In Israel, today is known as “kaf-tet b’November”. Kaf-tet, two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, represent in Hebrew the number 29. In other words, the 29th of November. That’s today’s date, so what’s so special about it? As far as I know, there aren’t any other days in the Gregorian calendar known by their Hebrew […]

“Our goal is not to win the clash between soldiers and residents [during an evacuation of Gaza and northern Shomron], but rather to prevent it in the first place.” So says Noam Livnat, the driving force behind a grassroots movement to garner soldiers’ signatures on an “I Won’t Evict Jews” petition. This morning, Women in […]

Both Great Britain and the United States have sent emissaries to Israel to .encourage. the Jewish State to withdraw from Arab populated towns in order to enable a smooth election process for the PLO. Israel, of course, needs no such encouragement as she is very desirable to see a new PLO leadership to whom it […]

NEW YORK- Palestinian Arab leader Mahmoud Abbas (.Abu Mazen.) has publicly demanded the .right of return. . the right of millions of Arab .refugees. from around the world to flood into Israel. Abbas is Arafat.s successor as chairman of the PLO. He co-founded the terrorist Fatah movement with Arafat, and has now been nominated by […]

The United Nation’s Middle East peace envoy Terje Larsen, who is set to leave his position in the near future, met with Assad in Damascus yesterday. Larsen told reporters afterwards that the Syrian dictator is “willing to go to the table without conditions” and “has an outstretched hand to his Israeli counterparts.” A spokesman for […]

Known as WeaponSurvey.com, the site contains photographs as well as a variety of detailed information on the production and smuggling of weapons by local Arabs, ranging from landmines to missiles and rockets to chemical and biological agents. The site is the brainchild of Aharon Etengoff, who served in both the Photography & Film and the […]

Tuesday’s UN resolution, blanketly condemning religion-based violence, lumped anti-Semitism together with Islamophobia and Christianophobia. A report released by the FBI just one day earlier, though, illustrates the fact thatJews and Jewish institutions are the most-favored targets for hate crimes in the United States. The FBIs Hate Crimes Statistics 2003 report, released on Monday, documents 927 […]

According to documented evidence gathered by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of Palestinian Media Watch, the worship of Death for Allah (Shahada) continues to be a central theme transmitted to Arab homes via the TV station controlled by the Palestinian Authority. In a recent broadcast, the mother of an Arab suicide terrorist talks about how […]

News of the seminar was reported in an internal journal of an organization defined as “Messianic Jewish.” The group sponsored a trip of Jewish students who “take the initiative and travel to Poland,” as described in the literature. The students visited important Jewish sites such as Auschwitz, Birkenau, Maidanek, the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, told parliament on Tuesday that he’ll follow in Yasser Arafat’s footsteps and demand that Israel recognize the ”right of return” of Palestinian refugees, a hard-line position that has contributed to failed peace efforts in the past. Abbas’ remarks were seen as the start of his […]