lela gilbert , THE JERUSALEM POST In recent weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have placed the words “Israeli settlements” on the front pages of global newspapers. In the administration’s rush to revive the Middle East peace process, both have demanded a freeze on settlements, including “natural growth,” which to […]

In 1882, Leo Pinsker, a Jewish physician of Odessa, horrified by the pogroms of 1881, concluded (quite reasonably, to be sure) that anti-Semitism is an incurable psychosis. The remedy, he then adduced, must be for all Jews to accept the imperatives of self-help and self-liberation. Later, Theodore Herzl, having witnessed the spectacle of Alfred Dreyfus […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner The Netanyahu administration has decided to very significantly risk Israeli civilian lives via a series of steps it has taken to increase Palestinian mobility. Now I am not here to judge the wisdom of the move. I am not about to claim that I have access to all the facts and considerations […]

By: Steven Plaut I am about to deliver a lecture in a glamorous building in Riga, one of the best examples of the Art Nouveau architecture style that makes the capital of Latvia so famous. The large seminar room is filled beyond capacity. “This seminar is going to be a strange one for two reasons,” […]

By: Don Feder GrassTopsUSA.com | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Old joke: Walking down a street, a rabbi is accosted by an anti-Semite who tells him “The Jews are to blame for all of our problems.” The rabbi replies, “You’re absolutely right. It’s all the fault of the Jews – and the redheads.” Puzzled, the anti-Semite […]

Data collected in rocket-battered town reveals 45% of children under age six exhibit symptoms associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. More than third of parents also affected Meital Yasur-Beit Or Published: 06.30.09, 12:23 / Israel Culture The stress and anxiety caused by years of living under the rocket threat have left their mark on the children […]

by Chagit Rotenberg, translated and adapted by Rochel Sylvetsky (Israelnationalnews.com) The following is an article translated and adapted from the June 18 edition of the Hebrew-language weekly B’Sheva. It is hard to imagine a lynching in Israel’s pastoral, sun drenched south – the Negev – but sheep grower Oz Davidian is alive only because he […]

By Moshe Arens Haaretz www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096655.html Dealing with U.S. President Barack Obama constitutes a major challenge for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It has been a long time since America last had a president as powerful as Obama, who controls both houses of Congress and is wildly popular among the American public. It is from this advantageous […]