SEVRAN, France – Jérémy Bismuth is Jewish, though he doesn’t wear a yarmulke or Star of David pendant or adhere to a Kosher diet or leave school early on Fridays to be home before sunset. Nothing identifies the 15-year-old French boy as Jewish except his birth. Yet because he is a Jew, he was attacked […]

Families in Judea, Samaria and Gaza will be particularly hurt by the new economic plan, as they fall into many of the hardest-hit categories. They are often large families (whose child allowances will be cut) living in peripheral geographical area (whose income tax benefits will be disallowed or reduced), with added security costs (some of […]

For Rabbi Alan Henkin, the next few weeks might be the most difficult of his life. His son, Michael Henkin, is one of the more than 200,000 American military personnel deployed in the Persian Gulf area. The 21-year-old Army specialist, now in Kuwait, could quickly find himself near the front lines if war with Iraq […]

NEW YORK, March 25 (JTA) — As the U.S. military pounds Iraq, Jewish communities in Muslim countries may become increasingly vulnerable. Jews not only are tiny minorities in the Muslim world, but to some of their surrounding public, they represent the perceived twin threats of Israel and America. As coverage from Al-Jazeera and other Arab […]

Of particular interest to Israel were the reports emanating from Iraq this morning that coalition forces had uncovered two chemical-weapons production factories.One of them waslocated 150kilometers south of Baghdad, while the site of the other has not been publicized. The British Defense Ministry has allowed 15 Jewish soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf to remove […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly protests President Bush’s demand for more one-sided concessions by Israel, and the president’s embrace of Holocaust-denier Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, who has called for murdering Jews in the territories. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “It is disappointing that when […]

An Israeli company will now be producing power for Nicaraguan consumers. The company, Ormat, has invested 35 million dollars in the rehabilitation of a Nicaraguan power station, but expects revenues from the station to be 13 million dollars annually. In March 1999 Ormat signed a 15 year Concession and Power Purchase Agreement with ENEL, the […]

Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old terrorism advocate from Olympia, Wash., died in a bulldozer accident yesterday. Corrie was at fault in the accident, which occurred when she either stood or crouched in front of an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer in Gaza, the Jerusalem Post reports: The bulldozers were part of an IDF tunnel- and mine-clearing operation. […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to speak out against the Palestinian Authority’s praise of the murderer of the niece of a U.S. Senator as “a heroine.” On March 11, 1978, Palestinian Arab terrorists led by Dalal Mughrabi massacred 37 people in an attack along the Tel Aviv […]

Satellite images of a facility near Baghdad show an airliner that Iraqi defectors say is used to train terrorists in the art of hijacking.Space Imaging, which operates the Ikonos civilian surveillance satellite, was prompted to look for the aircraft in existing photos after a ”Frontline” television show interviewed two Iraqi defectors who described the hijacker […]