By: Samuel M. Ehrenhalt Editor’s Note: Mr. Ehrenhalt submitted this article early last month and eagerly anticipated its publication. Sadly, he passed away on May 31 at age 83. An activist for Israel and Jewish concerns and a longtime reader of The Jewish Press who constantly passed along to the paper’s editors news and information […]

by Yehudah Lev Kay (Israelnationalnews.com) A revolution is brewing at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem – for the first time in several years a distinctly pro-Israel student union has come to power. The upheaval is due to the dedicated efforts of Im Tirtzu (“if you will it”), an on-campus Zionist advocacy group. “The situation had […]

16 June 2009 M. President, Last Wednesday, just a few blocks down the street, a neo-Nazi opened fire at the Holocaust Museum. He murdered a security guard and terrorized the museum’s visitors, including school children, who had come to learn, to express sympathy, to pray. That evil act was the work of a killer who […]

Louis René Beres∗ Early in his presidency, Barack Obama declared his solid commitment to a Palestinian state. In principle, this now oft-repeated declaration of support for Palestinian “self-determination”1 might not have been unreasonable if the Palestinian side were also committed to a “Two-State Solution”. Yet, both Fatah and Hamas – even as they slaughter each […]

by Zalman Nelson (IsraelNN.com) The Obama Administration should remove Hamas from the terrorist list, former President Jimmy Carter told media following his visit to Gaza today. He said he plans on pushing for the change when he meets with U.S. officials on Thursday to discuss his latest trip to the Middle East. Carter’s comments came […]

By Richard Cohen To far more people than we would like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held such weird and depraved views about Jews and the Holocaust, but that those views are considered weird and depraved. In vast parts […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) The biomedical industry in the capital has grown by 20% in the last three years, according to the Jerusalem Development Authority. On Monday, Mayor Nir Barkat announced plans to raise 100 million NIS for investment in the sector by 2015. Speaking at the ILSI Biomed 2009 conference in Jerusalem, Dr. Shirley […]

Rick Richman – June 10, 2009 Will C George F. Will was the featured speaker at the dinner Monday evening at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, in celebration of the Claremont Review of Books. Will received the Salvatori Prize in the American Founding, and gave a masterful speech that included a mixture of […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech Sunday evening at Bar-Ilan University had one goal: To get US President Barack Obama off of Israel’s back. Netanyahu’s speech was an eloquent, rational and at times impassioned defense of Israel. For Israeli ears, after years of former prime minister Ehud Olmert’s and former […]

David Wilder My fellow countrymen, Yesterday, on the holy day of Shabbat, worshipping at a synagogue close to my Jerusalem home, I listened intently to the weekly Torah portion. It tells the story of 12 spies, sent by Moses, to study Eretz Yisrael and its residents, prior to the Israelites entering into the Land. The […]