I know most Jews call Yom Kippur by various holy names, but here in Jerusalem I call it the ‘Day of No Traffic Lights.’ There are no working traffic lights because there’s no traffic on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem. Imagine–a capital city without any motor vehicle traffic at all except for emergency vehicles and army […]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s forthcoming visit to the US this coming Monday, September 24. It is shocking to think that he will not only be addressing the United Nations in New York but he will also be speaking at Columbia University, spewing his hatred of America, Israel and Jews. Since he will be allowed to […]

September 20, 2007 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is disappointed by yesterday’s decision issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, refusing to uphold the right of American citizens born in Jerusalem to have “Israel” listed as their birthplace on their passports and […]

by Atty. Elyakim Haetzni The surprise attack is being readied from within. Some day, we’ll recall the tranquil months of headlines devoted to road accidents and minor scandals – the headlines of a society free from existential cares – as a fool’s paradise whose fools turned a blind eye to the erupting volcano threatening to […]

Michael Freund, THE JERUSALEM POST September 18, 2007 For a country short on allies, Israel sure needs to learn how to start treating its friends a little better. Just over a week from now, during the Succot holiday, thousands of Bible-believing Christians from over 100 countries will converge on the streets of Jerusalem. They come […]

Special to Hamodia – August 31, 2007 [Via J4JP] In a letter to the editor [Hamodia 08/22/07] a concerned reader asked why Jonathan Pollard has not applied for parole, and why does he not have an application for commutation of his sentence, clemency, on file. I wish to assure readers that Jonathan’s pro-bono attorneys have […]

by Isaac Kohn The president doesn’t know why they still shoot. Peres to Ambassadors: ‘It’s Not Clear Why They Continue To Shoot’ September 11, 2007 – “It’s not clear why they are continuing to shoot at us despite the fact that we went out of and disengaged from the Gaza Strip.” So said President Shimon […]

President George W. Bush in an address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001 said, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” So why is the U.S. hosting an international “peace” conference this November – a conference where PM Olmert is expected to make territorial concessions to Mahmoud […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The small moshav (agricultural community) of Nov in the Golan Heights mourns the loss of a son today: Staff Sgt. Ben-Zion Chaim Henman, 22, son of Yaakov and Tamar Henman, was killed during a firefight Monday night between IDF forces and terrorists in the biblical city of Shechem, now under Palestinian […]

by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan Night time – we sat and talked on the tiny lawn in front of my caravilla. Hadar Bashan was flushed with the victory of first prize in the documentary division of the International Women’s Film Festival in Rehovot. Her film, ‘In the Freiman’s Kitchen’, depicting the anguish of an elderly […]