by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva December 7, 2006 The Rabbinical Congress for Peace, a coalition of over 1,200 rabbinic leaders, calls for a “democratic uprising” to replace the Olmert gov’t. Full-page ads in US weeklies call for Olmert to resign. “Out of love for each and every Jew,” the Rabbinical Congress (RCP) statement reads, “we […]

By: Dan Baron Arutz Sheva Wednesday, December 6, 2006 TEL AVIV – If any more proof were needed after the Lebanon war of the problems in Israel’s armed forces, it was provided this week by a long-awaited internal audit. The State Comptroller’s Report on the Israel Defense Forces drew on data that predated the summer […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva December 5, 2006 Education Minister Yuli Tamir’s order to return the Green Line to maps of Israel in new textbooks was met with a firestorm of protest including a rabbinical decree against using the new textbooks. Tamir, a former member of the Peace Now group, ordered her staff to […]

By Nicky Blackburn Israel21c December 3, 2006 Every year, over 700,000 people in the US suffer strokes – that’s one person every 45 seconds. It is the single most common cause of severe disability, with 25 percent of stroke victims recovering with minor impairments and 40 percent experiencing moderate to severe impairments requiring special care. […]

Jewish Press Wednesday, November 29, 2006 JERUSALEM – Nefesh B’Nefesh (www.nbn.org.il), the organization responsible for the revitalization of North American immigration to Israel, is organizing two MEGA events in New York and New Jersey on Sunday, December 3, 2007 for people considering aliyah. The half-day MEGA events are part of a series of specially tailored […]

By: Combined News Sources Jewish Press Wednesday, November 29, 2006 JERUSALEM – Ending months of speculation that last summer’s war in Lebanon would put a crimp in his plans to concede additional territory to the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday offered a sweeping set of concessions to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva December 2, 2006 Close to 200 Jewish protesters demanded the opening of the Tekoa-Jerusalem road connecting eastern Gush Etzion to the capital Friday. The road is complete, but closed to Jews. Activists from Gush Etzion, Kiryat Arba, Hevron, Kiryat Bialik (near Haifa), Maaleh Adumim, Beit Shemesh and Kibbutz Shuval took […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva November 30, 2006 Former residents of the Gush Katif towns of Atzmona and Netzarim attended a ceremony Monday inaugurating the establishment of two new towns in the middle of the Negev desert they will now settle. “Well there is sand, just like Gush Katif,” joked one attendee bitterly, “but seems […]

Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 ZOA New York – The ZOA and others have opposed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declaring a ceasefire with Hamas and the other the Palestinian Arab terror groups, offering renewed talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA)/Hamas to lead to giving land and other major Israeli concessions, including the creation of […]

by T. Ben-Gedalyahu and N. Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva November 29, 2006 An Arab student calendar distributed at Haifa University marks the dates of major terrorist attacks, as well as significant dates in the lives of Arab terrorists such as Osama Bin-Laden. The calendar, sponsored by the Islamic Movement – based in the Israeli city Um […]