NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America strongly protests the Bush administration’s growing pressure on Israel to accept the Road Map despite the dangers it poses to Israel’s security; to ease up checkpoints that screen out terrorists; to release imprisoned terrorists; and to begin expelling Jews from parts of Judea-Samaria and Gaza. ZOA National President […]

A Survey of Week #3: May 13, 2003 – May 19, 2003 BACKGROUND: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the […]

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 13 (JTA) — It takes 15 minutes to cajole a grimacing Muhammed Fazi, literally the gatekeeper to Iraq’s dying Jewish community, to let a reporter peek into the small compound that holds Baghdad’s only remaining synagogue. Finally, Fazi cracks open the synagogue’s steel door. As if on cue, out of an adjacent […]

A Survey of Week #1: April 29, 2003 – May 5, 2003 BACKGROUND: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the […]

NEW YORK, May 7 (JTA) — Funders of the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies have links to Al-Qaida, according to a campus Jewish newspaper. Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud, who funds the center’s Sultan Endowment for Arab studies, is a primary defendant in the $100 trillion lawsuit filed in […]

Professor Adi Shamir, a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, has been named a 2002 winner of the A.M. Turing Award, regarded in academic circles as the “Nobel Prize” of computer science. Shamir shares the award with Ronald L. Rivest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Leonard M. Adleman of […]

Israel celebrates its 55th Independence Day (Yom Ha’Atzma’ut) tonight and tomorrow, joined by many communities around the world. A partial list of Yom Ha’Atzma’ut celebrations in Israel and worldwide, as well as articles on the significance of the day, can be seen here. The Israeli Air Force will open certain facilities to the general public […]

May 14, 1948 THE DECLARATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) – the Land of Israel, Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the […]

Nearly three dozen leaders of emerging crypto-Jewish communities from across Spain gathered Thursday in Barcelona for the opening of an unprecedented three-day seminar devoted to examining various topics relating to the country’s “hidden Jews.” The seminar, entitled “Judaism and Jewish Descendants in Spain: Past & Present Between Identity and History”, is being run by the […]

At least three people were killed and 35 wounded, five seriously, in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv beachfront pub. The bomber blew himself up late Tuesday night at the entrance to “Mike’s Place,” a pub that is popular with tourists, when a security guard barred him from entering. The attack occurred as Israel […]