In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and the global war on terror that quickly ensued, it is difficult to remember that the first challenge to American security that the Bush administration encountered came not from the Arabs but from the Chinese. On April 1, 2001, the Chinese government […]

Arab terrorists Saturday continued to bombard Israeli targets and civilians on both sides of the Green Line with mortar shelling and rockets. A Kassam rocket fell Friday near a major power plant in the city of Ashkelon, just north of Gaza, within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Critics of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan have pointed […]

The Vatican instructed the Catholic church in France not to return Jewish children to their families after the Holocaust, according to a letter dated November 20, 1946, that was published Tuesday in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. The children had been placed in the church’s care to save them from Nazi murder, but after […]

Yasser Arafat dominated the scene of the Arab/Israeli conflict for over fifty years. Now that he has died, many believe that new leadership will emerge and that peace will finally come to the Holy Land. Is that a valid assumption? What are the facts? Review of an Evil Life: Review of an Evil Life: In […]

This coming Shabbath, the 20th of the Hebrew month of Teveth, will mark exactly 800 years since the death of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon – the Rambam (Maimonides). The Rambam (1135-1204) was a religious scholar, physician, philosopher and writer. Born in Cordoba, Spain, he soon fled to Morocco after the Almohads conquered the area. He […]

The mercilessness of Asia’s tsunami grew clearer on Thursday as worst-hit Indonesia sharply raised its death toll, taking the number of fatalities around the whole Indian Ocean region above 120,000. The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced Thursday afternoon that Thai authorities had identified two bodies as those of Israeli tourists. One of the bodies has been […]

Twenty-three years ago, when we were rather new to Shiloh, I remember hearing my neighbor say that she had instructed her husband that she’d rather see him jailed than buried. Unfortunately, that’s a choice many have made, and things aren’t getting any better. There are quite a few Jews imprisoned or tangled in legal quagmires […]

Ayatollah Khomeini, in the foreword to his book on Islamic government, offered remarks which are today still taken as the dominant and incontestable orthodoxy in Iran: “The Islamic Movement was afflicted by the Jews from its very beginnings, when they began their hostile activity….” Continuing on “The Zionist Problem” in Al-Ahram, Dr. Yahya al-Rakhawi writes: […]

JERUSALEM – Senior ‘Palestinian’ figures Tuesday said Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip was a victory for the four-year terrorist campaign against the nation’s Jewish population. They also said the Israeli retreat would not result in a cessation of attacks emanating from the coastal strip, and in fact would probably lead to an increase […]

The IDF confiscated hundreds of illegal arms, including mortars from the homes of Israeli Arabs living in the Galilee Monday. The operation, carried out by tens of police officers, uncovered hundreds of unlicensed handguns and two mortars ‘ capable of firing mortar shells similar to those being fired upon the Jewish communities in Gaza and […]