By Karin Kloosterman November 09, 2008 Pregnant women are at a greater risk of a heart attack. Although not common enough to worry most doctors – some may never see such a patient in their lifetime – Israeli Prof. Uri Elkayam, 64, has found the issue critical enough to have made it his specialty. Doctors […]

By P. David Hornik One of the perks of being an Israeli is that people in far-off places seem to take an interest in your problems. For instance, Queen’s University and York University of Canada are planning a conference for June 1, 2009, on “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace.” There’s already […]

Nov. 10, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Two weeks ago, the Palestinians and their anti-Zionist Israeli and international partners finally produced a smoking gun. They had a videotape of evil settlers brutally attacking poor, defenseless Palestinians as they innocently picked olives with their enlightened supporters in a grove by the Tel Rumeida neighborhood […]

by Malkah Fleisher (IsraelNN.com) On the Sabbath of Parshat Lech Lecha, in which the Torah reading relates G-d’s commandment for Abraham to trek from Ur Kasdim to the land of Canaan, an 88 year-old survivor of the 60-mile Bataan Death March was finally given his Bar Mitzvah celebration. It was this past Sabbath, November 9. […]

American-Jewish businessman whose disputed purchase of property inflamed conflict in Hebron claims h will sue government, prevent his community members from investing in Israel if court evicts Jewish settlers living there Zvi Zinger Published: 11.07.08, 19:00 / Israel News “If the Jewish settlers are evicted from the ‘peace house’, I will file legal suits against […]

Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 6, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910057878&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Many American Jews won their races for the Senate and Congress on Tuesday, and three more are aiming to join a different government in the race for the Knesset on February 10. Former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball star Tal Brody, Government Press Office director […]

By Brigitte Gabriel This Thursday, in association with the Islamic Finance Project of the Harvard Law School, the U.S. Treasury will be hosting a forum entitled “Islamic Finance 101.” You read this correctly. As the humorist Dave Barry writes in many of his columns, “I am not making this up.” Indeed, despite the fact that […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 8 October 2008 The following is IMRA’s translation of an excerpt of a summary of a presentation by Giora Eiland, former head of the National Security Council at the 4 November 2008 session on military superiority at the Tel Aviv Workshop for Science Technology and Security. The summary was prepared by […]

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum Munich, 1938: The Fuse Is Lit , Dr. Ervin Birnbaum The Munich Conference at the end of September 1938 played a frightful role in human history. Before Munich, the seemingly inexorable movement of mankind toward the dark void of World War II could in fact have been halted. For five years […]

November 5, 2008 Contact: Morton A. Klein “The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has congratulated President-elect Senator Barack Obama and his running mate Senator Joe Biden for their victory in the presidential elections. Senator Obama ran a very successful campaign and the American people have given him their trust. We hope that his presidency will […]