October 27, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The David Project Contact: Charles Jacobs, 617-835-3584 Students Release Controversial Documentary Film Spotlighting Academic Abuse and Intimidation at Columbia University Urge Columbia University to restore academic integrity and end the harassment of dissenting students and faculty NEW YORK, October 27, Columbia University students will unveil a controversial, disturbing documentary, […]

In a few days, Americans will choose between voting for George Bush, or for John Kerry. Simultaneously, in Israel, a nation is being torn apart by a vote, as well. True, not in a general election, but it has definitely been a historic week, when the Knesset voted for the first time on the destruction […]

Ever wonder why the price of oil suddenly rose astronomically in this run-up to US elections? If you haven’t, you should. I wondered, and what I found out is that there is may be a plot by the Islamists to influence if not overturn the US elections. And it is probably because of Israel. The […]

NEW YORK- Earlier this year, Shlomo Gazit, former chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, warned that an Israeli retreat from Gaza will transform it into a big armed camp into which weapons of all kinds will stream via land, sea and maybe even air. It will also become an arsenal for independent development and production of […]

CNN’s Newsnight on Oct. 20 aired a poignant segment on the rescue of elderly and destitute Iraqi Jews who had been largely forgotten by the outside world until they were visited and helped by Rachel Zelon, a senior official of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Traveling to Iraq, Zelon used hand drawn maps to find […]

The Gaza Disengagement Plan was approved by the Knesset a short time ago in a 67-45 vote with 7 abstentions. Ministers Zevulun Orlev (NRP), Uzi Landau (Likud), and Deputy Minister Michael Ratzon (Likud) voted against the plan. Minister Yisrael Katz, a member of the Likud loyalists voted in favor of the plan rather than face […]

“The public debate about the disengagement plan has concentrated mostly on the settlement issues, and has largely ignored the security issues – but the plain fact is that the plan will actually increase terrorism.” So says IDF Col. (res.) Meir Indor, who has prepared a paper on the dangers of the withdrawal and has circulated […]

As a leader in the American Jewish community for some 30 years, I have never asked fellow Jews to vote for a presidential candidate. I have always believed that Jews have had Jewish reasons to vote for candidates from both parties. Not this election. There are overwhelmingly powerful Jewish reasons to vote for President Bush […]

Two families, including parents and children, moved into the new R achel’s Tomb complex yesterday – for the first time in hundreds of years. The National Union party’s Knesset faction convened today at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem, in commemoration of the anniversary of the death of Matriarch Rachel – but this was only part of […]

On Oct. 1, over 30 Middle Eastern American groups gathered at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., to discuss something that is only whispered about in their native lands: freedom. The Middle Eastern American Convention for Freedom and Democracy, a conference organized by the Washington-based Center for Freedom in the Middle East along […]