In the summer of 1992 the young members of the St. Lawrence Quartet were trying to make a mark in the competitive string-quartet world. As students at Massachusetts’ famous Tanglewood Festival, they had been assigned to perform a new composition by a composer they had never heard of. An Eastern European-Argentinean-American Jew who mixed Klezmer […]

On Yom Hazikaron, Remembrance Day, which begins Tuesday evening, May 10, the entire nation expresses eternal gratitude to its sons and daughters who gave their lives for the country’s independence. Israel Independence Day is celebrated annually, according to the Hebrew calendar, on 5 Iyar, the anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. As […]

JERUSALEM – The Jews of Gaza last week increased their efforts via the Internet to build support for their right to live in an area deeded to the children of Israel by the Almighty as an everlasting possession. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to forcibly uproot Gaza’s Jews, as well as the Jewish residents of […]

Arab terrorists fired Kassam rockets last night at the city of Sderot, heavily damaging a home. This morning, terrorists fired a rocket at a school van. One of two rockets fired by Arab terrorists last night at Sderot exploded in an open area outside the western Negev town, while the other exploded near the site […]

JERUSALEM – Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority has no intention of honoring its commitment to disarm terrorist organizations operating out of territories under its control, PA security chief Rashid Abu Shabak said Wednesday. “The Palestinian Authority won’t touch the weapons of the resistance groups,” he told reporters in Gaza City. While every peace agreement signed over […]

Buses stopped in mid-route, office workers stood up in mid-conversation and were silent, and teachers stopped their classes throughout the country to recite a silent prayer and/or stand in silent devotion in memory of the more than six million martyrs murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust of 1939-1945. Some people ignored the siren, however. […]

JERUSALEM – PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas’s recent actions will serve to strengthen the ability of “Palestinian” terror groups to launch future attacks against Jewish men, women and children, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told visiting US senators Monday. “Instead of working to disarm the terror organizations, he is working to strengthen them. He is not willing […]

Deputy PM Shimon Peres met today with US Undersecretary of State David Walsh in Tel Aviv. The two discussed Peres’ efforts on behalf of the PA. In his meeting with US Undersecretary for Middle East Affairs Walsh, Deputy Prime Minister Peres updated him on Israeli talks with Palestinian Authority officials, as well as with Arab […]

IDF Radio reported today -http://glz.msn.co.il/glz/news/08A84D01D8BB42A79A5583A6EC71DC79.htm that senior security sources advised IDF Radio that in contrast to previous statements by Israeli Government officials that all synagogues would be removed from the Gaza Strip, only “symbolic elements” such are arks and memorial tablets would be removed. Until now Prime Minister Sharon and others assured the public that […]

Minister Natan Sharansky spoke with Israel National Radio’s Eli Stutz and Yishai Fleisher, explaining his reasons for resigning his post a government minister in protest of the disengagement plan. Sharansky’s resignation as Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Jerusalem (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=81174) was accepted by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at Sunday’s cabinet meeting. Click here to listen to […]