Like so many other diplomatically inconvenient dilemmas, when it comes to the Palestinian Authority, the still unsolved murders of three Americans in Gaza two years ago has fallen victim to efforts to bolster the new Palestinian leadership. With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Ramallah now history, it is apparent that the arrest of […]

Prime Minister Sharon’s Unilateral Disengagement Plan for Gaza and Northern Samaria is a deliberate misnomer and deception to hide the truth of what he really intends to do. Disengagement was never Sharon’s true object since there already exists a separation of Jews and Arabs in these regions of the Land of Israel. What he seeks […]

To many Jews from the Northeast, Florida and the Midwest, Savannah, Georgia is a city associated with the former Confederate States of America \u2014 and a place to spend the night just off of I-95 en route to and from Florida. Yet, Savannah has more than 271 years of Jewish history that makes it one […]

Labor MK Orit Noked, head of the Knesset caucus for Jonathan Pollard, says that now, as Israel is being asked to release prisoners, is the time for the US to take a similar step and release Pollard. Noked, who was named a Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office when Labor joined the coalition last […]

Jewish officials are angered by the use of a Web site to create online hate communities, but they are taking different approaches on how to confront the issue. Orkut.com is one of several social-networking services available on the Internet. Created and run by Google, it offers users the opportunity to join communities where topics of […]

A physiological ‘signature’ has been found to accurately identify the 12 percent or so of patients will develop PTSD. Hadassah University Medical Center Whether you’ve been involved in a traffic accident or a terror attack, the most important thing to determine is that you haven’t been injured, and quickly. Emergency rooms are built specifically to […]

The ceasefire and “new hope for peace” declared at Sharm a-Sheikh just two days ago exploded last night and today amidst 36 Arab-fired mortar shells and Kassam rockets at Gush Katif towns. No one was hurt in the attacks, though was one house in N’vei Dekalim suffered a direct hit, and electricity was out in […]

Recently I received a letter from David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism asking me to help support his movement. He wrote to me as “one Jew to another,” spotlighting certain issues he considers important to the Jewish people and Judaism. Rather than simply toss the note into the nearest trash basket, […]

Many believe that having a referendum is wrong and that no one part of the public has a right to rule the other particular on the issue of territory. What do you think? By E. Winston An independent initiative to launch a national referendum on Sharon’s disengagement plan is worrying government officials who plan to […]

The international community may be receptive to the disengagement plan and the expulsion of Jews, but 10,000 of the Israeli soldiers who are supposed to do the uprooting say they’re not. The “Homat Magen” (Defensive Shield) Task Force has overseen the collection of the signatures of 10,000 IDF soldiers who say they will not participate […]