Like so many other diplomatically inconvenient dilemmas, when it comes to the Palestinian Authority, the still unsolved murders of three Americans in Gaza two years ago has fallen victim to efforts to bolster the new Palestinian leadership. With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Ramallah now history, it is apparent that the arrest of […]

Prime Minister Sharon’s Unilateral Disengagement Plan for Gaza and Northern Samaria is a deliberate misnomer and deception to hide the truth of what he really intends to do. Disengagement was never Sharon’s true object since there already exists a separation of Jews and Arabs in these regions of the Land of Israel. What he seeks […]

Labor MK Orit Noked, head of the Knesset caucus for Jonathan Pollard, says that now, as Israel is being asked to release prisoners, is the time for the US to take a similar step and release Pollard. Noked, who was named a Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office when Labor joined the coalition last […]

Recently I received a letter from David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism asking me to help support his movement. He wrote to me as “one Jew to another,” spotlighting certain issues he considers important to the Jewish people and Judaism. Rather than simply toss the note into the nearest trash basket, […]

Anyone following the investigation into the mid-January slaughter of the Armanious family (husband, wife, two young daughters), Copts living in Jersey City, N.J., knows who the presumptive suspects are: Islamists furious at a Christian Egyptian immigrant who dares engage in Internet polemics against Islam and who attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity. The authorities, however, […]

Tel Aviv – With the death of Yasir Arafat and the election of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), many in Israel and in the U.S. believe there is now a chance to reach a genuine peace in the region. Former Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger expressed an opposing view last week to The Jewish Press. Ettinger was […]

Until the 18th century, there was basically only one kind of Judaism, that which is now called Orthodox. It meant living by the religion’s 613 laws, and doing so suffused Jews’ lives with their faith. Then, starting with the thinker Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) and moving briskly during the Haskala, or “enlightenment,” from the late 18th […]

With the exception of Jerusalem, no other city in Israel has borne the brunt of Palestinian terror more than Netanya. Located at the narrowest part of Israel’s pre-1967 waist, less than 17 km (10 miles) from Palestinian Tulkarem, this seaside resort of some 185,000 has had terror and death strike at its shopping mall, open-air […]

Israel`s nuclear capacity remains undeclared. For now, this is in Israel`s overall best interest. In a world where the United States currently expresses serious concerns about nuclearization in Iran and North Korea, it would be inappropriate for Israel to embarrass its major ally by any form of nuclear disclosure. Yet, the time may soon be […]

As fate would have it, several days before the giant demonstration in Jerusalem, a horrifying document of four pages in length was making the rounds on the Internet. It is entitled “Staff Working Paper – Deployment for the Disengagement in the Gaza Strip Region” and contains a chilling script for a civil war. In the […]