By:Dr. Yitzchok Levine Wednesday, May 30, 2007 (Note: All quotes are from Early American Jewish History, The Jews of Pennsylvania and the South, 1655-1790, by Jacob Rader Marcus, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1953, Chapter 8, pages 132-165.) The Legend One of the most fascinating figures in American Jewish history is Haym Salomon (1740-1785). “Salomon, […]

ZOA: Cut ties with Nusseibeh and his Al-Quds University Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, the Dean of Al-Quds University, who is widely touted as a Palestinian “moderate,” recently stated in an interview on Al-Jazeera Television that, “The Israelis now living in the territories of the future Palestinian state should return to living within the borders of the […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 24, 2007 In a Paris courtroom last month, after seven long years, the myth of Muhammed al-Dura finally unraveled. That myth, propagated in a report by France 2 television network on September 30, 2000, falsely accused Israeli soldiers of killing a Palestinian child named Muhammad al-Dura while he […]

by Shauna Naghi (IsraelNN.com) After two years of soul-shaking storms and wanderings in Israel, 27-year-old Gush Katif expellee Shlomi Bashan has committed his thoughts and feelings on paper and released a new book: I’m Going: Farewell to a Beloved Land. On August 15th, 2005, eight thousand residents were expelled from their homes in Gush Katif, […]

By Nadav Shragai A plan to build 2,000 apartments in the East Jerusalem village of Isawiyah has hit a potential snag: Lawyers for several Jews have applied to the municipality’s planning and building subcommittee to delay the plan’s submission for public perusal. Right-wing activist Aryeh King is behind the effort, part of his fight against […]

Dear Dr., Hope you are doing well. Our first winter group arrived in Israel yesterday. We have 150 students coming to Israel on our Israel Activism Training Program this winter!! This also includes 40 students who are going to Poland first for 4 days before coming to Israel. I will send you a report on […]

By Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe Sunday, December 16, 2007 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/16/the_white_house_menorah/ On the seventh night of Hanukkah in 1944, my father was in Auschwitz. He had been deported with his parents and four of his five siblings to the Nazi extermination camp eight months earlier; by Hanukkah, only my father was still alive. That year, […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Wednesday’s leak of a municipal plan to build a new Jerusalem neighborhood on land of a moshav destroyed in the War of Independence has caused the repudiation of the plan in the face of American pressure. The leak of the plan to build 10,000-15,000 housing units in Atarot, located in the […]

By:Professor Louis René Beres and Major General (IDF/Res.) Isaac Ben-Israel Wednesday, December 19, 2007 It has now been almost five years since the Project Daniel Group advised then Prime Minister Sharon on how to deal with Iranian nuclear weapons. Our report, Israel’s Strategic Future, urged the prime minister to enhance Israel’s deterrence and defense postures, […]

Celebrating Chanukah 2007 in Saddam Hussein’s Republican Palace, who would think? Yet tonight inside a marble encrusted hall in Baghdad, we lit the eighth light of a hand-made, 6-foot tall menorah. We prayed in Hebrew, joyfully sang a medley of Chanukah songs, ate latkes, and best of all, we were Jews together in the land […]