There it stands, a dark massive granite shaft on a grassy knoll behind the Yad Vashem museum building, its top culminating in four faceless heads searching the Jerusalem horizon. The work of artist Joseph Salamon from Denmark, himself a survivor of the Holocaust, the sculpture is painfully anaonymous. The black polished pedestal lists their names […]

Despite continuing intelligence warnings of planned terrorist attacks, the closure imposed on Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) was lifted this morning – with immediate results. Within three hours after the relaxing of restrictions – a “humanitarian” gesture called for by visiting U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell – PA terrorists shot and killed an Israeli […]

Does Abu Mazen reall have them fooled? Does President Bush really believe Yasser Arafat’s new prime minister is any different than his boss of 35 years? Do the Israelis really think the man who financed and approved of the Munich Olympics terrorist attack is a trustworthy partner for peace? In case you missed it, President […]

The New York Times reported yesterday that what began on Tuesday “as a hunt for an ancient Jewish text at secret police headquarters [in Baghdad,] wound up unearthing a trove of Iraqi intelligence documents and maps relating to Israel as well as offers of sales of uranium and other nuclear material to Iraq.” Among the […]

The small Negev city of Sderot – the target of choice for murderous Arab rocket-launchers in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the Gaza Strip – was fired on six more times this morning. Two of the Kassam rockets landed in populated areas, wounding an elderly woman and a girl. The two were transported to Barzilai Hospital […]

Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com) reported this week that Peter Jennings actively shaped news coverage in the 1980’s so that a communist dictatorship could be portrayed in a more flattering light. “Having kept quiet for 14 years, a former ABC News correspon dent has gone public for the first time with allegations that network anchorman Peter […]

A popular new music video with outright incitement to murder Jews is being aired on official Palestinian Authority (PA) television. The video features lyrics and footage encouraging attacks specifically upon Jews living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha). Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) translated the movie clip from Arabic. As images of a Jewish couple and […]

A Survey of Week #1: April 29, 2003 – May 5, 2003 BACKGROUND: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the […]

In honor of Israel’s 55th birthday, we asked Aish.com readers to share their favorite reason to visit Israel. From the hundreds of responses, it was not easy paring it down to the top 55. Which one strikes you? (1) Feeling the serenity of Shabbat in Jerusalem. (Alain Sportiche) (2) As a Holocaust survivor, I recognize […]

NEW YORK, May 7 (JTA) — Funders of the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies have links to Al-Qaida, according to a campus Jewish newspaper. Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud, who funds the center’s Sultan Endowment for Arab studies, is a primary defendant in the $100 trillion lawsuit filed in […]