By: Louis Rene Beres Jewish Press Wednesday, February 14, 2007 My daughter once worked on a kibbutz near Eilat, so the suicide bombing on January 29 in that normally tranquil Red Sea resort is especially sobering. This Palestinian “freedom fighter” struck a small bakery, killing three shoppers who had stopped by for bread and cakes. […]

by Ricki Hollander CAMERA February 8, 2007 A Feb. 5, 2007 Time Magazine article by Jerusalem bureau chief Tim McGirk on Israeli settlements in the West Bank was not so much of a news report as anti-settlement agitprop. The premise of the article is that “300,000 Israelis” living “on Arab territory” will need to vacate […]

By: Rachel Rogosnitzky Arutz Sheva Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Last week’s report published by the Community Security Trust (CST), Britain’s Jewish security and defense organization, showed that anti-Semitic incidents in Britain increased in 2006 by 31 percent over the previous year. Nearly 600 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded, the highest number in one year since the […]

September 08, 2006 IsraelNN Staff Sephardic Jews residing in Brazil ‘s Amazon region have reason to celebrate with the publication of the first Sabbath Siddur (prayer-book) which incorporates their unique liturgy and customs. The Siddur will benefit other Portuguese-speaking Sephardic Jewish communities as well. The Siddur, called “Ner Shabbat”, was prepared and edited by Rabbi […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 12, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359843531&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull One of the most difficult things in life is to draw the line between friend and foe. Take the Palestinian terror groups. Last week in Mecca, the Fatah terror group, which mixes the murder of Israelis with negotiations with Israelis, officially joined forces with the Hamas […]

by Hillel Fendel With the signing of the Fatah-Hamas agreement and the Mughrabi Gate excavations, Palestinian terrorism has increased in recent days – as have signs of Hizbullah involvement. No fewer than 12 rock-throwing incidents were recorded over the past two days in Judea and Samaria, in which five people were wounded. In one case, […]

By Joseph B. Treaster Sunday, February 11, 2007 NEW YORK Survivors of the Holocaust and their relatives, who have been fighting for decades to get European insurance companies to pay death benefits for victims of the Nazis, are getting a rare break from a big Italian insurance company, lawyers for the insurer and policyholders said […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva February 11, 2007 More than a hundred Jews protested the Partition Wall along Gush Etzion’s Route 60 Sunday. Email subscribers, Click here to view photos from the protest The protesters marched from the northern entrance of Efrat along the Patriarch’s Highway. Along the highway, a wall is being built that […]

By: Helen Freedman In October of 2006, I put out a report entitled, “Generous Jews Deceived by Jewish National Fund/JNF.” The response from JNF was largely an angry or silent one. There was no word from Mort Zuckerman or Ron Lauder regarding my questions and statements regarding the JNF giveaway or sale of Jewish land […]

By: Combined News Sources Wednesday, February 7, 2007 JERUSALEM – Israel began a controversial dig in Jerusalem’s Western Wall Plaza on Tuesday, stirring the ire of Arab leaders and politicians in the region. Bulldozers from the Antiquities Authority broke ground near a ramp connecting the Western Wall Plaza to the Temple Mount, with officials saying […]