The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is disappointed by the decision issued last Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, upholding the lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit by an American citizen born in Jerusalem who wanted to have “Israel” listed as his birthplace on his U.S. passport and […]

Tammuz 23, 5769, 15 July 09 10:33 by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) On Monday, the High Court ruled in favor of the far-left organizations Peace Now and Yesh Din and ordered that 11 homes in the Samaria town of Eli be torn down. One of the homes in question belongs to IDF Major Roi Klein, who […]

Jsl’m Cloakroom #224, July 10 1. The Mideast context since the 7th century: The most fragmented, conflict-ridden, unstable, unpredictable, volatile region; no inter-Arab comprehensive peace, no compliance with all inter-Arab agreements, no ratification of all inter-Arab boundaries, no Arab democracy; the cradle of Islamic terrorism, homicide bombers, hijacking, Improvised Explosive Device (IED), car-bombing and modern […]

How strange that the Prime Minister of Israel demands that the PLO recognize that Israel is a Jewish State when he and his government refuse to do so! Any Jewish leader who is prepared to build a PLO state upon Jewish soil, no matter how he chooses to define that state, is, in fact, denying […]

by Hillel Fendel “Our goal has never been peace,” says a Fatah official in a PA TV panel. “Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine” ­ meaning the conquest of Israel. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), directed by Itamar Marcus, reports on a panel discussion on a television program of the Fatah organization broadcast this […]

By Karin Kloosterman July 05, 2009 Countering stereotypes that Jewish people are better known for their thinking skills than athletic prowess is the 18th Maccabiah Games happening July 12 to 23 throughout Israel. The once in every four years Jewish version of the Olympics is expected to draw more than 5,300 athletes from around the […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) U.S. President Barack Obama said in a CNN interview to be broadcast Monday that the legacy of slavery in the United States, like the Holocaust, “Is one of those that you don’t forget about. “I think it’s important that the way we think about it, the way it’s taught, is […]

Jul. 13, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In an interview with Britain’s Sky News over the weekend, US President Barack Obama was asked whether he is planning to accept Syrian President Bashar Assad’s invitation to visit Damascus. The very fact that an American presidential visit to the Syrian capital is on the international […]

By Lori Averick Friday, June 26th, I had the opportunity to attend the formal opening of the Islamic Society of Boson Cultural Center (ISBCC) in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Approximately 600 Muslims, a few Christian clergy and a sprinkling of Jews gathered with Tom Menino, mayor of Boston, on Malcolm X Boulevard to celebrate this historic event […]

By Rachel Ginsber How Jewish is Jerusalem? You might think that’s a silly question, but in the world of academia, revisionist history and even biblical archaeology, scholars have cast the shadow of doubt over Judaism’s intrinsic connection to Jerusalem. The Moslem Waqf, the religious authority that administers the Temple Mount — the site of Judaism’s […]