Hundreds visited Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem last night on the traditional anniversary of the death of the Matriarch Rachel. Nearby, a more modest crowd participated in the affixing of a Mezuzah on a new Jewish property. Many hundreds of people visited Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem – just several hundred meters south of the Jerusalem municipal […]

I’ve gotten many responses about the incident of UCLA Hillel Director, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller allegedly beating a pro-Israel woman. I got a letter from the woman – Rachel Neuwirth – which said she was bruised and resting at home, completely shaken. I got letters from some of you who said we weren’t there and shouldn’t […]

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By responding to this CALL TO ACTION, you can personally make the single most powerful statement to help Israel. Now is the time to encourage congress to take an honorable and morally responsible global leadership role to facilitate the successful resolution of the dual Middle East refugee problem. Contact your representative today. Ask him/her to […]

Anop-ed by Abd Al-Bari Atwan, editor of London Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, claiming that the U.S. is to blame for the Arab world’s hatred of it, [1] sparked a debate in the Arab press. Munir Al-Mawari, a Yemenite journalist and columnist for the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, wrote several articles responding to Atwan’s claims. […]

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Nov. 6 (JTA) — Costa Rican authorities are awaiting the arrival of an extradition request for an accused Nazi collaborator who was indicted on war crimes charges this week. Bohdan Koziy, a Ukrainian national who has lived in Costa Rica since 1987, was indicted this week by a court in Katowice, […]

About twenty years ago as a young Yeshiva – Rabbinical Seminary – student, recently graduated from college, I met some members of a Jewish Federation Mission to Israel in downtown Jerusalem. We began talking, one thing led to another, and I then told them one of my “pet” ideas of the time. I pointed out […]

In a video aired on Israel’s Channel 10, District Police Commander of Samaria, Shachar Ayalon is seen briefing his officers prior to the violent evacuation and dismantling of the Gilad Farm last year, ordering them to break the law. In a video aired on Israel’s Channel 10, District Police Commander of Samaria, Shachar Ayalon is […]

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (JTA) — It’s rare for a man to became famous in more than one field, but David Bar-Illan did just that. Bar-Illan, who died Tuesday in Jerusalem at 73, was a writer known for his caustic, staunchly pro-Israel columns — and a concert pianist known for his renditions of the Hungarian […]

You’d think a bunch of people who stole their name from an established, millennia-old group, who are despised and forbidden to own property in the lands of their own brethren, who are so abysmally ignorant that they think killing off their future generations is a good thing, would have nothing to teach. But they do. […]