I was invited to attend a V-Day tribute to the doctors and nurses of Hadassah Hospital. I had no idea what V-Day meant, and found out it had to do with the feminism of the Vagina Monologues, an off-Broadway play written by Eve Ensler. The delegates, including the playwright, and Jane Fonda, had been touring […]

In a recent edition of the Jordan Times, James J. Zogby of the Arab American Institute wrote an article surveying the views of Arabs in the Middle East regarding other countries in the world. His article was based on a wide-ranging, systematic survey of Arab public opinion, on a variety of issues, carried out by […]

Dear Editor: I recently attended the World Zionist Congress Conference in Jerusalem. I was there the week of June 17-20, during which a suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded bus in Gilo on that Tuesday, killing 19 and wounding 70. Another suicide bomber blew himself up near a hitchhiking stop in French Hill […]

State Department Explains its Policy of Targeted Killings November 06, 2002: State Department Press Conference Following Killing of Wanted Al Qaeda Terrorists Spokesman: The United States killed six suspected al Qaeda members in Yemen Monday morning, including the man wanted in the bombing of the USS Cole, with a Hellfire missile fired from an unmanned […]

Professional advice for public speakers is to a) tell your audience what you’re going to tell them, b) tell it to them, and c) tell them what you’ve told them. Or a) show them what you’re going to do, b) do it, and c) show them what you’ve done. President Bush said he would not […]

When Israel’s Labor Party is routed in the January 28 general elections – as most polls indicate it will be – what was once the nation’s most powerful political force will have arrived at the destination it clearly set out for back in 1993, but refused to believe it would reach. It’s been a long […]

Perhaps you haven’t heard, but there’s a new controversy percolating in the Jewish world; or in the “hate-Jews world,” to be exact. A little 15-year-old Italian girl of Egyptian extraction, Randa Ghazy, has written a book, Dream of Palestine, which, among other things, laments the death of “just five” Jews by a suicide bomber as […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The claim of universities to be fostering diversity and preventing discrimination against vulnerable minorities is oddly compromised by a surge of anti-Semitism. With the recent addition of Columbia and Yale, over 50 campuses are currently circulating faculty petitions to divest from Israel and from American firms selling arms to Israel. Faculty at […]

An op-ed in yesterday’s Ha’aretz – appearing on the English internet site – states that armed Jewish civilians living in Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) are legitimate targets for terrorist attacks. The article, entitled, “Palestinians Must Take the Moral Ground,” and written by prominent Arab-American Emadeddin J. Fraitekh, states that deliberate Palestinian targeting of Israeli […]

Everywhere on Earch, most Palestinians celebrated Al Qaeda’s September 11th attacks on the United States. Since that day in 2001, the powerful friendship between various Plestinian terror groups and Al Qaeda has grown far beyond their common visceral hatred of this country and their commone commitment to do us harm. Today there are also shadowy […]