One of the greatest ironies of Jewish history is that the secular Zionism of the nineteenth century was formulated precisely for the purpose of offering an alternative to the assimilationism and Jewish “self-hatred” of the Diaspora. Zionism arose as a response to both assimilationism and anti-Semitism. Who then could have dreamed that the fulfillment and […]

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Following the massacre by mostly Muslim terrorists in Beslan, Russia, that killed, at last count, 338 people, including at least 156 children, and wounded hundreds of others, a rare voice of reason was heard from an unlikely place. Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television in Dubai, wrote in a London Arabic newspaper, […]

[How is it that only the Israelis know that World War III started on September 11, 2001?] If you throw a rock into the middle of a wolf pack, the one that yelps is the one that got hit. So goes the old American proverb. My rock – choosing to call “Palestinians” by the allegorical […]

Western Wall, Jerusalem A prayer rally filled the Western Wall plaza as thousands of worshippers cried out to God to protect the Jewish people from terrorism and expulsion from parts of Israel. The prayer rally preceded the major rally scheduled to take place in Zion Square, in Jerusalems City Center. Psalms were sung in a […]

NEW YORK, August 30 – Last year`s inaugural “Israel. I Care. And I`m Going.” Pledge Campaign raised the bar for anticipated tourism to Israel. This year, the Israel Ministry of Tourism intends to break its own record. A grand total of 1,246 synagogues representing 44 states (including Hawaii) and six Canadian provinces participated in the […]

For weeks now, the FBI has carried out in the press a prosecution of individuals and organizations it has so far been unable or unwilling to pursue in court. Using innuendo and a steady stream of (often recycled) press leaks, the names and reputations of a number of people “including several who are senior officials […]

Now that it’s over, the details can be told – and a participant in both the Temple Mount “wedding ceremony” and the follow-up later on yesterday evening does just that. Now that it’s over, the details can be told. Netayah and Techiyah Fruman were married yesterday on the Temple Mount – and later in the […]

In a damning condemnation of left-wing behavior, a new book on the Al-Aqsa Intifada, quotes Hamas leaders saying that the behavior of Israel’s left-wing encourages them to continue their attacks. The book, The Seventh War written by journalists Avi Yissocharov from state-run Voice of Israel radio and Amos Harel from Haaretz was based on a […]

PYATIGORSK, Russia, Sept. 9 (JTA) Tanya Izyaeva lives with her father and grandmother in a garbage-filled shack in this former spa town about two hours from the Chechen border.Tanya, 6, was born soon after her parents fled war-torn Dagestan for southern Russia, along with more than 1 million other refugees from their homeland and neighboring […]

At first glance, it seems an oxymoron: Jewish Democrats For Bush. But in these unusual times where Greenpeace, the ecology group, has been seen to be promoting ecological damage and where it’s no longer politically correct to be different, Jewish Democrats for Bush actually makes sense. To understand how such a group could come about, […]