The First Jew To Live In North America The year 2004 marked the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America. In 1654 the first Jews arrived from Brazil to take up permanent residence in New Amsterdam (New York). When the Portuguese re-conquered Pernambuco, a portion of northern Brazil, from the Dutch, the Jews residing there […]

Police were searching for an Arab terrorist Wednesday night after he stabbed to death a Jewish yeshiva student and injured another near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. The attacker stabbed his first victim in the leg at around 8:30 PM on David Street. The young man suffered moderate injuries and managed to reach the […]

I write this from New York after returning from a bitter trip to Israel in mid-August. I wanted to be with my friends in Gush Katif during the period of the scheduled expulsion. I was sure it would never happen. Knowing the dedication, devotion, and beauty of the people and the land of Gush Katif […]

As family after family is evicted from a home and a community, as the synagogues are emptied and the nurseries abandoned, the scale of destruction and suffering seems overwhelming. Equally overwhelming is the ease with which four decades of work and love invested in communities can be effaced. Is it really that easy to destroy […]

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — In a military training camp run by the ruling Fatah movement, hundreds of young Palestinians marched in formation Monday and sprinted across a sandy lot. Nearby, hundreds of Islamic Jihad gunmen in black ski masks paraded in the streets, some riding in jeeps, raising AK-47 assault rifles and posing with […]

Over 8,000 police/army forces took part in the forced eviction of residents and supporters from Sa-Nur & Chomesh in the Shomron. The communities are destroyed and the residents’ future is uncertain. In Chomesh, the more easily accessible of the two Shomron communities that were destroyed today, some 2,000 youths gathered over the past few days, […]

Whatever one’s opinion about disengagement, there’s little doubt that those uprooted from their homes and lives are undergoing upheavals of the sort that shouldn’t be wished on anyone. From their personal vantage point, they were dealt a very raw deal. The last thing they should encounter now is institutional callousness, bureaucratic run-arounds and official hardheartedness. […]

Israel this week is taking with it hundreds of foreign workers who will be evacuated from the Gaza Strip along with the few Jewish residents still remaining, while leaving behind thousands of Palestinian employees, several of whom told WorldNetDaily yesterday their lives are now in danger. Israel’s Foreign Workers Enforcement Unit has decided hundreds of […]

Final preparations are underway in the towns of Homesh and Sa-Nur Monday evening, as residents and activists expect the arrival of expulsion forces early Tuesday morning. The IDF and Israeli police forces are also making final arrangements for the evacuation of the two isolated communities in northern Samaria. Expulsion forces are bracing for an intense […]

1. Evacuation of the residents of the community of Elei Sinai completed Today, August 21, 2005, the evacuation of the community of Elei Sinai was completed, in accordance with paragraph 22B of the “Implementation of the Disengagement Plan 2005” law. The community of Elei Sinai was home to 74 families before the “Implementation of the […]