By: Zechariah Schwarzberg Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Warsaw Ghetto: a name, a phrase, familiar to most people today only as a matter of history. Important history, yes, but dry and impersonal just the same. Because even the most vivid of photographs and the most descriptive of texts, whether found on the pages of books or […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The three IDF soldiers killed Wednesday morning actively sought to engage and liquidate a terrorist cell, hoping to save Israeli lives in the future. The incident occurred when the IDF identified an armed terrorist cell near the Gaza border fence, between Kibbutz Be’eri and the Nahal Oz crossing. It will be […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) American oleh (immigrant to Israel) Yitzchak Herskovitz continues his legal battle against Palestinian Authority Arabs squatting on his land. Herskovitz won a lengthy legal battle last year against the squatters in the Jerusalem Magistrates Court. Despite that, the Salah clan continues to occupy the large plot of land and house in […]

By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 There’s an impression that Muslims suffer disproportionately from the rule of dictators, tyrants, unelected presidents, kings, emirs, and various other strongmen – and it’s accurate. A careful analysis by Frederic L. Pryor of Swarthmore College in the Middle East Quarterly (“Are Muslim Countries Less Democratic?”) concludes […]

In a few nights we will participate in one of Judaism’s most ancient ceremonies, and certainly one of the year’s most treasured events. We sit around a table and conduct a Seder – the annual recitation of the story of Israel’s redemption from Egypt. Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook, Israel’s first Chief Rabbi, writes that […]

In a Friday sermon that aired on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV on April 11, 2008, Yunis Al-Astal, Hamas MP and cleric, told worshipers that Rome, “the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital,” would soon be conquered by Islam, just as Constantinople was. It then, he said, would become “an advanced post for the Islamic […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 14, 2008 Speaking to IDF commanders in Judea and Samaria last week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert exhorted the officers tasked with preventing Palestinians from attacking Israel while operating under civilian cover to have sympathy for them. Olmert said “Take all the Palestinians who have been stripped at the […]

By Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher In late January, we hosted a wine tasting for about 200 movers-and-shakers on behalf of Dow Jones. We served three Pinot Noirs from around the world — a $50 Burgundy, a $40 Pinot from Oregon and a $25 Goose Bay Pinot from New Zealand. All three wines had […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Tzion Shitrit, a 23 year old Israeli who was paralyzed from the chest down after a suicide bombing, has defied medical odds by standing up and moving his feet following pioneering treatment at a London clinic, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. Last month, Tzion’s parents, Tova and Pini, saw a reality […]

By Karin Kloosterman March 10, 2008 Does beauty come from within? An Israeli company LycoRed seems to think so. But enhancing that inner beauty can be done with the help of Mother Nature, and a tomato-based extract produced by LycoRed that is designed to protect the skin against harmful UV radiation. LycoRed’s cosmeceutical, Lyc-O-Mato, is […]