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 prior to Munich, in their desperate yearning for a peaceful world, […]

by Rabbi Jeff Kahn (Temple Har Shalom, Warren N.J.) Abraham Lincoln was Jewish? The work Rabbi Jeff Kahn: “On the twelfth of February, 1809, nearly 200 years ago, a young, poor illiterate woman from Virginia, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, gave birth to a son, in a log cabin, built along the banks of the south fork […]

Since Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was named the Republican V.P. nominee, the Jewish community has been eager to learn her views on Israel and Jewish issues. Some have questioned the values of her church after a Jews for Jesus representative gave a sermon there, but her supporters laud her as a friend to the Jews. […]

Steven Plaut Posted Sep 17 2008 The day Israel released the baby-murdering Arab terrorist Samir Kuntar was without doubt the most disgraceful in modern Jewish history. Israel paid tribute to the Hizbullah terrorists for murdering Jewish soldiers by freeing Kuntar, much as it had done four years earlier when it let go hundreds of jailed […]

HERBERT ZWEIBON As Russia exerts its military power at will over Georgia, there are lessons for Israel—and the West. For Israel the lesson is obvious. To expect others to save you in an existential crisis is folly. The United States makes strong statements of disapproval and sends humanitarian aid. The EU can’t muster that much […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Was the IDF brainwashed into carrying out the Disengagement from Gush Katif and northern Shomron in 2005? A complaint has been filed with the Ethics Committee of the Israel Board of Psychologists against two psychologists for “using their psychological and hypnotic skills” to facilitate the Disengagement-expulsion. The complaint was filed by […]

Oct. 6, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In the end, the global jihad, and the West’s fickle response to radical Islam’s assault on its civilization, is about hating Jews. This truth, never wholly hidden from view, was exposed in all its ugliness in recent months with startling disclosures by former Italian president and […]

by Tom Mountain Betty Friedan couldn’t have predicted Sarah Palin. Why do liberal Jews have such a problem with Sarah Palin? One would think that the die-hard feminists in the Jewish community would trumpet the ascension of a woman to the second spot on a presidential ticket, much as they did over two decades ago […]

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent Last update – 10:43 06/10/2008 www.haaretz.com:80/hasen/spages/1026860.html Arab Israeli non-profit groups have approached Islamic charity organizations in the West Bank over the past year with requests to receive money for various projects, according to documents seized over the past year in Israel Defense Forces raids on West Bank associations identified with […]

By Aaron I. Reichel, Esq. CFP Sunday, October 5, 2008 I find it most frustrating that Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin, and most of their surrogates and ad writers, have failed to put forth many of their strongest and most persuasive arguments most of the time. Were they to only set forth their […]