New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give Israel-hater playwright Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate at its commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there. Kushner sits on the Board of Advisors […]

Evening, Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Independence Day We did not want to celebrate. The Expulsion Authority had hung Israeli flags on the lampposts throughout our refugee camp. A bandstand was erected by Thai workers in the public area close to our caravilla. We hung out our orange Gush Katif flag. Moshe and I walked through the camp. […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 4, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961281934&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull … ISRAEL HAS had next to no debate either on the strategic consequences of the Gaza withdrawal or on the likely security consequences of a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. Such a debate would note that the Gaza withdrawal was a failure on every level. It […]

The Hevron Jewish community is calling upon the public to come to the city to protest the government’s intention to forcibly remove residents from a building prior to a court hearing on the matter. Hevron’s Beit Shapira has been isolated by the police and the forced eviction of its Jewish residents will probably begin Sunday […]

Late last week, two days after Israel?s Holocaust Memorial Day, a group of British Christians visited the site of a pre-state British internment camp at Atlit, south of Haifa. During a daylong program they: * Attended the premier screening of ?The Forsaken Promise? ? a film documenting Britain?s betrayal of Europe?s Jews before, during and […]

Wanted Palestinian terror suspect arrested in possession of explosive devices, says he planned to carry out terror attack in coming days Efrat Weiss A special police force arrested a wanted suspect with an explosives device in Jericho. During his interrogation, it became clear that the suspect planned to carry out a terrorist attack in Israel […]

Regional Mayor Bentzi Lieberman: “Decision to divide the towns will choke them and prevent normal daily life, in a move towards ’67 borders” Today’s Israeli government decision to divide the communities within the Ariel bloc is absurd, said community heads in the Shomron area. They said that the division of the area into two thin […]

The Land of Israel Legal Forum has launched new initiatives to prevent the stealing of Jewish-owned land as well as media incitement against the Jews of Judea and Samaria. Chairman Nachi Eyal said at a news conference Thursday that the Forum has invested much effort in defending the right of the Jews expelled from Gaza […]

April 24, 2006 TEL AVIV — Israel’s military brass appears divided over whether to capture parts of the Gaza Strip. Military sources said Southern Command has drafted plans to reoccupy the northern Gaza Strip and create a buffer zone to stop Palestinian missile strikes against Israel. But the sources said the plan has been opposed […]

I am trying so hard to hold on. Unable to drag our Pesach dishes from the container on our daughter’s farm to our caravilla in Nitzan, we made do with three pots, glassware and paper plates bought at the last moment. We did just fine with our small cache. No one knew that we were […]