Two Orthodox lawyers, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, are vowing to bring justice to the case of Jonathan Pollard. Pollard is currently serviing his seventeenth year in prison for “conspiracy to deliever classified information to the State of Israel.” In 1987, Pollard was sentenced to the maximum penalty […]

By Richard McBee In Poland there was a vibrant Jewish culture for close to a thousand years before it was brutally erased by the Holocaust. The years between the First World War and the Nazi invasion in 1939 were especially rich in diversity, encompassing traditional shtetl life and a vast cosmopolitan secular Jewish culture. After […]

Prime Minister Sharon basically has three choices in forming the new government, none of them particularly smooth: A secular unity government with Shinui and Labor; A unity government as it was until last November, based on Labor and the religious parties, with or without National Union; and without Shinui; A right-wing coalition with the National […]

According to Israel Television’s exit poll, the Likud has won 36 seats in the 16th Knesset – more than any of the recent polls forecasted for it. Labor received half that amount, while Shinui received 14 seats. The National Union – 8 seats, UTJ and NRP – five each. Meretz dropped dramatically to 5 seats, […]

Sometimes humor can teach us an important lesson. “Q: Why are there large trees along the Champs Elysees? A: So the Nazis could march in the shade!” Today, in the very same location on that wide avenue, we find anti-Israeli and anti-American demonstrations. Once again, France is giving the world trouble. It seems to always […]

In Part I, I argued that it is not Democratic positions that most entice nearly all blacks and the great majority of Jews to vote Democrat. Rather this lopsided voting is more a function of the two groups’ respective memories. As a result of millennia of Christian oppression of them, many Jews still fear religion, […]

(IsraelNN.com) birthright israel enters its fourth year of providing young Jewish adults between the ages of 18 and 26 a first time educational peer group trip to Israel by celebrating an impressive milestone. By the end of this winter, approximately 40,000 participants will have traveled to Israel from more than 25 countries on 10-day birthright […]

(IsraelNN.com) Waving the banner of ‘peace and social issues’ the ideology of the radical left-wing is beginning to negatively impact our society in more than just the political sphere. This beyond the effects of the ongoing Oslo War. Far more serious that the heated Knesset debates and sharply divided parliament was the uncovering of the […]

Now that the results of tomorrow’s election appear fairly clear – today’s polls show Likud receiving some 32 Knesset seats, with the entire right-wing and religious bloc winning approximately 65 seats – attention turns to the various options that Ariel Sharon will face when attempting to form his government. Some analysts say that he may […]

The war is being fought this weekend in Gaza and the western Negev. In the IDF’s Operation Hot Iron, armed forces, engineering corps, and infantry, accompanied by helicopters, entered Gaza City last night in what some officials called the “strongest and deepest operation there” since the Palestinian Authority Arabs began the Oslo War in Sep. […]