WASHINGTON – In launching a war to drive the Jews from his Palestine, the Arabs’ Arafat has come up with an impressive array of weaponry. It goes beyond the rifles and grenades that too-trusting Israeli governments permitted, which helped transform a police force into an army spoiling for a fight. Now it includes mortars built […]

Shortly after 5:30 p.m. on June 7, 1981, Israel saved the world from the threat of nuclear blackmail. In less than two minutes’ time, Israeli jets laid waste an atomic reactor on the outskirts of Baghdad, and so deprived a brutish dictator the potential for mass destruction. The world was outraged. Voices that had been […]

Angered by what he sees as persistent bias against Israel in The New York Times’ coverage of the 9-month-old intifada, Rabbi Haskell Lookstein of New York’s Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun is urging a limited ten-day boycott of the paper. Rabbi Lookstein has asked Jews to cancel their subscriptions and not buy the paper during the ten […]

WEDNESDAY, 9 JULY 1941 – THE EIGHTEENTH DAY: As always, we were up early and waited to be marched out to the prison yard, but time passed, and there was no command to leave our cells. After awhile, we could hear something that sounded like the backfiring of trucks on the embankment highway. The traffic […]

“There is no ceasefire.” So did an Army Radio reporter sum up the situation last night, in light of the non-stop Palestinian violence and attacks against Israeli targets ever since the agreement brokered by CIA director George Tenet went into effect Wednesday afternoon. In Shechem this afternoon, 1,500 Arabs stormed Joseph’s Tomb and yelled slogans […]

Israel announced that the cease-fire agreement officially began on Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 3:00pm. Since the official start of the cease-fire, however, nothing much has changed for Yesha residents. In Gaza, the mortar rockets continue to rain down on Jewish communities. Overnight, Arabs continued to attack IDF positions with gunfire and grenades. According to […]

Morton A. Klein National President, Zionist Organization of America14 June 2001 The State Department´s demand that Israel prohibit all Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria-Gaza and parts of Jerusalem ignores the crucial fact that between 1948-1967, before a single "settlement" existed –and before any Jew could set foot on the Temple Mount– there was constant Palestinian Arab […]

Amru Nasif, a columnist for the Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu´, recently published an article that calls for – in the most frank and most chilling terms – suicide attacks against Israel; the writer even volunteers to “join the ranks of martyrs.” Following are excerpts of his article, published on May 28th, and courtesy of the […]

Marc Chagall in Green and Blue: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dreamer Marc Chagall: a great artist or a great Jewish artist? Decidedly both, I would argue, after seeing “Marc Chagall, Early Works From Russian Collections,” on view through October 14 at New York’s Jewish Museum. Indeed, the exhibit, which brings together […]

You’d never know it from looking at her, but apparently my mother was a dangerous woman. On Tuesday, she was shot to death on her way to what must have been a sinister deed. Why else would she be killed in a horrible manner? If the gunmen who so callously ripped my mother away from […]