by Aviva Woolf (IsraelNN.com) Nefesh B’Nefesh has launched an innovative new project, “Go North”, to encourage aliyah (immigration) to northern Israel. Go North is aimed at westerners who want to make aliyah to northern cities such as Afula and Nahariya, but are uneasy about living away from the major urban centers of Jerusalem and Tel […]

By: Myrna & Robert Ulfik Date: Wednesday, December 03 2008 Today the Dominican Republic welcomes thousands of sun-worshippers to Sosúa, its popular North-Coast beach resort. In 1940, the Dominican Republic also welcomed travelers, but they were hardly tourists: they were Jews fleeing Nazi terror – and in all the world, this was the only haven […]

By Tsafrir Ronen At the Annapolis Conference, President Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples. One of those peoples – the Jewish people – has a clear identity. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of the second people. Already in 1977, a central spokesman of […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The Likud Election Committee ruled in favor of Netanyahu-ally Ophir Akunis on Thursday afternoon, and ordered a re-shuffling of the list of Likud candidates for the Knesset in the upcoming national elections. The chief significance of the ruling is that Moshe Feiglin will be moved down from the 20th spot to […]

By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com | 12/10/2008 Victims caught in terrorist atrocities perpetrated for Islam typically experience fear, torture, horror, and murder, with sirens screaming, snipers positioning, and carnage in the streets. That was the case recently in Bombay (now called Mumbai), where some 195 people were murdered and 300 injured. But for the real target […]

by Jason Gold Poor Bibi. Bibi, I wanted to have a little chat, so pull up a chair for a bit. You know, I couldn’t help but think of you as I watched the live feed from the Tel Aviv convention center over the Internet following the Likud primaries last night. I just couldn’t help […]

A new Israeli poll has shown that about two-thirds (63%) of Israelis expressed agreement with the statement that “In reality, most of the Palestinians do not accept the existence of the State of Israel and would destroy it if they could, despite the fact that the PLO leadership is conducting peace negotiations with Israel,” with […]

by Malkah Fleisher (IsraelNN.com) The Amigour Company, a quasi-governmental housing company aligned with the Housing Ministry, sold a Haifa synagogue and all its contents to an Arab, according to a report by Yeshiva World News. Located at 31 Jaffa Street in lower Haifa, the synagogue paid rent to Amigour before shutting down six years ago. […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) An interpreter who helped a Chabad rabbi converse with a terrorist in the Chabad House in Mumbai said demands were relayed to India, but no one helped while the Holtzbergs still were alive. In a first-person article published in the New York Jewish Forward, P.V. Viswanath, an Indian Orthodox Jew, […]

Home Front Command hands out leaflets to inhabitants of port city, additional southern communities, explaining how to prepare for rocket attacks from Gaza. Move launched for fear terror organizations have managed to significantly increase rocket launching range, to up to 30 km Efrat Weiss YNET Published: 12.08.08, 08:24 / Israel News www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3634948,00.html Hundreds of thousands […]