The Fast of Esther falls this year on Thursday, March 24. It commemorates Esther’s fast in preparation for her plea to King Ahaseurus, at peril of losing her life, that the Jews of Shushan should be spared the death decree issued by Haman, and supported by the King. The parallels to the situation in Israel […]

Scores of women from the town of Kedumim in Samaria and Hevron in the Judea region joined day two of the women’s march from Sderot toward Gush Katif today, near the crossing into Gaza. The women marched in solidarity with the Jewish communities of Gaza facing expulsion under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan. ‘Most […]

New York – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), said yesterday that ‘the Israelis are responsible’ for the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing that murdered 5 Israelis and injured dozens more. He asserted this in his first English-language interview since taking office in January. It was published in the March 7, 2005 edition […]

All 120 spots for next year’s pre-military yeshiva academy class in Atzmona, Gush Katif, are filled. The students, who hail from all over the country, have even paid the traditional advance payment. Pre-military yeshiva academies allow high school graduates to spend a year studying Torah full-time before enlisting for a three-year stint in the army. […]

Despite an upsurge in the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks, the IDF is going ahead with plans to transfer control of five key cities in Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is scheduled to meet with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in the next few days in order to coordinate […]

Amos 9:14-15 And I will bring back my exiled people, Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more […]

Abbas poses pragmatic for the Western press, while the PA Media Portray Feb. 25’s Suicide Bomber of a Tel Aviv Night Club as a Hero fighting for Allah. While PA leader Mahmoud Abbas issues tersely worded condemnations of the February 25th suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv night club, the PA news media has been […]

JERUSALEM – While the participants of this week’s London Conference on Palestinian Authority reforms condemned in passing anti-Jewish terrorism, they enthusiastically spoke of the coming birth of Palestine and insisted Israel facilitate that event. PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas told reporters following the summit that he wanted to establish an Arab state on the ancient Jewish […]

A new initiative seeks to provide housing for the hundreds of individuals and families who want to move to Gush Katif to strengthen veteran Jewish residents in the face of expulsion. In recent months the communities of Gush Katif have been inundated with requests by people who want to move there. This despite the fact […]

Despite the smiling images from Sharm el-Sheikh, the fact is that Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, has taken no demonstrable steps to dismantle and disarm the vast Palestinian terror networks, end the incitement, or arrest terrorists. And, although his rhetoric even after his election has been troublesome (calling for a “big jihad”, […]