Recife – The First Jewish Community In The New World Many people know that on September 7, 1654, twenty-three Jews arrived in New Amsterdam (renamed New York after the Dutch left). Most are not, however, aware of the fact that these Jews came to America from Recife, Brazil. Recife, now the capital of the state […]

A senior Palestinian Authority official said the attempted massacre of Jewish civilians in Beersheva Sunday morning was a legitimate response to Israel’s ongoing war on “Palestinian” terror. At least fifty people were wounded, two seriously, when a “Palestinian” homicide bomber blew himself up adjacent to a crowded public bus in the southern city. “Those who […]

Post-withdrawal terrorist attacks continue to be carried out throughout Israel with alarming frequency. IDF forces apprehended and arrested a 14-year-old Arab boy attempting to smuggle three pipe bombs out of the city of Shechem, in Samaria, on Monday. The would-be smuggler was caught at the Hawara checkpoint and IDF sappers were summoned to safely neutralize […]

Less than 5 days after Israel completed its expulsion of Jews from Gaza and N. Shomron, 2 people are seriously injured after an Arab terrorist blew himself up outside the Be’er Sheva bus station. At approximately 8:30 this morning, a terrorist approached the central bus station in the Negev capital and tried to board one […]

More than anything else, what now emanates from Prime Minister Sharon`s willful deportation of pious and peaceful Jews in favor of avowed Palestinian terrorists is an overwhelming scent of impurity. Surely it had been bad enough for the embattered Jewish inhabitants of Gaza to endure endless and inexcusable Arab cruelties, but to compound this unique […]

A former resident of Sa-Nur, while mouning over the destruction of his town, points out that there still are Jewish communities in N. Samaria that ugently need to be bolstered with new families. The Jewish communities of northern Samaria have always had trouble attracting residents, primarily because of their distance from the main centers of […]

The nightmare of housing the exiled settlers is just coming into full view. The government has apparently deliberately made minimal plans to house, feed, employ what now amounts to Jewish refugees – again. I am reminded of how the Arab Muslim Palestinian Authority kept their people in camps and never bothered to plan to settle […]

Palestinians still live in refugee camps, even when the camps are in Palestinian Authority controlled areas, because the PLO opposes and prevents refugee resettlement. As the PLO slogan goes, A Palestinian refugee never moves out of his camp except to return home (ie, to Israel). While the PLO has done its best to keep Palestinians […]

The Israeli government’s removal of its own citizens from Gaza ranks as one of the worst errors ever made by a democracy. This step is the worse for being self-imposed, not the result of pressure from Washington. When the Bush administration first heard in December 2003 that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had unilaterally decided […]

Days after the expulsion of Jews from Gaza, and while the destruction of the communities there continues, rockets have already been fired upon towns both in the Negev and northern Israel. A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza hit the Negev city of Sderot around noon Thursday. A second rocket was also fired, and landed between […]