TEL AVIV, Sept. 22 (JTA) — Going back to school is usually tough for students after the summer hiatus, but this year some Israeli students were relieved to be back in class after the summer’s calm was shattered by the resumption of Palestinian terrorism. Teachers now have to figure out how to make their students […]

CASABLANCA, Morocco – Soon another Shabbat will end, and the worshipers in King David Synagogue in Casablanca will take their leave of one another with kisses on the cheek and head for home. Until next Shabbat. A little while ago, they sat in the spacious hall in the basement of the building and listened to […]

Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, parents of 11-month old Jerusalem-born Menachem Binyamin, want their son’s passport to list Israel as his place of birth, something the United States State Department refuses to do. And so the American-born couple, who live in Beit Shemesh, Israel, are suing. The Zivotofskys filed a lawsuit in federal district court in […]

Residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are younger, healthier, more educated – and are multiplying faster than the rest of Israel, according to a new study by the College of Judea & Samaria in Ariel. Residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are younger, healthier, more educated – and are multiplying faster than the rest of […]

More ‘mainstream’ US Muslim groups that attack US counterterrorism policy are themselves tied to terrorists. The “moderate” image of some high-profile US Muslim groups continues to collapse as the Senate steps up hearings on Islamist terror networks inside the United States and as federal investigators find increasing alleged connections to terrorism. As the Center for […]

IDF forces encircled the home of a leading Hamas terrorist last night, and when he fired and seriously wounded a soldier instead of giving himself up, the IAF fired missiles on his home. Jihad Abu Sawara is the latest leading Hamas terrorist to be killed by IDF forces. The army encircled his house in the […]

Palestinian Arab Killers of American Doctor & Daughter Will Go Free, and State Dept Will Look the Other Way NEW YORK- Millions of Americans are now aware –thanks to front-page stories in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere– that two American citizens, Dr. David Applebaum and his daughter Nava, were among the […]

TEL AVIV, Sept. 14 (JTA) — When, not so long ago, the director of an Israeli nonprofit organization noticed that an employee would appear at work every Sunday morning so fatigued that he could barely function, she issued him a stern warning to “stop partying so hard on Saturday nights.” The gaunt-looking employee burst into […]

Fifteen Israelis died, more than 90 were injured, in two murderous Palestinian suicide attacks Tuesday night, September 9. The first struck down a crowd of soldiers waiting outside the Tsrifin military base for transportation home. It occurred just as Israeli and Indian prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were winding up their conversation […]

As the two-year anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, a very unusual ceremony is being planned in London. Critics say the event will celebrate the tragedy and the hijackers who killed thousands that day. Wednesday, on the streets of London, there was a jarring poster, extolling the 9/11 hijackers as the “Magnificent 19.” It features a […]