By David Brinn Israel21c August 17, 2007 One of the scariest moments in the life of a parent whose child suffers from epilepsy is when that child has a seizure. In addition, if the child is unattended, a prolonged seizure can lead to brain damage, and even death. Israeli startup BioLert is minimizing that risk […]

Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 JP Editor: “Arabs goal is Israel’s extinction” New York — Amotz Asa-El, former executive editor of the Jerusalem Post and presently a lecturer at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, wrote “the Jewish National Fund (JNF)’s mission statement remains morally valid and strategically vital.” This mission statement essentially states that JNF private […]

By: Fern Sidman Jewish Press Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Phyllis Chesler, a nice Jewish girl from Boro Park who in the 1960’s and 70’s gained fame both as a prominent voice of the feminist movement and an internationally renowned left-wing ideologue, broke ranks with the Left several years ago. The unwillingness of leftists to make […]

Enclosed you’ll find the 206th edition of “Straight From The Jerusalem Cloakroom”, which examines the proposition that a giveaway of the Golan Heights would ostensibly pacify Syria, dismantle the Syria-Iran axis and moderate the Mideast. The two previous editions examined the “Impact of the proposed Palestinian State upon vital US interests” and the proposition that […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Fast and furious developments in the Disengagement-destroyed town of Homesh: continued Jewish presence, a new yeshiva, a Knesset lobby, and more. Two years after the IDF destroyed four towns in the Shomron in Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement, one of them – Homesh – is once again the site of a thriving Jewish […]

(IsraelNN.com) Four years after his murder, Shuli Har-Melekh remains a symbol of the struggle for Homesh. His family mourned him this year back in Homesh, which is beginning to bloom once again. A grassroots movement has formulated that has set as its goal the rebuilding of the town of Homesh as a first step in […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 17, 2007 Sometimes terror doesn’t have to pay. Reports last week that Fatah Prime Minister Salaam Fayad had paid the annual salaries of members of Hamas’s army in Gaza caused US Congressman Eric Cantor to shoot off a livid letter to Fayad. Cantor, the third-ranking Republican in the House […]

by Morton A. Klein and Irwin Hochberg The JNF has a contract with its Jewish donors. There has been criticism of the clear decision of Israel’s democratically-elected Knesset, voting overwhelmingly, by a margin of 64 votes to 16, to approve the first reading of a bill reaffirming that all lands belonging to the Jewish National […]

The coin pictured above is a “High Tech in Israel” commemorative coin issued by the Bank of Israel. It depicts a growing tree with binary leaves. Along those lines, Rabbi Aryeh Markman of Aish HaTorah, Los Angeles, reports: ISRAEL’S RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIRST MONTH OF 2007 Despite the second Lebanon war, the divestments, and […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) A public opinion survey carried out in Gaza shows that Hamas rule there has not made its populace very happy. Carried out by a Norwegian agency and published this week by the Palestinian Authority’s Wafa news agency, the poll shows the following numbers: 51% of the residents say they do not […]