We spent this past Shabbat at Kibbutz Saad visiting with our good friends Ellen and Aaron. Ellen and I had been roommates at the Institute for Youth Leaders in Jerusalem some fifty years ago and our friendship has lasted through the years. Both of us had come to live in Israel: she to marry her […]

Emanuel Tanay, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Wayne State University Medical School A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. ‘Very few people were […]

by Tamar Yonah (IsraelNN.com) The recent appointments of Jews by United States President–Elect Barack Obama to his new administration should not be reassuring to the Jewish community in America or in Israel, says David Bedein, Bureau Chief of the Israel Resource News Agency. During the elections, Bedein covered the Obama campaign in Pennsylvania, working on […]

By Karin Kloosterman November 09, 2008 Pregnant women are at a greater risk of a heart attack. Although not common enough to worry most doctors – some may never see such a patient in their lifetime – Israeli Prof. Uri Elkayam, 64, has found the issue critical enough to have made it his specialty. Doctors […]

By P. David Hornik One of the perks of being an Israeli is that people in far-off places seem to take an interest in your problems. For instance, Queen’s University and York University of Canada are planning a conference for June 1, 2009, on “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace.” There’s already […]

Nov. 10, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Two weeks ago, the Palestinians and their anti-Zionist Israeli and international partners finally produced a smoking gun. They had a videotape of evil settlers brutally attacking poor, defenseless Palestinians as they innocently picked olives with their enlightened supporters in a grove by the Tel Rumeida neighborhood […]

by Malkah Fleisher (IsraelNN.com) On the Sabbath of Parshat Lech Lecha, in which the Torah reading relates G-d’s commandment for Abraham to trek from Ur Kasdim to the land of Canaan, an 88 year-old survivor of the 60-mile Bataan Death March was finally given his Bar Mitzvah celebration. It was this past Sabbath, November 9. […]

American-Jewish businessman whose disputed purchase of property inflamed conflict in Hebron claims h will sue government, prevent his community members from investing in Israel if court evicts Jewish settlers living there Zvi Zinger Published: 11.07.08, 19:00 / Israel News “If the Jewish settlers are evicted from the ‘peace house’, I will file legal suits against […]

Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 6, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910057878&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Many American Jews won their races for the Senate and Congress on Tuesday, and three more are aiming to join a different government in the race for the Knesset on February 10. Former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball star Tal Brody, Government Press Office director […]

By Brigitte Gabriel This Thursday, in association with the Islamic Finance Project of the Harvard Law School, the U.S. Treasury will be hosting a forum entitled “Islamic Finance 101.” You read this correctly. As the humorist Dave Barry writes in many of his columns, “I am not making this up.” Indeed, despite the fact that […]