by Dr. Rafael Medoff (Israelnationalnews.com) “Just kids being kids.” That’s what one grandparent said after learning that students at a middle school in Naples, Florida staged “Kick a Jew Day” last week. “Not anti-Semitic behavior at all.” That’s what the principal of a middle school in a St. Louis suburb said last year about students […]

In the hopes of appeasing the unappeasable Obama administration, the government has adopted Obama’s anti-Semitic policies against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. To win points with the imbecilic, unaccountable and irresponsible local media, Netanyahu has jeopardized the lives of untold numbers of Israelis by expressing his willingness to free hundreds of terrorist murderers from […]

By: Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Date: Wednesday, November 11 2009 If you love Eretz Yisrael, you must also feel overwhelmed by a sense of frustration. Why is Israel demonized all over the world? Why has she become the new source for the age-old canard of anti-Semitism? And why is it that Israel cannot present itself in […]

Reviewed by David Isaac “Know your enemy,” said Sun-Tzu. Had he been a Jew, he would have said, “Know your enemy both without and within.” Israel Eldad, a member of the leadership of Lehi, the smallest, but most ruthless of the Jewish undergrounds that fought against British rule in Palestine, learned this truth the hard […]

Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #230 Freeze of Jewish construction in Judea & Samaria is based on a series of erroneous assumptions: 1. A Freeze will not soften – but will intensify – President Obama’s criticism of “settlements” in particular and Israeli policy in general. For instance, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s June […]

Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #138 November 25, 2009 1. Israeli youth highly motivated to serve: 73% of 18 year old recruits (in November 2009) prefer military service in combat units; number of applicants to the Golani infantry brigade was six times higher than needed; number of applicants to the Givati infantry brigade was four […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST During a recent speaking tour in Canada, MK Nahman Shai (Kadima) shocked some of his hosts when he said that his primary goal in politics today is to bring down the Netanyahu government. Although indelicate, Shai’s comment was not surprising. Kadima is in the opposition. And like all opposition parties […]

By: Rabbi Eliezer Waldman Upon hearing the reading of the Torah describing the purchase of the Cave of Machpela by our forefather Abraham, we were reminded again of the basic significance and substance of the destiny of the Jewish people, namely that our nation and our land are bonded by strong spiritual cords that can […]

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus There is a chilling scene in the 2002 movie “The Pianist.” In it the train was already chugging along on the path to insanity and destruction, but before all was destroyed. The family of the protagonist has been moved into the Warsaw Ghetto and the head of the family is sitting […]

Cal Thomas HBO showed the film “Schindler’s List” last week. The 1993 Steven Spielberg movie never ceases to arouse my deepest emotions. The perennial question put forth in the film remains: How could people wantonly kill so many others as a matter of state policy? This is more than history, however. There are those who […]