ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Near-simultaneous car bombs exploded outside two Istanbul synagogues filled with worshippers Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 300. The government said the attack had international links, raising suspicions that the al-Qaeda terror network was involved. One blast tore apart the facade of Neve Shalom — Istanbul’s biggest […]

Last February, Prime Minister Sharon’s cabinet unanimously voted to expedite the immigration of the 20,000 so-called Falash Mura in Ethiopia who want to settle in Israel, by checking everyone’s eligi- bility immediately. In late May, 5000 Ethiopian immigrants in Israel demonstrated outside the Knesset to protest the government’s failure to act on this decision. Some […]

The following are excerpts from an article by Dr. David Zangen (Maariv, Nov. 8, 2002), which was re-distributed this week by the Government Press Office following the Supreme Court decision to allow the screening of the movie “Jenin, Jenin.” Dr. Zangen served in Jenin during the Operation Defensive Shield battles of April 2002 as an […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s Center for Law and Justice has filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Washington, D.C. on behalf of an American couple living in Israel, contending that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and the State Department are violating federal law by refusing to recognize their infant son’s […]

There is growing concern about a one-sided presentation of Israel’s post-Oslo approach to the ‘Road Map’ at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations, set to begin Sunday, November 16th at the Jerusalem conference center. Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA (Independent Media Review Analysis) points out that, “While there is great concern that American Jewish leaders […]

More than fifty Americans joined 100 cyclists from Israel last week for the 4th annual ‘Wheels of Love’ bikeathon. The 5-day, 360 kilometer hike on wheels from the city of Ma’alot in the north to Jerusalem, raised money for Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem; Israel’s only rehabilitation center for infants, children, and teenagers who require intensive […]

NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross for bringing a delegation of representatives of the Fatah terrorist movement to meet with Members of Congress and Bush administration officials and hosting a luncheon for them at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, of which he […]

Penn’s Muslim Students Association recently invited Bill Baker, head of Christians and Muslims for Peace, to speak at Penn’s recent Islam Awareness Week. What kind of awareness was Baker’s $5,000 fee supposed to bring? Baker chaired the Populist Party, founded and bankrolled by Willis Carto, best known for his neo-Nazi Institute for Historical Review – […]

PLO chief Yasser Arafat at the weekend fully frustrated Israeli and US efforts to sideline him, returning to center stage as the undisputed head of the Palestinian Authority, and most notably of its security forces. This, according to reports worldwide Sunday, was the outcome of the aging terrorist’s victory in a power struggle with his […]

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut — a blast that killed more than 240 Americans. Soon after that attack, President Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz asked me to take a leave of absence to serve as presidential envoy for the Middle […]