If you want to know what the future is going to hold now that the Palestinian and Israeli elections are over, just take a peek at what’s been happing in the Gaza Strip lately. Although only a tiny splinter of land wedged between Israel and Egypt, the Gaza Strip is a densely populated piece of […]

by Susan B. Tuchman and Morton A. Klein PHOTO If you’re a Jewish college student, you no longer have to tolerate anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing on your campus. You are protected under our federal civil rights laws. These were the landmark conclusions of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent federal agency that analyzes information […]

New York – An Israeli telephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israelis (including Arab Israelis) carried out by Dahaf for the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot has found that 76% of Israelis disagreed with the proposition “Is the appointment of Amir Peretz as minister of defense a correct move?” Only 21% favored Peretz’s […]

Manfred Gerstenfeld Attacks on Israel by Israelis and Jews are frequently indistinguishable from those by Gentiles. Among the specific aspects in the anti-Israel writings of a number of Jews are the use of their family’s Holocaust experiences, their references to being Jewish or their mentioning an association of some kind with Israel. The attitudes of […]

Justice4JP Release – May 1, 2006 Lawyers for Jonathan Pollard will file an appeal in Israel’s Supreme Court today to block the appointment of Rafi Eitan, Pollard’s former handler and control officer, as an Israeli Government Minister. Inter alia, Pollard’s petion to the High Court of Justice states: Rafi Eitan is not suited to be […]

This week, Israel celebrates 58 years of independence for the Jewish nation. This is not just a celebration of Israeli independence, but of Jewish independence around the world. And the celebration every year takes on a uniquely Jewish perspective, since it is immediately preceded by remembrance – of those who were slaughtered because they were […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give anti-Zionist playwright Tony Kushner, an honorary doctorate at its commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there. Tony Kushner, whose recent screenplay “Munich” was […]

Terrorism costs money by Sheryl Katz Elias One of the biggest quandaries of war is how to defeat the enemy without sacrificing your soul. How do you defeat an enemy that keeps raising the bar in terms of viciousness, packing bombs with nails to maximize pain and injury and then strapping them to youngsters so […]

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Friday, April 21, 2006 Dear Friends, Pastor Jim Vineyard, a good and loyal friend of the Holy Land and the Jewish People, wrote the following letter, dated April 20, 2006, to US President George W. Bush, after a personal visit to the “Deportees” from Elei Sinai, a […]

And Simon said to him (the emissary of Antiochus) in reply: “Neither a foreign land nor the property of strangers have we taken, but the inheritance of our forefathers. It was wrongfully held by our enemies for a certain time, but we, grasping an opportunity, hold firmly the inheritance of our forefathers.” First Book Of […]