By Ted Belman Why would anyone want to enter into negotiations for a settlement of anything in which he had to beg the other party to participate? Or even more so in which he had to give real concessions to the other party just to sit at the same table? What can possibly come from […]

REGISTER TO VOTE In the upcoming November U.S. Congressional Elections: Did you know that you are eligible to vote even if you now live in Israel permanently? Did you know that you are eligible to cast your ballot even if you are in Israel only temporarily? Did you know that you might be eligible to […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) The number of Jewish citizens towards the Rosh HaShanah New Year nears 6 million, a number burned in Jewish hearts following the Holocaust in which the Nazi regime executed and murdered the same number of European Jews. The official census figures released Monday state the number of Israeli Jews at […]

Friedlands’s article is at the end of my letter, below. Dear Rabbi Friedland, You don’t know me, but I just received  an email with your strange article, ‘Muslim Center Opponents Could Learn from the Torah’. While you are probably a nice and a very knowledgeable person, you are seriously and dangerously uninformed, misinformed or misguided […]

Withstanding Presidential Pressure Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, September 4, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3949041,00.html   Israel’s support among Americans is as robust as always, expected to be reinforced following the midterm November, 2010 election.   Anyone claiming that Israel’s Prime Minister cannot endure US presidential pressure – and therefore must accept sweeping concessions – is either dramatically […]

The State Department’s swift condemnation of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s remarks during a non-public shiur to his followers is yet one more example of the Obama administration’s mindset when it comes to the Middle East. One does not have to concur with either the timing or the substance of Rav Yosef’s remarks to appreciate that the […]

Exclusive: Tuvia Grossman Interviewed by HonestReporting On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man — bloodied and battered — crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of Israeli brutality — with the clear implication […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) The victims of the Tuesday night terrorist attack near Hevron – Yitzchak Imas, his wife Talia Imas, Kokhava Even-Chaim, and Avishai Shindler – were buried Wednesday. The funeral procession began in Beit Chagai. As the town does not have its own cemetery, the burials were conducted in various cities around Israel. […]

David Wilder It’s been a while since I photographed dead bodies. The last time I remember clearly was the murder of Yossi Shok from Beit Haggai who was shot and killed similarly on a Friday afternoon a few years ago. That attack entailed a few miracles. I recall that there were others in the car, […]

By Pesach Lerner NEW YORK (JTA) — With the advent of Rosh Hashanah, reflection and introspection dominate our thoughts as we are called upon to examine our lives and focus on improving ourselves both as human beings and as Jews. One hallmark of the High Holidays season is the concept of teshuvah, or repentance: the […]