America’s worst Jewish asslibs (assimilationist liberals) have set up a new leftist organization, as if there are not enough already, called “Jews on First”, supposedly to defend the First Amendment from attacks by Christians and conservatives. Among other banner causes for these people is “Sex Education is a Mitzvah”, and of course gay marriage and […]

What legacy has Ariel Sharon left Israel, and what will be the long-term impact of that legacy on Israel? Since the prime minister was stricken by a stroke last week columnists and commentators have been clamoring to describe Sharon and to define the impact of his years in power on Israel and the Middle East. […]

JERUSALEM – Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to stop the de facto division of Jerusalem, which is already under way, unless there is a strong rightist bloc in the Knesset to supervise the Likud, National Union MK Effi Eitam said Monday. “The debate over the division of Jerusalem is hypothetical,” he said, […]

New York – The ZOA has condemned Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) for allowing the Islamist terrorist organization, Hamas, which it is supposed to be disarming, to set up its own television channel within the PA. The channel, called Al-Aqsa, named for the mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, started broadcasting last night via satellite from […]

One of the most difficult issues American policy-makers will face this year is how to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. While President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for Israel’s destruction have focused attention on Tehran’s threat to the Jewish state, a nuclear-armed Iran is not just a danger to Israel: It is a threat to American […]

An examination of Israel’s economy since 1948 demonstrates that the series of wars and on-going terrorism, along with frequent political crises, have not been but bumps on the road to a most impressive economic growth, in defiance of security and political unpredictabilities. The economic significance of the current political predicament is, certainly, substantially less severe […]

Wednesday night ushered in a new era in Israel’s political history. As we watch and worry as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dangles between life and death, one thing is absolutely clear. Sharon’s massive cerebral hemorrhage on Wednesday night spelled the end of his political career. Sharon will never return to lead the State of Israel. […]

One day, years from now, after the war to defeat the global jihad has been won, historians will proclaim that the years of this war marked the darkest period in the history of Western journalism. In an essay in the current issue of Commentary magazine entitled “The Panic over Iraq,” Norman Podhoretz makes the case […]

These are not my original ideas, but rather the ideas of a number of Jewish thinkers: 1. ORIGIN OF THE NAME, CHANUKAH. THE HOLIDAY OF EDUCATION. According to the first book of The Maccabees, Yehuda (who succeeded Mattityahu) ordered the Jewish People to observe an eight day holiday on the 25th day of the month […]

The Memorial Wall at Yad Vashem — the Wall of Holocaust and Heroism — has four sections, ranging from the Shoah to Rebirth. Magnificently designed by Naftali Bezem, it takes us movingly from an inferno in which the Holy is utterly profaned to the divine sanctuary of new Jewish generations. But these generations, symbolized by […]