JERUSALEM – The Jews of Gaza last week increased their efforts via the Internet to build support for their right to live in an area deeded to the children of Israel by the Almighty as an everlasting possession. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to forcibly uproot Gaza’s Jews, as well as the Jewish residents of […]

Yeshivat Yamit, uprooted by the Begin Government and moved to Gush Katif in 1982, held a commemorative session Monday to recall the uprooting of then – and compare it to that faced today. The speakers included Rabbi David Gavrieli, the current head of the hesder yeshiva (in which students combine Torah study and army service), […]

The feared wave of pre-disengagement administrative (without formal charges) arrests of activists may have begun Sunday with the jailing of an anti-expulsion activist without trial. The activist, who organized the renewal of traditional monthly prayer marches around the gates of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, is the first Jew to be jailed without due process […]

If the 17th century Puritans in the Colonies had only respected the Old Testament, but had not been more Talmudic than many American Rabbis, Dayenu (It would have sufficed); If the Puritans had only been more Talmudic than many American Rabbis, but John Locke who inspired the Founding Fathers and read Hebrew had not tried […]

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 with the […]

This paper is about a Holocaust hero named Chiune Sugihara. At the beginning of World War II, Sugihara saved six thousand Jews who were trying to escape Nazi cruelty. His courage and bravery is now praised by thousands of Jews. Many tributes have been made to Sugihara, who has been recognized as Righteous Among the […]

Arab terrorists fired Kassam rockets last night at the city of Sderot, heavily damaging a home. This morning, terrorists fired a rocket at a school van. One of two rockets fired by Arab terrorists last night at Sderot exploded in an open area outside the western Negev town, while the other exploded near the site […]

During Chol HaMoed Pesach, I went somewhere that I had never been before: I went up to Har HaBayit – The Temple Mount. Now, before you get too confused, let me dispel some rumours about whether or not one can, in fact, go up to the Temple Mount. When Israel liberated the Old City of […]

JERUSALEM – Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority has no intention of honoring its commitment to disarm terrorist organizations operating out of territories under its control, PA security chief Rashid Abu Shabak said Wednesday. “The Palestinian Authority won’t touch the weapons of the resistance groups,” he told reporters in Gaza City. While every peace agreement signed over […]

A knowledgeable and generous benefactor has enabled Jihad Watch to place a billboard in Los Angeles, and has asked that it feature three words unfamiliar to most Americans: dhimmitude, Eurabia, and Bat Ye’or. Here is the meaning of these mysterious words: Dhimmitude: Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily […]