By Chaskel Bennet – YeshivaWorldNews http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/44350/Op-Ed:+If+I+Forget+Thee…+Tears+in+North+Carolina+(Visiting+Jonathan+Pollard).html Last week I was invited to join a delegation led by Rabbi Pesach Lerner, the Executive Vice President of the National Council of Young Israel, and Rav Yaakov Shapiro Shlita, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav Kook in Yerushalayim, to visit Jonathan Pollard in the Butner Correctional facility located […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) As of the summer of 2010, the IDF’s Golani Regiment – one of the leading infantry regiments – will have a clear majority of commanders who are Torah-observant, daily paper Yisrael Hayom reported. This is the first time that a regiment in the IDF is led by such a clearly religious […]

By Richard Shulman – N.York Examiner Palestinian Authority TV interviewed three Arab employees of official Israeli institutions in Jerusalem, a teacher, a researcher and a guide who stated that ”…they do not convey to students and visitors the historical information which they are meant to impart – contrary to the guidelines of their Israeli employers, […]

Shalom. Thank you very much. It is an honour to be here to participate in this Global Forum on Anti-Semitism. Let me begin by commending the Government of Israel for hosting this and bringing us together for this, one of the most critical issues in the world today. Let me also begin by acknowledging and […]

Evelyn Gordon When the Oslo process began in 1993, one benefit its adherents promised was a significant improvement in Israel’s international standing. And initially, it seemed as if that promise would be kept: 37 countries soon established or renewed diplomatic relations with Israel; a peace treaty was signed with Jordan; five other Arab states opened […]

By: Louis René Beres But What If Israel’s Enemies Should Still Prefer War To Peace? It’s farewell to the drawing-room’s civilized cry, The professor’s sensible whereto and why, The frock-coated diplomat’s social aplomb, Now matters are settled with gas and with bomb. W.H. Auden, Danse Macabre Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already indicated approval of […]

CAMERA has sent a letter to Jimmy Carter after the former president, addressing the Jewish community in an open letter, offered an apology for anything he may have done to stigmatize Israel. After expressing wishes for peace, Carter noted that “we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel,” and offered an “Al Het” […]

by Rachel Saperstein (Israelnationalnews.com) The Jewish college students arrived in our refugee camp wearing black T-shirts with the Zionist Organization of America insignia on the front. An extra message on the back said it all: ‘ZOA for an undivided Jerusalem!’ On their winter break, these young people had come to see and learn the places […]

By: Dr. Rafael Medoff Miami Beach was certainly a fitting choice as the site for this month’s reunion of passengers from the ill-fated SS St. Louis, the ship of Jewish refugees that sailed from Nazi Germany in May 1939. As children, they gazed at the lights of Miami as the St. Louis hovered off the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted that there is an important Jewish precedent which argues against paying the ransom to Hamas of freeing 1,000 Arab terrorists for the release of Corporal Gilad Schalit, as is presently being contemplated by the Israeli government. ZOA has pointed to the classic and well-known episode of Rabbi […]