Guards at the Western Wall prohibited visitors at a Remembrance Day ceremony from wearing orange shirts. Orange is the official color of the anti-Disengagement struggle. Sarah Baumol from Gush Etzion said her eighth-grade son and the rest of his class went to the Western Wall in Jerusalem to pray at the conclusion of a school […]

Britain’s Association of University Teachers, representing 49,000 of that country’s academics, has just voted to boycott their Israeli colleagues at two universities, Haifa and Bar-Ilan, and to consider boycotting those at a third, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. One of the boycotted universities, Haifa, was accused of having suppressed a thesis about a massacre of […]

Jewish settlements are the way to achieve peace and indicator of its truth. Twenty years ago, Arabs in general, and particularly Palestinians, were quite sure of their victory over Israel. For their success, they didn’t need military superiority or even sophisticated “salami” politics, which Yaser Arafat conducted for more than ten years. They considered the […]

They are not the Jews of bagels and lox brunches with the Sunday New York Times. They do not necessarily get the humor of a Woody Allen movie and are as likely to salivate over a dinner of fried chicken, collard greens, sweet potato pie and iced tea as they are to crave a repast […]

JERUSALEM – Israelis throughout the land Wednesday evening launched into celebration marking the 57th anniversary of the Jewish state’s rebirth in 1948. Thursday saw hundreds of thousands pack the nation’s parks and other public areas for picnics and other activities. As always, the Independence Day festivities were immediately preceded by nationwide remembrance of and mourning […]

Gadid — Plots of flowers grow outside most of the homes we pass as we drive through this small agricultural cooperative in southern Gaza. I point out a particularly lavish one, and the driver, a gruff 55-year-old, stops the car. “What are those white ones?” I ask, motioning through the window. “And those yellow ones […]

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1 P.M., at Baruch College- 17 Lexington Ave. & 23 St.- Prime Minister Sharon will be the guest of the Conference of Presidents, Federation and the Israeli Consulate. The Coalition of Americans to Save Gush Katif/Gaza and the N. Shomron Communities is holding a Prayer Vigil in the same location to save […]

Independence Day celebrations have begun across the country, beginning with an official ceremony at Mt. Herzl. The theme this year: “Covenant of Life: Bridging Hearts” Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, speaking at the Mt. Herzl ceremony tonight, spoke of his fears of a civil war and a rupture in the nation. “I\u2019m greatly worried about a […]

In the summer of 1992 the young members of the St. Lawrence Quartet were trying to make a mark in the competitive string-quartet world. As students at Massachusetts’ famous Tanglewood Festival, they had been assigned to perform a new composition by a composer they had never heard of. An Eastern European-Argentinean-American Jew who mixed Klezmer […]

On Yom Hazikaron, Remembrance Day, which begins Tuesday evening, May 10, the entire nation expresses eternal gratitude to its sons and daughters who gave their lives for the country’s independence. Israel Independence Day is celebrated annually, according to the Hebrew calendar, on 5 Iyar, the anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. As […]