MADRID, April 22 (JTA) — Nicholson family members love getting out of Madrid on weekends, and often they round up other young families for the weekly kosher barbeque at Masada, a Jewish retreat in the mountains outside Spain’s capital.Masada, it turns out, was on a list of bombing targets police found in the hideout of […]

Witnessing the gruesome attacks on four Americans in Fallujah last week would thoroughly sicken any fellow American–except for one very prominent American-Muslim organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In a statement issued shortly after the gory murders, CAIR said that it “condemned the mutilation of those killed in Iraq on Wednesday.” The slaughter of […]

It’s all about setting precedence. If you give away a little today, the next guy will give away a little more tomorrow, until eventually there is nothing left to give away. What is clear is that men like Ariel Sharon and Binyamin Netanyahu truly believe Israel is better served with them at the helm. What […]

Editor’s Note: Today’s e-mail message contains two noteworthy items dealing with why Evangelicals support Israel. This is a topic that merits serious discussion. We submit the following articles to counter critical accusations of possible hidden agendas on the part of Christians who support Israel. These articles written by American Christians offer straightforward and irrefutable evidence […]

Leading American weekly magazine The Nation has adopted a new policy of refusing to accept advertisements from Holocaust-deniers. In response to a complaint by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, leading American weekly magazine The Nation has adopted a new policy of refusing to accept advertisements from Holocaust-deniers. Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael […]

There have been numerous articles written about John Kerry and the Jews. The problem is, it’s not about just one person — John Kerry or anybody else. It’s about John Kerry, the Democratic party, Europe, and the Jews. For many Jews, or at least those Jews for whom Israel’s security is paramount, the alarm bells […]

View the winning essays and poems from the Elementary School, High School and College divisions. Elementary School Division 1st Prize Rachel Bicky – 7th Grade, Ramaz Middle School 2nd Prize Isabelle Nunberg – 7th Grade, Ramaz Middle School 3rd Prize Jeremy Rubenstein – 7th Grade, EMEK Hebrew Acadamy – Teichman Family Torah Center 1 Honorable […]

Housing purchases in the Golan Heights will have quintupled over the past three years, according to official estimates. The Golan Regional Council reports that the housing campaign entitled, “Connecting to the Dream,” which began this week, has already shown great success. Hundreds of phone calls have been received so far, and some 450 new families […]

Almost thirty years ago, a young Jerusalem high school teacher lent a hot-steam vaporizer to a neighbor with a sick child. Others asked to borrow the device too, and the teacher – Uri Lupolianski – purchased additional vaporizers geared for lending purposes to the large families in his neighborhood. Today, Yad Sarah – the organization […]

With Prime Minister Sharon`s now planned unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Israel would openly reward Palestinian terrorism and simultaneously begin to codify its own incremental disappearance. In large measure, such a perilous withdrawal would have its origins in Israel`s persistent failure to challenge prevailing media characterizations of Judea, Samaria and Gaza as “occupied.” Indeed, ever since […]