Lives Lost, Lives Found: Baltimore`s German Jewish Refugees, 1933-1945 Through April 2005 Shoshana S. and Jerome Cardin Gallery The Jewish Museum of Maryland 15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore 410.732.6400 http://www.jhsm.org/ The Jewish Museum of Maryland`s “Lives Lost” exhibit offers a meditation on a “dramatic but little known story” \u2014 according to the museum Associate Director Anita […]

The “Fund For Land Redemption” has secretly bought more than seven acres (30 dunams) of land in Gaza and is negotiating to buy much more land, according to the Ynet news web site. The Fund, with the help of several millionaires, also is buying large amounts of land throughout Judea and Samaria in an effort […]

New York – Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said yesterday on Army Radio, “A cease-fire is a ticking bomb which will blow up in our faces. A cease-fire as such is not a goal. Whoever thinks a halt is the right thing is mistaken.” Shalom added, “Therefore, you cannot take a cease-fire as a long […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is poised to pardon two PA officials with proven ties to terrorism, including one of the planners of the fatal November 2000 bombing of an Israeli school bus. Rashid Abu Shabak, second-in-command of the PA Preventive Security Services in Gaza, is one of two senior PA officials wanted for their involvement […]

Researchers from Israel’s Technion in Haifa have developed a device to detect the kind of improvised explosives increasingly used by Arab terror groups. The new detector, named the Peroxide Explosive Tester (PET), looks like a three-color ball-point pen. The device releases three chemical mixtures that change color upon interaction with the suspected explosive materials. A […]

Over 100 new and veteran olim (immigrants) packed into buses Tuesday to plant Tu B’Shvat trees in Gush Katif. For some, it was their first visit to Gush Katif – and their exuberance showed. Two buses, organized by Arutz-7, brought the English-speaking volunteers to plant saplings in the new neighborhood of Tiferet Yisrael (‘Splendor of […]

A new storm is brewing in the religious-Zionist public, with the decision by IDF Personnel Corps Commander Maj.-Gen. Elazar Stern to disband the special yeshivat hesder units in the army. Beginning with the upcoming recruitment in March, the hesder yeshiva students – who combine army service with yeshiva study in a five-year combined program – […]

JERUSALEM – Jewish residents of the Gaza Strip Sunday reacted angrily to the Sharon government’s assertion that “Palestinian” aggression against Israelis in the area had virtually ceased, and accused political and military officials of concealing the truth about ongoing attacks. The government and much of the Israeli media have gone to pains to positively spin […]

By David Brinn – January 23, 2005 Why are some people more prone to give charity or put themselves in danger in order to help others? A team of Israeli psychologists claim they have the answer – they’ve located the first gene linked to altruistic behavior. According to a study conducted by Prof. Richard Ebstein […]

A 74-year-old grandmother is signing up mothers and grandmothers to call on soldiers to refuse orders they may receive to expel Jews from 25 communities, as the government proposes. Yael Sharaz-Polkovski, 74, has called the new organization The Voice of Mother. Women from all over Israel, including many secular kibbutz members, already have signed the […]