by David Isaac This month is “Black September” according to one Israeli diplomat quoted by the Washington Times.[1] Legal challenges in European courts, UN resolutions, International Atomic Energy Agency pressures — the calendar is filled with “political landmines.” At the center of this minefield lies the resumption of the ‘peace talks’. For those looking for […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Jews finally moved into a home in Jerusalem on Tuesday with help from the police after a court ordered Arab squatters to leave. The building is located in Jabal Mukaber, located near the Old City that is already home to several Jewish families and in part of the capital where the […]

By: Aaron Klein PA Official: U.S. Does Not Support Israeli Lease Of Jordan Valley A U.S. proposal for a deal with the Palestinian Authority did not include an Israeli lease for part of the strategic Jordan Valley as widely reported, according to a senior PA official speaking to this column. The PA official said the […]

by Elad Benari (Israelnationalnews.com) Professor Alexander Lubotzky of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been chosen to be the keynote speaker at the joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) that will take place in New Orleans in January 2011. Lubotzky’s […]

(Miami, FL) November 22, 2010 – I recently turned sixty, a milestone that has spurred me to find ways to be heard on several topics that I have spent decades studying, thinking about, and discussing with teachers and learned friends and colleagues. Among those topics is the incomprehensible lack of action on the part of […]

By Jeannie DeAngelis President Obama has assumed the role of a traveling advocate for Islam. Every chance the president gets, he climbs on a soapbox to address issues of callousness toward the Muslim faith. The president is well-practiced in Muslim apologetics, and regardless of nation or venue, he stresses the need for tolerance, understanding, and […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) The second Judea and Samaria building freeze pushed by the United States will be stricter than the first, in that it will include a ban on completing construction projects that are already underway, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday. Netanyahu unveiled details of the potential second freeze in a meeting with […]

(Guide for the Perplexed) Yoram Ettinger, CEO, “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” YnetNews, November 21, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3987292,00.html 1. The complex nature of Jewish construction in the Settlements. If Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria prejudges the outcome of negotiation, wouldn’t Palestinian construction in Judea and Samaria have the same effect?! If the uprooting of Jewish communities […]

By Alan Jacobs Audience members in the packed Jewish Theological Seminary auditorium just down the block from Columbia University might have been gratified to see hijabs and yarmulkes adorning the heads of Muslims and Jews coming together for interfaith dialogue on the evening of October 25. The title of the event, “Islam in America: Assimilation […]

by Dexter Van Zile Hostility toward religious and ethnic minorities has been a persistent problem in the Muslim and Arab countries in the Middle East and has gotten worse after the Iranian revolution of 1979. Christians can sometimes rely on secular rulers such as Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and Bashar al-Assad […]