Tonight (Monday) marks the beginning of Tisha B’Av – the ninth day of the month of Av – the Jewish People’s national day of mourning and fasting. Commemorating several sad events in our history, it is most noted for being the date of the destruction of both Holy Temples in Jerusalem – some 2,500 and […]

The cabinet on Sunday agreed to award the southern city of Sderot the status of a confrontation-line settlement along with a NIS 46 million aid package for residents and businesses in the city. Renewed discussion on the recognition of Sderot as a confrontation-line settlement follows the recent bombardment of the southern city with Qassam rockets […]

NEW YORK – By an overwhelming margin of more than seven to one, Americans oppose the Bush administrations $213-million annual aid to the Palestinian Arabs, a new poll has found. According to the poll, 74.1% of Americans oppose U.S. aid to the Palestinian Arabs; only 10.4% support it. The poll was conducted on July 14-15 […]

JERUSALEM – Members of the Sharon government and leftist Israeli media have accelerated efforts to demonize the right-wing settler movement ahead of the prime ministers plan to forcibly uproot the Jews of Gaza. Recent news reports abound with allegations that persons associated with that sector of society are planning to assassinate Sharon and start a […]

Former Mossad agent Gad Shimron reports that while the European Union attacks Israel mercilessly for the partition fence it’s building to protect Jewish lives, the EU itself funds and operates a similar fence designed only to protect itself from illegal immigrants. The fence is located in a Spanish enclave in northwestern Africa, the coastal city […]

NEW YORK, July 6 (JTA) A new lawsuit says the tentacles of Palestinian terrorism have reached into Americas own backyard.Using a recent federal law that makes it illegal to finance terrorism, some American victims of Palestinian terrorism are suing Arab Bank, PLC, a Jordanian bank with a branch in New York. Theyre seeking more than […]

“There is definitely an Aliyah momentum in the air.” So said a project manager for Nefesh B’Nefesh today, as close to 450 Jews from North America arrived on the first of this summer’s three Nefesh B’Nefesh flights at Ben Gurion Airport. Hundreds of well-wishers, media representatives, and public officials such as the Prime Minister, Finance […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the chancellor of the University of California at Irvine to reverse his decision to permit students to wear green sashes glorifying suicide bombings at the university’s commencement ceremony on June 18, 2004. The sash, or “Shahada,” is a symbol worn by Muslim extremists as a […]

WINGATE SPORTS CENTER, Israel, June 27 (JTA) Katya Pisetskys legs extend into a backhand walkover. Then she spins in a circle, tosses a pair of clubs 30 feet in the air, catches them, glides into a final, triumphant pose and flashes an electric smile. The Latin-style background music stops and the rhythmic gymnasts smile melts […]

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ariel Sharons determination to uproot the Jewish residents of the Gaza Strip took on a more harsh edge this week when he issued threats against those settlers that did not voluntarily agree to evacuate their homes. Any Jews that did not willingly leave Gaza and abandon the biblical faith that keeps […]