by david zax You may have heard the story of the Jewish immigrant. On the boat to America, a fellow steerage passenger tells him his name sounds too Jewish and suggests that he choose a new one before he arrives in New York. But when the Ellis Island clerk asks him his name, the immigrant […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Vice President of the National Council of Young Israel and a long-time activist on behalf of Jonathan Pollard, agrees with Pollard that the “money trail” may lead to clues as to why the government has botched the job of attaining his release from prison. Rabbi Lerner spoke […]

By:Louis Rene Beres Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Pain can sometimes be sanitized by language, but it can never be truly anesthetized. For the Arab terrorists, violence against the innocent is always a jubilant abstraction; a “purifying” ritual, even after their crimson tide has been loosed. For the victims, suffering is inevitably a deeply personal violation; […]

The Jewish Community of Hebron April 02, 2008 You may have seen the report a couple of days ago about an Arab youth who stole a woman’s hat, across from Ma’arat HaMachpela. A you may, or may not know, many religiously observant Jewish women keep their heads covered, as regulated by Jewish law. An Arab […]

Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Dear Friends, US Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Tuesday, March 18, in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post: “The success of Hamas and Hizbullah in the region is not only a danger for Israel, but also a threat to United […]

By: Louis Rene Beres In the following second part of this column, Professor Beres continues his examination of Israel’s nuclear posture vis-à-vis Iran. Facing imminent existential attacks, Israel could decide to preempt enemy aggression with conventional forces. The targeted state’s response would then determine Israel’s subsequent moves. If this response were in any way nuclear, […]

March 27, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Morton A. Klein Phone 1: 212-481-1500 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the Olmert government to cease being silent about Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) in its recent glorification of terrorist and terrorist acts, incitement to hatred and murder and its rejection of Israel as […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) The Jabotinsky Heritage House in Tel Aviv recently completed a study on the psychological training given to IDF soldiers before the 2005 “Disengagement” and its effect on subsequent IDF operations. The psychological training given to soldiers had a serious impact on soldiers’ performance in later conflicts, researchers found. Dr. Gadi Eshel […]

By: Elyakim Haetzni Arutz Sheva Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Complaints we have in Israel against American Jews are not directed at the various George Soroses or Noam Chomskys, or at those Jews uninterested in the fate of the Jews in the Jewish state. We address our cries to those for whom Eretz Yisrael still holds […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 31, 2008 A core question arises from last weekend’s Arab League summit in Damascus. Boycotted by half the league’s members, the conference demonstrated the depth of Egyptian and Saudi opposition to Iran’s rise to prominence in the Arab world. So too, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s ostentatious participation […]