By: Natan Sharansky Many years ago in Moscow, when we were ordinary loyal Soviet Jews – which meant we were deprived of our freedom and our identity and were powerless and helpless – we discovered there was a state of Israel, a state that fights for its right to exist and also for our dignity, […]

Maale Adumim, outside Jerusalem: An illegal settlement to some; to Israelis, a “legitimate” Jewish city for “an indigenous people returning home.” by Jonathan Mark It was a New York wedding like all others, and no other. The veil was about to cover the bride’s face, evoking the time Jacob was snookered, expecting Rachel, getting Leah. […]

FrontPageMagazine.com Over the weekend, Hamas policemen in Gaza attempted to arrest a Palestinian female journalist, Asma al-Ghul. Her crime? She came to a Gaza beach dressed “immodestly” (not wearing hijab) and was caught laughing in front of others. The police ended up confiscating her passport and she has been living in fear inside her home […]

By Melanie Phillips A sobering view by one of Britain’s most respected columnists Alan Dershowitz is one of the most prolific, high-profile and indefatiguable defenders of Israel and the Jewish people against the tidal wave of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish feeling currently coursing through the west. So a piece by him in the Wall Street Journal […]

By Morton Klein · March 12, 2009 PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Hillary Rodham Clinton as New York’s U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009 was a reliable and vocal supporter of Israel. She was especially strong on Jerusalem, stating in a September 2007 position paper, “I believe that Israel’s right to exist in safety as a Jewish […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 6, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443736579&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull It works out that US President Barack Obama is a man of heartfelt, long-held principles. It also works out that his principles are divorced from reality and unresponsive to any facts that contradict them. This much was made clear by a New York Times report […]

by Lenny Ben-David http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c55_a16225/Editorial__Opinion/Opinion.html # Hebron — Uriya and 80 other first grade boys received their certificates last month on completing their study of the entire book of Genesis. That’s an important achievement in many Jewish day schools in the United States, usually accomplished only in the third grade. What was truly unique about Uriya’s […]

By: Sara Lehmann Tzipi Hotovely, 30, is the youngest member of Knesset and a rising star in the Likud party. She grew up in Rechovot and earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Bar Ilan University, where she served as editor of the Law Review. Plucked from political obscurity by Benjamin Netanyahu, this relative newcomer has […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Veteran Yesha (Judea and Samaria) journalist Haggai Segal says the best response to Netanyahu’s about-face is the tried-and-true growth-spurt method: Time to move to Yesha! Segal, a founder of Arutz-7’s news department and a regular on the Knesset TV Channel, writes in the Makor Rishon newspaper that Netanyahu’s recent positions might […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST It works out that retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak – the man who shaped Israel’s judiciary in his own image – doesn’t care much for Jews. In a speech last Thursday sponsored by the post-Zionist New Israel Fund, Barak said, “If you ask a Jew whether he supports […]