Yeshivat Yamit, uprooted by the Begin Government and moved to Gush Katif in 1982, held a commemorative session Monday to recall the uprooting of then – and compare it to that faced today. The speakers included Rabbi David Gavrieli, the current head of the hesder yeshiva (in which students combine Torah study and army service), […]

The feared wave of pre-disengagement administrative (without formal charges) arrests of activists may have begun Sunday with the jailing of an anti-expulsion activist without trial. The activist, who organized the renewal of traditional monthly prayer marches around the gates of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, is the first Jew to be jailed without due process […]

If the 17th century Puritans in the Colonies had only respected the Old Testament, but had not been more Talmudic than many American Rabbis, Dayenu (It would have sufficed); If the Puritans had only been more Talmudic than many American Rabbis, but John Locke who inspired the Founding Fathers and read Hebrew had not tried […]

Plots of flowers grow outside most of the homes we pass as we drive through this small agricultural cooperative in southern Gaza. I point out a particularly lavish one, and the driver, a gruff 55-year-old, stops the car. “What are those white ones?” I ask, motioning through the window. “And those yellow ones with the […]

During Chol HaMoed Pesach, I went somewhere that I had never been before: I went up to Har HaBayit – The Temple Mount. Now, before you get too confused, let me dispel some rumours about whether or not one can, in fact, go up to the Temple Mount. When Israel liberated the Old City of […]

A knowledgeable and generous benefactor has enabled Jihad Watch to place a billboard in Los Angeles, and has asked that it feature three words unfamiliar to most Americans: dhimmitude, Eurabia, and Bat Ye’or. Here is the meaning of these mysterious words: Dhimmitude: Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily […]

New York – On Tuesday, May 3, 2005, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ran a front page article entitled, In Israel, Pullout From Gaza Divides Its Military, Too, the subheading was, (Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief) General Harel tries to overcome resistance among troops. The WSJ article stated that, after decades of unifying Israel, the […]

One of the biggest bugs that the Moonbat Left has discovered in its bonnet the past few weeks is the College of Judea and Samaria. It is a college that Israel set up in the Samarian town of Ariel, a town that was constructed outside Israel’s 1967 borders (the “Green Line”) in land liberated from […]

The Bush administration’s push for quick democracy in the Middle East has an increasingly clear implication: if Islamist organizations such as Hamas are to be likely electoral winners, Western powers should stop classifying them as terrorists and instead come to terms with them. This conclusion follows from such efforts as those led by Alastair Crooke […]

Jean Jacques Rousseau, one of the leading philosophers of the 18th century, was among those who laid the foundations for modern democracy. In his book, “The Social Contract,” he warned of the danger in a majority decision on behalf of particularistic interests opposed to the common good. He determined that the decision of the majority […]