An organization “on life support”… “Without the United Nations our country would walk alone, ruled by fear instead of confidence and hope.” Such were the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, a charter member of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 1947 to 1951 and a drafter of the Declaration of Human Rights. Roosevelt was […]

Down a dark, smokey stairwell and in a basement disco of swirling colored lights, the music grows louder — a thumping beat with lilting Amharic lyrics piped through speakers and echoing onto a packed dance floor of young Ethiopian Israelis. In the jostling crowd that is almost exclusively Ethiopian, women in tight jeans and tank […]

I learned a lifelong lesson during my recent interview with Mel Gibson’s father, Hutton Gibson. The interview took place on the eve of the release of Mel Gibson’s new movie, “The Passion of the Christ.”I learned that there actually were no concentration camps during the Holocaust, only work camps. I learned that the Holocaust was […]

1. Murdering people makes you a killer or a terrorist. But if those murdered are Jews then you are an activist. You might also be a militant. 2. Crashing jet planes into buildings makes you a terrorist. But attempting to shoot down civilian planes landing in Israel makes you an activist. 3. Placing large bombs […]

In his presentation to the Knesset session commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Camp David Accords treaty with Egypt, Prime Minister Sharon quoted the Torah’s directive: “Do not hate an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land (Parshat Ki Seitzei, Devarim 23:8).” Fair enough. But the Torah does not instruct us to appease […]

For Elisheva Federman, whose husband Noam is in administrative detention, it’s not the first time. Her first six-month stint with raising her seven children alone while her husband is held on unknown charges ended just last week – and her second six-month stint began the very same day. For Elisheva Federman, whose husband Noam is […]

NEW YORK – The Palestinian Arab massacre of eleven Israelis in Ashdod was preceded by constant incitement to hatred and violence against Jews in the official Palestinian Authority media, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “It is no mystery what inspires young Arabs to murder Jews. […]

“Zo hamedina shelanu,” Osnat said to me as I bear hugged her, her sisters, her brother, her mother and her father. “This is our country,” she said with tears in her eyes as we finished burying her 20-year-old cousin, Netanel Habshoosh, a young soldier in an elite unit of the Israeli Army, murdered on Feb. […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin was the Osama bin Laden of Palestinian terrorism. By assassinating Yassin, the Israelis just applied the Bush Doctrine to one of the most deadly terrorist leaders on the planet. In the winner-take-all war on terror, countries are either with us or against us. They either take decisive action […]

Jerusalem (jnewswire.com) – Israel Wednesday celebrated the 25th anniversary of its peace treaty with Egypt, the first signed between the Jewish state and any of its Arab neighbors. But relations between Israel and Egypt have remained cold at best for the past quarter century. Nor does the situation appear set to change any time soon, […]