill for his memorable performances of lead characters in those hit television shows. And many of Hill’s fans have read about his admirable success in maintaining Shabbat and halachic observance despite the pressures of life in Hollywood. But what is not widely […]