By Nadav Shragai Haaretz Last update – 12:02 24/11/2008 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1040266.html Hebron in the eyes of the state prosecutors and the High Court of Justice is an Arab city where a few hundred Jews reside until “the final status agreement” is struck. Hebron in the eyes of the settlers is the city of our forefathers in […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists attempted to attack Yitzhar again on Saturday as leftists and Arabs arrived in the area to harvest olives. Yitzhar residens notified the IDF after spotting two suspicious-looking Arab men wandering near the town on Saturday afternoon. The suspects fled towards a nearby Arab village when soldiers arrived at the […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Stop the presses! A man who started his long military career in an elite special force suggests that there might be a way to get back an Israeli being held a few kilometers distance from Ashkelon that does not involve releasing Arab murderers. Here is a news flash for Defense […]

Esther Pollard sends emotional letter to PM Olmert, urges him to bring up her husband’s release in upcoming meeting with President Bush; after more than 20 years in prison, time is right to free Jonathan, she says By Sharon Roffe-Ofir – YNET – Nov 22, 2008 www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3626923,00.html The end of George W. Bush’s term in […]

By Sorah Shapiro Albert Einstein’s letter on God, in which he described the Bible as “pretty childish,” sold not long ago for more than $400,000. That letter is far from the definitive word, however, on Einstein and religion. In fact, there exists a vast library of personal letters and other archival material that reveal Einstein’s […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the oldest Hebrew text ever found, at a site they believe was King David’s front line fortress in the war against the people of Pleshet, also known as the Philistines. The site overlooks the Elah Valley, where the young David slew Goliath, the Philistine […]

Beit HaShalom, or Peace House, is a four-story building in Hevron — along the main road called Worshippers’ Way that runs from Kiryat Arba to the Ma’arat Hamachpelah (Tomb of the Patriarchs) — that was purchased by Jews in 2005. Since March 2007, twenty families have lived in this house, which is now the center […]

By Leslie Bell The Cousins Bielski , Leslie Bell You survive for a purpose that’s bigger than yourself. – Lt. Yehuda Bielski In September I attended a special screening of the movie “Defiance” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. The film attempts to depict the formation of the Bielski partisans and some of […]

Nearing the somber 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Los Angeles Jews celebrate the story of a Torah that was pieced together from scattered texts smuggled into a Nazi labor camp. By Duke Helf November 07, 2008 in print edition B-1 During World War II, Jewish inmates of the Yanov labor camp in occupied Poland defied their […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Israel media on Wednesday escalated a campaign against Jewish rights to the Peace House in Hevron following a High Court ruling that the more than 20 families there must leave. Voice of Israel government radio news anchorwoman Estie Peres, who previously has faced complaints of an anti-religious and anti-nationalist bias, […]