“After a quick prayer, Avi Shapiro and 12 other Jewish settlers put on their religious skullcaps, grabbed their semi-automatic rifles and headed toward Highway 60…. As they crouched in a ditch beside the road, Shapiro, the leader of the group, gave the settlers orders: Surround any taxi, ‘open fire,’ and kill as many of the […]

It was release for publication that members of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza have been working to establish a maritime branch whose goal was to carry out naval terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. An Arab fisherman from the village of Khan Yunis was arrested by the General Security Services last November after he admited to […]

A great tragedy took place in Israel last week when a shul in the settlement of Tapuach was destroyed by the IDF caving in to the pressure of American dollars and left wing anti-religious politicians The shul is already being rebuilt but is in desperate need for funds. Please join us at the Millinery Shul […]

“The Prime Minister’s notion to destroy 17 blossoming Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip is an act of insanity and devoid of morality… It will not come to fruition, because myriads of people will prevent it by forming a human wall wherever necessary.” So says the Yesha Rabbis Council, in response to Mr. Sharon’s announcement […]

A year after the Columbia shuttle disaster which killed all seven crew members including Israeli Ilan Ramon, the connection between the U.S. and Israel’s space programs remains strong. In addition the families of the six American astronauts killed are reportedly planning to visit Israel at the invitation of Ramon’s widow Rona Ramon. Evelyn Husband, whose […]

The shiva week is over. For the families of the eleven victims of the #19 bus bomb the initial mourning period draws to a close. The rituals of mourning ratchet down a few notches for the next 30 days, and even further over the next 11 months, but the real pain of living without a […]

A senior officer in the Jerusalem Police Department reports that ever since the opening of the Temple Mount to Jews four months ago, some 10,000 people have visited the holy site – including 4,000 who have done so according to Halakhic [Jewish legal] guidelines. Kol Rina News Agency reports that before September 2000, when the […]

“I have given an order to plan for the evacuation of 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip.” So said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today in an interview with Haaretz columnist Yoel Marcus. “It is my intention to carry out an evacuation – sorry, a relocation – of settlements that cause us problems and of places […]

President George W. Bush puts his money where his mouth is. He has me convinced. Erev Shabbos Chanukah I received an envelope from a Texas accountant. Having no business in Texas, I was immediately curious. Inside was a generous contribution to the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the organization I have run for the last […]

You saw the images on television this Christmas season – Israeli soldiers patrolling Bethlehem. You heard the Jews blamed for the unrest in the city of David, the birthplace of Jesus. This column is about what you didn’t see or hear in those reports, which have become something of annual journalistic ritual. The Christian population […]