(Washington, D.C.): The plight of Israelis today calls to mind the tongue-in-cheek prayer of Tevye, the hero of “Fiddler on the Roof” who, in light of his people’s suffering, asks the Almighty if someone else could be the chosen people for a while. For years, the people of Israel have voted for leaders who promised […]

So, let us see if we have this straight. The anti-Zionists claim that the Jews have no right to the land of Israel because before Israel was re-created in 1948, it had been almost 1,900 years since the last time the Jews exercised sovereignty over the Land of Israel. And the anti-Zionists claim that it […]

My wife Suri and I moved to the .Big D. four years ago with our children and joined the growing Dallas Jewish community. But our family connection to the big D is older than four years and more than geographic. I am the son of a Democrat, grandson of a Democrat, and great-grandson of a […]

Controversy continues to swirl around the revelations that during the 1930s, Harvard University president James Conant forged friendly ties with senior Nazi officials and Nazi-controlled universities, and even urged a major US corporation not to hire a German Jewish refugee scientist because he was “very definitely of the Jewish type.” At a recent Boston University […]

Sixty years ago this autumn, the British reluctantly agreed to establish a Jewish armed force to take part in the Allied war against Nazi Germany. Hailed as the modern-day incarnation of the Maccabee warriors, the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade fought for Jewish survival both on and off the battlefield, in an epic of courage […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly opposes the Bush administration.s plan to sell sophisticated AMRAAM missiles to Jordan. The Associated Press reports (December 4, 2004) that the Bush administration .has authorized the sale of 50 sophisticated American-made air-to-air missiles to Jordan, despite Israel’s protests to the sale, according to the U.S. military … Sending […]

This Friday, December 10th, 2004, International Human Rights Day, Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League are sponsoring a visit by Sari Nusseibah, a Palestinian whom these organizations describe as a “peace activist”. Indeed, Sari Nusseibah positions himself as a “peace activist”, speaking throughout the world for reconciliation with […]

Daniel Pipes, a board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace, is one of four members of the Presidium of the Jerusalem Summit, ostensibly a conservative or right-wing organization that includes distinguished Israeli academics. Surprisingly, various Muslim .moderates. were invited to and spoke at the Summit.s second annual 3-day conference in Jerusalem. The Summit not […]

Shlomo Ben-Zvi, a shareholder with 20% of Channel 10, the owner of the newspaper, Makor Rishon, and the Jewish traditional cable and satellite channel, Tchelet (which has entered a sort of freeze in recent months), is sharply critical of the Israeli media. “In the electronic media, as with the written media, a narrow, elite has […]

Is it about the wars; the victory of the few over the many? The amazing Maccabean victories over Greek armies were battles in a drawn-out conflict that would last for decades after the Chanukah saga. There would be future defeats, as well. Perhaps Jews are celebrating their freedom from oppressive rule. But freedom was only […]