Following to Ynet report on gross neglect of religious artifacts from former Gaza synagogues, leading lawyer appeals to prime minister, citing treatment as ‘scandalous and illegal’ Kobi Nahshoni Published: 10.16.08, 14:51 / Israel Jewish Scene Gush Katif evictees are threatening to go to the High Court of Justice if their demands for proper treatment of […]

(IsraelNN.com) During the Hol-Hamoed [Intermediate Days of] Sukkot, thousands of people -including a wide spectrum of public figures – have taken visited the Gush Katif Museum, located on Sha’arei Tzedek Street, near Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehudah open-air market. The museum has been open from 9:00AM to 8:00PM during the holiday period. It is staffed by people […]

Oct. 16, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST The Arab pogrom in Acre on Yom Kippur was yet another wake-up call. The 200 Israeli Arabs who shattered the windshields of 110 Jewish cars, and burned and looted dozens of Jewish businesses in the city on the eve of Yom Kippur while shouting out, “Death […]

Oct. 15, 2008 Evelyn Gordon , THE JERUSALEM POST Does anyone still remember George W. Bush’s April 2004 letter to Ariel Sharon? At the time, it was touted as Israel’s main quid pro quo for uprooting 25 settlements, expelling some 10,000 Israelis from their homes and withdrawing the army from Gaza. Yet today, it is […]

LESLIE J. SACKS Amid the constant turmoil and angst boiling over in Israel and the West Bank, at the center of the Middle East, lies the Dead Sea. [3] This salt-laden desert sea is rapidly diminishing in size as its source, the Jordan River, dries up: the Syrians (via the Yarmuk, a source for the […]

By Fern Sidman The 68th annual yahrzeit memorial for legendary Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky was held Sunday afternoon, September 14, at Manhattan’s Edmund J. Safra Synagogue. The event, sponsored by Americans For a Safe Israel and the Nordau Circle, drew more than over 400 people who gathered to pay tribute to one of […]

By Morris J. Amitay As a patriotic Jewish American, I care deeply about Israel’s wellbeing and security, as well as that of our own country. In having to choose between the two presidential candidates, I find myself looking closely at their statements, record of accomplishments and the people who advise them now and those they […]

by Susan Rosenbluth, Editor, Jewish Voice and Opinion September 2008 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE), has a pro-Israel reputation and, in a recent interview with Shalom television, even identified himself as “a Zionist,” but it is open to question what the late Menachem Begin would have to say about that designation for the […]

Oct. 10, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Over the past several weeks, both Washington and Jerusalem have spelled out clear policies relating to the situation in Lebanon. The two policies contradict one another, and by adopting them, the US and Israel are on a collision course. Following Lebanese President Michel Suleiman’s visit to […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Akko Mayor Shimon Lankri announced Friday that he is calling off the Akko Festival for fringe theater which was supposed to take place next week. “Because of the residents’ feelings of anger and insult, there will be no point in holding the festival,” Lankri said. Video of the aftermath of the […]