1. Street scenes in Israel change every day before Passover according to what’s halachically necessary: For the week before the holiday, yeshiva students wielding blow torches preside over huge vats of boiling water stationed every few blocks on the street and in the courtyard of every mikveh. The lines to dunk cutlery, kiddush cups and […]

Israel’s northernmost yeshiva, the Yeshivat Hesder of Kiryat Shmonah, has opened a new branch \u2013 in Nisanit, of the northern Gaza Strip. Nisanit was frequently attacked throughout the Oslo War. About a dozen students from Kiryat Shmonah in the upper Galilee arrived today in Nisanit, one of the three communities in northern Gaza slated for […]

The Palestinian terror onslaught offensive is expected to resume in September, prompting the IDF’s re-capture of cities in Judea and Samaria in the fall, and a re-entry to Gaza by early next year. The IDF has given the code-name “Rainy Day” to the period following the disengagement/expulsion, which is scheduled to begin July 20 and […]

The PerioChip – the size of a baby’s fingernail – is inserted directly into infected periodontal pockets in the gums that are 5 millimeters or greater in depth, following scaling and root planing to remove plaque and calculus deposits. One of the most common medical conditions in the US is gum disease. According to the […]

Increasing opposition to the planned evacuation of 8,000 Jews this summer is causing a major headache to security officials, who estimate the transfer may extend to the start of the Jewish New Year. Even if terrorists refrain from more attacks such as last weekend’s massive barrage of rockets and mortar shelling on Gaza communities, the […]

During the Pesach seder, we read about the four sons in the Hagaddah: the one who is wise, a wicked one, the simple, and the one who doesn`t know how to ask. We learn how a father explains the exodus from Egypt to each of the sons. From this episode, we see that all the […]

Thousands of people arrived in Crawford, Texas on Monday to demonstrate against US pressure on Israel to relinquish parts of the Holy Land. The rally, organized by Women in Green, Pastor Jim Vineyard, the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies and others, coincided with a meeting between US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister […]

EVEH DEKALIM \u2014 Rivka Namir, 42, moved to this Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip 16 years ago when her husband, Sodi, was a medical student. On March 27, two of Namir’s siblings, Moshe Elia, 37, and Ruth Greenglick, 40, joined her there with their spouses and 12 children \u2014 just as the Israeli government […]

In my last column I wrote about students fighting anti-Semitism on college campuses and offered solutions of how to combat anti-Israel bias and sentiment. Now I would like to take the opportunity to address and appeal to students in junior high and high school on a related topic. When a subject sparks much controversy, we […]

MK Dr. Aryeh Eldad, marching from the Shomron to Gush Katif in protest of the planned expulsion of Jews from Gaza and northern Shomron, tells Israel National Radio what needs to be done. Click to hear the two-part Israel National Radio interview with MK Eldad: the first part took place at the Western Wall on […]