By Eric Fingerhut REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK WASHINGTON (JTA) — While criticism of President Obama’s demand for an Israeli settlement freeze has been relatively muted among U.S. Jewish organizations, this week’s Christians United for Israel conference here provided the opportunity for some prominent Jews and Christians to level some public complaints. Far and away the most forceful […]

By: Shoshana Greenwald Memo to the New York Public Library: I’m sorry that I still haven’t returned several books by Livia Bitton-Jackson. They are a series of vibrant, touching memoirs of a young girl navigating her way through the world, both literally and on an emotional plane; the stories of a Holocaust survivor with wanderlust […]

Tension is escalating between the U.S and Israel. The problem: The administration views the Israeli-Palestinian issue as the root of all problems, while Israel is focused on Iran’s nuclear threat, says Elliott Abrams. By ELLIOTT ABRAMS The tension in U.S.-Israel relations was manifest this past week as an extraordinary troupe of Obama administration officials visited […]

by Baruch Gordon (Israelnationalnews.com) When we absorb new information, the human brain reshapes itself to store this newfound knowledge. But where exactly is the new knowledge kept, and how does that capacity to adapt reflect our risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of senile dementia later in our lives? Dr. Yaniv Assaf of Tel […]

By: Eric Fingerhut WASHINGTON – The White House is facing mounting criticism over its decision to give a prestigious award to the former United Nations official who presided over the infamous 2001 Durban conference and has a history of criticism of Israel. The Anti-Defamation League, the Zionist Organization of America and AIPAC were the latest […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Two Israelis were wounded on Wednesday night in a terrorist shooting in the Binyamin region, located 20 miles north of Jerusalem. Samarian Residents’ Council head Benny Katzover linked the dismantling of IDF checkpoints to attacks on Israeli civilians, and warned that “when it comes to security, we will be in a […]

By Chaim Levinson, Haarez Correspondent www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1106953.html Two weeks ago, Erez Ben Sa’adon, a vintner, farmer and novice beekeeper, received a frantic phone call from the West Bank settlement of Eli. A swarm of bees had left its hive and was approaching one the settlement’s day-care centers. The children were afraid. How, the caller wanted to […]

By Barry Rubin* www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/08/hooray-for-jihad.html I’m beginning to understand the Obama administration strategy, at least in its initial phase, as a “bridge too far” approach. That expression came after the heroic Allied operation at Arnheim in World War Two, when what seemed a clever idea-to capture a key bridge far ahead of the existing Allied lines-turned […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Terrorists in northern Gaza fired a mortar shell on the western Negev Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would respond to any and all attacks in the region. The mortar shell hit the Eshkol region. No injuries or damage were reported in the attack. Chaim Yellin, […]

By: John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com We have grown accustomed to the bloodlust of the radical Islamic state of Iran, and of its determination, in league with terror organizations such as Hizbollah and Hamas, to annihilate Israel. What is new is the degree to which the Middle East conflict has been brought home to America by radical […]